Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1911 — BARNUM’S AT LAFAYETTE [ARTICLE]

BARNUM’S AT LAFAYETTE

World’s Best Circus to Exhibit There on Thursday, July 27. The people of Rensselaer and vicinity are to be given an opportunity of seeing the Barnum and Bailey greatest show on eart'h which will give two performances in Lafayette on Thursday, July 27. Many wonderful features, new to American circus-goers are promised. A company of 400 of the world’s most prominent circus talent, principally European, will present an array of novelties, there will be an elaborate forenoon parade and a new menagerie. In the menagerie among many other wonders is to be found Baby Bumbeeno, the only giraffe ever born in America. It is just one year old. Among the more sensational numbers on the long bill are John Ducander’s company of bell-ringing horses, from England ; the Fonelli company of Italian acrobats, the SeigristSilbon family of German aerialists; Jupiter the balloon horse; Charles the First, a chimpanzee bicycle rider and roller skater, the great Georgetty family of French jugglers, the Lee Deko and Les Silvas family of French equilibrists, Noonan’s brass band of elephants, Capt. Winston’s troupe of riding and juggling seals and sealions, Berzac’s company of mule and pony actors, Nederweld’s dog and monkey circus, Victoria Codona, the world’s greatest wire dancer and the fifty funniest clowns. The Barnum and Bailey circus is now at the zenith of success. It travels on a train more than a mile in length. It employes 1,286 people and has 700 horses. In the menagerie are forty elephants and over 1,000 other strange animals. The show carries its own dynamos illuminating the twenty tents and the showgrounds with 4,000 incandescent lamps, arc lights, search lights and beacons. ~r\' The railroads will make special arrangements to convey visitors from outlying towns to Lafayette on show day.