The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-08
RIKGLING BROTHERS CIRCUS
DELIGHTED MANY THOUSANDS
 HERE YESTERDAY.

Splendid Street Parade-SOme of the
 Features of ssThe Big shOw"-Many
 Attended from Out-Of-ToWn-''The
 Field of the Cloth of GoId.'
 Once more New Haven can resume its normal calm for the circus and Vale bottle night have passed and gone.
 Yesterday, as everyone knows who resides within radius of twenty miles of this city, was "circus day" Such a day gives strength to the proverb that "The boy is father of the man." for while the father of to-day, in the de- lights of his boyhood's cireuses may have dreamed of greater splendors than he then beheld, still it is only the boy of to-day who has ever been afforded the opportunity of beholding the mag nificent display which marked yester- days big event. Never has anything more interesting and pleasing, in the circus line, been seen in this city. To the small boy the Ringling Brothers show gave intense delight and many man broke away from business yes terday to take his children to the cir GUS, and immense and delighted au- diences greatly enjoyed the perform ance.
 The lively downfall of rain in the l evening undoubtedly kept some from attending, but the effect was hardly noticeable in the size of the big crowd | which did attend. The brilliancy and splendor of the street parade made the many thousands who witnessed it de- sirous of attending the show. It was by all voted to be fine parade. Peo- 1 pie came from near and far to witness it, ard there was a large number of rural visitors in town. The trains from all directions yesterday morning pour ed in big streams of the holiday seek CTS from out of town places. ...s- | Ringlings circus will be set down as ranking with the best of all that goes with acres of canvass, miles of horses, elephants, camels, wild animals, tons of spangles and glitter, and loads of in | cidentals, so numerous that the best of press agents could not begin to name | them. , ......,. l The street parade was somewhat late | in starting and the management states that this was because the bridges were ] so low between here and Hartford that I it was necessary to stop the trains while en route and take the weels off the larger wagons
 | Noteworthy features of the mammoth street pageant were band wagons with a 24-horse hitch, 26-hitch of beautiful Shetland ponies drawing float; a cav. l airy band: a clown musical aggrega- l ton, herd of thirty elephants and a steam ealIiopes.
 The show itself has one of the largest
 menageries that has ever been seen in New Haven. Tn addition to the usual collection of quadrupeds there were in teresting species of the animal king I dom, such as yaSs sacred cattle of In dia, striped hyenas, wild boas, and in all about 200 strange and interesting speciments from all parts of the globe. The hippodrone contained all the old features. There were three rings with two stages whereon there were sights and laughs for two and a half hours. | Then there was an immense ring for the chariots jokeys. trotters and all other kinds of racing. Trick bicycling by two teams of six persons were novel and attractive additions to the usual programme. st' ss The introductory spectacle "The Field of the Cloth of Gold" has an unusually attractive entrance, and is put on with theatrical splendir.
 l The spectacle is based on the meeting of the king of France and the king of England on the plains of Andres, France June, 1920, for the consumma-
 ton of treaty for the maintenance of the peace of Europe.
 | All the principal characters present on that occasion, including King Henry VIII. of England and Francis I. of | France Cardinal Woolsey, Duke of Bourbon, and the queens of France and England, were impersonated with a great concourse of dukes, barons, no-
 bles, clergy pages, musicians, and
 dancing girls. .s ~. | The signing of the treaty is actetd out
 and then there are sports and amuse- ments for the royalty present with a
 ballet of 100 girls as a concluding feat ure. 1&' -~
 The piece is put on with appropriate scenery, the costumes are magnificent
 and the whole spectacle makes it a
 grand opening for the performance.
 The local trolley company rendered a
 most praiseworthy and satisfactory ser-
 vice during thes day, the cars being run
 to the circus grounds both in the after
 noon and evening on about a one minute
 schedule. A noteworthy proof of the efficiency of the service is demonstrat-
 ed from the fact that late last night it was stated at the Consolidated Rail-
 way officers that there had not been
 either break down or an accident of
 any kind during the entire day.
 YALE SEES THE CIRCUS.
 Yale freshmen, attended the circus
 in body at the evening performance.