The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22

l Is your small boy missing from the breakfast table this morning? l If so don't be worried and imagine | he has wandered away from home while i in his sleep or has finally carried out his threat to Ego out west and fight l Indians" for he has done neither of i those things. He has merely repeated | performance that every red-blooded loungster has carried out for generations past-he has "sat up all night waiting [ for the circus to come to town | For while you were languidly turning over in bed, trying to snatch few more minutes of beauty sleep this morn l ing, a host of children were gathered in ! excited groups in the yards of the Central I of Georgia railroad, where the four long trains carrying the thousand wonders of Ringing Brothers circus are to be un- | loaded today. 1 Tn annexing itself to Birmingham for 1 today and Monday, the circus will add to | the population more than 1850 persons, a l herd of 30 elephants 635 horses and JOS | dens of wild animals This organization 1 travels on train made up of S9 cars, divided into four sections. The first sec ton carries the commissary department and the menagerie. This is followed 1 closely by two long, heavily laden bag 1 gage trains loaded with the canvaseS, wardrobe, scenery and other heavy prop :, critics of the show. The last train. com posed of Pullman sleepers, carries the l performers and the executive staff.
 ERECT TENTS TODAY 4
 The Smith park show grounds during tl1a 1,fa t0 lla one of the busiest spots in the entire state. Hundreds of working men will toll at the task of erecting the city of l tents that will shelter the circus during | it's stay in the city. By noon many | acres of canvas will have been stretched and drawn slSyward and the thousand wonders of Spangleland safely sheltered l under them. That most important ad- 1 junct of the big show-the cookhouse-ls 1 the first tent to be erected, that the | army of working men may have their meals as soon as the first hard labors ] of the morning are performed.
 l While Sunday will be visitors day l at the show grounds the first formal ap | pearance of the circus will come with the street professional.
 | The circus parade-an event that is sure l to attract the grown-ups as well as l the youngsters-will leave the show II ground promptly at 10 o'clock Monday.
 It is promised that this procession will
 be more gorgeous and beautiful than | any previous professional display ever seen in this city. It will be more than three miles in length and will include
 not only the most of the famous Ring
 ling horses, but long line of glittering
 tableau wagons and alegorical cars. as | we'll There will be scores of handsome floats filled with gaily garbed dancing u girls, wild west section will include cowboys, cowgirls from the plains and
 ranches of the far west, company of II Cossack riders from Russia will form II another section of the parade, and practi- cally all of the finest specimens Of the Ringling Brothers menagerie will appear in great open dens. Of the entire herd of elephants, 24 of them will also partici- pate in the procession. The music Will be rendered by six bands and two calli- opes. Another striking feature will be a mounted band, and team of F camels, broken to bit and brdle and driven like
 horses. drawing huge parade float
 Two performances will be given by the circus in Birmingham beginning at and IS D. m. tomorrow, the doors of the main tent being opened an hour earlier to allow for visit to the big zoo, which x this season contains every known rarity ir. the wild animal line.
 TWO PERFORMANCES
 The programme will open with the new ! fairyland spectacle Cinderella" which is said to be the most gorgeous of all | the pantomimic productions yet staged by the Ringing Brothers. A special train is used for the scenery and ward robe of this massive play, which Is pre- sented on a stage that occupies nearly one entire side of the main circus tent. The cast includes more than 1000 charac- ters and there is a wonderful ballet or dancing girls. The spectacle tells the entire story of childhood's favorite fairy tale
 The arenic programme has by no means
 been neglected to make room for the
 spectacle. More than 400 performers Will
 participate in the various acts in the
 three rings, two stages and in the aerial l riggings, and of this number more than
 two-thirds are foreigners who are max
 ing their first appearance in America
 this season.
 Among the novelties will be Antonio Zingaro and his band of reckless gypsy
 bareback riders: Mlle Leitzel, the world s
 greatest lady aerial gymnast; the TamaNi
 troupe of Japanese jit-jitsu experts; the |. Ching Hing Lee troupe of star perform CTS from the Chinese imperial circus of 1 Pekin; Birdie Ford. premier danseuse ol the high wire the JosseffsOn troupe ol Iceland athletes; the world famous Car konians, and the McCree-Davenport rio-
 ing troupe. A feature of the perform
 ance will be a complete circus of traineC
 animal acts, designated especially fol
 the children, and including wonder
 troupes of trained bears, ponies, dogs
 and monkeys.
 The old and usual means of transporta-
 ton in the Bulgarian army was the OK
 cart It was used in the first advance
 into Servia. Now the motor truck has re-
 placed it. The officer in charge of the
 supply department says that one truck I does in a day the work of 500 oxen. 70
 cars and 300 men.