Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-09-22
Big Circus
at Chattanooga
Ringing Bros. Worlds Greatest
Show to be There On
Wednesday, Oct. II.

Ringing Brothers Worlds Greatest
Shows will, on Wednesday, Oct. 18th,
give two performances in Chattanoo
ga.
This will be the only opportunity
this year of seeing the best of all cir
Gus entertainments. This is the show
that amazed New York City with its
European company of actors, and its
extensive new menagerie. It's parade
is the longest and most superb specta-
Gle that ever passed through the streets
OF any city on earth. On April 3,
1888, the five brothers gave their first
performance in their home town, Bar
aboo, Wis, on the public. square.
They made their own tent and their
own ring properties. The audience sat
ON planks borrowed from a lumber
yard. They had but one horse. From
that little one ring affair to their pre-
sent stupendous organization the his
tory Of the Ringling Brothers reads
like fairy tale. They began with
nothing. They now own the greatest
amusement enterprise in all history.
The reason of their success is no SO.
cret 1t is peculiar combination of
the right kind of talent and a policy
OF uprightness in dealing with the
public. Even during its early days it
was good show 1t was small, but it
was earnest endeavor. Without cap
ital the five young men struggled
against the bitterest opposition. They
won the confidence of the public and
have always kept it because they have
always 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 Bro
theirs 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 Ameri-
Ca. There is where it will always
stay. 1t has become the leader in the
art of entertainment.
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
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 conceal
ed in large beer barrels. piled on an
immense brewery wagon. They are
not discovered by the audience until
hey kick the heads out of the barrels
and jump into the ring. They begin
heir act by pulling the bungs from
zegs, drawing beer like fluid from
he tap and drinking it from big glass
IS. They roll each other around in
,arrels. They waltz in time to music.
They skip the rope and smoke pipes.
from the beginning to the end of their
ct they remain standing on their hind
eet.
Another great act is presented by the
'axon trio of the. worlds strongest
aen. Two of them form the pillars Of !
bridge over which passes an automo-
lie with six passengers. 7.
Still other novel and great acts are
resented by the Lorch family of aero 8
ats. from Germany, the great Alex :
, family Of aerialists, Rolbedillo, the T
panish wizard of the wire, the Dut-
On family of riders, and the greatest
Of clowns in the world. The :,
ew parade is marvel of beauty.
he new menagerie is a complete COL =
ction of animals.