Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1911 — Barnum’s Circus at Lafayette, Thursday, July 27th. [ARTICLE]

Barnum’s Circus at Lafayette, Thursday, July 27th.

The people of Rensselaer and vicinity are to be given an opportunity of seeing the Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, which will give two performances in Lafayette, on Thursday, July 27th. Many wonderful features, new to American circus-goers are promised. A company of 400 of the world’s most prominent circus talent, principally European, will present an array of novelties, there will be an elaborate forenoon parade and a new menagerie. In the menagerie among many other wonders is to be found Baby Bumbeeno, the only giraffe ever born in America. It is just one year old. Among the more sensational numbers on the long bill are John Ducander’s company of bell-ringing hordes, from England; the Fonelli company of Italian acrobats, the Siegrist-Silbon family of German aerialists, Jupiter, the-balloon horse, Charles the First, a chimpanzee bicycle rider and roller skater, the great Georgetty family of French jugglers, the Les Deko Les Silvas family of French equilibrists, Noonan’s brass band of elephants, Capt. Winstbn’s troupe of riding and juggling seals and sea-lions, Berzac’s company of mule and pony * actors, Nederweld’s dog and monkey circus, Victoria Codona, the world’s greatest wire dancer and the fifty funniest clowns in the world. The Barnum and Bailey circus is now at the zenith of success. It than -a fiaile in length. It employes 1,286 people and has 700 horses. In the menagerie are forty elephants and over 1,000 other strange animals. The show carries its own dynamos illuminating the twenty tents and the show grounds with 4,000 incandescent lamps, arc lights, search lights and beacons. The railroads will make special arrangements to convey visitors from outlying towns to Lafayette on show day.