Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15

JUST plain BILL
LEPHANT'S NAME
HEAD OF DROVE OF FORTY AMI
MAILS WITH RINGLINGs IS
NOT PROUD.
SHOWS HERE SEPTEMBER 3
Present Year Marks Twenty-Fifth
SHOWS HERE SEPTEMBER 3
Present Year Marks Twenty-Fifth
Milestone in Shows Career-This
Year Many New Novelties
Are to be Featured.

Miss Yak of Asia, Mr.. and Mrs.
Monk and infant of Hotel de Monk,
Ringlingville: Liberal Mouthed Mike,
the hippo; the Giraffe family of AT
RIGA and 10S cages of other animal
celebrities are to visit Ottumwa
Thursday, Sept. 8.
At the same time will also come
eighty-ive cars of circus joy, $50
equine beauties, three miles of parade
glories and forty elephants, one Of
which bears the proud distinction of
being the first mountain of meat
owned by the Ringlings.
His name is Bill Just plain Bill,
minus the tapestry usually hung on
a fellow during the early stages of
life. Bill cast his lot under the Ring
ling banner during the summer of 'S3
and has served the quintette of broth
ers ever since. He saw the enterprise
bud and bloom into supremacy. Saw
the country showmen ascend, step by
step, to the throne chair of circus
kingdom.
Today Bill can gaze down the lane
of time and recall the bygone days
when he and a pair of moth-eaten fe-
lines were the keynote to Ringing
pride. The vision of pigmy tent, two
red wagons and a handful of perform
ers still hang in memory's hall, while
in the hazy distance winds the trail
of hardship DER which he an his as
sociates struggled to success.
The present season marks the
twehty-ffth milestone in the Ring
ling Bros. career as showmen and a
Of oil no
been arranged to celebrate the jubi-
lee. All that is new, startling and won
| derful deemed worthy of presenting
| on such an important occasion has
been gathered from every civilized
country in the world
From France has come the Patty
Brothers, one of whom turns topsy.
| turvy and while in this position as
cends stairs, skips the rope and exc
cutes numerous other feats with the
same ease displayed by person in
natural position.
The Observation-Disclosures are offering
a novelty that is especially skillfu
and beautiful. The four clever people
of this family, while doing head-to
| head balancing, shoulder-to-shouldel
leaps, somersaults and hand springs
play sweet-toned Swiss bells. Margue
rite and Hanley, of Germany, present
a wonderful act demanding nerve ant
muscle. Hanley holds in his teeth {
steel wire, the other end of which is
fastened to a pole. A woman mount:
the wire and performs upon it. Thi
Mirza-Golems from the Persian palace
were loaned by the shah, which marks
the first instance where his imperia
highness has favored circusdom.
/ The entire performance of the Ring
ling Bros circus this season is one G
originality, novelty and artistic con,
pleteness. All Of the 375 perform :r
were picked from the foremost talcn
of the old world The sixty rider
are headed by Les Bastines aat
Daisy Hodgini; the sixty aeriaiist
have as their feature the ten Jordans
whose act fairly fills the arena will
flying forms; chief among the trainet
animal acts is that of the Riccobort
horses, one of which takes Off boot.
coat and trousers, lights a candle ant
goes to bed the Clarkonians of Lon
don in the most startling Performance
ever witnessed; and above all, Tor III
i limit of daring. is the double soE.ei