The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-08-07
WILL GIVE BIG STREET PARADE
Barnum 4 Bailey Management Spends
$1,OOO,OOO ON New Pageant

$1,00O,OOO ON New Pageant
When the Barntlm and Bailey
| Greatest Show on Earth visits North
Yakima on Saturday, August "a, it
viii be with the greatest street parade
ever seen in the United States. bar
none. 1t is entirely the origination
and execution Of the best artists, de-
sisners and property masters of Italy.
France and England.
1t is the policy of the Barnum and
Bailey management never to repeat
itself. During the season that they
cut out their parade, 1t was done be-
| cause in their opinion they had ex-
hibited everything new under the sun,
and that they should therefore wal.
until such a time as more original
| ideas might be evolved and new won
ders sought out from remote lands.
For two years day and night, artists,
artisans and stage spectacle builders
have been toilng like Trojans in the
Europen workshops of the show near
Liverpool to build the parade which
this year is amazing the cities of
America
Not in any way does this pageant
resem Bile those Seen In the past Ii
Fairly glistens With newness and the
million dollars invested shows itself
In gorgeous floats OF Furnished gold
made by oriental workmen tapestry
and throne rugs from Persia and Tur-
key, costumes from France. laces from
Ireland, scarfs, flags and banners from
China and Japan, statuary from Ital-
ian galleries and studios, band and or
lfy1, ctr. 30
dens. hand-carve and FURNISHED with
pure gold. War engines of savage
tribes, craven images and idols of
heather nations, the crude vehicles OF
barbarism chieftains and imperial
carriages of state are displayed.
Every type of man IL seen in his
native dress and the characteristic
music of the world is represented by
great brass bands. castanet ballets,
chanters, weird pipers. grand opera
choruses, bag-pipes ,tom-tom players,
barbarian orchestras, cathedral or
gans. silver chimes, siren pipes, and
drum, fife and bugle corps A great
menagerie of recently discovered ami
mails is shown in open dens The pa
rade Is three times the length of for
mer displays. 1t represents ten times
the expense in money aand thought.
The performance, too, has under
gone many changes. 1t has been bet
tered by the additions of new acts
from the arenas and audience rooms
of Europe and Asia. The long bill be-
gins with a costly spectacle of Cleo
patra" with a cast OF 1900 characters
a ballet of $50 dancing girls, a grand
opera chorus. an orchestra of 100
pieces, $50 horses, five herds of ele-
phants, caravan of camels, and
trainload of special scenery painted i'm
Paris, London and New York CITY by
the best scenic artists in the world.
The properties were gathered In Egvpt
Dy ENJOYS of the circus. The great
ballet was drilled by Ottokar Bartik.
balletmaster OF the METROPOLITAN
Opera Company of New York, and the
incidental music was arranged by
Faltis Effendi. late band director of
the Khedive of Egypt.
The menagerie is beyond question
the greatest travelling zoo in the world.
baby colony Is one of its interest
ing features Here are displayed va
rious jungle mothers with their fam
lies about them. Among the many
youngsters is the only baby giraffe in
America. lie is pigmy at the side
of his parent