Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-10-25
THOUSANDS ATTEND
MAGNIFICENT SHOW
Americas Sees Greatest On
Earth.
COLOSSAL AND sUPERsLr FINE
The Greatest on Earth Delighted
Yesterday the Greatest CIrcns Crowd
EVsr Gathered 1ere-A Truly Mag
nifioent and Gorgeous Spectacle.

The words of Sheba's queen when
she beheld the splendors of Solomon
temple, the half has never been told, .
can well be applied to the arenic won
der which delighted the thousands in
Americas yesterday. They had heard
much of The Greatest Show on Earth
before it came, but the half had not
been told.
Nor will the half be told here-or the
tenth part-fOr it would require dOz-
en- columns to recite in detail the really
magnificent performance.
Americas has been going to the circus
for half century, but not until yester-
day was the climax reached.
Stupendous, colossal, gigantic-even
these terms fail in an attempt to picture
in part this enOrmouse aggregation of
worlds wonders-this titanic, leviathan
assemblage-a gorgeous, magnificent
production of thrilling scenes, the very
acme of arenic spIendors. Nowhere on
earth is its equal.
In each one of the hundred acts the
climax of perfection is reached,
Such plethora of really wonderful
events has never been grouped under
circus canvas.
The greatest criticism to be found
IN the shOw-if it can be called a
critfcism-is that there is so much that
you feel like you are cheating your
self in watching one ring when there
are three in operation, and if you try
to watch all you die of justification
and see nothing clearly.
AS soon as the great crowd was seated
the grand march began. The prelude
is entitled Peace" picturing the
pacification of the two latest warning ma
t1On-Japan and Russia.
Immediately the grand pageantry is
dissembled the big show begins in the
three monster rings. The second num-
Der is one of exceptional clever horse
manshi,p bareback riding. All of the
riders are among the best in the world
and their work is clean and novel in
character.
A series of tumbling exhibitions, ex-
ceptionally novel and artistic, clever
and startling in nature, follows the sec
ond number, groups of acrobats, male
and female, occupying the three rings
all at once.
Next come the herds of elephants, di-
vided up so as to furnish entertainment
in the three rings separately. They
furnish it all right, too. Beyond and
they are the best trained
mammoths in the world.
To speak in detail of each feat would
be impossible. There are the marvel
ously intelligent and wonderfully
trained seals and sea lions, clever dogs
thoroughbred horses, high-school horses
the performance of which compel ex-
pressions of admiration from the big
audiences.
Horses raced and romped; carried
dainty and daring riders, performed
dacing Eacts that were marvellous, ran |
the gamut from the Oriental to the
high school two-step.
Dancers piroqueted with the ease and
grace of Terpsichore and made thous- |
inds applaud.
The piece de resistance is, of course,
he dip of DEATH This is really a |
most startling feat. The lady in the
automobile plainly has no more con-
rol of the machine than the spectators,
who catch their breath with a gasp as
he machine makes the dip and, plung-
ng through space, lands in safety at |
he end of the incline.
The performance closed with the |
treat hippodrome races, and the multi |
ude, weary with rubbering, spends the /
text half hour viewing the wonders of
he menagerie. 1t is truly a great show
nd Americas enjoyed it to the utmost.