Evening journal., 1910-05-13
CIRCUSPARADE
GREAT PAGEANT
Thousands View the COIOrful
Spectacle as ii Moves
Over the Streets
EVERYTHING WAS
In SPLENDID ARRAY

lin STLLNDlU hhnhI
Barnum and Baileys circus Is IN town.
Small boys were shouting It early this
morning on the streets. Gray-haired men
and women said It to each other on the
street cars as they went to theiI work,
and somehow felt young again.
1t was circus day. the holiday OF near
ly every mischiovous youngster and every
staid grown-up In Wilmington and vicin-
ity and nothing else mattered.
At 10 o'clock the parade began and It
looked as II all Jungletown had been
turned loose in the streets. Elephants,
camels. lions and tikers in gilded cages,
men and women riders In splendid bright
veivets and satlns; clowns, with blood
red cheeks and comical costumes- all
these, and more made up the wonderful
pageant.
Near the end Of the procession, with
slow. shufhing tread, a platoon Of ele-
plants marched with all the dignity that
only elephants can assume.
''Desperado. the Frenchman who jumps
/ through space for eighty feet. landing on
his chest on an inclined plane, and slid
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arms OF dozen attendants, was easily
recognized.
Adding bright color TO the long line that
crawled like a flashing serpent along the
streets were the women. who sat on foats
and rode superb horses. their velvet cos
TUNES. their plumed hats set iaunuly on
yellow hair.
Then came the fifty clowns, and every
man on the sidewalk was a youngster
again
"The clowns the circus" they shouted
Here comes the circus"
The parade moved ON its triumphant
way to tho music of forty nations played
by five bands
Certainly the parade was one of the
best ever seen in Wilmington from a
spectacular viewpoint II was a riot
of lite and color that would make the
French production of "The Chantecleer'
b look like a monotone. Every color OF
the rainbow was in the precision. ano
then some more that evidently pu
artists on their mettle to conceive
. First came the heralds, followed by
/, band porched high on a wagon abov
;. the heads OF the thousands OF ordinar
/. mortals who loned the streets an owe
N the route of the Surprisingly spec
: tacular and gorgeously grand galaxy,
as a circus headliner might describe il
Tho huge wagons bedeclSed with gol,
and figures typical of the different ma
tions. of course, attracted their shar
of attention. and the float of the United
states. on which Columbia and Uncl,
Sam with their retinuo held sway. were
checred all along the line of march
There were open cages. containing
wild donizens of the jungles that pacec
nervously back and forth and peoroC
, through the bars as If eager to faster
their teeth i'm a bit of human flesh. Ol
course there was some curiosity TO Sc,
the "Blood-swcating Behemoth, of HOLY
Writ. the largest I'm captivity" Thai
. cage was closed but will be opened al
the circus afternoon and night.
o salie Barnum. 21s years old. attract
b ed much attention. Sallie was TN,
largest in the pachyderm herd and sh,
b bore her years. also the mahout perch
n ed upon her head, with becoming
- dignity. The clown band. self-labelet
], as the "Bum Band" furnished some
i thing that at distance sounded lik'
I music and there was galaxy %
eauestriennes of all nations, costumeS
in bright colors and mounted OF
beautiful horses. that elected exclama
tions of pleasure from all.
OF course. there was tho stean
calliope. which persisted every once il
awhile of footing out HAS Anybod!
4 Here Seen Kelly" and other kindred
melodies.
The circus procession moved over
I route from the grounds at Lancaste
avenue west of Union street, aloni
Front TO Broome, to Pennsylvania ave
nue., to Delaware avenue. down Marke
street, and out Front the ground
again. At some places the person
perched on the tableauX and other hig
a floats were periously near the trolle
wires. and some of the figures o
wagons had to be taken apart TO avoi
J. collision with the wires.
o II was unlike most circus parades Il
n that It started on time, and everything
was as orderly and precise as a most
carefully planned military campaign
y And il was on Friday the thirteenth
e too. Dexter w. Fellows, press agen
a with the show. who is wel-known I
., many Wilmingtonians, says Frida
> the thirteenth always has been luck
a ftt. .t,c rfarp,tr,, and Raflov circus