Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-22
WILD WEST SHOW
 IN TOWN TODAY 101 'Ranch to Give Strest Parade and Two Perform
 ances Here Today. 
SHOW TO COME EARLY
Trains Will Be Unloaded This Morn.
 ing in Railroad Yards-Parade to Move at 1O:3O.

This is "early rising" day for con-
 siderable percentage of Pine Bluff s
 building population There is rea-
 son. This is the day the circus-or
 rather the 101 Ranch Wild West Show
 comes to townr For, hearken vel. the
 Wild West isn't circus, according >,
 the Versaclous press agent. Its an
 educational institution, he insists. Anyway, whatever it is. this is the day.
 Before this is read by the greater
 part of Pine Bluffs breakfast-time
 news-devourers, thefthree long trains
 utilized to transport the paraphernalia
 Of the big show will have rolled into
 town, been shunted into the Iron
 Mountain railroad yards, heen unioad-
 ed, the scores of vans and wagons
 and the hundreds of horses and other
 annals hustled out to the show,
 grounds where the Wild West is to
 be domiciled during the day, early
 coffee served to the army of workers.
 the first tents erected, and arrange.
 ments under way for the delightfully."-
 dazzling and uperbly-resplenden
 free street parade which inevitably
 precedes the opening performance or
 travelling tent shows, big and little.
 To the early morning crowd that
 invests the railroad yards and invades the show grounds eager for new sen-
 satlons, it makes no difference wheth- CT the management elects to call the enterprise a "circus' or a "Wild west" The incidental sights have al marked similarity. There is the same army of working people appearing like gnomes out of the midsts of the morning; the same energetic driving of stakes and and handling of guy llnes and canvas; the same hurry to get the animals under cOver-for in the wild west buffaloes take the place of elephats, and long-horned steers vie in interest with the circus drome- diary, and must be protected from the Over-curious and the weather; and, not least, the entrance has tns
 same alluring banners as the circus, and the ticket wagons have the same familiar appearance of thrift and prosperity. The most marked differ ence is in the arena, where instead of being entirely enclosed under a can. vas dome, the amphitheatre is open to the sky. The seats are protected un- der canopies, but the performance is given in the open air. The morning crowd may dissolve long enough to give the enthuiasts an opportunity to get breakfast The chances are that the greater part of the crowd will finger for the parade, and then follow the procession downtown. That will be about 10:30. And it is reported to be some parade. Some of the novel features may ba enumerated. One is a genuine prairie schooner, drawn by long-horned steers Another is one of the original Wells-Fargo stage and express coaches, drawn by six-mule team, and with Rocky Mountain Hank, one of the ''realest' of the "real' old timers handling the reins. Still anoth- CT is herd of buffaloes. Then there are, it is announced, floats, illustrat ing in characteristic way scenes in the early life of the far west, cav valades of cowboys and cowgirls and Mexican vaqueros and Russian Cos sacks and other interesting people. not to mention enough Indians in blan kets and war bonnets, to start reser- yation. Joseph c. Miller, president a.D. amussIs .nt i;ead of tse T. ia. ce