Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-01
And Baby Camel and Wonder
full Bihorned Rhinoceros?
What Paradef Guess You Must
Have Been Out Of Town.
MAN, THIS Is CIRCUS DAY!
Greatest Crowd, Almost, You Ever
Saw Lined Pennsylvania Avenue
and Streets It Passed Along.

Men and women are only boys and girls
grown tall, a wise man said Thousands
of people waited most Of this morning
along the streets chosen for the circus
parade. There were old-timers standing
| on street corners this morning who have
not missed a parade since 1853. There
were youngsters who will not miss a cir
Gus parade until 1868, perhaps.
There were old boys who took occasion
to tell every one that, by heck, when they
were kids in the old village. the old-time
one-ring circus was the best show they
| ever saw. Yet at tho same time they had
concealed about their persons dollars
worth Of reserved seats for this present
| mammoth triple-ringed affair Of the
Ringing Brothers.
Grand Day for Parade.
And a grand day It was for q circus
parade, wasn't it? Don't hide your head
| behind the paper, father, because you
know you hung out of the ONCE window
for many long minutes waiting for 1t to
| come into view. When you saw the first
| glittering vanguard Of the tinseled cohorts
and heard the blare and thump-thum2 of
| that dear old circus band you forget that
you had a living to make. Don't deny It.
| You did. II you didn't then You have
| lost your youth forever.
Those clowns were funny. That fellow
who drove the little donkey and kept get
| ing madden and madder when the boys
| made fun of him, wasn't he the scream?
| Did they have anything funnier than he
was when the one-ring affair was in its
bucolic glory? The old gentleman who
| got fooled ON the Cardiff giant, and who
remembers distinctly the day that Jum-
DO landed, says that the old-time clowns
were funnier, but you didn't see him
| missing any of the parade, did you? Well,
you guess not. How about those ladies
| in gorgeous gold, purple, tinsel and fine
raiment? The Queen OF Sheba could
| have taken q tip from that crowd. and
had she followed their styles perhaps
she would have made a bigger hit than
| ever with that wise old Solomon.
Only One on Avenue.
Did you notice those elephants? And
| that baby camel? And those wonderful
wild beasts in the red and gold wagons?
See the bihorned rhinoceros, the only one
of its kind In captivity? That's what the
program says At any rate, he was the
only one Of his kind on Pennsylvania
avenue today. And those hundreds of
gaudily dressed horsemen, rivaling the
Assyrian cohorts in their brilliance? All,
have anything like that Now, did they.
pop?
Pop says no, and hands out five dollars
| for reserved seats.
There was free show at the circus
grounds, 18th and II streets northeast,
yesterday, from the early dawn until the
evening. The nat plain out there bears
| the traces of the recent wild west event
that charmed the hearts Of ten thousand
| kids, and is. In good shape for the four
performances Of the show this week.
First of all, there was pitched stable
tent, half q mile away from the site for
the big top" and early in the morning q
tremendous amount Of hay, grain and
other animal fodder was dumped near at
hand. A stable boss and a boss canvas
man went to work with a gang or huskies
to get the auxiliary tents up. and gang
of surveyors started out with their stakes
and instruments to mark out the grounds.
Get Jobs With Circus.
Early in the morning. too. there was
gang Of would-be canvasmen asking for
jobs The circus left Cumberland Satur-
day night with canvas wet A rain had
made handling the tents very hard, and
lot of canvasmen left. There was a rush
to pick up jobs at the grounds yesterday,
and 80 many were taken on that they
couldn't all be accommodated in the cook
tent, from which few the mess flag
marked motel. Inlrty young DOyS were
taken on at three and a half week, with
a ten-dollar hold-back. These boys are
now called "rough-necks." The acrobats
and show people are called 'kinkers."
A carload Of beef was being cut up for
breakfast in the cook tent yesterday
morning. The dozens of cooks were get
ting ready for the kinkers' breakfasts, as
these artists did not reach town until the
arrival of the bull train," the last item
in the string Of transportation. The first
and second baggage and the ring stock
came in ahead of them.
There was everything necessary for the
comfort of rough-necks and kinkers on
the show grounds yesterday morning with
the exception of baths. A barber was
busy at the entrance to the 'hotel." and
the smell of cooking breakfast was fine,
but no one was bathing. The only thing
to get washed yesterday morning was the
string of animal cages. Rough-necks
were at work all up and down HI street
manicuring the wheels Of these gorgeous
red and gold wagons. so that the parade
today would be on clean wheels.