El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-18
Everything In the Town Stops
Until the Big Show
Has Shown.
SPLENDID PARADE
Gave Enjoyment TO Many
Thousands Of Young and
0'd On the Down
low? Streets.

Rin.ling'S cno.mous circus reached
the city early this morning after a Per
formaucc at Deming last night. 1t
came in fifty-eight cars which we're
unloaded i'll the yards OF tine g. Il. *
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Many small boys sat up all night TO
herald the coming of the mammoth
show ana AZ daybreak Il vast con
course Of youngsters surrounded the
railway yarGs OF followed some iav-
orite attraction from the cars TO the
show grounds. Herds OF elephants.
camels. dromedaries, horses, ponies.
and cages containing wild beasts. their
drivers looking as if they had just been
pulled out of bed and were many
hours short on sleep, We're TO be seen
break. all headed for a common OBJ
jective point.
The men had their coats buttoned
up to their chins to guard against the
crisp morning air, the heavy cages
were covered with canvas and the
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be in need of a rubbing down.
Several hours later change such
as the hand of magician might have
wrought. had taken place The horses
and ponies pranced out with their
sides as sleek and glossy as possible.
in the morning sunlight with their
gilded ornaments glittering. Covers
mad been removed from some OF the
cages and the lairs of wild beasts were
exposed to view. Musicians in geor-
geous uniforms. knights and ladies
drivers gorgeously clad gave to the
whole an air of primoeval grandeur
and barbaric splendor seen nowhere
outside of a circus.
II was indeed hard to realize that
these radiant beings We're the same
people who had appeared To such bad
advantage. during the early morning
hours. Shivering and unwashed in the
cold gray light at daybreak they had
presented but a sorry spectacle in
deed
When They Were Boys.
Captain Bloom. OF the customs
guards. is an old friend OF the Ring
ling brothers. In fact they were born
in the same town and used TO play
together years ago. The first thing
Alfred Ringing did when he reached
FL Paso was TO hunt up Bloom.
Il can remember" said Captain
when the Ringing boys COM
menced their career as show men. |
suppose that was twenty years ago.
They began on the smallest possible
scale in Baraboo. Wisconsin. where we
all lived. The boys We're all musicians
md after we had played show for sew
eral months they decided to- give a per-
'ormance in Baraboo and charge ad-
mission. This venture was successful
IN a small scale and they soon branch
ID out with a diminutice wagon show
md gave performances in neighboring
owns. From this start they have
quilt up one of the biggest circuses
n the world and today employ about
900 salaried people.
There are seven OF the boys liv-
ng. Five of them own the show and |
wo of them are employed on salaries. |
Two are dead and they have two sis |
ers. one of whom is married. Their |
ather was a harness maker. he died |
everal years ago.
The Ringlings' still call Baraboo |
heir home and have built permanent |
rick winter quarters there. They are
" long odds the heaviest property |
folders in Baraboo.
Getting Ready for the Show.
That the circus is here and he has
he price OF admission is about the eX-
ent of the average show-goer's
houghts concerning the aggregation of
wonders that has come to entertain
i'm. Little does he think OF the ex-
ense and work that is necessary 10 get
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