People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — THE CIRCUS. [ARTICLE]

THE CIRCUS.

A Big Crowd—The Parade a Big Show-Notes.' For the past three weeks the country around Rensselaer has been fully billed for the coming of Cook & Whitby’s circus, and on last Friday, that being their date here, the people for miles around came early in order that they might make most of the day which was set apart for them to be entertained. The circus arrived here at an early hour from Hammond, where they exhibited the day before to a large crowd. The monster “white tops were erected over in “Oklahoma,” the new addition to Rensselaer, and the building of this canvass city was watched with interest, by the onlookers who had, at an early hour, come to see the cir-

cus. The people began t<? arrive early, and by ten o’clock the streets were filled by a mass of seething humanity. The parade took place about eleven o’clock and it was one of the neatest, cleanest sights ever seen with a circuscupon the streets of our town. The horses looked fresh, the wagons bright and new, the animals in the open dens ferocious and well kept. Two bands, one composed of white men and the other of colored. Their music was enjoyed by all, it being of an unusually high order. Of course they had a calliope, for a circus would not be complete without one. The performance in the afternoon and evening was one of the cleverest we have had the pleasure of feasting our eyes upon for some time, and among the acts we might mention the acrobatic turn of the Hughes, the aerial performance of the Dacomas, the entertaining little Japanese in their peculiar amusements, the bareback and principal riding by a number of ladies and gentlemen, and a host of others which space forbids us mentioning. The hippodrome races were the best~we ever saw —thrilling, exciting and for “blood.” After the concert was the balloon ascension and parachute jump, which was a graud and beautiful sight to behold. Take it all in all, the Cook & Whitby show is one of the best on the road and the management takes great pains in presenting a strictly first class performance in every respect.