Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-08-11
CIRCUS WILL GIVE
BIG STREET PARADE
BARNUM AND BAILEY MANAGE
MENT SPENDS $1,000, 900 ON
NEW PAGEANT.

When the Barnum and Bailey
Greatest Show on Earth" visits Sa-
lem on Saturday, August, 27, it will
be with the greatest street parade
ever seen in the United States bar
none. 1t is entirely the organization
and execution of the best artists, de-
signers and property masters Of
Italy, France and England.
1t is the policy of the BaTnum
and Bailey management never to re-
peat itself. During the season that
they cut out their parade, it was
done because in their opinion they
had exhibited everything new under
the sun, and that they should there
fore wait until such time as more
original ideas might be evolved and
new wonders sought out from re-
mote lands. For two years, day and
night, artists, artisans and stage
spectacle builders have been tuiling
like Trojans in the European work
shops of the show near Liverpool to
build the parade which this year is
amazing the cities of America.
Not in any way does this pageant
resemble those seen in the past. 1t
fairly glistens with newness, and the
million dollars invested shows itself
in gorgeous floats of FURNISHED goll
made by Oriental workmen tapestry
from France laces from Ireland,
scarfs, flags and banners from China
and Japan, statuary from Italian
galleries and studios, band and or
chestra vans of bronze and animal
dens, hand-carved and Furnished
with pure gold. War engines of saw
age tribes, craven images and idols
of heather nations, the crude vehi-
cles of barbarian chieftains and i'm
perial carriages of state are dis
played
Every type. of man is seen in his
native dress, and the characteristic
music of the world is represented by
great brass bands, castanet ballets,
chanters, weird pipers, grand opera
choruses, bag-pipers, tom-tom play
ers, barbarian orchestras, cathedral
organs, silver chimes, siren pipes
and drum, fife and bugle corps. A
great menagerie of recently discov-
cred animals is shown in open dens
The parade is three times the length
of former displays, 1t represents 10
times the expense in money and
thought.
The performance, too, has under
gone many changes. 1t has been
bettered by the addition of new acts
from the arenas and audience rooms
of Europe and Asia The long bill
begins with a costly spectacle which
employs over 1000 people and hun
dreds of horses, elephants and cam
els. Thrills are given in large num-
bers by Desperate, Frenchman,
who leaps from the dome of the
tent to the ground and lights upon
his bare chest; the Adonis brothers,
who balance on the point of a sway
ing ship mast. and by Jupiter, the
aeropaut horse, which rides in a
balloon and shoots off rockets and
other fireworks. A young woman
sits upon his back durinng his dan
gerous trip. The performance of
Charlie the First, chimpanzee aero
bat and bicycle rider, is the marvel
of the age.
The menagerie is beyond question
the greatest travelling zoo in the
world. A baby clony is one of its
interesting features. Here are dis
played various jungle and forest
mothers with their interesting fami-
lies about them. Among the many
youngsters is Bumbeeno, the only
giraffe baby ever born or exhibited
in America. He is only three feet
in height. His mother is 22 feet
tall.