The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
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proved, mains will be laid il resi-
dents will give timely notice.
Indianapolis Water Co.
CIRCUS In TOWN.
Ringing Bros Big show Tents Are
Spread on West Washington Street.

Ringing Bros big show is in town. The
trains which this combination requires
to transport it from place to place
arrived in the city early this morning, and
the work of going into Sunday quarters al
the West Washington-street grounds at
once began. This to the circus people is a
great day for, while it is anything but a
day of rest, as the ordinary citizen looks
upon the day, it is day of only half
labor and relaxation to a small extent The
acres of tents which required to
commodate the show and the people who
go to it have only to be stretched, but
the more serious work of pulling down and
packing up for the move to the next stand
does not have to be done. The busy morn
ing is succeeded by a listless afternoon,
with the crowds to entertain the show peo-
pie, so long themselves accustomed to en-
tertaining the crowds.
Thousands of people will doubtless visit
the show grounds to-day, usually oc-
ours when a circus makes this a Sunday
point. This is only the second visit OF
Ringing Bros. to this city, but from
their first visit the people of the city
learned that they would not only be toler-
ated visitors to the show ground on
Sunday, but that they would be made well
come such visitors. 1t has been said
of Ringing Bros, of whom there are
five. that they are as thorough gentlemen
as ever engaged in any business They
have proved themselves, during the time
they have been engaged i'm the business
among the most popular in their line of
business, simply by the courteous manner
in which they require all their employees
by some people as a novelty TO find of
fcers stationed inside a show tent
when Ringing Bros. give a performance it
is always with this precaution and people
may always know that they may go to
witness the performance with perfect con-
fidence that everything will be done to con-
f auce TO their comfort and enjoyment.
Every employe down to the canvas men
are under the most rigid instructions to
treat everybody with the respect that is
due to patron. The least word of disrespect
from an employee or the smallest omission
of duty which results in an injustice or in
jury to single patron has only to be re-
ported TO the management and new man
Will take the place of the negligent en-
ploye. This was somewhat of a new idea
in the circus business. People had been ac-
customed to go to such an entertainment
prepared to push their way through crowds
of disorderly people and to submit TO the
toughest sort of treatment from the en-
pIoyeS, who seemed to look upon the pa
irons of the circus as so many objects OF
their sport. But Ringing Bros. sought to
IN which they succeeded made them eX-
ceedingiy popular throughout the West.
where they confined their travels largely
until the past few years. They have at
tendants whose duty 1t is to see that people
are properly taken care of that they Sc
cure seats, and that they are made as COM
fortably in every way possible. They
are instructed especially to look after la
dies and children who attend without male
escort. The management has found that
such a course pays in many ways.
The day at the show grounds will be
busy one, though it will be one of compare
tive rest for the employees. There are be-
tween four and five hundred horses which
have to be fed and carefully groomed. 1t
requires large squad of men TO take care
of this line of work alone. for the horses
are of the finest strains If blood and much
care is given them. Then there are hum
dreds of wild animals for which food has
to be prepared. There are among this vast
collection of beasts animals whose food
must be more carefully prepared than for
the most faStidiouS human being. Taken
from their native haunts and deprived of
their natural foods, many of them would
starve rather than to touch article OF
food that did not exactly conform TO their
idea of what 1t should be. For some OF
these the natural food is imported at great
expense and carried with the show for
them The feeding of the animals is sight
almost as interesting as the performances.
There also many things TO be done
on Sunday which have to be done on that
day for the reason that it is the only day
in the week that the show is not either
busy with it's performance or on the road.
There will be the hundreds of employees
going about their work or their pleasure,
as the case may be, in the most systematic
order. and the thousands of visitors. all
anxious TO get peep at the big asgre-
cation in advance of the treat Wnich Is not
given until tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning VIII occur the street
parade. 1t will leave the grounds az g:Se
street to Capitol avenue, south to Georgia
street east to Illinois street, north TO
Washington street east to Alabama street,
north to Market street, west to Monument
place around the Circle to Meridian, north
to Ohio street. west to Illinois street, south
to Washington street and west 10 show
grounds. Two performances will be given
tomorrow.