Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-09-27
MEXICO MISSOURI, THURsDAY SEPTEMBER ~ 1883.
much as d good horssI being asqtea /.
in circns stock mark Us al 500 tb L,

.kAF Ia HI
much as a good horse. being qao$ea Il
in eircns stock markets al Sl0O VI 1,
$3.50, according to quality. Though /
camels have become very common of
late years, every citcus op. the road
must take ibehso please Old cmlar@a
NV leopard is worth about $3.50.
''Can yon tell me something about
the total expense of running Cir
cus?'' as sa W q
"wen, here in Mexico it scegss hs4
about 50 500 or 5000, and sAssiN
about the average expense during the T
circus season of say, seven months.
The remainder of the year We koi1fo
winter quarters s1d gnIpst NY. @t
$3.50 daily sisiods resepiag hillg
in return.ss This must be paid up !
during the timewwe are travelling.
Besides this, accidents, rains, and
DUST Ike hst Ne have to-day, lessons
the receipts and decreases the expend-
itures.' s. A@S u = a
Zone would think that.sueh a bus
mess was a very risky enc, Mr.. Cole2"
s'WeIl, in one sense of the word it
Is, and yet should anyone be possess
ed of tact, good judgment and ener-
gy there is no reason nwhy he should
not make a handsome fortune lat the
business. To, do this, everything,
must work like clock work, for, as in
a watch, should the slightest cog get
out of order there is a jar throughout
the whole system. AS in good fac
tory, every department must have its
appropriate head, and there is not
| likely to be any trouble. l used to
think that it was good thing to drink
occasionally, but, like Barnum, that
prince Of showmen, ! have become a
prohibitionist, ON small scale. A
man can't drink whisky and attend to
his business, too. Sol prohibit liq-
uor drinking as far as possible among
my employees, and drunkenness is
punished by dismissal. The, secret
of success in the CIRCUS business,
like that in most others, is after gain
ing knowledge of what'you want to
accomplish, to proceed economically
but fearlessly, and to work yourself,
trusting as little as possible to subor-
' dinates. There, my dear young man,
you have enough information to run
circus of your own a., " go, III,
"One more question, Mr.. Cole, and
!. then will stop. Can you give me 6
brief sketch of your life for ths
. LEDGER" y
= "With pleasure, if you, think i
. worth publishing. grew up in :
circus. My grandfather was circu
!. rider in England, my smother wasg'
- circus rider, and my father was own
er of a show. l am New Yorn
~ =, bysbirth and thny-six y ears old. n!
:, = father died in 1856, but my mother
= :, still alive and travels with me gene1
ally. just after my fathers death i
1856 l came West, and since the
:, have been constantly with circuses
Twelve years ago ] TeskablishedS ID
= first aircus,. and have enlarged it &,
.1-tery year since. 1 have been with m
: lshow in every state and territory i
, the Union, in New Zealand, India an
:. Australia. In May of this year
:. started in St. Louis. going to Kans.
- City, Des Moines, St. Paul, Cbicag.
=, land from there here"
ns M s'Hew;many1shows4sre iaowson VI
:, road IN the United States besid
T. yours?"
- "There aregan immense. number
- e them, but only seven, I believe, ira
- ell by rail: Barnum's, Forepaugh'
~ Sells Bros. Barrett & Cos, Doris
'lN Co.'S, John iRoblnsohs ssd Nalhl
& Co.'S, though 1 see in the pape
lthat the last named has suspende
= The license is something that cour
,.a FLOR a great deal in calculating circ
Co. expenses. it averaging about 81 ,0O(
H. day. The license is almost wholly
~ -. Pcity License, po( state, Ee4eept. M
~ sour and 1 feDothers i'd JGek kSdul
7 charging any county license.
49, Missouri the charge is larger than
80 any other state in the Union, perha
w" because tits more rnorai!'' Il w
s'What do you estimate were "
- receipts and expenditures in Mex
- to-day?s' .!a'i2 80 s4sit - '2i9 'oE
x AZ THAT is rather too personal scllsl
- tauestion, but 1 expect we took
. m about 200 and paid out $500,
- advertising, supplies, ETC." ..st 20
10, Leaving Mr.. Cole, we next int
1ua viewed Mr.. James Robinson, the
70. nous bareback rider. Mr.: Robin:
,rd. is slightly built man of about
abs feet four inches in1height1 and wit
an. weight of 1870 pounds. He is I
icel sonafly known to nearly everybody
and this countyssJ One -wealan's take
/, to} to be the professional circus man
iaa.ai az he is, As2he is modest and nnassumi
ioht and seems kind and agreeable g
40 tleman. Aswas learned In CONVEX
sar. s..n. ton with Mr.. Robinson, he was b
cos, in ,.l4sysysitTl8ss7xle y feTn,!
and years Of age. His head is pa
go bald and the faintest tinge OF
,oe, may be deestsd j 1h AT
here here he was eight years Old he cohmen
= nj,