The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-02
CIRCUS PARADE AND
PERFORMANCE TODAY
The FOrepaugh-Sells Combined
Shows Will Be Attraction
at Fair Grounds.

The circus parade will start from the
Fair grounds at 10 o'clock, moving east
on First North to West Temple street,
south on West Temple to Third South.
east on Third South TO Main street, north
on Main street to South Temple, thence
along South Temple to tho circus lot
Circuses are such old institutions that
one would think managers would ma IL
difficult to get anything new for thelr
programmes That this Is not true ls
due to the fact that the managers spend
about half Of their time thinking out
new acts or novel elements for old ones
New and Novel Acts.
This Is the most important function Of
the circus business. and success Is pro-
portionate to fertility OF imagination.
IL the manager cannot think out new
plans. he must give place TO somebody
who can. for the public Is not TO be lured
year after year Into an arena where the
same trick elephants do the same tricks.
whore the dancers wear the same cos
tunes OF the year before, and the aero
bats do not jump any higher than they
did during the previous season. SO 1t
happens that this year Is to have some
new things in the circus line.
Fighting the Flames.
The engagement today OF the Adam
Forepaugh- Sells Brothers combined
shows raises the question OF what this
season Is to bring forth that Will not
bore the circus deyotec of ten or twenty
years standing, and what Will make the
circus worth while One of the features
this year Will be n spectacular produc-
tion entitled. Fighting the Flames
The ynstness OF this novelty can be read
lily realized when II Is said that over
twenty thousand feet OF scenery are uti--
lized in the various street scenes, Inter
est in the spectacle will be increased
by adding contests between rival lre
companies, exciting hose-coupling exhi-
billions, all the various devices for COM
batting fire. together with the latest
mechanical and electrical appliances and
apparatus for the Imitation of smoke,
steam. flames. and other pyrotechnic
stage effects. Forty special fire. fighters
have been picked from among the lead
ing FIRE departments OF the largest cities
men who have made national reputa-
tlons In Journeys and in actual dres. and
who wear medals for bravery and devo-
tion TO duty,
Some Acts and the Artists.
The Lowande family of equestrans in
artistic exhibitions of dI1ncut and
intricate exploits on the backs of swift
running horses: the Walkowsky troupe
Of Russian dancers: fourteen in number,
IN the national dance of their country;
Captain Webb's two companies of edu-
Gated seals and sea lions: the three
herds OF performing elephants, the Fly
ing Fishers, high-air vaulting experts
q gathering OF sixty aerial artists, the
four fearless LaYans; the Runyan fam
ily In a sensational elevated bar nov
city, Frederick Zobedie in marvellous
feats OF balancing; Joseph La Fleur In
his high dive; Salvo. the bicycle expert,
in an act entitled. "A Trip TO the Moon"
Seven Human Birds.
The words, Human Birds of Passage"
would mean nothing TO the average man
unless he saw them on the billboard TWO
weeks before the circus was due. and
even then he would have to think hard
before grasping their significance. The
Human Birds" of whom managers
speak affectionately. are the most expert
representatives OF those aerial contor-
tionists who learn 10 forget there is such
thing as distance or dizziness when
they find a perch on q trapeze Gfty feet
with the Forepaugh-Sells circus is to
have flight Of seven OF them at a time,
and II is asserted by the circus agent
that never before in the history of cir
cuses has flock of seven human birds
been gathered together TO delight the
public. Not the least important feature
will be the pantomme merriment of the
forty clowns. who. while the three rings
and two stages are occupied by the spe-
cialty performers. Will circulate In
groups on the hippodrome oval, present
Ing series Of laugh provoking sketches.
These are but few of the many features
announced in preliminary proclamations.
There Will be all Of the regulation acts
that a big circus should have, and many
performances that no other circus has
ever presented,