White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1917-04-29
WEATHER AND CIRCUS
HAVE FALLING OUT

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Cole Brothers railroad circus ar
rived in Ely bright and early yester-
day morning, and gave one exhibition
on the old ball park grounds. 1t was
the first big circus TO visit this dis
trict. and from the time the train
of nineteen cars arrived in Ely until
the end of the program, the agerega-
ion held the interested attention OF
the populace.
But the circus was unfortunate
inasmuch as yesterday produced the
worst brand of weather that could
be produced. From sun rise to night
| fall and then some II was snow. slush
and shiyer to the accompaniment of
wind several degrees colder than
the north pole. Whoever sent out
the weather report. fair and
warmer" for yesterday, had Anan-
las in the piker class for prevaricat-
ing. The Oldest inhabitant never re-
members a more disagreeable day
than Yesterday for this time of year
and one of the results was that the
circus suffered
The long train arrived in the East
Ely yards between FIVE and six In
the morning, and after the passage
OF the morning shift train from the
mines. the circus cars were run 10
Murry street and the work of unload
ing was promptly commenced. This
interesting process was watched by
a large audience, and during the fore
noon the circus grounds were visited
by hundreds. The big tents and the
side shows went up I'm quick time,
and everything was conducted by the
system characteristic of big rail-
road circus.
The street parade left the grounds
shortly before noon, and was all
that was advertised and a little
more. II had not been advertised
that o. O. Bates. Ely's pioneer fur
niture man. would ride an elephant
but thsu feature was presented in
the parade and made a genuine hit.
Mr.. Bates. who was a candidate to
ride the goat at the Shriners' cere-
monial session last night. got little
preliminary practice on the back OF
the elephant. although. as one dis
cerning spectator remarked, he
evidently forgot to remember the
Ma dine" or rather the lack of
name on the neck of the swaying
ipachyderm
The parade showed of to good ad-
vantage. the splendid horses and
clean equipment OF the circus, tended
to draw large audience to the big
top for the afternoon performance
The show was frst-ciass in every
particular. with an interesting men,
aeerie that included four elephants
and a baby camel and a number of
unusually good specially features.
The cold. stormy weather was the
only drawback and tended 10 lessen
the attendance. In fact. the storm
was such that the evening perfor-
nance was cancelled entirely. and
the work of taking down the tents
end loading on the cars was under
way within a few minutes after the
conclusion of the performance. The
snow that fell in the afternoon was
wet and heavy. and TO ATTEMPT an
evening exhibition was not consider
ed practicable nor safe. n was
genuine disappointment to many, and
bad the weather been good II is safe
to say there would have been a big
turn out in the evening.
Cole Brothers circus is clean In
personnel and complete in equipment,
and with a list of acts that are a
credit TO the management. The
management. while OF course dis
arpointed at the hard luck experienc-
ed In Elv. is optimistic as to the
future and states that the show will
visit this district another season.
WILLIAM TRI1SDAIL CLAIMS