The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
BAND WAGONS.
Thousands of People Witness
the Monster Circus Street
Parade.
WILD BEASTS AND WILD BOYS.
Last Night Afforded a Sample OF
What One Weeks Judiclous Adj
vertIsing Will Accomplish.

Last night at 40 o'clock Market street
was black with a. throng of boys and girls.
Some of them had reached the age of ma
turity, but they were all youngsters again
and the difference in age was forgotten.
AT 8 the Great Syndicate Shows and
Paris Hippodrome wheeled into the street
at the corner of First, having come up
from the circus grounds from Eighth and
Mission. Old men and elderly women
jostled the street gamins for places and
crowded to the front as the band struck
up and the series of flashlights that
adorned each animal wagon came into
view. There was most decided eagerness
to see and those who were not already
there got into the street and became per-
fectly blind to the fact that the Market
street Cable Company was attempting to
conduct general passenger business along
that particular route. It's business was
blocked and the circus parade held the
boards for some moments.
Following the band were the white
horses, upon whose backs sat the fair and
daring equestriennes, from the girl who
tiptoes on the horse that "can almost talk"
to the little girl who is startling the world
with her feats of aerial gymnastics"
Then came the solemn men mounted on
coal-black chargers, which champed their
bits and pranced to the music. Next in
line was a mastodon cage that contained a
dozen ostrlches. On top of this wagon a
pyrotechnic display was in motion, and per-
formed the function of keeping the crowd
from getting too close to the cage of laugh
ing hyenas that brought up behind it.
Next came the colored band, then the Shet-
land ponies mounted by lively monkeys
who were occupied in looking at all the
cno oir.
then the Roman chariots with four plung-
ing horses harnessed abreast, and fierce
and determined man holding the ribbons;
next the ever popular pride OF the ring who
drives five horses around the sawdust
circle while the spectators yell, and the
peanut butchers do land office business.
Several attempts were made to get the
cable-cars in good motion, but creeping
was fast for them. The crowd was deter
mined to see it all and not miss single
trick. The procession was getting in some
good work with its Gagged lions, its snakes,
its seals, its leopards, its zebras and its
fireworks when some one inquired where
the good old-time calliope was. Like an
answer to this question the air was ripped
up with the strains of go Tell Aunt
Abby the Old Gray Goose is Dead" fol-
lowed by the no less well-known melody,
1--WE Won't Go Home Till Morning" and
other popular airs. In few moments the
regularly styled steam piano was mixing
things up so severely that dime-museum
band across the street fled into an adioin-
ing saloon and drowned their misery in
beer.
Like a huge mountain of flesh "the
biggest elephant in the world" then hove
in sight and was followed slowly by his
lumberlng relations and mass of small
boys, who took liberties with his tail and
crowded out the docile cameis who were
doing their best to bring up the rear.
Altogether the parade was good one, and
the crowd of people who witnessed it evil
IDENTIFY read the papers.