Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-29
Ringing Brothers Circus Pleasss
the People and Brings N In.
I mense Crowd.
Streets Lined With People to Wit
ness the Big Street Parade at
10 O'clock.
Afternoon Performances Largely At.
tended Crowd Estimated at
10000 Handled Well.

town that has been here since the
drawing card attendant upon the recent
Fourth Of July celebration.
Some OF the smaller fry stayed up all
night to "see the show come In" while
the fairer sex, the papas and mammas
and the children got UP before the birds
arose to witness the inspiring act OF
unloading the trains, which came in
from the south over the Central in three
sections. The first section arrived at a
few minutes before 6 o'clock, with the
other two following at intervals. The
work of unloading was begun at once,
and in the systematic way for which
the management is noted and without
the Issuance OF one oath or boisterous
word from any source.
The tents were at once put up at
Finkle's Park, where the show grounds
are located. The old grounds could not
be used owing to the fact that the lots
have been built upon within the past
year and several dwellings now stand
on the site used so many years.
People who remember back fourteen
or fifteen years when the Ringing
Bros. started out on their pilgrimage in
the circus business with wagon show,
with one elephant, few little animals
and dozen horses, showing here on
the lot at the corner of First and
Church streets, where Wizards tan
yard Is now, could hardly realize that
this was an attraction under the same
management. That little show was the
nest egg of the Ringing boys fortune.
This is the sixteenth year of the aggre-
cations appearance, and instead of the
dozen horses there are now 500, and in
place of the mere handful of perform
ers and attaches the number now
reaches the small army of 1000 people.
The poor, lone elephant of sixteen years
ago Is now substituted with an even
twenty, including the largest and best
trained in captivity, and the largest
herd ever together in this country
The menagerie OF this year is pro-
claimed by those who witnessed the af-
ternoon performance to excel those of
previous years, yet the Ringing show
has always been conceded to have had
the best collection Of animals ever seen
under canvas.
THE PARADE.
| The street parade, always feature
at 10 O'clock, as advertised. starting
from Finkle's Park and moving west
on State street. AT Second street 1t
moved south one block to Main and east
on Main beck to the park. The parade
was headed by Mr.. Al Ringing, the eld-
| est of the five brothers, who personally
oversees the performances. The parade
was about two miles in length and was
1 1T, n
half hour to pass given point. People
| lined Main and State streets from one
end to the other to watch the pageant.
The uniforms of the bands are all new
this season, as are also those of the rid
ers and others who appear In the spec
tacle. The many sets of new harness
Ialso add to the brilliancy of the effects,
all of them being purchased this season
and all bearing the monograms of the
company. The children's section was
one of the especially interesting parts
and was enjoyed immensely by the little
ones. Four bands made their appear
ance In the parade. in addition to the
Turkish musical organization. The
band of the English lanciers, on horse
back. was very pretty novelty.
THE AFTERNOON PERFORMANCE.
The four entrances to the big show
were opened at o'clock and 1t was all
| the different ticket takers could do to
| handle the great masses Of people who
! poured in for over an hour, viewed the
menagerie, or, as one expressed 1T, took
a geological trip around the world, :
and passed into the main circus tent.
completely filling 1t. The opening act
was the introduction of the different
nations of the world paying homage to
America while freeing Cuba. There
were Greeks. Romans, Egyptians and
4 all the nations of modern Europe rep
resented by bodies OF their troops, each
/ section led by band of musicians.
These were followed by United States
soldiers. confederate and union veter-
ans. Uncle Sam and the Goddess of Lib
lerty and the spectacle concluded with
a tableau Of immense proportions and
rare beauty. The circus features proper
embraced more acts than one could fol-
low, the three rings and two platforms
being scenes of steady action for two
\ hours. Sometimes there were eight tc
ten acts taking place at the same time
The wonderful Dacoma family of aero
bats, the numerous individual trapeze
artists and the Fisher family of aeriel.
ISIS HI NOu tue HedTtleSl applause
4 Never before We're there SO many bare
back riders seen at one time. The three
i Rooneys-Alike, Lizzie and John-Elens
Iiyland. Julia and Cecil Lowande, Olga
Rice (who. by the way. is q grand.
daughter of the veteran Snowman. Oar
Rice). William DeVan, Dan Leon ant
Allie Jackson divided the honors in thi.
department, and Ada CASTILLO, with hel
jumping and bucking horse, came in FOL
universal approval. Albert Crandall
with his bareback mule act, furnished
novel amusement.
One of the most pleasing features t.
many was the performance of Johr
! O'Brien's sixty-one finely trapped thor
oughbred, performing horses, which
acted with almost human intelligence
The three troupes of trained elephant.
j-Lockhart's dancing elephants. Sou
ders elephant band and Marchand'.
pugilistic elephants astonished tn,
people by their acts. There We're dozens
Of other acts which We're meritoriou
and first-class in every respect. Ii
short, the Ringlings this year have tn,
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