Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-22
THE CIRCUS TOMORROW.
Great Parade Of the Ringlings Will
Be a Wonderful Pageant.

The four long trains of the Ringing
Brothers circus will steam into Butte
early tomorrow morning and increase the
population of the city by 1000 people, SO
horses, twenty-five elephants and any
number of wild beasts.
BY 8 o'clock twelve acres of real estate
will be converted into a canvas village
when its portals are thrown open to
ad lit the pabi:c the greatest Of al cir
cuses will be on with crashing brass and
bowling lions
At 10 o'clock the street parade is sched-
uled to pass through the streets. The pa
geant of the Ringing show has been
praised in the highest terms by all the
papers in the cities of east and west
where the circus has appeared. It is
nearly two miles long and everything
about It is new and brl ght and Gle IN.
More horses will be exhibited in this dis
play alone then are owned by two
other shows in the world.
There will a generous display of wild
beasts. The first animal to show himself
will be a sweet little hippopotamus,
weighing only 4,s0o pounds. A Polar bear
as big as a dog house will follow and be-
hind him will come panthers, tigers, lions,
leopards, hyenas, bears and a dozen other
denizens of the wilderness all accom-
panied by costumed keepers.
Hundreds of riders costumed to repre-
sent military bodies of the various ma
tionsswil give the pageant an information
al significance. Arabs will ride on camels
and the Siamese delegation will be perch
edyon the heads of elephants.
Four bands will furnish the music; a
Turkish orchestra will give the program
an Oriental flavor and the time-honored
calliope will fill the land with it's glad
some loot. Something new to circus pa
| rades will be a set of cathedral chimes
| which will ring out the popular airs while
! the line moves.
One of the bands of the Ringing show
is an excellent organization of musicians
mounted on beautiful white horses, ana
in striking contrast to it will be Spader
Johnson's clown band, declared by all
who nave heard it to be the worst in the
world. This grotesque gang of musical
malaprops can fill the atmosphere with a
musical fog that could be cut with a hoe.
And the children will by no means be
forgotten. For them there will be a Sec
ton devoted to the smaller animals con-
fined in miniature cages, tableau wagons
illustrating scenes from fairy tales, and
all drawn by Shetland ponies.
On the tail end of the parade as a fitting
climax will be a comical hay rack scene
in which a trio of acrobats dressed as
farmers "goin' t. tn ceerkus, b. gosh,'
will execute a number of grotesque anG
difficult fapdoodles in the atmosphere.
Taking part in the performance thi.
season there are 300 h~igh-salaried artists
No other circus in the world ever carried
half this number, nor has any other cir
Gus ever had one act as great as at leas
a score of the ~specialties that will be seer
with the Ringing show. The trained
animal features in themselves are
greater attraction than all the fea
tured acts of al the other shows il
) America. The menagerie of the show Il
{ also the greatest of it's kim on the road
Arrangements have been made to opel
early tomorrow morning a branch tickle
. office at the Newbro Drug store, 1O9 Nortl
Main street, for the benefit of those win,
wish to avoid the rush at the ticket wa
gon. Unlike the custom of other show
reserved seats and admissions can b