"The Coming Show"

This is another piece published in the August 10th, 1894 edition of the "Waterville Mail" the day before the Adam Forepaugh Shows came to the city of Waterville for their August 11th show. This article focuses on the great circus parade that would take place and the high standards Adam Forepaugh set in place.


Source:
Prince & Wyman, "The Waterville Mail (Vol. 48, No. 11): August 10, 1894" (1894). The Waterville Mail (Waterville, Maine). 1552. 

The Coming Show

       What is promised to be the leading and handsomest thing ever upon the street of this or any other city, in the way of a circus parade, will be seen on August 11, when the Adam Forepaugh shows will make their free public display of professional splendor. It will, of course, move through the principal streets where there overhead wires are high enough to allow the great tableau cars to pass under. Something exceptionally fine and grand in the line of tented exhibitions may be confidently expected of the Adam Forepaugh shows. There has never been any dispute of the fact that Adam Forepaugh's show property has always been the finest and costliest in this country. It was the pride of that famous that his cages, wagons, tableau cars, chariots, etc., were the most completely built and decorated of any used in the show business. He insisted upon their being as finely finished as the finest private carriage. No other showman ever had such a fine lot of horses or so many of them. His menagerie, as a matter of incontrovertible fact, was always the finest travelling collection of animals, and his herd of elephants, in both numbers and size,  and in training, was without an equal at any time. And above everything else he prized the fact that his name was a very synonym for solidity, genuineness and integrity, and it was so regarded by the public. But he went the way of all the flesh after a brief illness. When he realized that his last tour on earth was made, his one wish was that his great show should continue-his name still live. The 'public already knows how well his wish has been complied with, and when the splendid shows are seen here on August 11, the public will see how has been done to add to the glory and fame of the name Adam Forepaugh.