The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-15

CIRCUS DAY.

A Gorgeous Parade and Good Show.
 Can words describe the sensations you experienced when you beheld for the first time in your life a circus pa rade? Probably not. Most of us were in arms and too young to become thor oughly interested. But a little later in life, when you were old nough to walk land could understand the names of things and could distinguish between ia brass band and a steam whistle. or Ia dump cart and gold chariot-it was lat that age that you really saw your first circus parade, for that age is probably as far back as your memory can carry you. It was about this time that circus day took precedence over every other holiday on your calendar. You looked forward to the Fourth of July, you looked forward to the ten weeks summer vacation from school, land Thanksgiving and Christmas were on your list, but the circus led the pro- cession and trotted in a class all by itself. You recall how the first advance lear arrived in town, then the pictures on the billboards; then another advance lear and a little later the Autographs in the store windows. From this time on everything went by the board in antic- ipation of the circus. You began to |save your money. You were good to |your mother. You ran errands without lcomplaint and begged to be asked to run more. You never cried, you were never cross. and you went to bed early for weeks without registering the sem
 blance of kick. And how you did buckle into that woodpile! But those are all memories of the past. The day lof days dawned when the circus ar rived. When you were very young you arose at 8 a, n., after sleepless night
 and with big, brother or father wended your way to the place of unloading. 4 l little later in life you did not go to bed
 but sat up all night and convinced
 yourself that the night before circus day was the longest night of the year 1 After the first number on the day'l programme-the unloading of the show
 -came short intermission. Then thu lparade. You stood on the sidewalk
 the curbstone, or in a doorway; or per haps you were perched in a tree or or l a lamp-post. How you did stretch tn,
 cords of your neck looking for that frs chariot with the band! And how vol imagined every three minutes that yo, heard the band and would look agair in the direction from which the parad Twas to come. Then it did come. Frs lthe big lookingg glass chariot with tn, band on top. Then some more golS Ichariots, drawn by four. six or eigh horses. Then some cages with ami imals, and more wagons and cages Then some riders on horseback and an lother band. Finally the numbering ele
 phants, preceded by the man on horse
 back. who shouted, Hold your horses!
 We'll. that was your first circus pa
 Trade. That was the first real circu thrill that tingled the blood in you lveins. From that time on you had tn
 fever, and circus day became the sta
 day of the year on your engagement
 book, Circuses have changed sine \ those days. and parades have changed
 Year by year they have become better
 larger and more gorgeous. Year b
 year have been added feats of greate
 daring, acts of greater merit, artists c
 greater ability. The great Adam Fore
 paugh & Sells Brothers Enormou 1 Shows United present to the people C Nav Haven to-day euper-exceller pageant that is superbly stupendou' Not only in this direction do they eS cell all previous efforts, but the perfor nance itself is given by the greates aggregation of artistic talent that mon ey can hire.