The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-06-14
CIRCUS IS IN TOWN
Many See the Great Street Pag-
cant of Walter Mains
Colossal Show.

Gloom and depression filed the heart
of the small boy Of Jersey City when he
awoke this morning and saw dark clouds
in the sky which made it look as
though the day would be stormy Ordin-
arily a rainy day makes lit.!e diffr:cLce
to the average small bt as he can always
find some way of enjoying himself, rain
or shine. But this is the day that the
Walter l.. Main circus was coming to
town and notwithstanding this 5 the
era of waterproof tents and two per-
formances daily rain or shine your
small boy is always sad when it rains on
circus day.
But as the day progressed and the sun
came out his small heart was made glad
aud he FASTENED over to st. Paurs ave-
nue. and the Boulevard to see if the
great show had arrived.
There to his great joy he saw small
army of men making order out of tho
chaos Of canvass tent, poles, ropes,
horses, wagins and animals. Soon the
conglomeration too shape and the great
street pageant was ready to move
In the meantime men, women and
, children We're waiting all along the route
TO see the parade pass by and when it
came they We're well repaid for wait
ing.
The parade was departure somewhat
from the usual street display Of the
average circus. There were four bands
| to furnish music besides the cai-ope.
One of the bands was composed of
colored men, two were the ordinary cir
Gus bands seated on gaudIy decorated
wagons and the. other was composed of
clowns seated on an old-fashioned hay
rigging They played up strenuousIy as
the parade passed up Newark avenue
and divided the attention of the ever
present small boy with the bass drum
mer of the remaining band. These mus
| iciaHs We're mounted on horses and the
lads VINO watched the bass drummer
pounding away considered that he per-
formed a wonoerful feat
Besides the bands, there were armored
warriors. male and female eharioteerS.
dromedaries, women jockeys and many
mysterious looking closed wagons. There
was a straw-haired clown who made FREE
quent orations to the crowds. and at the
corner of Montgomery and Washington
streets a Ioud-voiced individual was sta
toned who appeared to be greatly ex-
cited over the whole thing. AS the star
| features of the parade came along he
yellel in brassy tones, Look, AooA
and when the wagon advertising the
price of the show hove in sight he be-
came wildly enthusiastic. and yelled with
delight
1t was some time before the watchers
realized that he WAS connected WITH the
show. Some monkeys, mounted on ponies
led by small boys. caused great amuse-
ment, and they were followed by a
herd of dromedaries attached to wagons
carrying Egyptian maidens' and a
Scotch lassie who teoted away on bag
pipes There was cage of lions with
an uneoncerned looking lien-tamer in
side, and sleepy looking leopard which
blinked lazily at the crowds. Then fol
lowed the elephants, big and little. and
last and most the steam calliope The
calliope was playing Just Because She
Made Them Goo-Goo Eyes while a
sweating fireman shoveled coal into and
man operated the keys.
When the parade returned to the
grounds til crowd which was gathered
there was thrilled with high diving ex-
hibition in which daring young woman
with golden hair flung herself headlong
from dizzy height to a net below
The performance was well attendd this
aftrnoon and every arrangement is com
plete to make comfortable the vast
throng which is expected at tonight's
performance.