El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-18
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the entertainment ready.
He has no thought OF where the cir
Gus pitched Its tent last and OF the
few hours il had in which to tear down
pack up and load back on TO the cars
the enormous amount OF EXHIBITS and
materials. Ringing Bros. showed at
Deming last night. They completed
the big Job of preparing to move, COW
cred the distance of ninety miles 10 I'll
Paso and had everything on the SHOW
ground by 8 O'Clock this morning BY
10 the tents were all up, the process
sion formed and on the way up TOWN.
To do all this work il is necessary TO
have a large force of men 1t requires
a large gang for each job. One gang
is driving stakes. Four to stake,
each with a heavy siedge, they nit IL
by turns and keep up the rapid strokes
like the steady tick of watch and al
most as fast until the stake Is to It's
right depth. then to another Men are
working at the sewing up of the mann
moth canvas. Others are fastening IL
to the main poles and when all Is
ready the tent is raised. One large gang
of men place the quarter poles in po-
sition while another with teams or big
strong horses pull them into upright
Dosition and the monster tent goes up
like magic.
When the canvas IS up swarm OF
men as thick as bees in hive are
placing the seats in position and be
fore the procession returns from the
parade every tent is ready for the
great show But this is not all. There
are hundreds of men employed in tax
ing care of the mammoth troupe OF
horses. the wild animals and wagons.
Everything must shine like gold ana
force of men are employed to see that
il does. The huge crowd of employees
must be fed ami dozens of cooks are
hustling from the very first to get din
NJ ready for them.
What seems to be the greatest won
der of il all is the unloading or the
long train of cars preparatory TO set
ting up the show. Ringing Bros. have
nearly sixty cars of animals and ma
terial and all this is unloaded and on
the show ground almost before the
small boy who has been dreaming cir
Gus for the last month can get up and
and get to the railroad yards without
even a stop for breakfast
Ringing Bros. have in all siXty-five
ears. Three are advertising cars and
are always in advance of the others.
Ten are for the show people. six for
the proprietors and performers and
four for the workingmen. The coaches
are all nice ones and especially those
for the proprietors and performers.
These are equal to the average Pull
man palace car and are given the
names of leading cities of the United
States.
The Circus Crowds
Every train from all sections of the
country has been damned with visi- |
tors. many of whom never come TO |
Ell Paso except for amusement. From |
the White Oaks and Lincoln country |
in New Mexico came over a hundred |
people and Chihuahua sent up good |
delegation. The Santa Fe from the |
north brought a long and crowded |
train this morning from as far up as |
Socorro.
The Big Parade.
Eight thousand grown persons and
four thousand children saw the pa
rade pass this morning and four hun
dred small boys. forming hooting and
Yelling mob followed in the wake of
the clowns wagon.
The parade was no fake. 1t was
mile and a half long. II was gor-
yeous in the extreme and more than
4 dozen dens OF wild beasts were open
when they passed.
The lion tanner. the lady with the
BOA constructor coiled about her neck
and the steam calliope were all there.
Two hundred and sixty-four horses
and thirty-two ponies were in line be-
sides fourteen huge elephants and "A
nerd of camels and dromedaries-
The circus is by long ODDS the big
sest that ever visited FL Paso and
he crush at the show grounds this
lfternoon was enormous. Tonights
attendance will be just as 81 eat if not
greater.
The admission charged was only so
.ents as the city license on fifty cent
shows is only $500. while for higher
prices il is increased.
The City of TJenIr.
At the show grounds ray be seen
he largest spread of canvas used for a
ircus in the world. If spread out IL
would cover twelve acres OF ground.
There are four large exhibition tents.
hree stables. a barber shop, gen.