Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-07-19
A GREAT CIRCUS

-CuGdp eACuESlOu TdI6S nave Uteu
made TO Grand Rapids on Wednesday,
June 81, when the Carl Hagenbeck
Greater Shows, now modern three
ring circus, exhibit for one day only
in that city, giving afternoon aud
night performances. During the
morning a monster street parade of
glittering Opulent splendor will ira
verse the prominent business and
resident streets. This parade is given
in twenty sections and embraces
hundreds of new and novel pageant
novelties. Thirty-tive open cages of
rare wild animals are shown together
with beautiful horses, and herds of
cattle. -Four gaily uniformed bands
and the ever popular calliope furnish
music for the pageant.
The Hagenbeck circus is the biggest
of all tented amusement enterprises
1t is transported from city to city on
sixty double length cars divided into
three trains, has one thousand en-
ployeS, four hundred horses and tentS
that cover ten acres Of ground. Per-
formances are given in three rings, on
two stages, in steel barred arena
and around wide hippodrome racing
track.
The GROWING feature of the per-
Torrance is the presentation of the
most marvellous and thrilling act ever
attempted and successfully executed
1t is leviathiGn beside which fea-
lures Of other shows are pigmies. and
is called THE SONERSAULT OF
DEATH. An automobile carrying
beautiful Beryl Elliott, the bravest
woman in he world, dasheS down a
steep narrow incline and at the bot
tom strikes "a platform of powerful
springs which hurlS it high in the air
Like bird the huge machine scars
skyWard and turns complete forward
SOmerSault, flies over d thirty foot
chaSm and alightS right side up on d
cushioned platform and gently rolls
to the ground. The act is rightfully
termed the eighth wonder of the
world. No other circus in existence
ever dared attempt the presentation
of such d giantic feature.
Besides THE SON ERSAULT OF
DEATH Mr. Hagenbeck introduces
his world famous trained wild animals,
three hundred arenic stars headed by
Les FrereS KOrOly. Hungarian bare
back riders, the Aragon troupe of
high wire artists and the Ellet trio,
aerlaliStS. Then there are one hun
dred genuine Hindoo men, women and
children IN featS an occidental people
cannot fathOm, forty mirthful clowns
and exciting Roman hippOdrome races
The most complete collection of rare
Wild beats forms the largest mena-
gerie on earth.
The performances in the big tent
are given daily at and s p. N. Doors
open one hour earlier for inspection Of
the menagerle and HindOo colony.
Mr.. and Mrs. MacKinnOn, accom-
panied by the Misses Ellen Mac
Kinnon, Mildred MacKinnon and
Reginald MacKinLOn and the Misses
Helen Ramsey and Olive Clifford re-
turned from Fond du Lac last We'd
nesday. Miss Ellen graduated from
Grafton Hall on Tuesday. Monday
evening she played an Allegro by
Leonard, on the violin at the com
mencement concert, and wrote an
essay on Charles Dickens which she
delivered Tuesday morning. The
Daily Commonwealth Of the 18TH.
speaks as follows of the essay: IN iSS
MacKinnon did not give simply the
biography of Dickens, the author, but
spoke more of his education and the
character of his books. He began his
education in boarding school and his
experiences there are read in David
COpperield. His first writing was
done as a reporter on the Morning
Chronicle, and soon after his first
book, Sketches by Boz appeared.
Dickens was also social reformer and
wrote ''OliYer Twist, Little DorriIl''
and "Martin Chuzzlewi1', for the pur- |