Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-10-20
RINGLING Bros
TOMORROW
Big Show Will Give Two Exhi-
billions In Pennyroyal Fair
Grounds.
THE PARADE AT 10 O'CLOCK.
The Performances Will Be Civ
en- at 2 O'clock p. m. and
s O'clock p. m.


Likewise-hold your horses!
For they'll be in Hopkinsville to-
morrow.
The elephants, the camels, the
beautiful ladies dressed in fluffy pink
tarletons a. lighter with spangles and,
most essential of all else, the rumb-
ling wagons of red and gold without
which circus wouldn't be a circus
at all. Most anywhere between 2
and a p. m. is the time; the freight
yards of the Tennessee Central rail-
road, the place, and Ringing Broth
ers' worlds greatest show" the
piece de resistance which, in so far
as the learned diagnosticians of re d
wagon fever instruct US, no small
boy and few lads and lassies grown
tall have ever been able to resist.
Clowns and calliopes (for joy of
joys, there are to be two steam
pianos, balloons and ballets, zoo
and zebra teams, ponies and pigmies,
giants and giantessess, tents and
tumblers, chimpanzees and chariots,
cowboys and cow-girls. spectaclts
and spielers, riders and rhinoceroses,
CRATES and gyrators, peanuts and
parachutes, aerialists and airships,
pink tights and pinker lemonade,
trapeze and trappings, bag and bag
gage, gold and glitter, and the thou.
sand other wonders of dear old
Spangletown will begin one whole
joyous days sojourn when the four
long yellow trains bearing the Ring
ling name roll into the freight yards
tomorrow morning.
And, unless all alarm clocks fail,
it is safe wager that young Hop
kinsville will be down at the tracks
long before the sun to greet the
habitants of this travelling municipal
ity and to prefer their undivided as
sistance in leading the spotted ponies
and their comrades of the menagerie
from the railroad yards to the circus
grounds.
For it is in this direction that the
youngsters chiefest interest lies.
What cares he for statistics? The
fact that the big show which he wei
comes carries SO cars upon which
are transported almost 400 people,
including ballet of 300 dancing
girls, who will later in the day dance
before the throne of Solomon in the
magnificent spectacle of Solomon
and the Queen of Sheba" is a mere
detail which interests him (the young
ster and not King Solomon) not at
all.
Neither is your small boy concern
ed with the fact that this spectacle
is followed in the course of the Ring
ling program by carnival of arenic
wonders enlisting more than 400
performers, the majority of whom
are foreigners making their first
visit to America.
No. with the youngster its usually
aquestion of How many elephants?'
A train load of the great. grey noun
tains will answer the lads query in
person tomorrow morning and will
reiterate the reply in the parade, and
again. in the three rings at the matt
nee and night performances.
The first official" appearance of
the circus will occur with the street
parade which, leaving the show
grounds at 1000 o'clock tomorrow
morning. will pass over the usual
route. The pageant has been de-
scribed as three miles of stretched
out rainbow" 1t is the finest ever
exhibited by the five famous brother
showmen. There will be six bands,
the calliopes. gorgeous tableau wag-
ons filled with richly gowned wo-
men. scores of open dens, more than
700 horses. clown wagons. of course.
and such distinct novelties as team
of sixteen camels driven like horses.
Those who witness the perform
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