The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-16

While the greater portion of Birming- ham is lingering over it's breakfast rolls this morning. the trains carrying the hosts of Ringing Bros circus will have reached the yards of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and the day of the elephants and pink lemonade will have dawned. Local railway officials figure that the first section will begin to unload al about a. m. and from that hour there promises to be continuous cara van of animals, people and the parapher- nalia of Spangletown from the tracks to the old fairgrounds
 The circus will come here from Mont gomery on four trains. more than mile nexing itself to this city it will add to the population more than 1850 people, whole herds of elephants and camels, 7So horses and 10S dens or wild animals The first train will be that which transports the commissary department. Next in line of march to the circus grounds will come the animals. the equipment and all the parade anC wardrobe wagons. Lastly will arrive the performers, all ring stock and the monster elephant Pullmans'' contain- ing the pachyderns, ranging in size from Big Jennie to Baby Pete
 The "formaP' opening on the Ringing engagement will begin with a street pa rade. which will leave the grounds about 10 o'clock >this morning. It promises to be one of the most impressive displays ever seen here Besides whole strings of handsome tableau wagons and allegorical cars, peopIed with garry costuned girls, there will be scores of open cages show ing the finest specimens of the famous Ringing zoo. pony teams and one es- pecially notable novelty-a team of 16 like horses. Six bands and two calliopes will furnish music and the clowns will be on hand to please the youngsters.
 The circus will give two performances today, at and p. m., the doors opening an hour earlier to allow visitors time to visit the menagerie or enjoy the operatic concert played by the Ringing military band. The official programme will open with the new spectacle of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba,' which is this sea sons big added feature. This will be pt half of a main tent covering acres of ground, and will be given with all the scenic and lighting effecrs of grand opera. More than 1900 people will take part in the wordless play, which in pantomime and great ensemble groups tells the story of Israel 1000 years before the Christian era. A big feature of this production will be ballet Advertisement of 300 dancing girls. The professionals with their rich costuming. armored soldiery and caval- cades of horses in splendid trappings, are said to be the most elaborate departure in pageantry ever done with spectacle in this country
 The regular circus programme will follow the fall of the curtain upon the solomon and the Queen of Sheba" spec tacle. More than 400 artists will appear in the arenic numbers which for two hours will occupy the rigging, three rings, nterstages and hippodrome track. Throughout the performance 50 clowns will keep up fusilade of fun and the whole show will move with that speed and kaleidoscopic effect characteristic of a Ringing presentation. Among the equestrian acts there will be striking and unique feature found in the work of the Lloyds, a troupe of Indian riders whose costumes and magnificent horses are the marvel of audiences wherever they appear. Supplementing their act will be the riding of the beautiful Josephine Clarke. the dashing Mile. Hodgini and petite Lulu Davenport.
 The male riders will be led by Charles Augustus Clarke, who has, until this season, appeared only in England and on the continent. Of the acrobats the most daring are the Mirano and Andresen brothers in their perch acts performed 50 feet in the air. The aerialists include the Clarksonians and the Nelson family, and in the Mexican wizard, Mijares. one finds the greatest slackwire performer ever seen in America.
 There will be whole troupes of perform ing horses, elephants. dogs and seals, and the big arenic carnivals will be brought to an end with races of every variety, from that of all nations to the thunder ing chariot numbers.