Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-01
GORGEOUS IN APPOINTMENT
And the Largest and Best Ever Presented ID
RiDglinR Erothers' Free Street Parade.


gorgeous street parade win intro
duce Ringling Brothers. circus day in
Rock Island. The parade will leave
the show grounds Tuesday, July at
10 o'clock in the morning The Ring
ling Brothers street display is the
most magnificent, sensationally varied
and longest ever organized. This
broad and emphatic statement cam
not be questioned by any person in
this community. The usual circus pa
rade of conventional features, wealth
er stained chariots, bedraggled dens,
unkempt costumes, properties and
horses, are refreshingly absent in the
tremendous procession of the Ring
ling Brothers. Tableau floats, giIded
lairs. illuminated cars, fairy carts,
band chariots, fashionable vehicles,
ancient coaches of state, and wagons
of utility and ornamentatio ton, are uni
formly elegant and tasteful in design
and coloring in the Ringling Brothes
display, and taken together are more
than twice the number ever seen with
any other show. AS matter of fact
the exhibitions of this world famous.
show are the guide and inspiration of
all other circuses of integrity and am
bition. Nothing in the created or ere
ative world is too costly for this Won
derful enterprise, which has agents
securing the the world for amuse-
ment novelty and entertainment, nor
is there any other circus in existence
with the resources of the Ringing
Brothers to carry into effect such n
comprehensive policy. Therefore it is
that when the announcements are
made for this truly great and unique
circus, the facts they state are of
universal and acute interest. The
morning of show day, is an event of
the widest public importance. and
such a pouring out of interested peo-
pie no other enterprise has ever been
able TO cause. Here one sees the
proud stepping horse of aristocratic
lineage, mounted by a master of the
riding art, and costumed with the.
splendor of kings. Queenly looking
equestriennes direct their sensitive
steeds with delighting grace. Child
ren'S senses are fanned into Joyous
eXclama tions of fairyland ideas
symboliZed uponradient carts, and
drawn bp pert ponies, beribboned and
dancing. Naturalists, students and
laymeu find in the scores of open ami
NAL cages an object illustration of
rare wild life nowhere else to be seen
in round of the globe. This free
exhibition of the Ringling Brothers
menagerie in the street parade is re-
markable and gracious feature of
their superior way of doing things.
And what world of difference there
is in the music rendered by their num-
erous bands. compared with what
other shows serve. The mounted mill
tary band, sitting erect upon white
chargers, and richly uniformed, is
worth going miles TO hear, and. for
that matter. 50 are the dozens or
more other bands in the amazingly
long procession. All the $50 horses
carried with the show are used in
the parade. One hundred and eight
wagons, cages, dens. tableau floats.
picture carts, and vehicles of diff
ferent kinds are shown in the splendid
pageant. All the 1000 people en-
ployed in the gigantic spectacle,
Jerusalem and the Crusades. are par
Elephants in the gorgeous free eXhi-
bition of circus wonders Every man,
woman and child in this great COM
munity of Ringling Brothers shows is
a helpful factor in this three-mile dis
play of the leading features in the
greatest and grandest circus in the
world. The shows will be here one
day only. Tuesday July Z. and two
performances will he given at .
o'clock in the afternoon and at s
o'clock in the evening.
The Ringling Brothers have mill
ions of dollars invested in their stu
pendous enterprise, and in addition to
the most complete and startling
arenic performance in the world, the
five famous brothers present this sea-
son, scale ofmagnificence and grand
ure never before attempted. a gOr-
geous spectacular production of Je-
rusalem and the Crusades. This beau
tiful production. arranged by artists
of note and ability in the amusement
field, is an historic pantomime. cor
rect in the most minute particular
and showing. in its entirety, over l.
200 characters OF the tenth century,
when Peter the Hermit, Godfrey de
Boullion, and other famous historical
characters marched from France at
the head of hundreds of thousands of
Christian pilgrims and wrested from
the Egyptian infdels the Holy City of
Jerusalem.
The horse fair with Ringing Broth
ers' great shows embrace $50 speci-
mems of the finest breeding, and is
the most valuable collection ever
ever brought together for exhibition
purposes. No other circus ever own
ed cne-haf so many. The feet trotter.
fierce racer, graceful saddler, aristo-
cratic driver, sturdy Percheron, Ara
bian stallion, Kentucky thoroughbred.
English cob, stylish coach and pert
pony are in this famous exhibition.