The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-05-01
BIG CARNIVAL
TRAIN HAS
ARRIVED
Week of Anticipated Fun
Starts Tonight at the
Show Grounds.
GLEN BELMONT Is STAR
Many Special Features Insure the
Public Royal Entertainment
for the Whole Week.

With the arrival in the city
Sunday of the Great Clifton-Kelly
Show train the first real sign of spring
and summer with their outdoor pleas
ures and amusements, dear to the
hearts of people who dislike to be
kept in doors by inclement weather
arrived.
All day long attaches of the show
have been busy as bees Transforming
the grounds where the company is
to show this week under the auspices
of the Elks into a tented city.
By seven o'clock tonight the time
set for the formal opening, the shows
advertising matter which reads "a
Tented City of Sights and Lights"
will be reality.
Among the attractions are TO be
found some of the latest and most
novel attractions known to the car
nival world. some of which have never
been seen here. The new features
with the Clifton-Kclly Company this
year are the Flea Circus, the Motor
dromc, Eilcr's trained goat and mon
key show and the finest jumping
horse Merry Round ever carried
by any carnival company. An idea
of the magnitude of the mcrry-go-
round may be had from the fact
that it takes ten wagons to transport
it.
OF course the big motordromc is the
big sensational feature. The follow
ing regarding the motordrome is
clipped from the Helena, Ark, Daily
World.
The big motordrome was the most
talked of and strongest drawing at
traction at the fair, The motorcycle
riders who ride the perpendicular
wall at death-defying speed presented
the most sensational performance ever
witnessed here. Amid the roaring
Of the motors, these speed fends
rush around the inclined track at
speed that looks like suicide and
which keeps the audience in state
of excitement that at times border
on the hystcrical The motordrome
racing game is man-killer, and while
no accidents have occurred to the
riders who rode here, it seems mira
Gle, as the riders with the Clifton
Kelly shows are certainly dare-devils.
Glen Belmont, the star rider of
the aggregation, when questioned
as to how long he expected to keep
it up, replied, 81 have always been
a speed fend, and when bicycles
first came out, nothing but the
fastest would do for me. When au-
tomobiles became popular l took up
racing at once and the speed at
tanned, l believe was the first real
pleasure l ever experienced. When
the motordrome arrived, shortly after
motorcycles became popular, / was
one of the first to take up riding,
and for real thrills everything else
have ever done fades into signi-
ficance.
"You might think that the excite
ment of riding an aeroplane would
beat riding a motordome," Belmont
replied, "but I've ridden them both,
and l want to tell you the aeroplane
isn't in it. Things run too smooth
on an aeroplane-when they run at
all-for there to be much excitement,
except when starting and landing.
Riding in a motordome the excite
ment is always with you, as you not
only have to look out for yourself
every minute Of the time, but it's
absolutely necessary for your own
and the safety of the other riders,
to know exactly what you are going
to do next and be able to guess
what the other riders are going to do
next every minuted of the time
the races are onl One little mistake
made by one rider may result in
injury to all riders"
The fair management is to be con-
graduated on securing this big, up
to-date attraction for the fair. The
Clifton-Kelly shows are the largest
cleanest and best shows Of the kind
ever seen here. Their three big
riding devices, their motordome and
all their shows and concessions are
doing a big business here and de-
serve all they are doing, as they GER
tainly give value in full for all money
spent on their shows, riding devices
and concessions.
The shows leave here on their
special train Sunday for Little Rock,
where they furnish the attractions
for the Pulaski county fair next week.