Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-08
Good Weather Greets the Wal
lace Show Upon Its Visit
to the City
AFTERNOON
CROWD
BIG
The Small Boy Was Up in the Middle
of the Night to See the Circus Unload
ures Hard to E,eat-central Moves
tho Show in Two Sections.

today and this fact resulted In circus DAY
drawing the usual large crowd. The
small boy was up before the lark this
the unloading process. which began at
4:S0. The Central moved the circus,
bringing it here from oskaioosa, IN
two sections. The rolling stock of the
the Wallace show. comprises twenty
six double length cars. Half the train
arrived at 4:15 and the other fifteen
minutes later. The 1ifty-seven miles
were made without incident. The sho~
will go from here TO Cedar Rapids, via.
the Northwestern.
The Wallace s1low has not VISITED
this city for several years, and has
grown in magnitude since that time
b. IL. Wallace o., Peru. Ind, the sole
owner OF the circus. has made himself
many times a millionaire since estah-
fishing his little wagon show twenty
| four years ago. Mr.. Wallace. him
self is not with the show at present
devoting his time at present to a bank
| ing business that he has recently es-
| tablished in Peru. Colonel y. +. john
Wallace show for twenty-five years,
has entire charge of all business con-
nected with, the .oad management
Mr.. Wallace believes, as do many
patrons of circuses, that many are too
tl.,. l..
of such a magnitude that it requires
$4,000 daily to operate 1t, and yet he
does not attempt to put on too many
acts at one time. Wallace has had q
reputation for years of giving first
class ring performance and he leads
all in his horses. Instead of running
three and four rings. he builds twa
large ring~. and runs similar acts
in each, SO that spectators do not have
to become uncomfortable in trying to
watch too many performances His
feature acts are all presented from n
central stage, and the aerial acts are
shown from the entire length of the
canvas. This system has elected
many compliments from the show GO
ms, public. Five hundred seventy-fiye
horses are carried with the show.
eighty Of which are ring stock. The
Wallace menagerie attracted the US
ual attention of lovers of natural his
tory. The animal ranks have been
depleted somewhat owing to Il wreck
last season, in which eight camels AMI
two elephants we're killed. Orders
,, We're placed four months ago for new
stock and it is now being imported
One OF the best advertisements for
the Wallace show IS the fact that many
of Mr.. Wallace's employees have been
with him almost ever since his show
WINS created Professor C. q. Bron-
son, who is director Of the band of
thirty-fiVe pieces. and who was clar.-
net soloist with the Sousa band for
several years. has been with the or
ganization m;ny years. Charles
Sweeney, equestrian director. has been
with the show ever since it first went
out, nearly quarter of a century
ago.
Shows Many Features.
The Wallace show has many features
that are hard to beat. Among the
Leading ones are Tetsuwara's Imperial
Japanese troupe, of ten people, which
does typical Japanese act in acrobat
troupe has the distinction of being the
orly one of japanese performers on it's
way to America at the time Of the
outbreak of the Russo Japanese war.
1t was routed from Tokyo to Peru.
md, when informed of the war. So
many attentions We're shown the little
people by the Americans on board the
vessel. that a Japanese baby, born
shortly before arrival at Frisco, was
christened George Washington.
Madame Maranette and her troupe Of
high jumping and cake walking horses
is another feature that attracts much
attention. Nine. Maranette carries
eight horses, including the great st.
Patrick, which holds the worlds rec
ord for high jump. seven feet five
and one half in ches. won from Hether-
bloom, at the Madison Square Garden
New York, III the spring of 1908.
Madame Marsnette also has Little
fitch, the holder of the Shetland's
worlds record six feet. four inches.
made in the Crystal Palace London
The cake walk done by Prince Rollo
and Brilliantire, both thoroughbrei
Arabs, Is pretty act. Madame Mar
anette rides enc of the animals and
her manager. ID. H. Harris. the other.
The Heras family of acrobats, seven
people, constitutes another OF the Wal
lace features. The members of the
Heras family are the originators of the
acrobatic acts in full evening dress.
The Melasso troupe Of whirlwind dane
ers, from Nier ma, in this country only
eight weeks is another feature as are
also the three great Nevaros, head an
hand balancers. This was declared by
many at the afternoon performance as
one of the prettiest acts OF the day.
The members of the team are 4
brother and sister and their cousin.
They are native Bohemans. The three
Polos, in a casting act, with a full!
grown man, weighing 1856 pounds. in
stead OF Il child, Is another feature.
This is an American act, originally, but
has been In Europe since 1882.
cared for by the fourNelsons, comiques
srostesque acrobats: the Royar
Brothers, Shepard and Hugo, in Hap
ny Hooiigan and the Jew" Nichols
md Stelling, the Jarvis Brothers, Will
lam Henschey tom" Singer and
AMERICAS foremost clown, Tom"
Moore
The afternoon performance was
Iirgely attended The usual number