The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-11
SHOW is HERE.
Circus Came to Topeka and Few
Knew 1t.
Was UnlOaded at Rock Island
Monday Evening.
IN Topeka TO STAY.
VIM. Sells Brings His Circus
for Winter.
He Will Add Fifteen Cars Tor
Next Spring.
7 TOPEKA TO STAY.

Few .peopIe in Topeka realized tnat
there was a circus in town tcday- tie
hadn't been any advance cars taps li.7
the town with dates and atuacllNe ~
lures; no country people We're eat heil ne
on the street corners as early as sunuP'
no grand free street pageant luoNSu ~
Kansas avenue promptly az ~ cioNN
there were no clowns, no tenteu ciey ~
the O tskirts 1t was only the real pal
of the show. without the brass Dand anu
tinsel Instead Of the usual manner %
getting into town. the sells " Towns
United Shows reached Topeka dulellS
Monday evening. The animals were uh,
loaded at the Rock Island station anu
take Immediately to the grounds OF tHe
State Fair association southwest OF the
city where today they are being heiu
temporarily.
circus-those who remained with it after
the last stand had been made at Bowie
Tex, last Saturday. were busy getting
the property of the show off the cars anu
to the fair grounds. Wfere IL VIII a.
once take up winter quarters. BY night
fall the equipment Will have been uh-
loaded and most of it that is to be kept
under cover during the winter months
will haze been housed. There are -
cars required to handle the SHOW, most
OF this is freight equipment, although "A
few passenger cars arrived over the
Santa Fe and viii also be kept here with
the remainder of the cars for the winter
season. Ftttf -
The eighty head Of trained and draft
horses are at the fair grounds TO-DAY
but as soon as possible they VIII be
transferred TO the sens IaiHl east % W "
city where they VIII he kept uiltH lhe
weather grows much cOlSeT. Then they
will be moved back to the fair grounds
The horses are all completing the season
in remarkably good condition. The pub
lie scarcely realizes what an important
part of a show its horses are ana now
strenuous are the requirements mace
upon them. From one day END 10
that of another they rarely nave their
harness or trapplngs taken OH 1hsteau
they are put into the cars as soon as
one stand IS closed, ana remain there
with their harness on unti the next
showing place IS reached men they
are taken OUT anu nesul ny Noih VI
getting the snow 10 us l0calloH, after
the tents have been raised ana While the
afternoon PERFORMANCE Is going on theS
are Ted and allowed 10 rest until even
ing When the lowering oil the tents ana
reloading Of the snow begins, In hand-
ing these animals. the create care Is
ustd7 puI eNen WIN Tue VioSes,S a. - II
tlon, 1T Is nara 10 prevent hccluehts on
board the cars and when they are get
ting in ard out of the trains Today at
the tar grounds several Oh the horses
We're uhqtf tAe care OIL men VINO We're
oollseq 10 oltss lhelr Woulu Is siig az
li''iIs TO B1ltS .is,ii 80
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az ilro4 nc ~ e - II ny,
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vas maj be bCe 80 +,,l or
and has nor vet coronie+eiv bsaleI An
other dannfe era, borse US led oii+.
crippline badly IN one hind foot
The frained horses arc fn4eiligen+
They seem to ,,nlleretsnd +b,+ tba 60
son has closed and mar ali tbe[- INST
90 for the winter is to cat alfaIf. hav
Kansas Kaffr corn and SORGHUM and
drink plenty of wafer They are clad
of it. too. @The horses annear +o know
that the thing is ar ), said VViIIia,,
Sells. to 4 reporter this morning .sXVber,
we We're bringine then In o,9 rro,el,a