Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-03
.RA|N CUTS ATTENDANCE
Owing to the Weather, Fridays
Carnival Crowd was Small
est Since Monday
ONLY 1900 PAID ADMISSIONS
Rain of the Early Morning and About
Noon Materially Lessons the Visitors
to the Big show-out Of Town Crowd
Was smalI-Balloon Ascension Cut
on Account of the Wind.

| While none of the days of carnival
week, with the exception of Monday,
has been especially suspicious to the
gathering of i large crowd. Friday was
the worst of all, and with the early
morning rain, which frightened away
ut-of-t town visitors, and that of about
noon, which kept townspeople from
grounds during the afternoon was the
smallest of the week. excepting, of
course, the opening day. The paid at
tendance is reported as being 1900, a
majority of these being on the grounds
IN the evening. The wind also inter-
fered with the free show. and caused
sion in the afternoon and the high dive
both afternoon and evening
Owing TO the rain 1t was 8 80 o'clock
before the free show was commenced
III the afternoon, but the evening per-
Torrance was started on time. Bald
Win, the balloonist, whose act is per-
lious enough in comparatively calm
weather, VIII not ascend when the
wind is blowing to any great extent
and for that reason he did not go up
Friday afternoon, and will probably not
make the ascent this evening This
act has been pulled off usually about
o'clock. For the same reason Cap
tain Stanley. the man who does the
high dive, would not go on either in
the afternoon or evening The failure
nf Ms
gram was disappointment to the
crowd, as they are a couple OF the
best ones in the list of free attrac-
tions. Considering the weather of the
day, the crowd at night was very
good one. While the weather of toda:
is a considerable Improvement over
that of Friday, it is still not of the
best. The out-of-town crowd this
morning, on the trains at least, was not
what ii should have been. and prob
ably but Very few. If any more. Wis
tied the city than on Thursday. The
number of the visitors was swelled
today by country people from the near
by districts, who drove to the city.
The Afternoon Show.
The afternoon free show program for
Friday was similar to that of the 9TH
er days and equally as 6 cd. 1t con-
sisted of the Martin dog, at and mon
key show Renix Bros. quartet; the
Milliman trio on the trape e; the Adairs
in their bag punching att: White and
LIE Mart. contortionists and their trick
bill board stunt; and Nine. Vallecita's
trained animals.
The Evening Program.
The evening show included the fol-
lowing acts: Mccarthy, in his heavy
lifting; the Miller family on the trap
csc; Lane and Sznette in the Roman
sword combat and canon ball juggling
the Brandons in the Roman rings; the
Alton Juvenile team of contortionists
and tumblers and LaBelle Fatima in
the slide for life
But little was doing among the per-
centage shows in the afternoon, but
several of the better ones reported
business as very fair considering the
size of the crowd last evening There
is every reason to believe that today. |
and especially the crowd to tonight, if
the weather is at all favorable, will
be by far the largest of the week.