The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-07
CIRCUS DAY TOMORROW.
Ringing Brothers, Big Show Will Ar
rive To-day.

Tomorrow is circus day-Ringlng Bros.
circus day. The show will arrive in the
city this morning in five sections A small
army of curious people will surround the
runs" to see the carved cages and massive
wagons unloaded. The elephants will come
in for a share of attention, and the young
sters will follow the camels and ponies
clear to the show grounds. The latter will
be the greatest center of interest. Few
people ever see a circus tent come down,
but the task of putting it up is one that
never fails to draw crowd. The discipline
and celebrity with which the men carry on
their work is a constant source of wonder;
one hour the lot is bare, the next it has
blossomed into city of canvas, with hum
dreds of men, women and children behind
its expansive walls.
Everything but the hippodrome tent will
be erected to-day. The menagerie tent and
the commissary department are always the
first to receive attention. The former is
necessary for the protection of the animals
from the weather and the curious, the lat
ter is essential for the comfort OF the
shows legion of employees. Ringing Bros
commissary department is said to feed it's
patrons like the chef of first-class hotel.
The performers have a special dining car;
the rest of the employees take their meals
in the dining tent. This is one of the in
teresting sights of the day in Sunday quar-
tiers with big circus like Ringing Bros.
The horse tents are also erected early.
While not especially desirious of Sunday
visitors, Ringing Bros. do not object to
their Sunday friends walking through their
horse ravilions and examining their fine
stock. There are four hundred of these
blooded equineS
Circus day will be inaugurated tomorrow
with fine street parade. AS already an
and many novel and original ideas have
been worked out in the display. A mounted
military band, a great chime of bells, a
section representing the flower of English
sweldom on it's way to the Derby-day races
and ether unique features give a distinctive
character to the street spectacle There
will be two performances tomorrow. The
first one will be at 2 o'clock, though the
doors Will be open one hour earlier to af-
ford visitors an opportunity to inspect the
menagerie. The performance will begin
with costumed patriotic entry. Then fol-
lows an array OF arenic celebrities, pre-
senting over hundred complete acts and
keeping the three rings, stages, elevated
spaces and hippodrome course in a constant
state of Kaleidoscope movement. Among
the leading performers are the Fisher fam
lily of aerialists: the Da Comas in a mid
air return act; the Foy family of acrobats.
a very clever English Importation; also
Boise and Pickard, aerial bar experts; the
great Milets acrobats: Nicholaus Cebal-
las. Cuban wonder on the high wire; Mile.
Turnour, a petite and graceful artist on the
trapeze, whose featS of equilibrium are de-
scribed as being nothing short of marvel
Gus; a coterie of famous riders, including
William De Mott, Mike Rooney, Elena
Ryland and Rose Dockrill, and scores of
other clever performers.
The trained animal part of the show is
notable for the Lockhart comedy elephants,
said TO be the greatest act of the kind in
the world. The revival of the ancient
Roman hippodrome, it is announced, is COM
plete in every detail. and the races are. said
TO be run FOR blood The route of the
parade is as follows: Start from grounds
on West Washington street to New Jersey,
to Ohio. to Pennsylvania, to Market, TO
Monument place. to Market, TO Illinois. to
Washington, then TO the show grounds. The
parade will start at o'clock.