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Show CIRCOS DRAWS GREAT CRDWDS-OWNER WAS AN OGDENITE The Al G Barnes' Wild Animal show, or circus as kids" insist on ! having it. arrived in the city early ' this morning but not early enough to gel unloaded before a large number : of the aforementioned "kidi were at the Union terminal to give th.- animals ani-mals the "once over." The show, too was not oniv welcomed by tbe youth of the city, hut by "Old Sol", who came out in all his glory at the earl l.-:sf possible moment and bid fair to stav out all day n hour or more before tbe time set for the parade, the streets were well filled with people and when tbis free introduction to the Barnes' performers per-formers was given It was received by hundreds, voung and old. The parade wa? nearlr a half mile long, consisting mainlv of wild animals in cage, to-gether to-gether with elephants, camels and other partly domesticated animals in the rear. On the. whole, it proved interesting in-teresting to the crowds and manv of the children followed it to the show I grounds at Twenty-seventh street and Washington avenue Tho afternoon performance was well attended by an almost capacity audl-' audl-' enco and proved we worth seeing The 'rained lion and leopard net I proved particularly utartling. though I but a small part of the program, and I the four-horse act featured by Mr. I BarneB in his shows ever Bince be be- gan his career as a circus man, proved of much interest. Al G. Barnes, proprietor of the show-was show-was formerly a resident of Ogden. having been a member of the firm of Barnes & Davis, liverymen The 'firm owned a stable on Twenty-fourth ptreet more than 22 qqt$ ago and, from the early experience nf driving a team of horses attached to a ""hack,1' Mr. Barnes has passed fo that of the tent show-man until he now has one of the cleanest and best shows of its kind on the road The show was en- ! t husiasticalK received this afternoon and will he repeated at S o'clock to. P I night I Mr and Mrs Barnes accompanied h : the show to Ogden and passed the I greater part of the day m renewing p acquaintances of the old days Tbev , were pnests of Dr and Mrs. H M. t Rowe at a luncheon at the Weber I club end were also entertained with I an automobile ride to points of spc I- cial interest In and near tbe City. w |