Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — RINGLINGS AT CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

RINGLINGS AT CHICAGO.

_ These are busy days at the Chicago Coliseum. Ringling Brothers’ Circus, which opens its annual season there on Thursday night, April 7, has moved in from the Baraboo winter quarters and rehearsels have begun. The big circus now has 1,280 employes, 650 horses, forty elephants and 375 performers. In the menagerie are over 1,000 animals. A number of novel and sensational acts have been imported from Europe and when the doors of the big building are thrown open to the public many surprises will be sprung. Already out-of-town are writing in for seats while those who live in the city are beseiging the box office. It promises to be the biggest engagement the Ringlings have ever held in Chicago. It took five long trains to bring the circus to the city. There were eighty-five double length cars filling more than a mile of side track. It has been two years since the Ringlings last exhibited in Chicago.