The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-09
CIRCUS DRAWS
GREAT CROWDS
Barnum l. Bailey Shows Give
Two Performances Filled
With Good Things.
FEATURES ARE NUMEROUS
AND MULTITUDE IS PLEASED
Menagerie Contains Vast Col
lection of Rare Animals, and
Proves Big Attraction.

everybody is glad it has gone. The
great American small boy would like
very much TO see the circus once or
twice more In order that his own big
show, which VIII now be given for the
next three weeks. Will be right up TO the
handle.
The Barnum &, Bailey show is good
one. There is nothing the matter with
il in any department 1t is clean and
moves with a swiftness that at times
is amazing. 1t Is estimated that 90oO
people saw the show at the afternoon
performance and at night the circus
people chad 'em sittin on the grass,
Not n word of complaint was heard
among all the multitude. Everybody
got his moneys worth, and the KIDS
got their money s worth twice or thrice
over
The menageric is worth seeing. 1T is
really wonderful collection of rare
animals. There are ever so many ele-
plants, few among whose number
have not vet had their eye teeth pulled
The elephants perform well. There is
n thrill in each of the three rings when
the great pachvdcrms (that S what the
circus man calls 'em) walk all over
their trainers without ever stepping
even on his mustache. They play
horns and ring bells with an accuracy
that is quite astonishing. Accompan-
led by half Il dozen women buglers, the
elephants hold high G without ever a
flaw In the harmony.
The camels and the dromedarIes are
there in numbers Their presence gave
5000 men who thought their companions
had never read of the ark a chance to
say that n camel can 60 eight days
without Il drink, but who wants to be
a camel? Two baby camels were cute
enough To kiss.
The Baby Giraffe.
The prize of the mcnagcric is the
baby giraffe. This baby is young IN
months, but if he keeps on doing as
we'll rs he has been they re going TO
tie a mop TO his head and hire him out
as window washer for skyscrapcrs-
Gee. but those giraffcs arc tall,
There WAS the sacred cow from In I
dia and the profane cow from Bounti
full There were tigers from the Tigris |
and lions from the land Of the lyonnaise
potatoes There were limbocs, imboes,
bimboes. lobocs and full cage of ho-
bocs; the latter attracted much attcn-
lion; they had Il peculiar odor.
The monkeys tickled tho children and
the peanuts and stuff the children fed
the monkeys tickled the monkeys, so 1t
was IN even break.
Clever Bareback Riders.
The performance was as complete AS
ever put on by circus. The bareback |
riding. feature that always determines
the standard of a circus, was excellent.
The six Konyots and the Davenports |
led in this department. Orrin Daven~
mort. Fred Derrick and Charles Siegrist
performed wonderful feats on the backs |
Of their horses, Davenport doing flip |
An,> 70 fh, hnp n Ia
astonishing grace and cleverness. The
three Bokromas juggled on horseback |
with no more difficulty than they would
have eaten soup.
Jupiter, beautiful white horse, |
"went up in a balloon" and fred of |
fireworks while he was at the top of
the canvas. Mounted on Jupiter's back
and between the horse, the lady in
white, the balloon and the fireworks,
the spectacle was an exceedingly pleas |
ing one.
There were surprisingly clever tight |
and slack wire performers. In this field
of endeavoT q lady who is compelled to
go about with the added burden Of Il
name, "LaBelle Victoria, Premier AL |
hambrista MeXicana, pulled off some
stunts that seemed impossible until they
were seen. A Japanese prince slid down
n rope that looked to be almost per
pendicular, and then climbed up again
and did at some more.
Acrobats Are Good.
The acrobatic feats were good The
Benito Alfonso Bracco troupe excelled.
The Dollar combination was fine, and
this may also be said of the Patty
Frank troupe In this series of acts a
Miss Dollar constitutes herself wom-
an bridge, one end Of the bridge being
her forehead and the other her toes,
On this bridge about half n dozen full
grown men, tremendously heavy dumb
bells, tables and other paraphernalia are
piled, but the apparently fragile wom-
an-bridge stands like q modern canta-
lever.
medal ana the Nobel prize go to the
seals. One of these seals rides in
cart attached to .galloping pony and
the other rides on the pony's back. The
seals, jogging up and down and side
wise and across, balance balls on their
noses and pass them from one to the
other. They also toss torches around
like n pinwheel on the Fourth of July,
and for all their effort they are re-
warded with a fish, all of which goes
TO show what seal will do for little
piece Of fish.
Almost Human.
Charles the FIRST is a chimpanzee. At
least that s what they say he is, but
really he is more of a human than lots
of people that are enormously classed
in the latter category. He eats and
drinks ut table, with all the graceful
table manners of Chaunccy Depew,
and after his banquet he very properly
undresses and goes to bed, also after
the fashion of banQucters, no doubt.
The mules that nobody could ride
were ace high with the little folks. No
less were the ponies that could stand on
revolving table and spin like all pos
sessed when all the two-legged crea-
lures who tried it were sent flying in
all directions.
The big aerial acts that come just be-
fore the conclusion of the show were
better than usual, which is saying a
whole lot, because they have been just
about perfection for n long while The
Imperial Yiennese troupe, ssinglv and
collectively, flew through the air as
though they were filed with buoyant
gas, and they caught one another with
am ease that made people sit and crane