The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-31
Next Monday the First Adver-
Using Car of Barnum and
Bailey Circus Win Arrive in
The City.
WILL FLOOD COUNTY
WITH GAY POSTERS
Organization Is This Year
Without Doubt the Largest
Tented Aggregation in His
tory of Country.

The Barnum and Bailey Greatest
Show on Earth Is coming to Richmond
on Monday, August %, and this fact
will be 1leralded in all directions when
the first advertising car with thirty
five men on board comes to town early
Mnoday morning. Teams will be sent
into the country in all directions &C.
companied by men who will post gaily
colored posters Of the fair lady Aques-
TRANS. the ferocious looking animals
and the funny old clowns on every
barn and dead wall that can be secur-
ed. A large crew will look after the
city billing and an advertising cam
paign will be carried on right up to the
day Of the big show that will have no
comparison in any other line OF bust
ness. Between now and the show date
there will be nearly q hundred ad-
vance agents visit this city in the In
teregt Of Baunum and Bailey and their
date here.
Another to Follow.
Ono weelc after the first car arrives
another will follow that and will look
after the billing up and down the diff
ferent railroads. This is called the
excursion car because they advertise
In particular the low excursion rates
to the show and the time OF departure
OF the special trains Still another car
comes to town just one week In ad-
vance and they Will renew all OF the
billing that has been done before them.
With such extensive advertising there
Il sure to be q tremendous crowd on
hand ON circus day.
Barnum and Bailey are bringing
hero this year what is positively
known to be the largest circus that
has ever been organized to travel. 1t
requires five trains made up Of eighty
ive double length cars to haul the
enormous equipment; there are 7W
horses Of finest breed 40 elephants
q family Of giraffes and 1O6-cage men
agerde
TWenty-slx Tents.
TweutyLsix tents will be erestedant
they Will cover q space Of fourteen
acres. Among them will be the larg
est circus tent that has ever been con
stsucted and when this tented city il
established It has population o
1900 people who arc actually en-,
paoyed.
Nearly 400 performers most o
whom are from abroad take part II
tho big CIRCUS program and they ar
presenting q long list Of foreign act
that have not been seen In this coun
Try before.
In the all new circus the act that i
attracting the most attention thA
year ID that Of Jupiter, the balloon
horse. Jupiter, beautiful white thor
oughbred upon which Is mounted
young lady. steps upon small plat
form attached to q balloon which az
cenas to the dome Of the big circl
tent. When 1t has reached its highes
point there are a series Of loud re
ports and = hundred rockets are ex
ploded, which send forth shower
sparau and FIRE which completely en-
velope both horse and rider Throug
all this the brave animal stands lik
Z statue for q slight nervousness o
has part would mean his destruction a
we'll a. that Of the young lady.
In Blaze Of Fire.
The descent Is made In blaze {
IRE when horse and mount leave tt
arena In safety
Yes, there win be parade whe
Barnum's circus comes to town and
will be parade that will long be r
membered. For four years Barnu
and Bailey have omitted this part I
the morning program. but this Sc
con they have revived their street pr
cessiou on most tremendous seal
tho aim being to Guido all former e
forts in the production OF sire
spectacle It is claimed that it will
three times as long and that it repr
sents an expenditure Of ten times Il
amount ever before invested.