The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-09-23
Big Sho1v Coming
in
1t-Many New Features.


Eighty-five ear loads Of circus is
coming to town. so save your nickles,
Willie.
Saturday, October IA, is the date
announced
Ringing Brothers? Yep and big
ger and better than ever
Charles A White the press agent,
says it's the wonder circus of the
world" embracing everything from
$1,000 family of tower-necked
CRATES to the smallest elephant in
the world,
And there is a fellow who causes
palpitation of the heart by somer-
saulting thrice while sailing through
the air Then there is a school of
educated horses, from the other side
of the pond, that tap a keg of Ger
man disturbance better known as
beer, and drink good health to the
audience. Another novelty is that of
Emery's baby elephants. These min
iatnre pachyderms actually cross
bats on the acirous green" and play
a game of baseball that is said to be
a rib-tickler of the first water.
The program is made up of 1926
numbers and presented by 400 saw
dust stars from every part of the CIV
ilized world There are / ,2S0 persons
with the show. The stables embrace
$50 thoroughbr horses while the
menagerie contains over 1000 rare
wild jungle creatures.
This Is the twenty-eighth year of
the Ringlings in the circus business.
territory was confined to the state of
Wisconsin, and their two wagons of
wonders" were drawn from town
TO town by horses rented from far
mers. Today the big institution is
transported in IS double-length rail-
road cars Its territory embraces
every state In the union. At the ex-
piration of the present season the
show will have exhibited in 200 cit
les and travelled 1858 miles
The management maintains win
ter quarters at Baraboo. Wis.
Bridgeport, Conn, and Stoke-on-
Trent, England The quarters at
Baraboo embrace many acres There
are % large brick buildings There
is a railroad shop with it's engines
Il e,r-fi Inc ta fpns mil wit IA
it's buzzing saws; a costume factory,
| where a half hundred seamstresses
| whip fabric and spangle into form; g
well-appointed hotel, at which th'
| employees reside; ri barn, II
which riders of a dozsa differen
countries break new acts; an ct,
phant barn. where more than haH
all the pachyderms in America RI
ticate, an aviary, containing wing
d creatures from every CLINE, wag
n paint and harness shops, and fl
al buildings in which are kept the v
I'd animals.
is Then there is a studio for pho
u graphing animals. The building
l. constructed principally of glass a
Il contains large steel cage into viii
the representatives OF other nation
| to be his guests, he relies very large
fy upon the relocated mem bers @
| the Marine Band to add to the mer
! riment and happiness OF the occa-
sion.
But all days are not ''fete days.
II may be said as trnly of the nation,
as of the individual, mat
Into each life some rain
must fall
Some days be dark and
dreary
And there have been dark and
dreary days, indeed, for our nation
when not with triumphal march, but
with funeral dirge, and muffied
drum and muted horn, the Marine
Band has led the solemn procession
as our "Martyred Presidents" Lin
coin, Garfield and Mckinley, have
been borne to their final resting
places,
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