Type: Athlete

De Rouen

De Rouen has been in this country about a month. He is 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 230 pounds. De Rouen is a Graeco-Roman wrestler only, but gives his opponents leave to use any style of hold.

The Francelias

A man, woman and boy compose the troupe of strong people, the two latter acting in the capacity of assistants only. The man is a well-built, muscular sort of chap resembling La Veen, of La Veen and Cross, in appearance, and he graciously refrains from “posing” in a cabinet. Heavy objects, including cannon balls, are juggled, and a few of the simpler tricks shown by others are given.

Maximus, the Great Auto-Defier

Maximus the Great, makes the point of his exhibition that the machine passes over the stomach. Marino, the first exponent of this exhilarating sport over here, had the gasoline car run over his back.

Apollo

The Scotchman is a maginificent specimen of pysical development. He is equally strong in his hands, feet and neck, wile supporting power is proven by holding an upright piano upon his chest, with seven men also, one dancing a breakdown. Apollo offers a money reward to anyone successfully lifting a sack of flour weighing about 250 pounds from the floor to the shoulder. Several who attempted it failed, affording lots of fun. Holding a boy upon the calf of his right leg (at a right angle) while standing upright with no support; twirling of billiard cues with the fingers only Apollo gets up from lying prostrate upon the floor, with a pole across his neck held down on both ends by two men.

Zenda

he also exhibits his muscular development and control The machine is the ordinary touring car, carrying six persons Lying upon a rug underneath which there is rather a high “run,” Zenda catches the machine on the flank.

Laveen and Cross

Billed a “physical culture experts.” Were a husky pair. They did some good hand to hand work and one of them poses. He has a phemonmenal muscular development for show purposes. The lights are carefully arranged to cast shadows where they do the most good.

James H. Jee

Performs on a slack wire, jumping over objects held on the wire by a female assisstant. His longest jump is over six chairs.