Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-16
CIRCUS 70 REACH
CITY EARLY SUNDAY
SHORT HAUL, FROM OSkAlOOSA,
TO BRING AGGREGATION IN
EARLY.
FIRST TRAIN DUE IN
At 8; OTHERS BY
Tented City Early-Grounds Will Be
Visited by Thousands Of People Sum
day-PIans For Parade and Per-
fo.mances en- Monday.
clscus DAY IN RRlEE.

ARRINAL-In four train sections.
comprising eighty-one double length
cars, over the NJ. & St L. railroad from
Oskaloosa. First section expected
about a. m. Sunday Others all here
by a. m.
UNLOAD-At Third avenue.
ROUTE TO FAIR GROJNDS-Sec
ond avenue to Church street. to Sew
cnth avenue, to Main street, to
grounds.
PARADE-Leave fair grounds at 10
a. m. Monday and move as follows:
Main street TO Fifth avenue, to State
street. to Second street. to Main street.
to grounds.
PERFORMANCES p. m and p.
CAPACITY OF MAIN TENTH 900
persons.
TICKETs-At show grounds and all
day Monday at the Old Reliable Drug
Store.
DEPARTrRE-snon after midnight
over the NJ. & ST. l.. tracks 20 Mason
City.
Superintendent Lindsey has assured
the CIRCUS people that the work on the
street car tracks at Main street and
Third avenue will permit the safe pas
sag of the big chariots on Sunday
and Monday.
The Earnum & Bailey Greatest
Show on Earth will exhibit in Mar
shalltown on Monday, better. far bet
ter. it is promised, than it was in the
good old days" Everything worthy
| -i1
ideas in old garb and old suggestions
| in new costumes. 1t is coming stu
| pendous, dazzling, eager to prove it Is
without a competitor as national en-
| tcrtainment-
| Soon after daybreak tomorrow, it is
expected, the four trains which are re-
CURED to transport the circus Will
have reached this city from Oskaloosa
Switchmen will be ready to receive and
admit the travelling university and
| pilot it to tracks convenient to its I'M
loading needs in the NJ. & st. L. yards
The first train is expected to arrive
about 8 o'clock and the last one some
where around s.
The boss canvasman, Happy Jack
Snellen, and his horde Of brawny fol
lowers will be the first on the show
grounds and with the arrival of thu
1 chain and-s wagon the activ'
work Of erecting the tents vii
begin. The cook tent" will be placed
first in position, for food must avail
the throng of men, women and children
not far behind. This is a simple ant
expeditiously accomplished duty. a.
compared with the elevation of tn
| 70 hrio Wi h
whose folds $4,000 persons can com
fortably accommodate themselves. Thi
will not be erected until Monday morn
ing, in order to give the workmen NOR
of a Sunday.
Before the delegated proprietors o
the grounds have finished their earl.
morning labors twenty separate can
vas shelters will have arisen. The
include menagerie. side show, stable
blacksmith harness, dressing, ward
robe. barber, physicians and dentist
tents The remainder of the day vii
be passed in rest and repose for work
ingnlan and performer
Parade Moves at 10.
The street parade will leave tn
grounds at 10 o'clock on Monday morn
ing. Well-fed horses and ponies i
shining harness and waving plume
will take their places before glitterin
vehicles; the sound Of music fror
bands perched hazardously high
clowns, characters, knights, jockey!
Roman riders in line: camels and ele
plants. many bearing weight of femi
nine beauty: sorgeously caparisone
y1eE and women in tights and spangle
and breast plates Of shining gold; star
! ing tigers and lions and hyenas; tn
fairy outfit of Santa Claus. the oil
woman of nursery fame and Biuebear
doing his decapitation; the shriekin
Il callione with a cloud of BOYS keepin