The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-17
1T IS A GREAT CIRCUS.
WALLACE SHOWS TAKE THE TOWN
BY STORM.
The Singing Mule About the Only
Relic of the Former ShOsy-Con-
Quoted in a Manner that Reflects
Credit on the Management-Two
Performances Today.

The circus is here. Not the plain,
ry-day circus, but one of the real.
live, energetic and fully up-to-date
kind. 1t may even be said to be
slightly in advance of the times when
it is remembered that the circus now
with us has features that have never
been known to Salt Lake.
The great Wallace shows came in
yesterday and gave parade in the
forenoon that chem and there pro-
claimed to circus-gOers Everybody is a
circus-goer at hearD what the per-
Torrance would be. The parade was
excellent from every standpoint. The
horses and all the other animals be-
tokened plenty of feed and good care,
and the wagons. cages and general
paraphernasia had a FURNISH about
them all that made them look as spick
and span new as silver dollar just
from the mint. And the performers,
too. aid looked as though they were we'll
paid, well taken care Of and alto
gether we'll satisfied with their lot;
and, there are a lot of them. There
are four hundred. big and little, men,
women and children They have three
hundred horses, five monster ele-
plants, four big lions, long string of
camels, strings of numerous other
quadrupeds and bipeds. OF the latter
the four big ostriches lead out. They
are magnificent birds. It requires
more than forty cars to transport the
great Wallace shows.
While the cid Wallace shows were
considered good before. regeneration
has made the present aggregation sec
ond to none that is known to the west
OF the old shows there has been kept
but seven of the performers, thus max
ing the new complete with the best
that can be obtained.
There were two performances given
yesterday, one in the afternoon and
ONE at o'clock in the evening. The
afternoon performance drew a great
crowd and the one in the evening was
so large that no vacant seats could
anywhere be discovered, even though
the seating capacity is unusually
large, it being over 1000.
On the large central stage and the
two rings there was one continued run
of featS and exercises that were all
| first class, and most of them had new
er before been witnessed in Salt Lake.
| The trapeze performances. the rope
and wire acts and the riding were all
good. The races, especially the chariot
} races, were all pulled OIL WITH vim
indicative of business and speed from
! start to finish.
| The horseback riding of two big dogs
was only excelled by that done by the
bears coming after giving bruin the
best of it owing to his clumsiness gen.
orally.
! Miss Stella Jerome handled the five
! horse tandem in royal style, and the
/ juggling of the japanese was perfect.
ALL under the immense spread of can
vas bear evidence of more than aver
age care bestowed on arrangement and
decoration, and ample room is given
for racing that is truly fast and
furious" There was a. total absence
of ''skin games" and short change
workers in and about the grounds, so
far as The Herald man was enabled
to discover after careful search, a. fea-
trIre that is d'oubly refreshing in itself,
and will commend the big show where
ever it goes.
There will be another forenoon pa
rade today, with an afternoon per-
Torrance commencing at 2 o'clock, and
the last one in the evening, commence
ing at 8 o'clock.
The small boy was not more in evil
dence yesterday than was the bald
head and the real old people, and it is
safe to assume that for the two per-
formances today such number will be
augmented. The great Wallace shows
can be put down as good.