Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-05-19
TOMORROW IS CIRCUS
DAY IN SALEM
All Will Be Hurry and Busde
and Glitter When Great
Exhibition Arrives

Tomorrow the rushing Of switch en-
gines as they clatter here and there in
the railroad yards with great strings Of
gaudy ears. Tomorrow the tugging of
gaudy cars. Tomorrow the tuging Of
horses and rush Of work for several
hundred persons that city may reap a
benefit Of happiness. For tomorrow the
circus is coming, coming with its great
trucking wagons, its shouting, hard
working ra2orbacks' and plank men,
its waving banners and flags, its brass
throated bands,
For tomorrow, out at the showgrounds
will rise the great dun colored tents Of
the "biggest circus in the world, " while
the workmen hurry here and there in
the preparations for the afternoon show
and the performers wander about the
lot, looking for the landmarks that were
memories Of their last visit here.
For circus people, you know, must live
by landmarks, Hurrying about the
country, rarely remaining any place
more than twenty.four hours, they do
not have time to learn names or streets
or localalities, save by the landmarks
thereabouts. A grocery store, bill
board, drug store or clump of trees
all these things have the relative value
to circus followers sense of locality |
that the moss on a tree has to woods.
man.
But all that is beside the ease. The |
fact is that the circus is coming to town
and that before noon tomorrow, while
the great parade winds its way through
the downtown streets, the big tents Of
the Sells. FlOtO Circus and Buffalo Bill $
Iriginal Wild West will be ready and
waiting for the crowds it will invite.
And, incidentally there are plenty Of |
attractions this year to bring those
crowds, even beyond the fact that the I
price of the circus remains the same as
ever, general admission of twenty.
five cents, including seat There
will be Rosa Rosalnd for instance, a
"find " on the part of the Sells.F'loto
Circus, and rider so wonderful that |
she agrees by her contract to forfeit her
days salary if she does not perform
without fault equestrienne feats that |
seem almost impossible. There are the
forty clowns, too Marguerite and Cap
tain Dutch Ricardo, who train lions and
tigers and leOpards with nothing more
than Il tencent buggy whip; Lucia Fora
and her three herds of performing ele.
plants, including Snyder, the biggest
"tusker' in the world; Devlin $ Zou.
ayes, Rhoda Royal and his accompany.
ing troupe Of horses; to say nothing Of |
the Hyneys, the CLOCK of monkeys,
the acrobats and aerialists and the big |
menagerie
And Of course, there's Buffalo Bill, ,
the original and only Buffalo Bill, with
his troupe Of genuine cowboys and COW.
girls, the champions Of many a stam.I
pedc and rodeO, with the vaqueros and
Indians and his Old Deadwood stage.
coach, and all the other things that go
to make up the features Of his wild
west entertainment, which he is tOI
present and to supervise personally.
And just as a sort Of display Of all
the features Of the show a sample Of
everything is to be shown in the parade
which win come at l0:3O O'Clock to-.
morrow morning, 1t is to traverse the
principal downtown streets, and for the
dignity Of it, it will be led by Col.
william Frederick cody buffalo BnD
himself Also, according to its custom,
the circus will hold an uptown reserved
seat sale all day tomorrow. 1t will be
at Patton Bros, Book store, where re.
served and general admission seats may
be obtained at the same prices as
charged at the ticket wagon ON the
| grounds