The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-04-08
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Here April Is Will Be the
Biggest and Best Ever
Presented.

7. ~ AS0NllbSAs
with an entirely new outfit Ring
ling Brothers Worlds Greatest
Shows win give two performances IN
clarlSsburg Friday, April 2s.
Each season finds this circus
larger and better The progress that
mlll Ae noted this year is exception.
81, At iaaniiests itself Trst in the
new pageant, built by foreign artists
and designers al the European work
shops Of the show in Stock Trent.
England: When visitors approach
thes, how grounds the size OF tho
city OF tents nils them with amaze
rlent. The menagerie has been in
creased aud the main exhibition tent
is the largest in the world. 1t is a
l1byrinth 1f stages. rings aud gym
nastie ana aerial equipment, flIiag
he arena from ground to dome.
There are 875. performers. Over
800 OF them are Europeans. There
are at least fifty sensational acts
on the long program.
There is, an Introductory spectacle,
built on scale of magnlficence
meyer attempted III the past. In it
1900 people, over half the els-
lpllahtg In america and hundreds OF
horses are used. The magic touch
OF the Ringing management is evil
dent throughout. every department
OF the circus. New York City, unan-
imously, through its newspapers,
stamps this show as the best ever
4 seen Naturalization. THE program is
delightfully."- fresh ana new, and
varied enough to suit all tastes.
This is the twenty-eigth year. OF
the Ringing Brothers as showmen.
On April 3, 1883, they gave their
first performance in the public park
Of their native city,, Baraboo, wis.
e The tent was homemade. The seat
planks were borrowed from neigh
boring lumber yard. The boys
made their own ring properties and
gave the first 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 stun in them, and. they did
not know there was such d word In
the dictionary as "faiI."
During their first summer thew
did not go many miles from Bara-
boo, They had to travel entirely by
wagon, and their one horse was not
equal to the, task of a long tour.
The following season they had three
horses and sometimes 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 otter so from Maine to
: California and from Canada to. Mex
leo. Their history between that one
horse and their $50 horses Of to-
day reads like a tale from the
Arabian Nights.
There are five brothers OF the
firm. al Ringing is the equestrian
director. No circus director or
stage manager in the world can
equal him in the art OF spectacular
groupings or in giving style aud
speed to performance. Charles
Ringing is at the head of the pic
torial advertising. Three special
cars travelling ahead of the show, dc
this work. Each car has force OF
twenty-five advertisers and bill
posters. otto Ringing is the
financial director. He is marvel
Of system and knows how to handle
big things with nerve and sure aim.
John Ringing is the reuter- of the
show. FIe knows every city and
town in the country and is weT
posted on agricultural and mercan-
tile conditions. Alfred 7. Ringing
heads the bureau of publication.
Every editor and important, news
paper and magazine man in the
United States knows him.