The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-25
CIRCUS HOME AGAIN JUST
 FOR A WHILE
Everybody Was Happy Except Poor Pol ar Bears, Who Missed the
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TROPICAL ANIMALS LUXURIATED
Thousands Assemble and Witness Pa. rade of Rolling Gold, Color and Mus. ic, Interspersed With Elephants, CameIs, zebras and Shetland Ponies -lmmense Crowds at This After. n00n'S Performance.

the lions, the hyenas, the elephants, | the hippos, the rhinos, and the monk eys were pleased as could be. To them it was just like home. In fact Bridge port was home. But the poor polar bears! They panted, and their crim- son tongues hung out. Their white, furred, long and numbering forms swayed in the torrid atmosphere. They were the only unhappy ones in the pa rade. The crowd forgot the heat in watching the procession. The densest throngs were assembled at Main and State streets and at Main street and Fairfield avenue. The children were exceedingly joyful. Neither the vail ing music of the biggest and mourn fullest steam calliope ever seen, nor the sad, polar bears disturbed their gleefulness.
 The circus had comet
 From, early dawn when the first of the trains pulled in and the work of unloading began the heart of young America has been rejoicing.
 On the great open lot score of tents sprang up like magic, and when the 'fbig top" was finally hoisted and spread and a vast area was covered by tens of thousands of yards of can vas, and the odor of fried potatoes and bacon had begun to permeate the air as a dozen cooks were busily at work in the out-of-door- kitchens, the thousands of spectators, with the genus small boy in the great majority, realized Ringing Brothers great cir GUS was at last here, and the fondly cherished hopes of weeks were about to be conSummated.
 Long before the appointed time the streets along the route of the parade were lined with thousands of persons and available windows in house, fac nry cfn nff7 hYri1 -I,o pre-empted. Human forms hung from the windows like grapes from the vine
 Promptly at 10 o'clock the parade swung out of the grounds and started for the expectant city. It was a pa. rade worth seeing-beautiful horses as beautifully caparisoned, faultless ri- ders, beasts Of the jungle exposed to view in their cages on wheels, bands a. plenty to satisfy the most exacting, clowns, funny fellows with a band of their own; a great drove of Swaying camels and a great company of e1e- phants keeping step like overfed sol dierS as they numbered along.
 It was enough to delight the heart of any youngster, be he six or sixty.
 Four and twenty Snow-white horses in one team, dragging along the first band-wagon on which more than a dozen musicians were playing was a great hamburger of what was to come, and Young America caught it's breath and waited (expectantly.
 A young 0Qu0SIr1enne Qr1V1ng three beautiful steeds tandem next caught the eye, and she was followed by an- ether who rode astride in the most ap- proved modern fashion. The swaying forms of four camels hove into view, and-cOuld the mind believe the mess age sent it by the e?-16 camels four abreast, drawing a monstrous float.
 Four little zebras, their stripes as regular as those emblazoned on a bar bor'S DOle delighted the as they skipped along with load that looked far too heavy for them, but which they dragged as if it were no heavier than air.
 Twenty-four Shetland ponies, four abreast, graded from the tiniest of lit tie fellows in front to the usual size of full grown ShetlandS behind, were hitched in one team and dragged in the great crowd then and there vowed that if he lived he would have a pony like one of those that caught his eye.
 blithely on brass and reed, while their horses, trained to the noise and follow ing their leader without guidance, marched unconcernedly along.
 Then the elephants. Twenty-four of the monstrous beasts marched two and two along the street, each after the first two, with the tail of his prede- cessor playfully grasped by his trunk,
 
 the street. The big fellows looked about as they trod along, supremely conscious, to all appearances, of the admiration they were receiving.
 Behind them came three more ele- phants, hitched tandem and dragging a float. Interspersed in the parade there were more than a dozen cages with lions, tigers and other wild beasts exposed to the view of the curious: and last, by no means least, came the steam caliope with it's siren refrains that could be heard half a mile.
 While the parade was passing through the center of the city there was almost a general suspension of business.
 The parade over, the majority of folks went back to work, all, that is, but the thousands who wended their way to the grounds and viewed the sideshow and other attractions until the doors should open for the perform ance in the big tent.
 Promptly at two o'clock the per formance began and with the many novel and daring acts, most of which have not been seen here before, it de- lighted a vast crowd. There will be another performance tonight. Then the circus, like the Arab, will fold it's tents and silently steal away.