The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-08-12
Parade of Morning Showed a
Great Collection of Ami
mails and Many Teams of
Splendid Horses.

With bands trumpeting, clowns
shouting, lions roaring, and red Wag
ons rumbling, the gorgeous and fantas
tic street pageant of the Carl Hagen
beck. wallace circus passed over the
downtown streets of Valley City Sat
urday while thousands lined the
streets, curbing and crowded office
windows in an effort to get a glimpse
of the parade. What they saw and
heard was not disappointing. 1t was
one of the biggest and best street
parades ever seen in the city, say old
Inhabitants.
The thousands who lined the
streets were good natured. Immedi.
ately preceding the parade the usual
small army of balloon peddlers did an
immense business. Some one said:
Here she comes!" And in the far
distance could be seen the trumpeters
and just behind the band wagon with
the musicians fiddling as only curcus
musicians can.
Nearly 10 nationalities were repre-
scented in the pageant; music of their
native land was played on fife, GYM
bal, tom-tom, drums and harps. Eight
military bands yielded circus melo-
dies and there were two immense
steam calliopes which played such
tunes as Back to the Carolina l
Love- When You Wore A Tulip"
etc. There were upwards of hun
dred mounted knights and ladies in
costume of court
The circus reached here Satur-
day before daylight. The three long
trains of yellow cars were shunted
into convenient sidings of the N. P
railroad yards and soon the work of
unloading began. AS fast as the
great red and yellow wagons were
rolled from the fiat cars, teams of
gov erful draft horses hauled them to
the circus grounds. The first wagon
TO be unlcaded was the one containing
the immense steel cooking ranges,
which was followed by the refrigera-
tor and other wagons pertaining to the
cook house.
! On the circus grounds the tents be-
gan to nose their way into the air like
some great Aladdin-like palace. The
cook tents and canvas hotels were
erected first, for food must await the
hungry army of shoWmen on the way
Breakfast was ready at Z o'clock for
the workingmen and the menu was
something like this: Grapefruit, GER
eals, eggs, ham, bacon, coffee, milk and
griddle cakes. Jimmy Davis, the cir
Gus chef, said that nearly 5000 of the
sizzling cakes were served for break
fast. The dining tents for the per-
formers, musicians and members of
the executive staff remained open until
after 9 o'clock.
In the railroad yards the work of un'
loading the trains went forward with,
out halts. Connecting each fat car
was a little steel bridge and at the
end of the long line of fats was a
steel runway, on which the wagons
rolled to the ground, Every working
man with the Carl Observation-Disclosures
circus is supplied with Pullman
berth according to the management.
At the circus grounds thousands
hocked about to catch the marvellous
business system which prevailed
Towering center poles were pulled
into the air by teams of horses. The
little steam stake driver hummed mer
rily. Over in the circus barber shol
the BARRIERS found no idle moments.
In the library tent were many per
formers reading the daily newspaper:
and magazines. One little English
girl was writing to her brother nov
at the front in France with the allies
Some of the women of the circus
found time after breakfast to do lit
tie knitting for the soldiers.
The circus school taught by Bill,
Hart, veteran clown, opened prompt
ly at 9 o'clock. Enrolled were 1
children connected with the show
Some of them are sons and daughter
of performers, while several ar
daughters of circus officials. The cul
ficulum. ranges from the beginners