The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-06
RINGLINGs SHOW IN TOWN.
An Interesting sight-The Line of
March of the Parade

VI thc IaFaue.
Ringing Bros. Worlds Greatest Shows
Will be in Savannah to-day The combina-
ton arrived in sections of trains conpos-
ed OF about sixty cars by the Plant sys-
tenn early this morning.
The work of unloading began long be-
fore sunrise Even at that early hour a
delegation of small boys was on hand to
see that everything moved along in proper
order. While the small boy was in the
majority, many of his older brothers were
also IN the railroad yards-some even with
bearded faces forgot the excitement of DO
Atical discussion for the more exhilarat-
ing and hardly less exciting delights Of
the sawdust arena.
There was no time lost after the unload
ing OF the heavy vans and cages began.
and what was freely commented upon by
spectators, was the systematic manner in
which the difficult work was ACCOMPLISHED
Nothing but the best management and in
telllgent superintendent could accom-
push 1t. The clock-like regularity were in
stiIklhs contrast to the general order of
Things with most shows
AT the call of the circus night watch
men hundreds of employees filed out of
thelr sleeping cars. They went to their
posts OF duty in attachments like drilled
soldiers. There was no DELAY in one de-
partment waiting for another The work
seemed to begin at every point at the
same time, and where the duties of en-
ployes OF different departments brought
them together they seemed to meet at the
proper moment. For instance, a heavy
cage or wagon was no sooner unloaded
IMAM groom, with six or eight horses
assigned to haul that particular vehicle
TO the grounds, was in readiness the
horses were hitched to it, and the heavy
wheels were rumbling over the pavement
towards the show grounds. OF course
to have things work this smoothly, every
horse had to be loaded in order in the
stock cars the night before, and every
wagon must occupy a certain place on
the nat cars. 1t was this systematic ar
rangement that made it possible to do
friction.
On the show grounds, at Bolton and
East Broad streets, the scene was one
or BUSY life and hustle The first wagons
TO arrive were the cook house and water
wagons. With them came a CORPS of
cooks and walters The boss canvasman
had preceded them with his assistants
and already little iron pins with red rib
bons huttering from them, showed where
every stake was to be driven Accord
lngly the cook-house crowd knew exactly
Where TO locate themselves, and in an in
credibly short space of time three tents
kltchens, numerous camp fires and the
dining tents were erected. In a little
less than forty minutes form the time
the cooks had arrived with their para
phernalia steaming breakfast awaited
the hundreds of hungry employees of
whom the tent-erecting department had
worked up their appetites by a series of
Delsartean movements that made the air
echo with the tick-tack of their heavy
sledges and forest of ron-banded stakes
to cover the show grounds. Breakfast
consisted of steak bacon and eggs, coffee.
rolls and butter and corn cakes, and as
soon as it was completed, the work of
erecting the tents was begun.
TO one uninitiated in the mysteries of cir
Gus life, the big bales of canvas, poles and
paraphernalia of all kinds that litter the
grounds in every direction would present
a scene of apparent chaos and confusion
from which order and regularity would
seem the last thing in the world to evolve.
Not so with the boss canvassmen of the
circus. He stations himself in the center
OF the grounds and begins giving orders
at speed that would bewilder any other
mortal. Hundreds of men fly hither and
thither at his commands-and Presto poles
go up, acres of canvas cover the grounds
ropes sway from point to point and like
magic white city of tents raises its many
cloth domeS. The man who has charge of
this department with the Ringing Broth
ers show Is John Suellan. He is credited
with being the most expert canvas SUPER
intendent in the United States. The mag
,nihcent stable of 400 horses with the show
are under the management of Spencer AL
exander, who has spent over thirty years
Following the white tents. Mr.. Alexander
knows as much about horse flesh as Ma
Geo does about fighting Spaniards and
It is due to his skill that the Ringing
Brothers possess the finest lot of horses
in the country.
The parade will leave the grounds at 10
O'Clock, this morning and will pass over
the following line of march: Bolton to
Drayton streets, to Liberty, to West
Broad, to Broughton, to Bull, to Bay. to
East Broad. to Broughton, to Drayton. to
Bolton, to the show grounds.
Two performances will be given TODAY
beginning at and o'clock D. M, the doors
being open an hour earlier.