The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

 Circus Town Parades


Using circus camels to take the circus from the railroad sidings to the circus grounds provided
an effective Circus Parade that announced to everyone that the "Circus was in town!"

 

 

  


Mr. Wallace
The Calliope is taken across the city rail road tracks, stopping traffic and entertaining  by-standers.

  
 

     
 

The circus was known to use elephants to help pull wagons and raise the main tent. With the absence of elephants, however, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus employed a large team of camels to bring the circus to town.

    

 

  
     
  To young kids from Hammond, Indiana and elsewhere in the Mid-West, the camel was as exotic as any elephant might be.      
      The circus was labor intensive, often unloading all the equipment, tents and animals, having two daily performances, and then dismantling the entire circus and loaded back on the nearby railroad cars for a performance the following day in another distant city.  
         
 


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