The Saint Paul globe., 1902-07-01
CIRCUS is HERE TODAY
RINGING BROS. SHOW WILL GIVE
ONLY TWO PERFORMANCES
Parade Starts mt 9:3O and Shows
Commence at and ID. m.-One
Hundred Acts in Performance
and 300 Artists Appear-Menag-
erie Said to Be Best on Road.

Today is circus day. The big street
parade will leave the show grounds. at
Dale and University avenue, at 9:9O and
move over the following route: Univer-
sity to Wabasha, to Eighth, to Broad
way, to Sixth, to st. Peter, to Summit
avenue, to Nelson avenue, to Western
avenue to Marshall, to Dale and to
grounds.
In the afternoon at o'clock the first
performance will begin. The show will
be here one day, and the last perform
ance will be given in the evening at 8
o'clock. Every reader of the daily pa
pers here has been prepared for the fun
For days the circus idea has been in the
air. The poster boards rave pictured its
wonders, the small boy of the family
has been glib in spreading it's glories
The Ringing Brothers shows are the
highest development of the circus idea
The in n ersity of the enterprise and the
quality of their performances are well
known The show is an enormous affair,
so big that sixty-seven cars are required
to haul it from place to place, and the
expenses are said to be over $1,000 a day.
Tent Seats 1900 People.
The big tent will seat 1900 people, and
is $40 feet long by 210 feet wide, naming
it the largest ever made. Under this big
CdIlNdS are IHTSe rings, TWO stages and
quarter of a mile racing track
There are over 100 acts in the pro-
gramme of performance, and 300 per-
formers are used to give effect to this big
bill One thousand people are said to be
on the pay roll of the firm, and over 500
horses are carried. Many of these horses
are thoroughbreds and represent great
cost in money.
The Ringing menagerie is claimed to
be the finest in the country. 1t certainly
is an extremely rare collection of wild
creatures, and includes a giraffe. Gil
raffes are almost extinct, wild animal
hunters say, and to get one has been the
ambition of all big showmen for years.
The Ringlings have $4,000 invested in
this strange beast They are hard to
keep in this climate, and this one is
cared for like a delicate and petted child
of rich parentage She travels in a spe-
cial car and cage and has keeper who
never leaves her.
Thirty elephants, about twice the num-
Der in the United States outside of this
herd, is another unique attraction in the
menagerie part of the circus. Fifteen of
these elephants have been taught to do
amazing tricks in the ring. They play
musical instruments, dance and stand on
their heads, form pyramids, stand on
their hind legs with body perpendicular
go through broad farcical skit with a
relish and seeming sense Of humor, and
do other stunts" which are truly amaz-
ing.
Forty Ring Riders.
In the ring performances the forty rid
ers concerned are led by John O Brien.
In lAis class are such famous riders as
Mike and John Rooney, Julia Lowanda
the Shades, the Hobsons, Augusta Fred
erick, Rhoda Royal and Nine Royal.
May Davenport and Ida MiacC and Albert
Crandall.
The sixty acrobats include the famous
eight, the Petit family of five, the Rob-
erts family of three, the three De BoIian
brothers and the Fortuna. brothers.
Among. the sixty aerial performers of
are claimed to be the highest priced high
wire performers in the world the four
Banvards, the Austin sisters, the three
Dunbars Nettie Carroll and the st. Leon
sisters. Geraro and Theol described as
''boneless beings; elastic Ida Miaco the
| Tyvell sisters and Mile. Naomi Ethardo,
| pearing here for the first time, are other
| starred specialties in the crowded pro-
| gramme.
There are forty Merry Andrews" to
make fun, and busybodies they are to
this end. The clown of today must
work like harvester to tickle the crowd.
To be pelted in the face with stuffed
bladders and kicked all around the hip
podrome track by a trick mule ana
Knocked gally west with boards and stats
| is not a very enviable job yet there are
several with the Ringing show who
| who have been at the business from
twenty to twenty-five years and appear
| to have grown fat and happy.
The circus did a record breaking busi-
ness in Minneapolis yesterday and was
pronounced the best of all Ringing
shows, Seats will be sold at Howard
| prices charged on the grounds.