The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-09-06
GOES
TO SHOW, FIRST
IN THREE YEARS

Virtually "eircus hungry" afte'
total abstinence of at least three
years. and maybe more. Cairo and
vicinity turned out en- masse 10
greet the Observation-Disclosures shows
which exhibited here yesterday and
the management announced last
'evening that the business was as
large as any previous time this sea-
on. This is a broad ssertion as the
year has been an especially profit
able one.
The city was crowded with Wis
itors who came from within radius
of fifty miles in Southern Illinois
and almost that far from west Ken
lucky and Southeast Missouri. They
comprised a crowd that will go down
as one of the greatest in the history
of the city.
The Cairo and St Louis Railway
tinterurban) brought in over 5000
people from Mounds, Mound iNty
and the environs. according to the
estimate of the officials.
The Illinois Central, Mobile and
Ohio. the Cotton Belt and the Iron
Mountain, with their various trains
swelled the crowd with as many
more out of town people. who. for
the most part, witnessed the show
in the afternoon.
Then there were those who drove
into the city in automobiles and
wagons and buggies and the make
mp was a typical circus day throns.
81 and Mandy came in their big
spring wagon with all their kids
and some OF the neighbors. and
Percy drove to town in his machine
loaded down with his feminine
friends. They We're all bent on see
ing everything that was to be seen
from the side show to the big top
exhibits.
The crowd on the whole was good
natured and was an orderly one and
the police experienced little or no
trouble with the visitors. bent on
such innocent pleasure
The vanguard started to arrive
early in the morning. and by the
time the parade hove in sight with
it's kaleidoscope maze. the greater
norton was in the city
They went out to the grounds i'm
mediately after a bite to eat could
be snatched at the overlooking ho-
tells, restaurants amid boarding
houses, to stroll through the i'm
structiye. edifying museum Of nat
ural history better known as the
menagerie and then into the ylcin-
lily of the sawdust arenas and the
Royal Roman Hippodrome' race
track
The animals Of waleh there were
many, were viewed with much in
terest and in many cases, awe and
fright One old darkey. cautioned
a bevy of little pickanlnuies in his
charge not to go too near the cage
housing the giant appopotamuss'
whatever that is, as ii might bite"
Conspicuous by their absence, were
the peanuts, popcorn and cracker
jack cries of the vendors, supple
mented by the bartering entreaties
OF "ice cream and cake" lice cream
cones and soda pop. made right
here in the circus" These were the
only lacking features of regular"
circus.
There was one thing missing in
the performance, namely the wild
animal acts that have been a fea-
ture of the Hagenbeck- Wallace
shows since the two were amalga
mated after the St Louis Worlds
Fair All the animals that partici
pated in these performances We're
drowned in the disastrous food that
visited Peru, Ind. last spring.
Eleven polar bears and about two
dozen lions. tigers. pumas and Loop
ards and forty-three head OF horses
were lost when the water invaded
the winter quarters of the show,
and this was heavy blow. How
ever new cats are now being trained
and next season the show will have
these main features. However the
big circus acts made up for any
thing missing and everyone appear
cd satisfied with the show.
The show was visited at night
mostly by local people% who could
not get away from their work dur
ing the day. The attendance equal,
led that of the afternoon.
The shows came from Harrisburg
over the Big Four and departed this
morning for Fulton over the Illinois
Central for Futon where they
show today Monday they exhibit al
Memphis.