The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-18
RINGLINGS' MEN HERE.
Advance Guard for Big Show Which
VIII Be in Topeka September 8.

why it's just like having a trained
nurse with you all of the time to be g
| circus giraffe said the Snowman to-
day as he frescoed a billboard with
posters announcing the coming OF
Ringing Brothers Worlds Creates
Shows" on Tuesday, Sept. s.
mo, sir" he went on, there is nc
animal, human or otherwise. that has
the same loving care or is the object
of the same gentle solicitude, the same
untiring and ceaseless affectionate at
tention as the giraffe in the circus
Perhaps you never noticed a giraffe
cage. No. 1 thought not, for it isn't
every show that has one of the spotted
beauties. They are rare and come
high. The family of longnecks now be-
ing exhibited by Ringing Brothers
cost $4,000 besides the outlay OF
money to have special cages built for
each animal You see. the brute is a
very nervous bunch of flesh and he
must have a companion. therefore each
cage is so constructed that the keeper
may reside within speaking distance
of his charge. AT night when we lead
/ the cages on the train the keepers and
CRATES are there. In the winter time
we have to wrap up the animals long
neck in flannel. They look funny then
but you see the rigors of the climate
account for it. They catch cold easily
It's the same way with the monkeys
They are subject to lung troubles"
The Ringing publicity brigade ar
rived in town last night from Kansas
City in their advertising car. This
contained tons of pictorial paper which
will be posted in town and over the
various country routes showing the
feats and features that will be in evil
dence on show day.
Every barn, fence and billboard
within forty miles of this city will be
clothed in f1aring posters before even
ing" continued the paste manipulation
Forty miles seems long way. but Ii
isn't. Why, out west the people &C
twice that distance to see our show
Some people start a week in advance
in wagons, carrying a tent and cookine
utensils. If they get into town ahead
of the circus they camp out and await
| its arrival"
With an absolute monopoly of all the
great novelties of the world, Ringing
| Brothers present this season a per.
Torrance such as has never been seer
anywhere under canvas before. From
the intrepid young French woman whc
| guides a huge auto car down a sheer
| incline, thence into space, where the
| machine somersaults twice, to the
foreign tongued fellow who ascend!
| and descends a steep fight of stair:
while balanced upon his head, the pro
gramme is made up of great feature
acts new to America. From every par
| of the globe where the hand of civiliza
| ton has touched may be found repre-
sentatives whose feats of skill ant
| daring placed them in the peer row O
| the arenic profession. Equestrian
acrobat. gymnast, deviser of blood
| curdling acts of dare, master trainer
who have made the brute creature tai
| on the door of humanity, in fact
everything constituting the world o
| amusement wonders has been gathered
together for this seasons tour of tn
largest and greatest show ever organ
| lied.
The days festivities will be intro
duced by one of the greatest stree
parades ever before assembled. From
all countries and every condition o
human existence have come the LIS
people to be seen in this pageant
Olive-skinned beauties from the court
of Asiatic plains: naughty queens o
Egypt, Persia, India, Siam, Ceylon
China and Japan; and hundreds of od'
wheeling structures, golden cars, hand
carved tableau wagons, huge dens II
which the wild animals may be seel
moving to and fro; 20-camel team 4
elephants. and over $50 horses in silve
| trimmed harness.