Arizona republican., 1913-08-24
CIRCUS COMING
 KIDS DELIGHT.
Ringling's Worlds Great est Show First Adver- tising Car Arrives TT Something About Big Car Now at $. P. Depot
The circus is comin'

of Are" This production is said to have cost $5OO.O .OOO to built and re quires a solid train to- itself, with the properties, costumes and tons of scenery. The caSt~nHnlbeFs 1.2OO peo- pie. G50 horses and there is a ballet of 300 dancing girls.
 Friday night a huge car pulled into the Southern Pacific station. Covered with a coat of bright red ters of gold. Ringing Bros. Worlds Greatest Shows Advertising Car No |"
 Ringing Brothers have three ad- vance cars. They follow one another week apart The No. 1 car goes to each town three weeks before the circus is due to appear. It carries 2 men, consisting of 20 billposters and six lithographers in charge of the veteran car manager. George Good hart A steam machine for making paste is carried on the car and every night the porter makes 12 barrels of paste under the supervision of the boss biIposter, for use the following day. the head lithographer sees that the dates are pasted on the lithos and the car manager lays out the work for each man to do.
 q. breakfast is served at o'clock and at 6.30 the local livery teams are at the car ready to take the bHlposters, armed with barrels of paste, bundles of posters and their brushes to the outlying towns and through the city itself to plaster the billbOards, the Photographers start with their bundles of lthos in circus parlance called ''hods'D to decorate the store win dolvs and by the time the factory whistles blow the supper hour ev- ervone knows the big show is com ing and a crowd of enthusiastic and excited youngsters are busily engaged in figuring out the easiest way of touching 'daddie' for the price of a circus ticket.
 Phoenix people. both old and young are looking forward to Monday, Sept ember 15. to satisfy that unsuitable circus hunger which can only be ap- ueased bv the tent show" on that day. Ringing Bros Worlds Greatest Shows will erect their white top city" here with an elaborately pre- pared amusement menu.
 Preceding the opening performance f remarkable street parade will be given. which is expected to attract many thousands of interested people along the route
 Now for the big show itself. The performance will open with a 'gor- gcous spectacle of brilliant effulgence and scintillatinS iridcscence. It is said to be the highest work of art in it's Hne-as a pageant Joan oI Are is consummate. Its brand new spfck and span regalia, it's alluring plot, the daintiness of the comedy Mime Bartik, as the ill-fated heroine of France, the well-groomed splendor of the equines, the appropriateness of the music and the perfect detail of the presentation, all combine to make il one long, lasting achievement of the great circus firm of Ringing Eros.
 Then follows the circus proper, pre- senting a diversity of entertainment both of the human and animal variety The clowns and harlequins run around the track, across the platforms and pcrpetrate tricks of the latest origin These fun-makers comprise a half hundred, assisted by pigs. dogs, ducks, geese and the pony police patrol.
 The regular ring performances are far the best the Ringlings ever have offered, abounding in thrills and nov city, and reflecting great credit upon the showmen. A European program, unusual even for the Ringlings is pre- sented this year. topped by the fam Ous Saxon trio, the worlds strongest men. the TybeH sisters in a human butterfly act, the celebrated Oriental family of Balkani's riders, the Jan owsky troupe of novelty acrobats, the Lorbeer troupe of strong arm jugg- lers, Josephine Clark and Augustus Clark, considered the greatest bare back riders in the world; the Mirano Erothers, who do a high perch act on d pole fifty feet long, one brother holding the pole, and many other acts too numerous to mention.
 The best trained animals on earth are headed by Rulings seals. Shu- mann's horses and three herds of ele- phants, which play musical instru- ments, dance, operate telephones. stand on their heads, jump rope and juggle cannon balls
 Thirty years ago the Ringlings be- san life with nothing but ambition. Today they own the largest amuse ment organization in the world. There are five brothers in the firm. When they gave their first performance in their home town the youngest was but 16 years old. Their tent was home made. The seat blanks were borrowed from the neighboring lum- Der yard. They had but one horse They gave the performance them selves
 Their start in life was small, but it was earnest. They were not afraid Of hard work. They prospered from the start. though on their first sea son they did not wander far from home Their one horse was not equal to the task. In 1883 their first sea sons first tour included an entire state. In 1885 they travelled through +Jroa Sta+oo Tn 10oQ +bax ,,oa6a tbai,