Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-24
BIG CIRCUS IS here
AND SO IS CROWD
White City of Tents Going
Up Now
sARNUM S BAILEY SHOW COMES
Enormous Circus In Rmericus for
First Time-Show Grounds Near
Oil Co. PIant-Vast Multitude Is
here to See the Circus,

This is circus day. But who needs
to be reminded of that fact? There is
something in the very air of circus day
that breathes Of sawdust, and spangles,
and red lemonade, and elephants, and
laughing hyenas, and acrobats, and
airy fairy riders, and thousand other
things associated in dreams and in
reality with the white tents.
To be sure there are circus days and
circus days. There is the circus day
that brings the little, two by -four ring
show that an avalanche of gaudy pre-
liminary billing has promised to be the
most colossal aggregation the world
has ever looked upon" and which is
ridiculous because it is so different
There is, too, the circus day that
brings the show that, on a modest
scale, honestly lives up to its preten-
tons.
But, after all, there is only one
really big circus day, and this is when
the Barnum q Bailey Greatest Show on
Earth comes to town. And that is not
surprising, in view of the magnitude
ofthis great amusement institution.
To any one who cares to study the
difference between this and the other
shows, there will never be better
opportunity than today. Only, to see
it all, to make a fair estimate of the
resources of the show, and in that way
be prepared to make the inevitable
comparison, the student must have got
up very early this morning.
If he did so, ne saw some surprising
things suggestive of magnitude.
He saw, down in the railroad yards,
five long trains of double length cars
filled with the paraphernalia of the
show; he saw wagon after wagon un-
loaded and with their SPLENDID half
PercherOn teams go toward the show
ground; he saw thirty elepha nts and
twenty camels fope down the runways
of their big box cars.
He remarked nearly fifty dens of
others animals lined up for the pro-
cessiOn to the lot.
A little later, when he goes out to the
show grounds, he will see the contents Of
those great wagons put into mammoth
paviliOns; he will see a vast hippo
drOme tent, with seats for IA, 800 per-
sons and furnished with opera chairs
and all the comforts of modern
theatre.
He will see n world of aerial rigging
on which great company of mid-air
performers win give series of start
ling acts; he will see three rings and
two stages which hundreds of riders
and acrObats will utilize to present at
the afternoon and night performances
the very limit of arenic accomplish
ments.
He will see the remarkable apparatus
used by Miss Isabella Butler in the
dip of Death" and the Boiler Brothers
in their startling bicycle thriller the
1.-TWO TwirIs of Terror
The first performance will begin at
, o'clock, and the final one at 8 p. m.
Doors will be open one hour previously
to afford visitors an opportunity to
visit the menagerie, to enjoy the
performance of the Scandinavian gypsy
musicians and dancers, the clever
feats of the Welsh giant and the Fin
nish giantess.
The spectacle, Peace" begins
promptly at and s. Owing to the
vast amount of paraphernalia used in
these performances, and the time re-
quired to remove it, the automobile and
other big sensational acts will be given
in the early part of the program.
Reserved and box seats will be on
sale all day at Joe L. Browns and on
the show grounds at the opening hours.