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Show A6 I lib DAILY ISLRA1 I). Provo, I tali. Thuriday. Viher I, honestly, growing up in Appleton, Wis., which is near Baraboo, Wis., the home of the Circus World Museum. He coaxed his new bride to ride a train from Baraboo to Janesville for a circus on their honeymoon. "I think there's just a wonderful calming sense about a circus," he said. "We don't smile enough anymore. We don't laugh enough. A circus makes you smile and laugh." There were once 2,000 circuses, he said. Now there's 30 or 40 a year on average. CIRCUS Continued from Al music. fioweringannonball-cow"This," said Hoh, "is why a circus is n like an nil Tza --- ! ii i in i ii The Ringling Brothers circus train pulls into Ogden J'l!)!viv!""'-- y sucker in Never-Neverland- ." This sucker is making a very special stop in our part of Neverland. Before the train chugged the 35 miles from Ogden to Salt Lake City, a continuation of its trip from Portland, Ore., Leslie Hart of Jack Hart & Associates, who is helping promote the circus locally, told passengers they were a double part of history. Some riders were from the press. Some were like Jammie Erickson of Pleasant Grove, who got aboard by winning an essay contest. Hart said this is the first time in the r history of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey that anyone other than a performer, crew or staff member has ever been allowed on its circus Daily Herald photos by Marc Lester all-da- Af 4 Flying high Mark the Human CannonbalL who nearly jumps out of his own skin every night, sat in his white jumpsuit with red piping and tried to describe what it's like being shot 100 feet across an arena, 40 feet high, at 68 miles an hour. "It's not a job you want when you have a headache, I can tell you," he said with a grin. "I actually have the quietest seat in the house. I come out so fast when I take the hit, the sound is all behind me. It's a sound like someone singing a song in the background. "Sometimes when I fly just right, I can look down and see the clowns to the right and my friends behind the net. And when I get a flight just right like that, it's like flying in my dreams." 128-yea- H.. ii bin train. "You will be able to say you got to do something no one else has ever gotten to do and never will again," said Hart. "Unless, of course, some of you want to run away and join the circus. It so happens we have openings for the high wire and human pretzel right now." Time for a parade But the passengers can see all that and J. 'Jf Sim a"" J j A lot of work Solove, the more for free at noon So clown, can majored in today. you. That's when Salt acting at Syracuse Lake City and big and University. Then he little kids from anywent to Clown Circus historian Lavahn Hoh speaks where close by can College, the about the significance of the circus. Ringling Bros, insti watch the first grand circus parade in 70 tution where perk formers go through a rigorous 10 years. Usually, the public is treated to an animal walk. catch to the training. They hope This time, the whole tumbling, eye of Kenneth Feld, of Feld elephant-trumpetin- g shebang, Enterprises, who chooses the 18 clowns from Michu, The World's Smallest Man lucky enough to make the Ringling rosat 33 inches to Kahn, The World's ter. Tallest Man at 8 feet, will form a ribbon "I absolutely love what I do. I wouldof joy down Salt Lake's South Temple to n't trade with anyone in the world," Main Street to 300 South to the Union Solove said, after putting finishing Pacific Depot. touches to his clown makeup, which he P.T. Barnum himself, pulled the plug applied for onlookers. on grand parades in 1928, Hart said. But the life is demanding, he said. He "He said, 'Why would they come into the was engaged to be married. He had to tent if we give 'em the show for free?' break it off because of the travel. 'The things that make circus life A good investment great also present the downside," he Three years after the Golden Spike said. "You're in a different city every was driven in 1869, William Cameron week. You make many friends, but you don't always see theHf. You write to Coop put the circus on rails near Kalamazoo, Mich., on Oct. 24, 1872. It them. You keep relationships the best has woven a thrilling thread through you can. the fabric of America ever since. 'Three shows a day on Saturday ... 'The great void the circus filled back you're exhausted. It gets tough. It's then was that people didn't travel a lot," dusty, dirty. The smell of elephants is said Hoh. The circus brought the seven the smell of home. wonders of the world into their back"If it's just a job to you, it's too difficult. It's a lotta stinkin' work, I tell you." yards." An elephant ranked as a wonder But the life and the love of the circus then. The first one was brought to is in him and it won't go away. America from Asia in 1796, Hoh said. "I'm the same person underneath the "The guy who brought it paid $10,000 makeup I am when it's off," he said. Tm and he made his money back very a successful clown because of who I am. quickly," Hoh said. "He charged adults People can see through the makeup. 25 cents and kids a dime "I love trying to entertain the public. just to look at it." I may not be in the circus forever, but I will clown forever. That's why I exist." A city on wheels He existed to get this from Amanda But the circus also became a part of Beckstead, the Ogden girl whose essay the very warp and weal of society. On won her a ride. Nov. 12, 1859, a man named Jules was "I don't ever want to leave this train. the first flying trapeze artist in Paris. I like you," she said. He created a new outfit for the act. "I like you, too," David said. "His last name was Leotard," Hoh 'That is why," Hoh said, nearby, "as said. long as there are children, there'll Hoh came by his circus fascination always be a circus." ft V. 12-wee- , ... 1 - ?fJ ,JT.- v,t - jrjLZiM. . s V'- iK7-- -" -- ' "'.."Im, J( J0- 7SS - sSy ' I.J V C'-r-- -r'-C-J- I iiir - -..- -2, 'Tii & y ft mffiii high-wirin- . liiiTltHillili if 1 f ' , 'KMitm"!! ,, 5f 1 ' f Scott Smith, a.k.a. Skobo the Clown, awaits the arrival of the Rmgling Brothers circus train to take him to Salt Lake. ' J Above, the human Mark Myers talks to reporters about his career.At I L ) J right, Jammie Erickson and her mom Dawna get a chance to meet with a circus dancer aboard the the Ringling Brothers Circus train. 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