Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1903 — A Great Cfrcus Parade. [ARTICLE]

A Great Cfrcus Parade.

The street parade of Wallace’s oirons, last, Saturday forenooD and was a great show in itself. It took about 15 minutes to pass a given point, and was watched by an admiring crowd of people, which, lined both sides of the street, for a distance of nearly four blocks. The parade whs made of a seemingly endless succession of huge and gorgeous band wagous, animal cages and Roman onariots, [drawn by teams of four, six or eight beautiful horses, along with a great manv but not lees gorgeous conveyances, drawn by beautiful ponies, of which last there was an innumerable multitude. Horse b3ck riders of both sexes, were interspersed between the chariots, and lastly walked the solemn elephants and camels, industriously publishing bn their backs and sides the big top-of-oolumn display ads of several of our enterprising merchants. Last of all came the steam oallioi e, whioh like the merchants aforesaid, toots its own horns. , Many of the animal cages were open and thus there was a good free menagerie exhibition, including lions, leopirds, zebras, cougars a hippopotamus etc.