Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1904 — GOOD CIRCUS AND NICE PEOPLE [ARTICLE]

GOOD CIRCUS AND NICE PEOPLE

The Goll mar Brothers’ Railroad Circus bad a very large attendance at their afternoon performance here Monday, and a good attendance in the evening. Their show has not so many different performers and performances as some others that have visited Rensselaer, but for uniform excellence of what they do have, it has probably never been excelled by any ever here.

The Petet family as acrobats are wounderfully fine, and so also the Dihns, ou the tight wire; and especially the man of the combination, whose dancing and high jumping on the wire are marvellous. The Ashtons on tbs trapeze are "way up there” both in what they do as well as where they do it, and no doubt also in the price they get for it. Nothing ailed the horizontal bar fellows either, and one who was in the make-up of an elderly farmer was a cracker jack from a good ways back. The swinging ladder work was also first class, and an injun rubber gent who did his tricks on swings and elevated hand rings was one of the beet ever seen. The trick riding was good, though not extensive, and also the trick animals and downs. As to the behavior of the circus people there can not a single objection be made and as to the shell game and short change and similar gangs that always seems to show up with the Wallace circus there was not a vestige of them in evidence. The menagerie was not ex tensive but was excellent what there was of it. The hippopotamus was there for sure, and the biggest one ever seen here. In fact, Gollmars’ is a genuinely meritorious and honest show, and if, along with their other excellences, they would quit using the monstrously lying bills that all show printing houses deal in, and only advertise what they actually have, it would be not the greatest show on earth, but the best, from a moral point of view, anyhow.