The Falls City tribune., 1911-07-14
RINGLING BROS. COMING.
World S Greatest Circus Soon
To Visit This City.


With an entirely new outfit
Ringing Brothers World Great
est Shows will give one perform
ance in Falls City on Tuesday,
August /. afternoon only.
Each season finds this circus
larger and better. The progress
that will be noted this year IS
exceptional. 1t manifests itself
first in the new pageant, built
by foreign artists and designers
at the European workshops of the
show in Stoke-on-Trent, England.
When visitors approach the show
grounds the size Of the city OF
tents fills them with amazement.
The menagerie has been %inereas
ed and the main exhibition tent
is the largest in the world. 1t is
a labyrinth of stages, rings and
gymnastie and aerial equipment,
filling the arena from ground to
dome. There are 375 performers.
Over 300 of them are Europeans.
There are at least fifty sensa-
ton acts on the long program.
There is an Introductory spec
tacle, built on Il scale of magni-
license never attempted in the
past. In it 1900 people, over half
the elephants in America and
hundreds of horses are used. The
magic touch of the Ringing man
agement is evident Throughout
every department Of the circus.
New York City unanimously
through its newspapers, stamps
this show as the best ever seen
in Manhattan. The porgram is
delightfully."- fresh and new, and
varied enough to suit all tastes.
This is the twenty-eighth year
of the Ringing Brothers as show
men. On April 3, 1888, they gave
their first performance in the
public park of their native city,
Baraboo, Wis. The tent was
homemade. The seat planks were
borrowed from a neighboring
lumber yard. The boys made
their own ring properties and
gave the performance. They had
but one horse. They all doubled
in brass. 1t would be impossible
to begin in a smaller way, They
had the right stuff in them and
they did not know there was
such a word in the dictionary as
fail"
During their first summer they
did not go many miles from Bar
aboo. They had to travel entire
ly by wagon, and their one horse
was not equal to the task of Il
long tour. The following season
they had three horses, and some
times showed as far away from
their home town as a hundred
miles. Today their one horse is
supplanted by a train Of over
one mile in length. In a single
season they often 60 from Maine
to California and from Canada to.
Mexico. Their history between
that one horse and their 600
horses of today reads like a tale
from the Arabian Nights.
There are five brothers in the
firm. Al Ringing is the eques-
trian director. No circus director
or stage manager in the world
can equal him in the art of spec
tacular Groupings or in giving
style and speed to a performance.
Charles Ringing is at the head
of the pictorial advertising. Three
special cars, travelling ahead of
the show, do this work. Each
ear has a force of twenty-five
advertisers and b~illposters. OF
to Ringing is the financial direc-
tor. He is q marvel of system
and knows how to handle big
things with nerve and sure aim.
John Ringing is the reuter- of
the show. He knows every city
and town in the country ind is
well posted on agricultural and
mercantile conditions. Alfred 7.
Ringing heads the bureau of
publication. Every editor and
important newspaper and maya
zine man in the United States
knows him.