The age-herald., 1901-10-13
RlNeLINo BROS. COMING.
History of an Enterprls of Marvellous
 Development.

A great deal of local interest has al- ready been aroused by the announcement that Ringing Brothers popula big cir GUS is to exhibit in Birmingham again, and circus Monday November f. promises to be one of the biggest days of the year. This great show is so we'll and favorably known in Birmingham by reason of the admirable perform ances given in former years, that any special commendation would be superfiuous. The reputation of these Napoleonic showmen and the mag ntude of their great exhibition are fa- miliar to the public from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Beginning in a small and modest way g. little more than dozen years ago, the show has developed from an ordinary one-ring circus, employing less than a score of people, to the largest and most complete circus, menagerie and hippodrome in the United States. This phenomenal growth has been a healthy and legitimate one, for 1t has simply kept pace with the growth of the show in pub lie esteem and popularity. Last season the exhibition seemed to have reached the utmost limit of size and scope, and yet this year shows still greater expansion and the introduction of hundreds of new, novel and original features never before associated with a circus. It has now reached point where 1t is beyond rivalry and there is nothing with which to com pare 1t except it's own previous record,
 
 the number of its European and Ameri- can artists, in the beauty and magnif- cence of its paraphernalia, in the com pleteness of it's world-gathered geological displays, in the thrilling realism of its hippodrome contest and the superb char acter of its professional displays, 1t stands entirely alone. Among the great offerings this year are sixty aerialists, sixty acrobats thirty riders. forty clowns and a vast number of other clever performers. The headliners include the Holloway Trio of high wire gymnasts; Amelia Feeley. the greatest principal bareback rider that. the world has pro- duced; the Feeley family of acrobats the Watenburg brothers. famous globe jug glers and equilibrists; the marvellous Garcinetu Troupe of nine acrobats, inn ported direct from Italy; the three Mar jumpers; the far-famed DaComa family of acrobats and aerialists; the Flying Fishers; the Alpine sisters, Ahrens and Ashton; Alvo, Boise and Picard, aerial bar experts; Mile Turnour, the most dar- ing and graceful of all mid-air equili- brists; Miss Minnie Fisher. the human aerial top: and an entire troupe of Japanese aerialists and high wire bicy- clists. The trained animal features are numerous and of most sensational char acter. There are thirty elephants and twenty of these curious and interesting 1uAAAAoib appear together III one ring, at one time, under the direction of their trainer. O'Brien's sixty-one horse act is the finest display of trained equine inteIli- gence ever seen in the United States The menagerie has been greatly augmented for the present season, and contains hun dreds of rare wild animals never before placed on exhibition. Circus day will be inaugurated with Ringing Brothers new big street parade, a magnificent process siona1 display that dwarfs all previous efforts in the line of spectacular pageant | ry. It is over a mile in length and will | serve to inaugurate circus day. Monday. | November {.