Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-27
THE RINGLING SHOW
OPENS IN WHEELING
h Big western Amusement Enter
prise Comes Here Next Month.
Viii Arrive Several Days I'm Advance
in Order to Rehearse and Get
Things in shape for the Formal
Openfng of the eas0n

Spring is here. There is no longer
any debut about it. Spring and the
circus always come together. and the
circus is on its way. Next month
Wheeling is to have an opportunity to
see a big show that has attracted a
great deal of attention throughout the
United States during the past o or
five years. but which, for some reason,
has never been seen in this city. This
is Ringing Brothers combined circus,
menagerie and hipprodrome, an insti-
tuition which now stands at the head
of all American arenic exhibitions.
The mere fact that the show is to
exhibit in Wheeling would excite in
terest and curiosity, for there is no bet
ter circus town in America than this;
but added interest is given to the en-
gagement by the fact that the show is
to open its regular season in this city.
For some years the annual opening
of the show has been in Chicago, where
the performances given in the great
Tattersall's amphitheatre have attract
ed wide attention. This year the show
was booked to open at the new Colise-
UNI in Chicago, which is being built
and especially adapted for the purposes
of show. Failure to complete the
building, however, involves the neces-
sity of opening on the road, and Wheel
ing has been selected as the inaugural
stand.
This will require the arrival of the
show several days prior to the opening
date, and Wheeling will have the novel
1;r n 70 h;o obNuy
preparing for its summer season. AS
the show employs hundreds of per-
formers and other persons in its var
ious departments, the temporary addi-
ton to the population will be notable.
The Ringing show has never exhibit
ed in Wheeling, but the character of
the show is well known, and it has
long been a matter of surprise that
it has not exhibited here.
Now that the show Is actually COM
Ing public interest promises a most
successful engagement, n~otwithstand-
Ing the early date, which has been def
pitely fixed for Thursday, April 10.
Ringing Brothers is comparatively a
new show, but it has already succeed
ed in distancing it's older competitors.
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road cars, employs more people, has a
longer roster of performers, has more
horses and exhibits a larger menagerie
than any other circus either in this
country or Europe. The %acrobats,
gymnasts, aerialists, riders and other
specialists number three hundred OF
the highest salaried European and
American mid-air evolutionists; the
seven Dacomas, world-famous aerial
lists and acrobats; Joseph LeFleur, the
lofty somersault diver; Mile. Turnour,
the personifcation of grace, beauty
and cleverness on the sw~inging-trap-
exc; Alvo, Boise and Pickard, absolute
masters of the aerial bars; Mike Room
ey, Edward Ship, Lizzie Rooney, Julia
Lowande, Elena Ryland, Olga Reed,
Albert Crandall, and a long list of 9TH
er great horsemen and morsewomen,
together with many other feature per-
formers now presented for the first
time in the United States.
Especial attention has been given
this season to trained animal displays.
Lockhart's elephant comedians COM
S the most novel dramatic company
in the world. These huge pachyderms
actually present plays and farces with
an intelligence and clever appreciation
of the power of expression by means
of pantomime such as no human actors
could surpass. Souder's elephant brass
band is the most sensational trained
animal feature ever see in America.
O'Brien's sixty-one horse act, the most
remarkable instance of trained equine
intelligence on record, has created a
furore, while the new patriotic intro
ductory spectacle, '"The Last Days of
The Century" is declared by the lead
ing newspapers of the country to be
the most gorgeously magnificent dis
play of the kind ever attempted. Cir
Gus day will open with a beautiful
street display, in which will be exhibit
ed free upon the streets, the longest,
richest, most respondent parade ever
organized-a display which ever the
Caesars in the days of Rome's greatest
splendor and spectacular extravaganza,
could not have equalled. There is no
doubt that the show will receive q
cordial welcome in this city.
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