Arizona republican., 1912-09-24
CIRCUS DAY
 COMESANOGOES
Thousands of People from All Parts of Valley Crowd to Town to See Big Show. An Old Fashioned Cir GUS.

We went to the animal fair 1 The birds and beasts were. there, 1 The big babOOn 1 By the light of the moon 1 Was combing his auburn hair.
 ] The monkey, he got drunk, ] And climbed up the elephants trunk, l The elephant Sneezed,
 i And fell on his knees,
 1 But what became of the monk, the l monk. the monk .|
 Circus day began yesterday with
 the arrival of the Barnum and Bailey show and detraining and closed early i this morning when the last train | loaded with the same circus pulled
 out for the southeast portion of the United States. The city was crowded
 with farmers and laborers from every
 section of the Salt River valley who l with their families came in over the
 hot and dusty country roads, by way
 of the street cars. special trains. and
 by the usual valley planters auto mobile to attend the circus.
 From early morning to late at night
 the streets of the city teemed with
 people The restaurants and hotels
 were crowded, and between the shows
 
 for an opportunity to rest. During
 the shows the streets by no means
 assumed. a deserted aspect. The af- ternoon crowd at the circus under the
 big tent and at the side shows was
 estimated at ten thousand people, while the night show was just as large yet despite this the streets dur
 ing the show were as busy looking
 as upon a Saturday afternoon in the
 shopping season, Yet withal it was good natured crowd The people were packed so thickly in the big tent that it took a good three quar- teTs of an hour for all of them to get out in the afternoon. Less time was necessary at night as the load ing process had begun and the walls of the tents were taken down to let the people out
 The first impression of the big show gathered from the morning parade was not a very prepOssessing one. The outfits as shown on the street were filthy dirty, the animals, especially the elephants looked as if they need 1 ed some washing. The only clear \ animals noticed were the wild fellows ! in the cages. The lions and tigers l were fat and sleek, but the horses H although fat looked tired, probably E from the fact that the flag end O the season is nearing. The me1 E driving the wagons and floats looked as if they needed bath, shave { . shampoo and shine The genera concensus was that had the outfi
 been in Mexico and had advertised al did the circus yesterday they would have all been jailed for not coming up to the promises of the ads.
 Fl Out at the big tent however al entirely different impression wa gathered as far as the cleanliness o
 the performers and the animals went The uniforms of the hands around tn E ring were not worthy of comment
 but may have been kept that way il \ order to make the costumes of tn E performers much more delightful [
 the eye. The grounds had been we H wet down early in the afternoon bu E with ten thousand people passing i E and out, the hundreds of horses chas | ing around the ring. the dust Wa E there just the same. It was the sam E old circus dust, sawdust and dust an \ full of jungle smells, as much a par
 of the circus and as much a re \ hinder of youth and the joys exper E fenced by the incorrigible unwashe \ who used to pack water for the ele \ phant, as the tawdry and tinsel tight and trapezes themselves.
 The performance was regular ol \ time circus. It was noticeably an \ pleasingIy devoid of thrilers in tn \ nature of death defying leaps, loo \ the loops, and Girl in Red' stunt \ The old fashioned horse back exec \ lence, wonderful aerial trapeze worl E and performances of trained anima \ filling the entire program.
 It began with the Antony and Cleo