Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1893 — The Circus is Coming. [ARTICLE]

The Circus is Coming.

Cook & Whitby’s English 3-Ring Circus, Menagerie and Hippodrome, which exhibited here yesterday, gave the utmost satisfaction and delight to its swarm of visitors. This show more nearly realizes the highest ideal of all that a circus can be than any we have ever attended. The riding was superb, the races created great excitement, elicited tummultuous applause, while every act out of the hundred given appeared the best while you were looking at it, or in other words, there waanrotry poor feature in the performance, which is more than we can say of any circus that has ever visited Pittsburgh. The parade Hiade in the morning was a revelation of wealth and splendor that fairly dazzled the The cost of such a display must be appalling, the dens and wagons being covered with ivory and glittering gold, every horse a thoroughbred and all animals richly caparisoned in silk and satin—a solid mile of them altogether. The balloon ascensions took place in the afternoon,.and, combined with the splendid sharpshooting and other free exhibitions, vastly pleased the people who were just “looking around.” In fact, everything about this immence organization "seems perfect, the uniformly courteous and quiet deportment of all employes was widely commented upon, and created the most favorable impression. We beg to acknowledge courtesies extended by Messrs. Cook A Whitby and their representatives, and hope to again have the pleasure of attending so great an exhibition.—Pittsburgh Press.