Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-10

Let joy be unconf1ned! The Hagen
beck-Wallace scircus will reach here
tomorrow in its triumphant march
about the couDtry, and Edward n.
Ballard. its proprietor, bids patrons
come to Its monumental entertainment
with expectations keyed to the high
est possible point. Even then, he js
sure. the most vivid imagination will
he startled and the most sanguine
hope outdone.
n giant among amusement insti-
buttons m eager to prove that II
is the greatest of its kind, country and
era, and that It never had and never
can or willthave a travelling like, equal
or rival. IT comes with the proud
realization that all this eason its
throngs of patrons. limited in number
only to its seating capacity-that it.
self bigger, than ever before in its his
tory-have invariably united in one
grand, swelling chorus Of vociferous
praise and rapt wonder.
Soon after tomorrow's daybreak, Il
is expected, the three long railroad
trains whieh are required to transport
%circuses will have reached this city
All arrangements have been complet-
ed for their undelayed progress into
the railroad Yards and for the speedy
emptying Of the sixty eight fiat, stock
and sleeping cars.
The boss canVasman, '"Bill' Curtis
and his horde of br:awny followers will
reach the show grounds first ,and i'm
mediately the work Of creating the
canvas city of a>day will begin. TWEEN
It~y-seven separate tents compose the
MISUNDERSTANDING encampment. The
smallest is the circus barber shop;
the colossus among them tho big top
whose dimensions are $50 by $50 feet
and within whose protecting folds are
arranged comfortable seats for 1850
persons. Other tents shelter menagerie
horses. ponies, ballet dancers, per-
formers, side-show curiosities, musi-
clans, physicians, dentists, postmaster
and assistants, blacksmiths, carpen.
ters. secret service men, painters and
wardrobe and property men. In still
another, the "cook tent" nearly 4,OOC
meals will be- served tomorrow.
The street parade is scheduled tc
leave the show grounds at II O'Clock
tomorrow morning. Hagenbeck-Wal.
lace promise a stunningly grand and
glorious paseantric prelude to the
performances on the show grounds, a
mighty. moving panorama without
parallel in professional amazements
seven hundred horses are enlisted. II
b%ewildering array will be viewed gor.
geous military legions; massive, splen.
didly ornate chariots. floats, vans ant
tableau wagons; celebrated bands ant
novel musical equipages; hordes o
the worlds most famous clowns ant
testers; fierce wild beasts in open den!
with their daring trainers; droves O.
richly decked elephants and camels
wardrobes and trappings that repre-.
sent a fortune.
When the circus opens it's gates a
o'clock tomorrow afternoon to re
celve the human parade of" patrons
the crowds who stop to comment ant
observe in the menagerie tent will fnt
scores of dens OF rare and curiou,
beasts ranged in a great eclipse. Near
ly two score elephants will swini
their greedy trunks. and a rhinoceroI
and a hippopotamus-w will attract at
tention. Observation-Disclosures content
that they have the finest and larges
selection and collection of creature,
OF the wild in existence, that no othe,
zoo in the world is so complete /:
veritalble living encyclopedia of natur
al history.
It's just as impossible to crowd tn,
circus performance into a single stor,
as It is to sit in any of the thousands
of seats that look down upon the hi,
arena and take in every feature O
the spectacle. The spectator VIII,
could watch all three rings at once
see every feat of skill and, daring ant
dexterity that is simultaneously rem
acted by gaily dressed troHpes %
shapely performers, watch the inter
mediate acts going on the staReS ant