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Hair Goods, Notions, Ladies’ Purnishing tioods, Ulsters, Circulars, and Snits, 507 TENTH STREET, OMaxxa Wholesale Lumbe No. 1408 Farnham Strest, Omaha, Neb, ) *4-3mo W IBES. 1.1E OMAIIA DAILY REE SATURDAY. MARCH 18 188.. P48 OIRCUS IN AMRRIOA, Startling Changes Made in Half a Oentury. The Early Shows in Convenient Barn Yards—The Old Bowervy Am- phitheatre the Oradle of the Business, A history of the eirous in Amerioa, which leads the world in this sort of thing, shows what Yankee enterprise has accomplished in oune direction. The psuple who view the mammoth affairs 0! to day must know that they witness sights which previous genera- tions were not privileged to see at any price. The globe has been hunted over from east to west and from north to south for beasts and birds, curiosi- ties, and wonders to make tho cirous complete, and some object from every clime may be seen. Seemingly there is nothing that will attreact euch crowds or in which 8o much delight is taken as the circus. Peo- ple will go miles tosee it and never tire of it, It is unlike any other form of amusoment, and is popular with all classes. Thers are uot the comforts in the seating accommoda- tions that are afforded at the thea- ter, but everybody goes for a good time, and will bear the crush without complaint. Nowhore else can such o jolly multitude be found. The orack of the ring.-master's whip and the jests of the clown are, apparently, cures for every ocare. The younger fo'k hail the coming of & circus with as much joy as they do the approach of Christmas, And the older folk do mnot go simply bechuse it pleases the children. They look, listen and laugh because they enjoy it. In short, a circus is calculated to entertain the masses. To say that the cirous is distinctively an American institution would not be going much out of the way, for in no country is it condusted on such an extensive scale as in this, L'he circuses «f Europe are mere side- shows compared with the mammoth affairs that pitch their tents in almost every city of the Union each year. Tae eyes of a gray-haired showman kindled as he recounted, the other day, the changes in the business in the past half century. The first eir- cus started out from Putnam county, N. Y, in 1827 or 1828. The firm often the caso that three performances are given in a single day-in the morning. afterncon and evening. And the side-shows are a great deal larger than the earlier cirouses. The advertising has grown to be the big- wost part of ashow, The size of the first bill was 39x40 inches and now some of them are fifty times as large. It is almost as great a might to wee the bill-boads as it is to sce the performance It has reached that point where a Fourth of July celebration is not a much greater ovent than the appearance of aciveus. The railroads run special trains with a coupon for the cirous at- tached to the ticket; people take a holiday, and come fifty or sixty miles, and in the evening the showmen send up a fire balloon, discharge eannon, and set off firo-works, There are not a8 many shows now as there were years ago. But seventeon of conse- quence start vut this year, while dur- ing the war there were forty, with only half the country to exhibit it The larger ones have swallowed the smaller. Every circus manager seems bound to see how extensivo a herd of ele- phauts he can collect. One has 22 and another on the way across the wa- wery while a second has 21, There are at present 77 elephants in the coun- try. The menageries this year will be particularly tine, That of Adum Forepaugh ia taid to surpaes any 0 logical garden. Ciicus men ro gard the propects of the ses son as good. 1ho times are favoia ble and the erp yield prom ises well. The agncultural dastricts have everything to do with the pros- perity of the circus. O d showmen say circrsos hive about reached their limit. They are too large alieady, a'd in time they will rerurn to one large Threo ©ougs do not give sais- m. Peop'e cannot watch them all at ot The tirat *‘cirous pool” will be ned this yoir-—that is, two rival circuses, in order not to plunge into rutnous competition, will divids the country. One will take cne route ard the other another. As peanuts and lemonade are inseparably asso- ciated with circuses, 1t may be well to say that the production of both will be large-—ut least at the circuses. The idea of an advarce agent was not thovght of until later. The com- pany traveled overland, unannounced biforehand, and when a short distance from the stopping place halted to pre- - which made the venture was known #8 Angevine, Titus & Burgess, all of whom have long since been called to their fathers. Putnam is peculiarly a circus county. The farmers and bu siness men of the present day have been or still are interested in circuses, The people ta’k cireur, breed circus horses, and send out from their midst circus proprietors and performers. The pioneer circus nad no tent nor meats. That was before such things were thought of, and the original + how was a very primitive affair. Nor were animals considered necessary adjuncts to the show, although subsequently the firm eecured an elephant. This was the first elephant shown in this country, and it created a sensation. Tt died in New Brunswick. The pro- gramme of the circus when in was or- ganized consisted of feats of strength, such as lifting heavy weights and holding at arm's length, leaping, and riding without a bridle. A vocalist sang comic songs and a fife and oneor two drums furnished musie, or, more properly speaking, noise. Thecompany did not comprise over eight or ten persons and as many horses, The ex- hibitions were given in barn yards and barns wherever a cluster of houses suggested thata crowvd might be called together. The people stood up and the taller ones, of course, had the best of it. The “rices of admiseion ranged from G4 to 2s, and in many in- stances were adjusted to suit the pockets of small boys and impecuni ous individuals. No porformance was given in the evening, as there was no known way of securing light. About 1840, Juhn Robinson, the great four-horse rider, startled the country by his miraculous feats on the | bare back of a horse, In the same sear Van Amburgh {00k his circus to | Bugland, and made a large amount of money. In 1850, or thereabouts, the price of admission was put up to 50 cents, and ‘‘reserved seats,” which were eimply common seats with a piece of carpet spread over them, were offored. Seth Howes went to London with his circus in 1856, and took the British people by storm. His adver- tising bills, though they would now be considered commonplace, were re- garded as wonderful. They were printed in colors, and where posted drew vast crowds. People would stard half the day and look at themn. They wondered how such great sheets could be printed, and did not scem to understand that they could be struck off in sections and be put together af- terward, They thouggt they must be run off on & colossal printing press. The streets were actually blocked by people viowhxi them, and the author- ities were obliged to order them down, Bince 1860 the improvement in cir cuses has been great. In that yea Lewis B, Lent, proprietor of the New York circus, which exhibited or Fourteenth street commenced traven ing by rail. The innovation was as important oune, and the other circuse® were eventually compelled to follow. Van Amburgh’s was the last to leave the ‘‘road.” Lent's original train consisted of 12 cars, He had no menagerie, but gave a fine ring shov, Mme. Dockrill first appeared in his circus, He did much to elevate the business. He compelled the per- formers to wear proper attire, and would not permit vulgarity in speech or action. Things have changed greatly since Lent's circus train was whirled through the country, Big circuses nowadays require three trains aguregating forty-ive cars, Besides, from three to five advertising cars precede them, the firs¢ by four or five weeks, Until late years wagons were uvsed for this purpose, but these we: not fast or magnificent enough, The catapult and electric light are late ad- ditions. The employes are fed on the ground by the circus managers, and opoly the principal perform ers go to a hotel, WVhere fort horses used to be the limit from 200 to 300 were employed before the circuses took the rail. "Ore tent this year will be 450 by 200 feet i dimensions. The expevses of & biv circus amount to 83,600 a day. The est amount taken in in a single day is 814,000 —the receipts of a show at Pittsburg, Pa., last season. It is s | Ameriea, pare for the *‘parade.” The members adorned themselves in their toggery, and, headed by the ‘‘band,” swept down on the astonished natives. A loud-veiced person would proclaim plete without one, Gosson alone was sufficiert to fll the house. Dan Mace emanated from the amphitheatre, while S« h Howes, rich and retired, wan w four noren rider, and shn Nathuna and Georgs B Bailey, both men of wealtl, woie pert amerin it In 1840 Horr Dresbuch drove a liow, harnessed to & oar, 5t 98 the & ave oi the Old Bowery Theatre, ard created | o furor, It was he who i.troduced | wild animals in Amer oa, and a Illdui cut of a lion, executed by man named | Booth, wow in po-sewion of Mr James Reil'v, the Spruce strect print- e, was Uscd in b g bids tor the performane These halls were the firat jesued for the show businiss Van Amburgh took the eue from Dresbach, and began exhibidug ani- mals, He used to go into a den ef lions, and broame celebrated. His fame was suny in variety shows, and the air was whistled on the streets and is well known at this time in Germany a8 in Amerioa. A word about circuses in foreign Iands. Thore is none half the s ze of the largo circuses in America, al though Myer's, in Gecmany, is fair. Cugland never saw one that could equal Howe's old show, and to this diy circures are giqen in the epen air at Tairs in that oountry. The prople form a ring, and a celloction is thouw aken, iPalpitution of (ke Feart. V.M. Might, Syracuse, N. Y., w ‘When 1 first ¢ ommenced using your Burnock Broob Birrens [ was tronbled with flutte my snd palptation of the Pe rt. Lielt we { Lanand, with a nmnbness of t e 1i ince using, my has not troub ed we snd the namlb siti noos all Lome.,” Price $110, e 10 conts, 1w siwnx City & Pagific THE SOUX Gty ROUTE Council Blufls tc 8t. Faul Without Change Time, Only 17 Hours AC»CY MILES THE EHORTEST ROUTE OOUNOIT, BLUFFS TO 4T, PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS DULLTH OR BISMARCK ad all potnts {n Northern lowa, Minnesota anc Dakota. This line 1 equipped with the fmproved Wesinghoase Automatic Alr-brake and Mille Platiorm Couvler and Buffer: and for SPEED, SAFETY AND COMFORT e unsurpassed. Pullman Palace Sleeping Car cun through WITHOUT CHANGE hotwoen Kan aas City aud 8t Paul, via Council Bluffe and Sioux City. Trains leave Union Pacific Transfer at Coun s, . m. daily on arrival of Kansae City, St. Joseph and Council B n from the South. that a show was to be given, and the people would come from the fields and houses to find out what it all meant. It is imagined that there was a hurry and bustle in scraping up suffi- eient money to ‘‘see the thing,” and when the crowd had reached proportions large enough the circus would begin. The singer and the man who beat the bass drum, were special objects of admiration, and they could not make too much discord to suit the throng. If $75 was taken in tho receipts were con- sidered heavy. The company would put up at a farm-house or tavern, and the next morning at daybreak start on for the nearest hamlet. What peo- ple must have thought when the first circus came among them ean better be conjectured than told, but it is safe to say that it afforded them some- thing to talk about for months after- ward. Pad-riding, or standing ug- right on a wooden platiorm on the back of a horse, was introduced after a while and proved a great feature. The circus continued to increase, but it was not until 1831 that a tent was used. The firat tent wasan “‘80- foot round-top,” and was erected at a point where the Bowery and Grand street intersect, which was then away out of the city. Inthis tent seats were supplied, and the event marked an epoch in the circus business. The tion was the means of adding to their merit and oxtent. The managers were not long in discovering that it was essential that a man should be sent ahead to announce the irapproach. The agents, however, kept cnly a day or 8o in advance, and they were expected to talk people into a frenay of excitement over the promised (reat. Later, where practicable, byief notices were put in the newspapers, but in those tinies papers were few and far between, and were eeldom printed oftener than once a week. 1t was not urtil & long while afterward that bills were used. Shows always halted out- side of & town to prepare for the gor- eous entrance, Vaulting and simi- ar facts continued to be the main features for years, A man named Levi North used to turn 100 somersaults in suce cession, and his fame spread from one end of the land to the other, Jump- ng from a spring-board and tossing a cannon-ball drew plandits from the spectators, The showe in these early days lasted #hout n hour and a halt, When, finally, an elephant became part of a show, people, young aud old, would follow it for miles, It was such & great prize that it was kept closely blanketed to hide it from unprofitable eyes. If & fat boy happened to be with a circus he, too, was kopt out of sight. Next to an ele- phant, a fat boy wasthe biggest attrac- tion. It was altogether too early for midgets, and their worth was not ap- strated how big a little body could be, At last, when evening performances were substituted, the tents were lighted with flambeaus, which flicker- ed and smudged and emitted a great deal more smoke than light, course of time domestic animals, such as foxes, rabbits, and coons, were put in cages and exhibited, After years had passed away, the Old Bowery Amphitheatre, in New York, was opened, and here the only really good show of the period was given, The amphitheatre was, it may be said, the cradle of the circus in It was conducted by John Tryon, and in the winter two or thre compavies which traveled in the sum- mer wou'd be combined in it. Here Baruey Williams, afterward famed for his Irish characters, now dead and gone, sang comic songs and executod plantation or *‘nigger” dances, He was & prime favorite with the crowds, Olher attractions were the Btickne family and the Madigans, he first clown of note—John Gosson - appeared in the smphitheatre. Ho was a comic knock- sbout clown, The clown soon became a great card, and no circus was com- shows began to increase, and competi- | , preciated until Tom Thumb demon-|' 1n the | - and at the New Union Depot at 8§, noon. TEN HOURS IN ADVANCR OF ANY(OTHEL ROUTE. £ Remember In taking the Sloux Clty Route youget a Through Teaiu, Tho Shortwst Line the Quickest Time and a Comfortable Ride tn tih Through Cars botween COUNCIL BLUFFS AND 8T. PAUL, £a7Bco that your Ticket roud via the “Slous City and Pacific Railcoa 7 8. WATTLES, Superiutendent. P. E. ROBINSON, Ass't Gn Miswouri Southwestern Agent, 1 Rluffs, lows 1830. 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