RINGLING BROTHERS CIRCUS
WORLDS GREATEST SHOW
A few remarks about the
big shows and the 'Father of Our Country', George Washington, that
need to be brought to the attention of today's America, as Ringling
Brothers give their last show ever.
Abstract of an article on
Thursday, November 8, 1894 of the Daily Commercial Herald, in
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The greatest of all shows,
the biggest of all shows, the best of all shows, call out the
advertizements, The Ringling Brothers Shows, are touring
Mississippi for their first time ever.
They will draw more people
from out of town than did the Civil War siege, and their show will be
bigger, funnier, more pleasant and inviting than that was.
Ringling Brothers shows
are, out of the question, a tremendous organization which will well
repay the cost of seeing. They will come to the Delta loaded on four
great trains and in crossing the Mississippi, the father of waters,
test the ingenuity and capacity of the transport boat and its people
to get them over in good time.
Washington's crossing the
Delaware won't be a circumstance to Ringling's crossing the
Mississippi and a bet is,
ten to one, that he would have stopped over to visit the greatest
show on earth before or after his show with the Hessian's at Trenton.
But now, Washington was not in on all that we are on to.
Washington never saw a railroad train, he never saw a steam boat,
nor a telegraph station to send a telegram. There are a good many
things Washington was not on to., the telephone, a typewriter, nor
electric light. George never read the Commercial Herald, but above
all he never saw a Ringling Brothers main street parade or show.
Washington fought and won
battles with less soldiers that there are people hired by Ringling,
they have perhaps one thousand, and if he had the three hundred
and fifty horses the big show has, he would have made short work of
the enemy, being so well equipped. Come to think of it there was no
elephant in this country in Washington's day.
In a good many ways the
history of Washington's conquering army and Ringling's shows are
alike. Both were raised from a little straggling unorganized nucleus
to be a great power and to take first place of the foremost and
greatest.
Harrison Howeth, 2017:
Abstracts of Daily Commercial Herald, Vicksburg, Mississippi,
November 8, 1894.
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