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Mail Tribune 100: Aug. 21, 1916 Sunday Aug 21, 2016 at 12:01 AM Aug. 21, 1916 BARNUM'S CIRCUS HERE SEPTEMBER 11 ONE PERFORMANCE "Hold your horses, the elephants are coming!" The giddiest, gayest, grandest, glitteringest galaxy in the whole wide, wonderful world is trekking this way and will spread its acres of tents here on Monday, September 11, for one performance only, Saturday at 10 a.m. If one doesn't infer from this that reference is made to the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth the publicity man will regard the case as hopeless. The first advertising car is in this city today and more than a score of experts are spreading with tack and hammer and paste and brush the flaming lithographic tidings of the approach of the big traveling amusement institution. They are under the direction of Arthur E. Diggs, a well-known circus advertising specialist. This is the innovation of novelty this year, the greatest of all seasons. More railroad cars are required to transport the show, bigger tents are raised, more area is needed to accommodate the show than ever before. In fact, the circus has reached a point where it is the despair of many of the smaller railroads and taxes their facilities to the limit, for eighty-nine cars are needed to convey the gigantic canvas vagrant from town to town. There's material enough in this year's circus to make a dozen circuses of the old days. A "big top" 680 feet long, nearly 1,500 employees, three rings, four elevated platforms, acres of aerial apparatus, a 108-cage menagerie, 750 horses, forty elephants, a street parade three miles long! The stereotyped "grand entree," with which the circuses were content to open their program for many years, has been permanently eliminated from the Barnum & Bailey tournament. This season the entertainment is inaugurated by the spectacle, "Persia — or, the Pageants of the Thousand and One Nights." TABLE ROCK TABLETS We are pleased to report that D. W. Beebe, who is suffering with a severe attack of white swelling, is some better at this writing.