St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1912-10-19
YES, THERE WILL Be A
PARADE.
Barnum and Bailey Will Also
Present Great Spectacle of
cleopatra"

When the Barnun and Bailey
greatest show on earth visits
Opelousas on Thursday, Oct. 81,
it will present a street parade on
absolute new lines. In no part
icular will this parade be like
those of the past.
Before the circus began it's
season it promised a surprise in
way of street professions. It
announced that it would present
a payment three times the length
of any other and costing ten
times as much. 1t is now fulfill
ing that promise to the letter.
The open-air spectacle presents
three years work. The best
artists from Italy and France
made the designes for the vari-
Gus vehicles, the costumes and
fantastic trappings. The best
property and spectacle builders
and master artisans of the great
theatres of Troupe put those de-
signs into execution. They
worked night and day for three
years in the workshops of the
show in England. When the
bills for all this labor were turn
ed in to the management they
amounted to over ST., 600, 900.
But the result is worth it. The
parade is beautiful beyond des-
cription. It is a parade of ten
thousand wonders and novelties.
It has great value as a worlds
exposition. It presents all types
of the human race, together with
all of their costumes, tapestries,
banners, flags, weapons, statu-
airy and paintings, carriages Of
state, mythology and idols. A
complete street menagerie is dis
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/ played in open dens. There are
herds of camels, dromedaires and
elephants and 700 horses. The
characteristic music of the
worlds peoples is represented by
brass bands, barbarian orches-
tras, tom-tom players, weird pip
ers, chanters, dervishes, casta-
net balIets and operate choruses.
For the children there are fete
day and kirmiss scenes, fairyland
tableaux, depicting all the char.
acters from Mother Goose, Alice
in Wonderland, the Arabian
Knights, Water Babies and Rob-
inson Crnsoe. The tapestry and
rugs are from Turkey and Persia.
The costumes are from France.
The laces are from Ireland. The
scarfs, banners and flags are
from Japan. The floats, wag-
ons, palanquins, rickshas, how
dahs, palaces and thrones are
made of the finest woods, carved
by hand and FURNISHED with pure
gold. The harness is silver
mounted.
Zebras, llamas, camels and ell
ephants do the work of horses.
There are l. 80 men women and
children in the line.
The show grounds of this big
show are a city in themselves.
Here will be found an immense
dynamo plant, generating power
for all kinds of shops and sup
plying current for I, 1000 electric
globes, arcs and beacons. There
is also a postofice, where mail is
received every day from all parts
of the world. The show carries
its own BARRIERS, dentists, law
yers, doctors, detectives and mas
ter mechanics. It has a hotel
and dining-room, where 1000
meals are cooked and eaten every
day in the week. The train that
pulls the circus from city to city
is more than a mile in length. It
travels in a single season about
40, 600 miles, making stops at 200
different cities.
One entire section Of the train
is needed to transport the vast
equipment Of the spectacle Gle
opatra," which opens the per-
Torrance in the main tent. The
spectacle employees tons Of seen