Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-02
BARNUM AND BAILEY COMING
Greatest show on Earth to Visit This
City on Tuesday, July
ii, Next.

Final arrangements have Just been COM
pleted for the visit to this city OF the
Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on
Earth. The date is Tuesday, July IL. Two
performances will be given. They will be
the same in every particular as those pre-
sented in Madison Square Garden, New
York City, where this circus opened its
season last March.
Added glory attaches to this show be-
cause of its new equipment which cost the
management $3,500.000 Its new parade is
described as a marvel of pageantry. Its
enlarged menagerie is the center of inter-
est, and the company of 400 world-famous
artists presenting the program have
brought 100 surprises from Europe. This
circus Is over fifty years old. 1t was
founded by p. T. Barnum, the father of
modern advertising and big circus ideas
Barnum was born 100 years ago He was
over a century ahead of his time. Were
he alive today he would still be looked up
to as the greatest amusement manager in
the world 1t was his brilliant mind that
made the modern circus possible. He found
the circus a disoPganized institution, oper-
ated without system intelligence and not
a great deal of integrity. He lifted 1t up
into the fine arts. He established II on the
same systematic standards that make rail-
roads a success. When he died his only
successors were James A: Bailey and his
Immediate staff of associates then young
men, who were able to perpetuate his won
derful policy because OF long schooling
! under him
Bailey has been described as the greatest
Snowman Of his day He grew to be an
other Barnum. Under his management the
air
greater. No other circus in the world ever
dared to attempt the gigantic projects that
this great genius carried through to sue
cess. He took the great show to Europe
and Asia. He visited every city of promi-
hence in the old world. Like rolling ball
OF snow it gathered and grew. On its
return TO America 1t was worlds fair OF
ten thousand wonders. Today its has
reached q point of size that taxes the rail-
roads to their utmost. 1t covers fourteen
acres OF ground.
The organization OF this year numbers
l,2s0 people. 100 horses, forty elephants,
thirty eamels and 1,200 wild and semi-do-
nestle animals. 1t travels on a train ex-
actly 6l23 feet in length. This Is over one
mile. The train has to be handled in five
sections. The circus performance is intro
dueed by a new and costly spectacle. The
10e acts that follow begin a new era In
circus ideas. All is novelty. Charlie the
First. q chimpanzee, walks to one OF the
stages and there presents a bicycle and
juggling act surpassing In skill the efforts
of the best human performer that ever
lived. A company OF beautiful cream stall
lions enter the ring. Walking on their hind
feet At a signal from their director they
line up and play real music on sweet toned
bells. Jupiter, q white Arabian horse, rides
to the dome Of the tent in a balloon and
comes down In a shower OF fireworks.
Thrills are added to the performance by
the Konyot family OF equestrians. the Sic
grist-sibon family OF aerihsts and Geor-
getty family Of acF0bats.