The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-01
WE|DMANN SHOWS
ARRIVE IN THE CITY
viii Spend Winter Out at
State Fair Grounds
PERFORMERS LEAVE
Whole Aggregation, However, VIII
Be Back Early Next Spring To
Rehearse and Give First
Show in This City

The Wiedmann Bros, Kit Carson, Buffs4-
10 Ranch shows arrived in sections at the
Fair grounds yesterday morning about
$780, The first section of the train was
vehicles used by the wild west show.
The old stage coach, the prairie schooner
and all the other appurteAances to the
wild and woody west were to be SEEN and
the small boy, who was very prominent
in the gathering of the curious, was in
his glory. He had read about all these
things and now that he saw them he
stood and stared in open-mouthed awe.
The shows will spend the winter here
and will begin right away to rehabilltate
the wagons, the scenery. the cars and all
the property of the circus. Blacksmiths
will begin to make new things, aided by
the carpenters and painters and by next
April the show will make its debut in re-
splendent glory. Everything will be spiclz
and span where now 1t looks dim and
drab. The entire outfit appears rather
dingy, but it has put in long, hard
season on the road, and few things stand
such a siege as these props have gone
through
Performers Not Here
large number of the performers are
now filling vaudeville engagements or are
en- route to their home town to spend the
winter. Most of the Indians left the
show Saturday night at little Georgia
town, where it closed the present season,
and are now making all possible haste
across the broad and fertile prairies,
where once only the foot of the Red Man
chased the elusive deer or remorselessly
shot the buffalo. They want to get back
TO the Dakotas to tell their friends of the
wonders of the city where the white man
is as thick as the leaves on the trees
and of the great success of the Indian in
the show business. They will tell them,
too, of the places were "firewater'' is
plentiful and where, even though it is
plentiful, one cannot drink as much as
one wants, because. of some minion of the
great white father. who is always stand
ing a-near.
who will remain with the show In Bir-
mingham this winter, and they will be
composed for the most part of mechan-
les. Only a few of the performers viii
stay in the city. The main exhibit hall
at the fair frounds is to be turned into q
huge blacksmith shop and workhouse
combined, and here will the scenery and
every part of the show be thoroughly
overhauled. A new spectacle will be pre-
pared also, and something like 100 people
will reach Birmingham in March for re-
hearsal in this. 1t is to be called "Poca-
hontas," and is to be a magnificent thing.
1t will portray the life of the Indians in
aboriginal days and will tell the story
of Captain John Smith and the Indian
maid as II really was.
Cook Tent Erected
The cook tent of the shows was erected
yesterday afternoon late and the cooks
started to prepare food for the workmen
on four stoves. Three tons of meat are
consumed In a single week in this show
and 500 loayes of bread are used each day
IT is hard matter for the chef to satisfy
the many and varied appetites of his
guests, for they come from every nation
on the globe. The Japs desire rice and
want to fight If they don't get it, The
Indians must have meat or else the cook
is anthematized and is sometimes COM
PEELED to defend himself against the on
slaught of several irate braves, who feel
that they have been insulted. The cow
boys from the western plains eat meat
mainly and are pretty we'll satisfied with
most anything II it is cooked we'll The
Birmingham merchant who secures the
contract to feed this aggregation can well
feel that he can easily weather the win
ter.
The entire show is housed in 2S cars
when on the road, and only about IS of
them arrived yesterday The rest will
probably reach the city early this morn
ing.
If beams from happy human eyes
Have moved me not; if morning skies
Books, and my food, and summer rain
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain
Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take
And stab my spirit broad awake
LET us lay hold of the things of which
we are glad and sing them until all the
color and fabric is informed with our hap
piness.
o, to have life henceforth poem of
new joys,
To dance, clap hands. exult, shout, skip,
leap, roll on. float onl
To be sailor of the world bound for all
ports
A swift and swelling si,lp full Of rich
-o-cs, full OF Joys"