River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-07-25
Sparks Circus Here
Next Thursday

The Sparks circus will be h ere
Thursday. Aug. / Two long trains
will bring the picturesque invaders;
through densely crowded street the
morning parade will measure is
gay and glamorous passage; per-
formances will be given during the
afternoon and night; midnight will
witness the breaking of the great
tented encampment and the depar-
ture to people and scenes anew.
The big tented institution comes
from Chippewa Falls, where its ex-
hibitions will be given July 3Oth. In
popularity and in patronage the
Sparks circus is this season making
the best record of its long and IL
lustrious history.
First to come to putting halt
Show day morning will be the ely
ing squadron" as the first section
of the circus railroad equipment is
known, L h volunteer reception
committee of juveniles and their ell
ders will be on hand to bid it vocife-
rous welcome. Magically it will dis
gorge men and six-team horses and
huge wheeled burdens, hooded I'M
der tarpaulins; and the procession
to the show grounds will start. At
the destination, geometric pattern
of iron laying-out pins will appear to
spring up simultaneously, with rag
pennons of red and fattering in the
tops. Soon mammoth white cloths
will rise like canvas-back Aladdin's
palaces.
The miniature CT ty Of separate
tents will all be installed, if nothing
untoward intervenes, advance agent
estimated last night, long before
noon.
The street parade is scheduled to
move from the show grounds at ten
o'clock. The arching, upcurved front
of splendid red and gold b IN
chariot effulging a fanfaring, crash
ing cataract of brazen melody and
drawn by ma ny broad, pomponed
white horses, will first disclose it.
self. Stretching for blocks behind,
sinuous, colorfull mass, crowned
with dancing, distant banner-things,
and suggesting in glintings Of gold
and spIashings of color an on-coming
argosy of glitter and gorgeousness.
Slowly and deliberately after the
fashion of circus parades, will ap-
pear the knights and ladies on gaiIy
caparisoned steeds, the golden pag-
cant dens filled with beasts of the
forest and jungle; the sun-bright
tableau cars with crystsl mirrors;
the sundry closed cages with histor-
ical painting on their sides, suggest
ing by the very secrecy presence of
marvellous prisoned creatures, ele-
plants and camels, a great golden
chariot, with our own Columbia and
her court travelling in imperial pomp
atop; the droves Of Shetland ponies
drawing the fairy vehicles Of nurs-
cry days; the funny, grinning clowns
in their paint and powder; and, last
of all the unutterable grandeur, the
steam calliope, whistling, blasting
and shrieking.
Various free displays will follow
the return of the parade to t h e
show grounds. The department Of
ethnology, comprising a congress of
odd and curious people, will be con-
tinuously open.
Performances of the circus will be
given at two o'clock. The crowds
will be admitted an hour earlier to
permit observation of the rare wild
animals; queer quadrupeds, costly
birds and other strange living crea-
lures Of land, ocean and air. This
great college Of natural cience
FERNS an ellipse of chariot cages
within the immense menagerie tent.
More than five thousand patrons
are invited to find comfortable seat
ing Accommodations in the main can
vas pavilion. The circus promises a
three-hour phantasmagoria Of I'M
precedented magnitude and diversi-
ty and Of uninterrupted individual
and collective merit.