Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1910 — MILE OF PARADE GLORIES [ARTICLE]

MILE OF PARADE GLORIES

The Gay, Glittering Spectacular Pageant of the HagenbeckWallace Shows. The new feature street parade which has been the talk of the circus world and the delight of the public who have witnessed this wonderful moving morning carnival of the Hagenbeck-Wal-iace Shows which exhibit here Saturday, July 30, has been proclaimed the most pompous and striking innovation in pageantry offerings. It is a regally mastodonic and rich display. There are to be seen characters representing princes, potentates and notables, displaying ostentatious and lavish display of priceless jewels and costumes. Elephants camels, dromedaries, zebus, sncred cattle, zebras, and poni?s draped in the richest housings of gold and silver will be driven and ridden by natves of their respective countries. Magnificient new tableau cars will bear nobles and their retinue of retainers, proudly riding on superb horses whose coats can scarcely be distinquished beneath their richly embroidered coverings. This blending together of rich vestments, this, clanging oi swords and Jingling of trinkets, these plumes, lances and other paraphernalia present a most brilliant spectacle. All 'of the men, women and children connected with the great Wallace-! lagenbeck Shows take some part in • the parade, and the four hundred of the world’s finest horses, will be in the line caparisoned with a richness that will be a revelation. Scores of tableau cars, Jens, lairs, tanks, musical vehicles, fashionable park traps, carts, chariots and floats will scintillate with brillancy. There will be the greatest liberality displayed in the free exhibition of animals and beasts, nearly every cage beipg opened except in a few instances where climatic conditions are prohibitory. Numerous bands of musicians and a colony of

clowns will add to the gayety of the nations. The entire pageant will be characterized by exclusiveness, novelty and brilliancy and expensiveness of feature Which separates it from all others and marks it as the grandest exhibition of the kind ever conceived or presented. This wonderful street parade will start promptly at 10 o'clock in the morning. The afternoon performance will begin at 2 o’clock and the night performance at 8 o’clock. The doors will be opened one (hour earlier for inspection of the menagerie and Oriental exposition.