The Circus Comes to Walla Walla

Well, are you going to the circus? was the remark with which one was greeted yesterday morning on our crowded thoroughfares. From every road and byway leading into the city there poured a stream of wagons and vehicles of every description carrying loads of human freight to the circus. Spectators were present from the Grand Ronde country, Lewiston, Walla Walla County and the country for miles around. By 10 o'clock every available space on the principal thoroughfares was occupied by a crowd eager to witness the grand street pageant. Soon after the arrival of Cote’s train, consisting of thirty-eight cars, the flat near the depot presented an animated scene. Two hundred or more men were soon engaged in driving stakes and stretching canvas. In an incredibly short space of time the usually deserted rock bed was transformed into a 'recreation city.' The main tent, a monster affair with its two rings and platform, has a seating capacity of 3000. At noon the procession began to move. The parade was magnificent and elicited rounds of applause. The band wagon drawn by camels and another by elephants took 'like wildfire.' The 'human fly act,' where Mlle. Aimee walked suspended from a temporary ceiling was the greatest novelty. The Livingston brothers, gymnasts, did beautiful work on the trapeze. Two leapers with a run and spring cleared four camels and four elephants, including 'Samson,' making a double somersault on the fly. In all particulars Cote’s circus takes the lead over all circus troupes that have visited the Northwest.