Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-05-29
w4Us4u. WIS. TUESDAY. MAY 20, 1900
ELKS' CIRCUS,
At the Opera House in Wausau on
Friday Evening.

| The Elks' Burlesque Circus came of
as advertised, on Friday evening. All
that was claimed for it was that it
would be Il season of fun, and, oi
course, those who took the prominent
parts, were popular young men of our
city, SO everybody was anxious to wit
ness the entertainment Members of
the Elks took all the different parts and
conducted the whole performance; the
two men who came here with the para
phernalia, loaned the same, laid out the
work, did the advertising, etc. They
were more of a drawback than a help
in getting out large crowd. For this
they carried away the larger part of
the receipts.
The parade, which took place Friday
noon, was an extremely laughable
affair. 1t took fully fifteen minutes to
pass given point 1t was headed by
Chas. Weinfeld, Exalted Ruler, and
Mayor Anderson, followed by the most
outlandish rigs that one can imagine.
The Fourth Regiment Band was seated
on an old threshing machine; chariots
were made from road scrapers and the
front wheels of wagons, and were
manned by John Curtis and Jud Alex
ander; Walter d. Alexander performed
the act of riding a pair of white horses
bareback, standing there was the
wagon with the lion-tamer, r. H. Con-
de, and large lion Newfoundland dog);
another with Fiji Jim, M. G. Ewing;
another with the 'man-eating Znlu" =
VIM. John; the lady snake charmer-
Col Pier; the fat lady-Dr. Russ Lyon;
Circassi;in beauty-John Kiefer; Signor
Biitzki-W. c. Davenport. Then there
was the elephant, giraffe, steam CALI
ope, and numerous rigs, all placarded,
such as the road machine, eve make
our roads," street sprinkler, sprinkling
red water, 1--WE make our own lemon
ade;' the Climax Laundry rig, "We do
our own washing Clowns, horses,
etc., all was ended up with farmer
band. 1t created much amusement
The evenings entertainment was
opened by VIM. Davenport coming out
before the curtain and explaining why
the tight-rope walker did not give a
free exhibition after the parade, as
advertised. He said the lady was taken
with cold feet and unable to proceed,
but with the help of several doctors
this had BEEN overcome, and the free
exhibition would take place before the
doors of the circus were opened, then
doll descended down wire which had
been stretched nom the gallery to the
stage. When the curtain went up the
scene displayed was the outside of cir
Gus tents, at the side shows, with Herb
Manson talking for the different attrac-
tions, Harry Heinemann working a
wheel of fortune, Jud Alexander,
policeman, and "begorra he was good
wan" A crowd Of men, women and
children rushing about, the talking,
and occasionally the band playing in
side the tent, made the whole scene
very realistic The next scene
was inside the side show, where w. G.
Davenport was in charge, who intro
duced each of the following named,
and telling what they could and
would do;
Snake r...................,....Col. Pier
Ragtime ianlSt.................W Cudlippa
Fiji - nj c. Ewing
Club Swinger.....,........... Walt Mueller
CircassioD Beauty y..-.........Joh ohm Kiefer
The Man Eating Zulu. VIM John
Buck and Wing Dancer...,.....E Opdahl
The Fat Lady...............D DR.. Russ Lyon
A feature was the two-round contest
between Sharkey and Jeffries %. B.
Kaross and Geo. Borowitz), with Hon.
est John Kelly" d. T. Gilman) referee,
Walt Mueller's club swinging was very
fine and enjoyed by all,
The third and last spasm was the
big Show" This showed the inside
of circus tent, with seats filled with
people clear to the top benches Gall in
painting). A row of seats at the bottom
were filed with real live people Henry
Smith was ring.master and he was an
ideal one. Z. A. Goodrich and John
Curtis could not be beaten as clowns.
The performance which followed was
very amusing. There was the stuffed
horses, attached to the body of each
rider, Lorena and Pete, performing
elephants; The Great Sandow, lifting
heavy weights. by Prof. Lowe; Signor
Blitzki, slight Of hand work, by w. G.
Davenport, assisted by the clowns;
grand and lofty tumbling by E. Opdahl,
Walt Mueller and L.. p Gilman, as
clown, lady bareback rider This con-
sisted in riding horse constructed
over bicycle; from the wheel to the
center of the circle was brace to hold
the "animaln steady, and by which it
was propelled. All parts assigned were
carried ont extremely well, considering
that there were only few evenings