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Show I TIE-MILE PARADE FEITEOF CIRCUS Street Spectacle of Barnum & Bailey Shows Said to Have Cost $1,000,000. The Barnum & Bailey "greatest show on earth'' will present in Salt Lake City next Saturday the greatest Btreet parade in the- history of the American circus. It will be in no way similar to the parades of the past. It is three miles in length, It cost the management $1,000,000. Wirh the advantage of many years spent in touring all the civilised countries coun-tries of the world where this circus is as well known as in America, Barnum Bar-num & Bailey's many agents have been constantly gathering the materials to be used in this year's street spectacle. Remote savage lands have been ransacked. ran-sacked. Artisis and designers from .France and Italy have worked out the desigus and ideas. Day and night for two years mechanics and property I builders have toiled 10 torc-igu worn-shops, worn-shops, executing these ideas. Ihere has been no regard of the cost. All strange types of the human fam-ilv fam-ilv are found in the profession, together to-gether with rheir characteristic cos-turn cos-turn es, weapons of war, vehicles, idols ;uid music Rich and fantastic wagons of state, gorgeous tableau floats, palanquins, palan-quins, richly draped bowdahs, rolling thrones, chariots of tire and fairy vans have been made of the most expensive - woods, carved bv hand labor and burn iahed with pure gold. The harness is silcr mounted. The laces are from Ireland. The silks and sarins are from China and Japan. The nigs and tapes-irv tapes-irv are from Persia and Turkey. The effect of all this wealth is dazzling. daz-zling. The equipment is more gorgeous by far than anything of its nature ex-hlbited ex-hlbited in past seasons. The parade is said to be threo times longer than anv other. It cost ten tunes as much money. It is a congress of nations, a horse fair, a musical convention, a zoo logical garden on wheels, a fairyland carnival and an academy of SCionce, al rolled into one panorama. A trip to the grounds is like a tour of the world, without the annoyance of seasickness. The great sea of can- as spreads our. over fourteen acres of ground. In the stables are 700 of the finest horses that money can buy In the menageries are 1200 animals. Among tnr-m is the only baby giraffe in America. This single exhibit is worth more than the average circus. On the grounds is a dynamo plant, fur-oishiug fur-oishiug power for twenty different shops and supplying current for 7000 incandescent lamps, daring arcs, bea cons and searchlights. The best talent of the world has been selected to give the performance under the main tent. There are 400 artists. art-ists. Among the foremost features are Katie Bandwina, the strongest and most beautiful woman in the world; Mae Wirth, the greatest equestrian ever seen in America; the Goorgetty family of strong-arm -jugglers, the Ste-rist Ste-rist family of aerialists, a company of Japanese athletes and ,iiu jitsu experts, ex-perts, Winston's trained seals, Berzac'ij mule and monkey circus, the fifty funniest fun-niest clowns in the world, Victoria Co-dona, Co-dona, the queen of high wire dancers; the More nee, Lea Jardy and Loe Deko families of acrobats, and the Fillis family of riders. The performanco bo-cins bo-cins with the gorgeous spectacle of ''Cleopatra-" |