The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-05-31
LARGE CROWDS
WITNESS PARADE
For wen all sport together and
wen 60,
Yes, we II go to Campbell's big show;
Wen see the lion and the wild kanga-
10000.

Campbell Brothers great show arriv-
ed from Lovelock this morning at an
early hour, and in short order the tents
were pitched at point just east of the
stock corrals, on the town side of the
s. P. tracks.
Young America has evidently grown
blase. In the good old days Of the
wagon shows the small boy arose at 8
O'Clock in the morning and walked out
five or six miles to meet the show and
proudly walked in beside the elephant
and stuck around the grounds until
after the tent had been taken down
that night. This morning it was after
six o. clock before the first boy put in
an appearance.
1t was the same old circus crowd. al.
though of late years several new fea-
lures have been added to the show.
'The leopard boy, the spotted child,
taken from his home when he was
Wild" took an early position in a car
at the corner of Bridge and Third
streets, and Immediately children com
menced to besiege their parents for the
price. While the spots raised on the
writer by an irate parent many years
ago were since effaeed, memory went
back over the years to the day he was
inveigled out of ten cents by a willy
- barker to go in and see the leopard
child in the sideshow, leaving a de-
felt of an equal amount in the admis-
sion fee to the show proper
The toy balloon man was out early,
and long before parade time the streets
presented the appearance Of coming
aviation meet
Shortly after 10 o'eloct the caliope
could be heard. but its location was
uncertain, and for the next half hour
the crowds on the streets were in a
fever of expectancy. Finally after
several hours of waiting on the part
Of the children, promptly at 1880 the
head of the parade turned the corner
into the lower end Of Bridge street
Parents took a tighter grip on their
youthful charges. bands played. ban
ners waved, gaily caparisoned horses
praneed, the ladq performers beamed
on the spectators, the clowns in their
diminutive wagons sprung their jokes,
the "barkers" barked their announce
ments. and the caliope wonnd op the
procession all too soon.
But II was a grand parade. with
HfFU VI uozeH tltpudhts. Heautu Nv u
monster that would remind one of Bar
NUNS "Jumbo.' Then there was
drove Of eamels, which no doubt felt
Mt home in this country. and several
open cages of animals to say nothing
OF real live zebra and hippopota.
mus, invariably advertised but seldom
seen.
In the menagerie tent at the grounds
this afternoon, the chief attraction was
the three baby tigers. born a few days
ago, and just beginning to open their
eves
The cireus performance was strictly
erst class and was noted chiefly for its
refinement, coarse jokes and suggestive
savings being entirely eliminated
To a representative of the Silver
state, p. Campbell the courteous press
agent Of the show. expressed himself
as well pleased with the SIZE of his Ne
vada audiences At Reno, Saturday,
people were turned away at both af
ternoon and evening performances,
while Mt Lovelock Yesterday the after
noon crowd taxed the seating capacity.