Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-08-02
RINGLINGS TO COME HERE
They Will Bring the Biggest and Best
Circus They Have Ever Had.

The billboards are proclaiming in
! brilliant colors and large type the
news that Ringing Brothers Worlds
Greatest Shows are to exhibit in
Wausau on Saturday, Aug 20. The
news is received with much pleasure
The show has grown since it was last
seen here. Ii is even better.
This is the circus that amazed New
York City with its splendid novelties
1t completely filed every corner and
crevice c Madison Square Garden
from thu ellar to the great glass
roof. The immense auditorium was
not large enough to hold the crowds
that sought admittance. When the
show is under canvas it covers four
teen acres of ground. The main per-
formance is presented in the largest
tent ever built.
The Ringing circus is twenty-seven
years old this season. The first per-
formance was given in Baraboo, Wis
consin, on April 5, 1888. The tent
was homemade The seats were
planks borrowed from lumber yard
The five brothers made all their ring
''props." They had but one horse
They gave the performance without
assistance. Al was an expert juggler
He tossed cannon balls and hats with
the skill of a wizard. Alfred T. led
the silver cornet band. Charles was
an acrobat and an aerialiSt. John
was talking and singing clown.
Otto looked after the financial end.
1t was a very small beginning, but it
was an earnest endeayor. Simple as
it all seems it was enough to make
them sufficient money to start out
the following year with bright little
show. A few years later they made
their first tour with railroad show.
From then on, in spite of bitter oppo-
Sition of rival concerns, the five show
men forged ahead. 1t was not very
long until their opponents found
themselves on the defensive side of
the game. The Ringlings had come
to stay.
The rest of their history reads like
a miracle. Beginning with nothing
they have built the greatest amuse-
ment enterprise in the history of the
world. Their wonderful popularity
and success can be traced principally
to two things: They were son the
square" with the people, and they
had the peculiar talents that achieve
greatness. The name of Ringing is
guarantee of satisfaction. Their
word is as safe as the figures on Uncle
Sans money.
In it's new dress the circus this year
presents an inspiring pic ture. The
show grounds are city or a Thousand
wonders. All the great talent OF the
world shows itself in the performance.
The foreign agents OF the show en-
gagged the company with but very ex-
ceptions. OF the 375 performers there
| are not 100 who were ever seen in
America before this season.
The brilliant new three-mile parade
was built last winter in the foreign
workshops of the circus at Stoke-on-
Trent, England. 1t is worlds fair
of wonders, gathered from the i've
continents of the globe Nearly l,3O0
people, $50 horses, forty elephants and
several hundred floats, tableaux, open
cages, fairy art vans and band chari-
OTIS appear in it. The menagerle is a
complete garden of zoology. There
are more than 1000 specimens in IL.
The star attraction of this depart
lpartment is Darwin, the missing link,
who lives in a house, eats with knife
and fork and carries watch.