Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1916 — CIRCUS COMING WITH NOVELTIES [ARTICLE]

CIRCUS COMING WITH NOVELTIES

The Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows Will present a Congress of Wild West Artists. The steam calliope will sound in Rensselaer Saturday, Aug. 5, and every old man who hears it will thrill with the remembrance of how one time he carried water for the elephant or envied -the boy who did; and the little fellow who hears the musical toots and sees the man sitting on the big. contraption making the whistles blow every time he fingers the keys, will chase along to the show grounds, where the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus will hold forth.

There will be elephants lumbers along, curling their trunks and flapping their long ears; camels humping behind, gilt cages with growling tigers, lazy lions, laughing hyenas, monkeys, striped zebras, bushy haired wild men—everything to make the* children stare in wonder and wish to crawl under the tent to see Jie big show, as their fathers did, if they do not possess the wherewithal to enter the main gate. Among the many novelties to bo seen with the circus this season will be a big congress of cowboys, cowgirls and Indians, Mexicans and other wild west people in an attack on pioneer’s train of prairie schooners by Sioux Indians, led by Chief Iron Man, whose war experience dates back to the Custer battle and whose, profile adorns the new buffalo nickel.

The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus represents an expenditure of $3,000,000. Traveling with the show are about 1,000 people, in addition to 108 advance men. The circus moves on three special trains. Twenty-two tents, covering 14 acres of ground, are used house the big show in the daytime. There are over 500 head of horses with the? show, three herds of elepants and 400 trained wild animals. Te circus features are presented by over 400 internationally famous artists. The doors of the big show will be opened at 1 and 7 p. m. An operatic concert by Prof. Fred Jewell’s band of 45 soloists will precede each performance. The parade will be at 10 ia. m.