The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-21
THE CIRCUS IS IN
Town WITH LION,
BEAR AND CLOWN
See the Zebu Romp and Play;
Watch the Hippo Eat
ing Hay.
WOMEN FLYING IN THE AIR;
HORSES SITTING ON A CHAIR
Go to the Show and You Will
Know the Truth as 1t Is
Writ Below.

/ Wanna go to der CfrKus
an see der Grille bare
] wanna see der funny tricks
An everything daTs dere
gotter see de elefuNt
en- All de horses too
wanna SEE de hole blamed ting
an see it ALL rite troo
90, I'd like ter eat Sonic peanuts
En- drink some lemenade
/ wanner see der snakes and lions
and All of der perade.
like ter see der Women
Arden on der nags
en- WatcH der funny TURNER'S
In der red and yeller rags.
1 wanna hear der band Make noise
And raise an orfuL din
But der worstest dat wants right now
''''e : The office Boy.
Well, 1t happened just as it was fore
told at the exact time and place men
toned in the prophecy. What? Why
the circus parade to be sure. Was
there anything else scheduled for to-
day. Anything important, that is for a
circus day. No? Well we presumed
not.
Since it was not a weather prophet
who let slip the fact that Ringing
Brothers mammoth parade would pass
through the streets Of the city. starting
at IL o'clock, there was a regular old
time crowd on hand to attend the fes-
tivities They stood about seven deep
all the way up and down Broad street
from Clinton avenue to Central avenue,
and hung perilously out of windows
and stood on roofs and sat in friendly
trees along the line of march, and did
not miss a trick. One missed would
have been something lost, SO 1t was
Just as we'll that everyone was strictly
on the Job.
First came a band on a gilt and gold
chariot, majestic and stately. and close
ly following 1t a number Of those vague
closed cages with
out even any writing on them to give
q hint of the terrible mystery within.
The open cages followed another
band, and the black BEARS. the brown
bears, the polar bears and almost every
other kind of bears there is. could be
seen cruell, prowling about behind
their almost too small iron bars.
But If the bars in the bears cages
seemed small think how teency they
looked in the cages which contained
the lions and the tigers. Gee, it looked
like any minute If they wanted to they
might break out and run rampant OF
amuck or any other way they wanted
to. OF course no one was scared, but II
didn't hurt to know what might hap
pen.
Came a cage which might have been
mysterious because 1t was closed, but
which bore in great gold letters this
Only two-horned rhi-
noceros in captivity"
"Gee, he must be a corker," observed
one boy temporarily, that is, for the
day-out of school to a companion in
similar plight.
Didn't you ever see one?" was the
contemptuous retort.
mo, nor you didn't, neither" came
back hotly, and it is no telling how far
the argument might have been carried
had not a general exclamation of won
der and delight distracted the near
from themselves and back
to the parade.
Twenty-Five elephants = twenty-five
(count 'em)-furnish a sight which is
not seen every day of the year In New
ark, by any means. but that is just
what occurred during the passing of
the parade. And to make it stronger
still, the last four of the big pachy-
derms were harnessed to float.
When the steam calliope, which wound
up the glittering procession. got up
steam, coughed and wheezed into ''The
Star -Spangled Banner" the day was
filled up to the brim, that is, so far as
the parade itself was concerned
Long before the parade started there
were about 1000 prospective citizens up
at the circus ground at First street and
Sussex avenue, helping-like Marcel
line does at the Hippodrome-unload
and put up the tents. They, of course,
got a good deal closer to the true in
wardness of the circus and circus life
than could those who merely waited
for the parade to pass ever hoped to.
1t was certainly great day.
The afternoon performance begins at
. p. m. and the evening at p. m.