The Washington times., 1906-04-21
HAGENBECK SHOWS
REAL BIG CIRCUS
Star Feature Is Wild Ami
NAL Exhibit.
FOURTEEN HUGE ELEPHANTS
Acrobatic Feats of Startling Nature.
Bareback Riding as an Art.
Funny Clowns.

Carl Hagenbeck's Greater Shows gave
two performances yesterday at and s
p. m, on the square at Fifteenth and II
streets northeast. and will repeat this
program again today.
II is a good circus which HagenbecS
puts before the public this season, a
circus replete with daring acroba..c
feats, bareback riding and good clowns,
but its star feature is the animals. He
exhibits fourteen elephants and three
cameIs, lions, tigers. leopards, and all
the other familiar denizens of the wilds
and jungles OF Africa. Asia, and the
Arctic regions.
Trainers who face death again and
again every day, enter a big circular
steel cage, and by the crack of a whip,
put the wild beasts through series Of
performances that makes them seem Of
human intelligence.
King Lion Tanned.
Here a lion. who once upon time
crushed out the life of an OK with
single blow from his mighty paw, sat
at table and ate like a human. There,
tiger. whose stealthy spring in the jungle
was wont TO bring down great beasts
as his prey, sprang from the back Of an
elephant through hoops Of fire.
There were other features TO the ami
NAL show. There were trained goats
and there were trained pigs. In several
rings were dogs trained 10 remarkable
performances. y Waltzing horse made
merry IN a ring
But of trapeze. tght-rope. and fly
ing-ring artists there We're many. The
four Aragons, on the tight-rope. did
things that, In the recital. seem almost
impossible.
The Flying Family.
A hair-raisinE act is that OF the "fy-
ing Jordans." They are a family. and
they hang from the top Of the tent,
drop dizzy distances, 10 be caught by
other members OF the family. and turn
double and triple somersaults.
The performance closes with some
good vaudeville
A pleasing feature of the management
of the circus is the fact that many
the plank benches laid on uprights as
was for many years the custom. are in
dlvidual' separate chairs, comfortable
1t was noticeable at both performances
yesterday that the crowd was unusually
quiet and orderly. Some one remarked
that Il was "the best circus crowd" he
had ever seen.
A Great Parade.
This morning at 10 O'Clock the great
arade waS begun.
wagons gorgeous n silver and gold
bands brilliant in scarlet and white.
animals from all the wilds OF the earth
freaks from all countries. the whole
given touch Of romantic interest By
a band Of brightly-garbed natives of
India, made up a sight on which thous-
ands OF the citizens OF Washington
feasted their eyes
The line OF march was from Florida
avenue and Fourteenth street TO Mary
land avenue, Baltimore street and New
Jersey avenue II then went up Seventh
street TO X and then along K 10 Eight
eenth. From Eighteenth Il turned into
pennsylvania avenue, down which thor
oughfare IL went until IL reached the
Capitol. there turning into First street
and re3aining the circus grounds via
Maryland avenue.
The procession was followed by a
multitude OF young people and hundreds
OF the older folk Every foot of it's
way II was viewed by everybody who
could secure a vantage point in win
dows or on the sidewalk. Children
gazed IN wonder at the gorilla and the
ape. the zebra. and the seal. the polar
bear and the Wild boar.