Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-03
,The Verdict Of All is That the
SHOW is the Biggest and
Best of All.
THRILL ERs EV FER MINUTE.
e.xon brothers and the Automobile
roopins tie Loop Arc Sensational
IN E,eat,,rcs Of the Entertainment.

with every scat in the mammoth
.onvas filled and with the interne-y
diste space between the seats and the
ring ropes occupied all around the tent.
ringing Brothers stupendous circts
armed hundreds of people away from
,be tent doors at the big show laat
svening. From shortly afterT O'Clock
until after the big performance began.
tbc crush at the entrance continued
thousands OF people pushed, crowded
md surged the long entry way passing
IN sjdesllows in their anxiety to get
into the main tent, and in the crowd
habies wore crying as theii. parents
4 held them up above the crowds to pre-
vent them from suffoca ting, SOME Of
s. Inc women screamed and came near.
faintng while men logged their neigh
hnrs and perspIred lin their efforts to
II Eet through the crowd. It was per-
haps the biggest turnout of people for
4 circus performance ever seen In
q Salt lake,
And when the crowd did get inside
.theyWere amazed by the display which,
mef their gaze In the animal tent
Avery manner of auadruped and bipeds
IA extraordinary and peculiar makeup
was gathered from every quarter of the
elobs for. the delectation OF the visitors.
The four-s story giraffe, probably the.
4 largest specimen of the species in cap
8tlvity, calmly surveyed the crowd from
5{tlle heights above. A mammoth hip
pepotainus lay in all its ugly ponder
BUSINESS Indifferent to the wondering
gaze of the multitude; an enormous
{ horned rfinoceros looked peacefully out
supon the crowds; Il dozen or more
mammoth camels, those patient beasts
of burden of the desert, calmly chewedi
their cuds while the orlookers Won
Sdered, and 20 elephants, large and small
pIayfully presented their trunks to the
children in the crowds In quest Of
: peanuts. Not the least In pointSof In
forest in the splendid nenagerie9 Is Mr.
,Darwin,'r the champanzee which IL.
every outward attribute bears a most,
remarkable similitude to man; one wo-,
man in gazing upon the beast as he
capered through his modern furnished
dolnicile, expressed the sentiment Of
the crowd when she exclaimed, %. isn't
he horribly humall,.'s The cage Of
smaller monkeys was the mecca OF
the children in the crowd, while the
baby camel, grown considerably since
the9vislt of the circus last year, was q
source OF much amusement. II
IN THE MAIN TENT.
II ~ n T. iss H.. - fA.sI 3.
Then came the crler with the an
nouncement that the show In the big
tent was about to begin. The earlier
rush was duplicated and the crowd
scrambled for the big canvas. s{.
4 The performance commenced with
the customary pageant around the race
track, the. parade being somewhat de-s
creased in interval and increased III
distance by reason of the crowds occu-
pying straw seats on the ground. The
procession was led by the combined
band accompanying the show. And
right here 1t may be said that Ring
ling's band is one of the features Of
the show. Every performer is an art
ist, the conductor being perhaps the
best performer of them all, and the
combined effect is a full, rich and me-
lodious effect in reed and brass
As to the main performance itself,
how maysit be described? With three
large rings and two elevated platforms,
each filled with, high class artists In
highclass acts almost every moment OF
the time: with trick elephants, trick
pigs. trick geese, trick dogs and trick
horses going through almost impossible
antics: with innumerabl clowns
thronginE the middle way with every
variety Of ridiculous conception to
tickle; the risibles OF the multitude,
With daring equestrian performers, and
death-defying aerialists, trapeze bar
performers and tight and slack wire
artists. notS5a minute Of time in the
two hours entertainment Is lost. and
the sight Is satiated with a feast OF
wonders witnessed nowhere else In the
world. 4,
TWO GREAT FEATUREs.
Standing out in strong prominence
from the myriad acts, however. Is the !
performance Of the three Saxon broth
ers, strong men, and the daring auto
mobile somersault act which was the