Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — CIRCUS DREW BIG CROWD [ARTICLE]

CIRCUS DREW BIG CROWD

And People Generally Were Well Pleased With the Show Put Up. The Hagenbeck-Wallace show Saturday drew an immense crowd the largest in fact the show has had in Indiana this season, so one of the men in authority said. They lhave been fought very hard by the "circus trust” all season. ? Friday, when they showed at Monticello, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West was in Logan sport. Saturday it was in Lafayette, arid Ringling’s is in Lafayette next Saturday. This is a fair idea of the way the trust is fighting tihe Hagenbeck-Wallace shows, cutting into its show territory as much as possible without losing money itself, and following it up closely wherever it goes. While in Pennsylvania this season they had twenty-eight rairfy days tu contend with as well as the opposition of the trust, and the dailyr, expense of a big show like this is something appalling, about $5,000 per ‘day, it is said, and one can readily see that it must do some business to make both ends meet. The weather here was ideal and the big tent w r as filled almost to the limit for the afternoon performance, wlhile a good sized crowd was also out at the night performance. The show was pronounced good by nearly everyone, and it was good as circuses go. The parade in the morning was a huge affair, but was almost spoiled by not going one or; two blocks further east on Harrison street, it turning north on Cullen and coming back west on Washington street before much more than half the parade had got across the Washington street bridge, and as that structure is not considered extra stifong the parade became congested on Washington street in waiting for tihe rear to got across the bridge before the head started to cross back to the show grounds. & r -

There were scores of fine wagons, three bands and a calliope, thirteen elephants, "mounted ladies and cowgirls wfiiose charms would have delighted the soul of old George Marshall, had, he been here, but the nether extremeties of the girl in the cage of snakes, over which George went into ecstacies when the show was here a few years ago, were covered in part by a short skirt, so as not to unduly excite any otiher similarly inclined of the male sex. Considering the tough gang of employes with all circuses, there was very little trouble. Some one was seen looking into the bedroom window of Mrs. Adolf Staeger on River street, whose husband was away, and nearly scared the wits out of Mrs. Staeger, who ran to the door and screamed and scared the man away! A neighbor woman remained with her the balance of the night. While going home between 9 and 10 o’clock that night,* Miss Ellen Sayfer was held up in the northwest part of tow r n by a man and her handbag containg two or three (dollars wasHaken. Out at John Andrus’, two miles northwest of town, someone entered the house *vhile Mr. Andrus and his mother were in to see the parade in the morning and carried ,off a suit case and various articles of clothing belonging to Mrs. Andrus.