The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-11
GREAT CROWDS
SEE THE CIRCUS
Attendance at Two Perform
ances Reaches 25,000.
SHOW 4 CONSTANT JOY
RINGLINGS GIVE EVERYTHING
THAT WAS PROMISED.
SHOW 4 CONSTANT JOY

After all, the real show is the people
the great, sweltering, crowding, good
natured public that goes TO see and be
seen The Ringing Brothers circus is
beyond advertising One might almost
as well map out a publicity campaign
on the necessity for breathing if one is
to sustain life It is as wei settled
fact that the RiagliDgs have the great
est circus on the road as that those who
desire 10 keep on living must keep on
breathing.
Yesterday afternoon and evening
$4,000 people saw the show at the state
fair grounds. At high noon they began
going Every extra car that could be
pressed into the service was used. They
were run at intervals of not more than
two minutes and sometimes the inter
walls were much shorter. And every car
was crowded. Men and women. boys.
girls and babies turned out. II did not
seem possible to transport all of them,
but they were transported. somehow,
for the big top" which is said to have
a seating capacity Of 14,000, was more
than comfortably filed at both per
formances.
The weather was conducive to pee
vishness. 1t was hot, so hot that the
DerSpiratiOn ran in streams down every
countenance. But the crowds were
gOOd-natUred. They trod on one an
others toes and smiled. they pushed
and showed and scrambled, but they
were out for a good time and they
didn't propose to let any small discOm-
forts interfere with it. 1t isn't often
that the people of the far west have an
opportunity TO see such a show as Ring
ling's. Such a show as Ringling's? The
phrase is really deceptive. Ringling's is
the only show.
Any Excuse Suficed.
Some Of the circus-goers of yesterday
afternoon ard evening didn't pretend to
offer any excuse for themselves They
bTazenly went without any children,
went to enjoy the circus because they
like the OdOr of the sawdust rings, be-
cause they like to hear the lions roar,
the hyenas howl the seals bark, the
elephants trumpet. the zebras squeal.
the monkeys chatter. Others went
lust to give the children a good time"
and enjoyed it as much as the children.
One of the first signs of old age is a
real or fancied distaste for the circus
Besides, those who haven't seen a. cir
Gus for ten or fifteen or even five
years. because when you see one
you've seen EN- all don't know what
a modern circus. Is The Ringlings,
with their l. 500 to I 500 employees. their
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geological garden, their dozens Of acts
never before seen IN q circus ring. have
a show that IS no more to be measured
By the same standard as the Old-time
circus than an arc light IS to be meas
Ured with a burning rag in a saucer Of
grease.
No higher tribute could be paid to the
RinglinEs than the mere statement that
their performance was exactly as ad-
vertiaed. Some of their promises
seemed extravagant, utterly impossible
of fulhllment. But every promise was
kept, every pledge observed And the
RfnSIings did more than that They
went a little beyond their promises, a
little farther than their pledges
Politeness of Employees.
Yesterday afternoon a tired usher
in the midst of his work to lift
a tired baby up over a tier of seats TO
a tired mother he did it so gracefully.
so gently, so calamity. so much with
the air that the pleasure was all his,
that hearts warmed toward him and
toward the men who have the honor to
employ him. But this man was net an
exception to the Ringing rule Every
was courteous every one was
willing to do all he could to make the
thousands comfortable.
Il is greatly to be hoped that the
circus win be an annual event
in Salt Lake Show and people deserve