The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-24
MONDAY IS CIRCUS DAY.
Wallace Show is Reputed to Make an
 Excellent Parade.

| The great Wallace show, which Is heav-
 NY billed to give two performances . in
 has visited every prominent city in the country except this one. While 1t is a
 stranger to Montgomery. the Wallace Show is certain to do big business here l because of the good reports which have
 preceded 1t.
 | A week ago Monday the Wallace show | News and Courier of that city comments most favorably upon the show. Among other things The News and Courier said: Charleston was on the streets early
 last of the gilded wagons had crossed into l the circus town enclosure before going home for nasty lunch. The parade is day program The Wallace shows take pride in the splendid moving pageant that
 is given dailX before the afternoon per formance. There IS every reason why the be proud of the parade. Not only because it is long-for sometimes length does not mean excellence-but because 1t was not est and most interesting that has likely ever passed through Charleston's streets" Twice yesterday the enormous tent Of the Wallace Shows were filled to over flowing with people representing every
 class and condition in Charleston. The circus is Democratic institution and once under the canvas banker and news-
 boy become equal: With the thousands of seats filled and standing room at a premium, and with the great bunch
 lights on each of the big poles,, the
 any point of view. The matinee had
 been largely attended. but the greatest crowd came at night; it Is when the audience swells clear out until 1t en- croaches on tho rings and hippodrome track that the performers do their very best. There is an intoxication in the pull sating, nervous mass of humanity that makes the aerialist do more than he ho Hcr rod In the bareback rider feels that this Is the
 moment to accc mplish new trinmphs. The grand entry Is made. then the con, cert by the Wallace Shows famous band and then work beg gins in the rings and the stages. It Is wonder that nalI or the population gre not cross-eyed after a circus peffci mance--for everybody Ia trying to watch six different acts at once nearly all of the time. But no i'll
 effects have been reported and 1t IS likely that the circus will go on as 1t has n.y.. trirus, dizzy and graceful acts and t, ying to have something, going on Tn every portion of the tent all of the time:
 It would be impossible to specify all of the various turns done by. the hundred aud more of entertainers who are on the pay roll of the Wallace Shows, but it were not particularly mentioned. The Stirks, for instance. who early in the program, give their beautiful series of statuary tableaux and later appear in a world famous Nelsons are with the Wal lace Shows and their acrobatic act Is the most wonderful ever put up by any com hination of performers. The Vortex Sis ters on the Ferris wheel and ,tis., the acroi nG wire-walkirg done by Sigimatos Japs fairly eclipsed anything eyer seen before % The races, the bareback riding by Frank
 St John and Etta Jordan. especially the
 Roman standing, race, and all of the
 scores of other features of the enter,
 tainment. were worthy of attention and
 won the heartiest applause of the audi
 ences. . all of the visitors to the circus passed
 through the menagerie and smtia had 'sanse sna"i mems of rare and wonderful animals col
 ecd at great sSRsnss Rs sso qna most kspt earefun and constant attention. The Wallace
 Slows have some hundred or m more ,Ss cSSes Md and among the most interesting of the
 wild animals Is a monster hippotamus. the largest in captivity and possibly the ta show,