Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-08-26
RIHGLIHG BROTHERS COMING.
WOrI. s Greatest Circus Soon TO Visit
Great Bend

TO its credit. Rineling Brothers
Worlds Greatest Shows will give, on
Thursday Sept. s, two performances
il Great Bend. Each season finds
this circus larger and better. The
progress that is noted this year is ex.
ceptional. 1t manifeSts itself first in
the new pageant, built by foreign
artists and designers at the European
work shops Of the show in Stoke.on-
Trent, England. When visitors ap-
proach the show ground the city Of
tents fills them with amazement.
The menagerie has been increased
and the main exhibition tent is the
largest in the world. 1t is a laby-
rinth Of stages, rings and gymnastic
and aerial equipment, filling the arena
from ground to dome. There are
S75 performers. Over 300 Of them
are Europeans. There are at least
fifty sensational acts on the long pro-
gram.
There is an Introductory spectacle,
built on a scale Of magni6cence never
attempted IN the past. In it l,2OO
people, over half the elephants in
america ond hundreds Of horses are
used. The magic touch Of the Ring.
ling Bros. management is evident
throughout every department of the
circus. New York City unanimously
through its newspapers, stamps this
show as the best ever seen in Man.
haitian. The program is delightfully."-
fresh aud new, and varied enough
to suit all tastes.
This is the tweuty.seventh year Of
the Ringling Brothers as showmen
On Ayril 8, 1888, they gave theiT
first performance in the public park
Of their native city, BarabOo, Wis
The tent was homemade. The seal
planks we're borrowed from neigh
boring lumber yard. The boys made
their own ring properties and gave
the performance. They had but ont
horse. They all doubled in brass
It would be impossible to begin in ;
smaller way. They had the righI
stuff in them and they didn't know
that there was such a word 10 lht
dictionary as "fail''.
During the first summer they dic
not 60 many miles from BaraboO
They had to travel entirely by wagor
and their one horse was not equal Il
the task of long tour. The follow
ing season they had three horses ant
showed as far away from their HON,
town as one hundred miles. Toda,
their one horse is supplanted by
train one mile long. 10 a singh
season they 60 from Maine to CaliioT
: mia and from Canada TO Mexico
Their history between that one hors
and their $50 horses Of today read
like a tale from Arabian Nights.
There's FIVE brothers in the hru
t AL Ringling is equestrian director
1 No circus director or stage manage
in the world can excel him in tn
art Of spectacular groupings or j
giving style and speed to a petfoI
6 nance. Charles Ringing is at III
q head Of the pictorial advertising
y Three special cars travelling ahead {
e the show DO this work. Each ca
S has a force Of twenty-five advertiser
and bill posters. Otto Ringling
/. the financial director. He is a ma
/ vel Of system and knows how to har
r die things with nerve and sure air
l. John Ringing is the rOuter of Il
l. show. He knows every town ar
, city in the country and IS we'll pOstt
4 on agricultural and mercantile CO.
! ditions. Alfree T. Ringing hea'
e, the burea Of publication. Every ec
a, tor and important newspaper al
RS magazine man 10 the United Stat