Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-03
COMBINED ATTRACTIONS SHOW
IN MARsHALLToWN FOR
FIRST TIME.
PARADE IN RAIN, BUT
MAKES FINE SHOWING
Wallaee'. Horses Recognized as Finest
Lot in the Business, From Owners
Own Farm-Menaserie Big Feature
= Many European Acts in the Big
Tent.

For the first time in Marshalltown
combined, but not strangers to the To-
cal circusgoing public, the Wallace
Hagenbeck circus was presented here
today at the fair grounds. A large
crowd was present at the afternoon
performance, despite the threatening
Main street at 10:30, and was wit
messed by large number of people
who lined both sides of the street.
The parade was a pleasing feature
of the attraction, and most creditable
showing was made, even tho it was
given during a driZzling rain. Ben E.
Wallace, the multi millionaire owner
of the combined shows, has had the
reputation for years of having the
finest lot of horses in the business,
and he is still maintaining his reputa-
ton. Mr.. Wallace breeds all his own
horses on his large farms at Peru, Ind.
Three hundred head are carried, and
all of the drafters classified as work
stock are practically uniform in color,
a dapple gray. The trappings, wagons,
and in fact all appurtenances of the
parade, We're in keeping with the gen.
eral eXcellency of the circus proper.
Many Features in Big Tent.
The Wallace Hagenbeck shows COM
hina1 l,a a61 fen
this season, including several that
have been imported from Europe. The
English Lloyds, aerialists, were the
star performers in the air, and gave a
decidedly clever act. The Riding Led
gets. an acrobatic team, the Bedini
troupe of six people, the Thalerc
| troupe with trained horses and dogs
and the DeKoch troupe of acrobats
all occupied the center of attention ir
the rings and on the platforms. Among
the clever horsewomen were Mile
Louise Stickney, formerly with the
Barnum show, Anita Connors, ant
Mary Abrams, the latter the exper
chariot driver who was featured by
Barnum in Europe for five years.
Menaeerie Delight For Children.
The big menagerie, acquired largel.
from the superb collection of Car
Hagenbeck, was a source of much de
light to the children ar we'll as instruc
ton to the grownups. The show car
ries thirteen elephants, four camels,
big hippopotamus, eighteen lions, an
fourteen Polar bears-the largest il
beck collection of trained Polars
-, III e -, ~, ~,
cuses put together.
One of the interesting features of tn
menagerie We're two baby lions. week
old. The mother gave birth to fou
cubs, but got hungry one day and at
one of them. In the car, while bein
transported. the rats ate another.
If all goes we'll the town that has tn
circus toward the latter part of Jul
will have named for it a baby eiephan
This advent to the menagerie is count
ed on as being worth to Mr.. Wallac
the sum of $4,000, and Mr.. Wallac
has offered Percy Phillips, his anims
trainer, $500 and fine new suit {
clothes If he brings the old mother thr
the ordeal in good shape and saves tn
baby. The youngest elephant on eS
nibition now is years old, and re;
baby elephant, and they are very scare
in captivity, is considered one of til
biggest drawing cards in the circu
. business.
Mr.. Wallace is with the show him
self. and looks after many of the de
tails personally. Mr.. wallace has mao
his fortune out of the circus and hors
business. but has never had an amb
: ton to own the biggest circus in tt
, country. He has invested his none
in farms, and the investments ha,