The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-16
Five Thousand People Visited the
Grounds Sunday and
LOOKED, WONDERED, ADMIRED.
The Ringing Brothers Management
Were Most Courteous, and Allowed
the People to Pass in and Out of the
Big Tents at VILLA Description
of the Wonderful Tented Exhibi-
ton That Opens Thursday.

big tents In Island Bridge park and
strangely enough were allowed to wan
der about at will, under the main can.
vas. in the menagcrie ana among the
horses in the stables. Hundreds who
have never seen this. the largest OF all
shows, and who were prompted by cur
ioslty to visit the park, opened thels
eyes in wonder at the magnitude OF thu
institution.
People walked and walked until they
were weary. and rot one-haif was seen.
Admission to tbs biz tent, where fe,;
OF thc performers were pricucins.
was rot denied. but the marager!c tcnt
wa ci1aed 10 the public, as things arr
not yet IN readiness thero 10 receive the
crowds
When the show opens next Thursday
the people Of Wheeling win BE- the Mes.
to sJe two tiny cubs. on, 4 JET black
leopard and one spotted. Just born ia
the big nenlGcric. Ths little fellows
are Just beginning 10 blink their eyas
at the light, and look In wonGer At the
magnitude Of tn circus. OF which thny
are now plr.. Th,lr myih-rs watch
jealousy oy-- thom. and tn two pa
ternal beasts watch thin from scro7s
the me8agyrie tent ana quarrel with
one another over thu respective merits
Of their two hopgfula.
A long line Of elephants reaches
through the midrs OF the animal tent
from one end % IN, other. Never be-
fore has sucn collection of Wild
beasts favored Wheeling with its pres
ence. Every specimen of the animal
kingdom, from a monkey TO a hippo
potamus big enough to swallow sar-
atoga trunk, has It's place In the tent.
An ostrich. which ties slip knots in us
glorious wealth OF neck. mas taken tent
porary lodging in a pen at one end Of
the canvas, where 1t makes faces
across the tent at the wart hog. an an.
imal which bears the reputation OF be-
ing the ugliest thing In creation. Ths
common American pig is n beauty
show compared to the wart hog. who
does not sell his photograph, and Is
extremely sensitive about his personal
appearance.
Twelve acres Of the old fair grounds
are no" covered win sistehihs WINK
canvas. Every men Oh tnis WIN DC ai'V'.
next thursday win l living mass OF
strange people performing most uar-
Ing ieats' ieroeions beasts. performing
animals ana me largest and most oeau-
tilui coileeloh oil horses ever Drought
tosether.
Inc crowds VINO visited me snow
grounds yesterday saw with their own
eyes what the people OF n huaarad
otA1r ciiles have been saying for ihe
past hVa yeas3-tna' ths Ringing
Brothars sho" is the Dlgsa't ana phst
IN inc woFlc' This inn2ra' 2rS2n'z3-
tioa d n" to Wh=alias' and those
who saw II yesterday before It's sreat
activity has bcgun have but m2asre
id-a Of what Is contained In those my'-
teT'ous mountains ot white which b.
ginning with the opening Of M season
her viii Begin another Years. triumph
al tour Of the United States
The up-to-dlte methods Of the Ring
Inns boys irst express them elves or |
tn outside OF the canvas, whars a n"%
ticks; wasog lighted with Electric iu-
candcscent lamps-tse only on Of its
kind In the world-opens for the sata