The Yale expositor., 1910-07-15
BIG CIRCUS AT PORT HURON
RingIina Bros. Worlds Greatest
Show 20 be There on Friday,
july 20.

Ringing Brothers Worlds Greatest
Shows will, on Friday, July 20, give
two performances in Port Huron.
This will be the only opportunity
this year of seeing the best of all circus
entertainments. This is the show that
amazed New York City with its
European company Of actors, and its
extensive new menagerle. Its parade
is the longest and most superb spectacle
that ever passed through the streets of
any city on earth On April 3, 1883,
the FIVE brothers gave their first per
Torrance in their home town, Baraboo,
Wis, on the public square They
made their own tent and their own
ring properties. The audience sat on
planks borrowed from lumber yard.
They had but one horse From that
little one-ring affair to their present
stupendous organization the history of
the Ringing Brothers reads like fairy
tale. They began with nothing. They
now own the greatest amusement enter
prize in all history.
The reason of their success is no Sc
cret 1t is a peculiar combination of
the right kind of talent and policy of
uprightness in dealing with the public.
Even during its early days it was a
good show. 1t was small, but it was an
earnest endeavor Without capital the
fine young men struggled against the
bitterest opposition. They won the
confidence of the public and have al
ways deserved it. A very few years
after that first performance their rivals
began to sit up and take serious notice
when mention of the Ringing Brothers
was made. They realized they had an
opposing force TO compete with that
had come to stay. In few years more
the Ringing show took first place
among the tent shows of America.
There is where it will always stay 1t
has become the leader in the art of en-
tertainment.
Among the many European features
offered this year are the Schuman
horses from the Circus Schuman at
Berlin, Scheveningen and Frankfort.
Albert Schuman, as trainer of horses,
is the most wonderful man in history.
He has made ten millions of dollars ex-
hibiting the animals he has trained.
Tourists travel many miles out of their
way to visit his institutions in Ger
many. There are fifteen animals in
his act. They enter the arena concealed
in large beer barrels piled on an i'm
mense brewery wagon. They are not
discovered by the audience until they
kick the heads out OF the barrels
and jump into the ring. They
begin their act by pulling the bungs
from kegs, drawing a beer-like fluid
from the tap and drinking it from big
glasses. They roll each other around
in barrels. They waltz in time to mu-
sic. They skip the rope and smoke
pipes. From the beginning to the end
of their act they remain standing on
their hind feet.
Another great act is presented by
the Saxon trio of the worlds strongest
men. Two of them form the pillars of
a bridge over which passes an automo
bile with six passengers. Still other
novel and great acts are presented by
the Torch family of aorobats, from
Germany great Alexis family of
aerialists, Robledillo, the Spanish wiz
ard of the wire, the Dutton family of
riders, and the greatest company of
clowns in the world. The new parade
is marvel of beauty. The new men.
agerie is a complete collection of ami
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