The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-25
AT The BIC SHOW
Record Crowd of $4,000 Saw
Two Performances.
Ringing Bros. Gave Spectacle
Up to Advance Notices.

A good deal the biggest, and prob
ably the best satisfied, crowd that ever
big display of the Ringing Brothers
yesterday afternoon and last night.
The circus was all that could be asked,
and was really an excellent show. The
attendance was all the management
could desire, the big top having been
crowded beyond capacity for the after
noon performance, and filled full at
night with eager spectators.
There was not a jar at either of the
performances to mar them. 1t was
handled with the skill only attained
by trained circus men, while for two
hours the splendor of the Joan of Arc
pageant, the activities of trained ami
mails and acrobats interspersed with
the comical dofngs of the 40 clowns,
interested the big crowds.
1t would be hard to say what part
of the big show was the best Part of
the time, with five acts in full swing
and 40 clowns prancing about, it was
utterly impossible for one pair of hu-
man eyes to take it all in. But the
ter of taste. The whole show was up
to the advance notices, and everybody
seemed pleased at the performance
At the afternoon Performance more
than $4,000 secured admission. Be
fore the show opened, inasmuch as
many were compelled to find places
to sit in the hippodrome track, an
nouncement was made that those VINO
were dissatisfied might either receive
their money back or ticket for the
night performance. Quite a number
went out, taking one or the other.
The night performance was not so
badly crowded, but even at that nearly
every available place was filled. 1t is
estimated that at least $4,000 people
saw the show at one or the other of
the performances. About that many
people were hauled to the grounds by
the street railway company during the
day. Many of those who went were
out of town people who came here
partly for the circus and partly to Sc
cure the benefits of bargain week.
Many of them are still here today, and
are busy making purchases at the
various stores.
Gimme two tickets said a small
boy in front of the ticket wagon before
the opening of the evening perform
ance. Standing on tip-toe, he had de-
posted a handful of nickels and dimes
on the high shelf in front of the ticket
seller A long line of people were
money in hand, to buy tickets,
the Chicken feed and searching out
the small boy by peering over the
counter and letting his gaze follow up
the clew indicated by the small up
raised hand, which was all that was
visible, he inquired:
where's the other fellow?"
standing over there" replied the
kid.
Bring MIN up mere ana let me see
him, may be he can go for half price"
demanded the circus man.
The small boy darted back in the
crowd.
Here, take your money with you,"
shouted the Snowman.
The boy grabbed the returned |
money and soon reappeared with an |
other about his own size, and again |
dropped the Chicken feed" on the |
counter.
Half fare" said the ticket man,
giving the boy two tickets and half his
money back.
Circus Notes.
When the swarm of clowns entered |
he track. it didn't take the Topeka
contingent long to recognize Lew Pla-
nondin, the pig-tailed Chinaman Of the
punch, and he answered a hundred
alls of Hello Lew by a wave Of the
land or q, flip of his head piece Low
was born and reared in To-
,eka, and has been an acrobat and
h. |