By 1900 it had no equal. It is moved on four railway trains which carry two hundred red circus wagons and cages for the hundreds of animals. The president and vice-president of the show have private cars. Headline performers have small staterooms. The others sleep and keep their belongings in open car bunks.
Circus people live in groups like big families.
Often thirty or forty laborers, or clowns, or show girls, occupy a single car. The big cook house with its crew of 130 serves over 4,000 meals a day. Performers and managers eat at long tables in one half of the tent, workmen in the other half. All eat the same food. The ten thousand daily customers come to see the midway, the side shows, the menagerie, and the show in the Big Top.