Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-14
Fair Weather Alone Needed to
Make Attendance at Car
nival Large
CREATING GREAT INTEREST
All Roads Will Lead to Marshalltown
During Carnival Week, and Not
Person Will Have Cause to Regret
Attendins-AII Promises of the Man.
asement Sacred.

If the weather is at all pleasant
Marshalltown is going to have the priv
/ ilege of entertaining the largest crowd
during the carnival week this year that
1 visit of the late President Mckinley.
| Those who have visited the territory
within a hundred miles in any direction
/ of Marshalltown during the past few
weeks, report they heard little or MOTH
ing discussed except the Marshalltown
carnival. Everybody apparently IL
planning to attend.
| And those who come will not be dis
appointed. Every promise made by the
carnival management will be sacredly
kept, and not a single person will have
cause to complain of the number or the
nival ever given in Iowa has had more
or better shows than will be seen here:
no circus or hippodrome carries more
clever or a greater number OF high
priced artists than have been secured
for the Marshalltown carnival. Every
cline and every continent has been
ransacked for the new, the novel and
the entertaining. All the big amuse-
ment centers of the civilized world have
been searched for those who are cap
able of giving a show such as has neye.
been equalled in Iowa.
The carnival will be a gorgeous and
gigantic school of instruction, mu-
scum of innocent usement-science.
art, skill, and genius, all will combine
in producing an entertainment that will
linger long and lovingly in the memoir
les of those who attend. Visitors will
be enabled to study the life and Gus
toms of nearly every known tribe. The
children of a dozen lands will be seen
following the pursuits, enjoying the
amusements, wearing the costumes of
their native country; there will be
found specimens of the animal kingdom
from the four corners Of the globe,
many of them trained to perform feats
that seem almost human; there will be
seen the elimination of centuries of
thought and study; electrical applian-
ces so marvellous as to seem mysterious
mechanical devises so cleverly con-
structed as to bewilder and amaze.
There will be seen the man Of iror
whose gigantic strength en-
ables him to lift a thousand pounds as
easily as the ordinary man would lift
a feather. There will be seen human
beings who seem to have been born
bones. 60 easily dn they tie
themselves into knots or compress their
bodies into marvelously small space.
There will be seen artists OF the air,
to whom high elevations have no ter
ror who perform seemingly impossible
feats high above the ground as fear
lessly as though standing on broad |
platform. There will be seen others |
whose mission on earth is to amuse, |
and who perform this mission SO faith
fully that sober indeed is he who can
suppress laugh while watching their |
funny antics. There will be
seen freaks of nature-euriosities of the |
animal, vegetable and mineral king
doms. There will be found Ferris /
mystic swings. electric foun-
tains, illusions and a thousand sources I
Of entertainment. There will be seen
. thousand vari- colored banners by
day and myriad electric lights by |
night.
1t will be grand panorama of cos
life, products and achieve
fantastic yet fascinating
of civilization and semi-bar-
barism. Yet nowhere will be seen the
or suggestive; nowhere will I
be heard the vulgar or the insulting.
1t will be the greatest carnival ever
held in Iowa. 1t will be worth travelling
hundreds of miles to sea worlds
fair within itself. To miss 1t would be
10 suffer a real, a genuine loss. 1t COM
nences Monday. Sept. % and will con-
.inue all week.