New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-14
THIS ONE A REAL CIRCUS
Shows Under Canvas and Draws
CroWdS.Who Look Backward.
ALL OLD FEATURES THERE
And Many New Ones, in the
Tents Pitched on Manhattan
Fields Historic Turf.

A real old-fasflioned circus is in town
the kind that In days of yore made the
hearts of the fathers and grandfathers of
the present generation glad. Not for a
score of years have jewellers in Manhattan
had the opportunity of seeing the trained
animals, the gyrating acrobat and the
hairbreadth escapes of the high divers.
with nothing between them and the sky
save canvas
In a large lot at 155th street and Eighth
avenue-old Manhattan Field. in fact-the
scene of many a famous football battle. is
the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers
circus. The first performance was given
yesterday and caused many of the old
timers TO bark back to the days when the
coming of the circus was heralded about
town for weeks
Between the huge tents were the wagons.
stalled in the mud. Troops of expectant
and excited children waited for the opening
of the big show. Some of the more cour-
ageous ones tried hooking in but few
escaped the vigilant eye of the guard and
the Furnishing toe of his boot. The upstate
rustic was also present, with his wife and
steen children, who gazed open mouthed
at the wonderful lizard charmer and
Stretcher, the tattooed man.
carefully picking their way among mud
puddles. the crowd of about two thousand
reached the entrance TO the big top tent,
in which was the main attraction Three
rings and two platforms, with their con-
tinuous performances, kept the audience in
terested, as the tricks and feats were
shown with Kaleidoscope swftness. Act
followed act, with no intermission, the YER
satiie clowns filling in all possible pauses
with ingenious buffoonery
The bill calls for sixteen displays and
covers the usual features seen at circuses,
with a good many new ones.
One act consisted of fifty horses in the
centre ring doing a guadrille on five plat
forms of different elevations. In another
ring were trained seals balancing balls and
Juggling f1rebrands with all the dexterity
of human beings. The audience seemed to
enjoy these and all the other parts of the
bill to the full. and hearty applause made
the canvas walls fiuttcr.
The last number is the chariot race. To
drive four horses around a small track,
slippery with mud, and at the same time
avoid the wheels of the other chariot. calls
for great display of skill.
The side show had its usual quota of at
tractions-a band played by one man, the
tattooed man, Jo-Jo, the snake trainer and
Edith, the dwarf. were among the sights
to be seen for a dime
The animal tent. as usual, was the mecca
Of the children. the monkey cage keeping
up it's end of the entertainment in pro-
verbal style.
The circus community is a regular vii
lage. Its force of workers numbers more
than nine hundred. All fare alike as to
sleeping accommodations and food Albert
Ringing, one of the owners, has his tent
the grounds and eats just the same
food as his employees.
All the food is prepared within the tents,
and even the pies and cakes are baked in
ovens which are carried from town to
town. A hospital and corps of doctors are
provided to take care of the sick. The food
order for this morning was: -Four hundred
pounds of sausages, DO cases of eggs GA
dozen in a case), $50 loaves of bread IS
bushels of potatoes. 10 pounds of coffee
and 20 gallons of milk.