Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1916 — CHICAGO TO HAVE BIGGEST ROUND-UP [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO TO HAVE BIGGEST ROUND-UP

To Be Held in Conjunction With Big Spectacles at Old Cubs Ball Park August 19th to 27th.

When a western city does anything “it does it.” When Chicago had its big preparedness parade- it had more people and more bands in line than did staid old New York. When the leading public spirited citiczns of Chicago Concluded to have a “Round Up”there whs but one question—it must be the biggest and most exhaustive collection of westerners ever assembled—sufficient prizes and inducements must be offered to attract more participants than had ever been assembled on any similar occasion. After the above idea had become a fact, a number of the leading citizens wanted to make the affair an artistic as well as championship “epoch” and the spectacles “The Birth and Passing of the West” and the present period subject “Preparedness,” were added. In addition to those participating in the “Round Up,” more than one thousand men, women, Indians and horses will be used in the spectacles. The scenic equipment will consist of “Runs,” “Relays” and “Backings” to the summit of a mountain peak, in actual height more than fifty feet and a length of more than nine hundren. Only out of doors could such a vast expanse be constructed. The well known New York Hippodrome stage would be lost in one of the ravines, or hidden from view by any of the ‘many miniature mountains.