Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-02-01

Comfort os Spectators In Forming,
Text Gusa..e:.'s sna,v--Ncty Animals
C0minss-Ti.scr ..u,t to De Z, Special
Feature.
at is high time for the old circus to
60" said MIR. James y. Bailey, the big
circus magnate of the firm OF Barnum
& Bailey. who spent II few days recent
ly in Washington. Mr.. Bailey has just
returned from Germany. where his
Greatest Show ON Earth has been tour
ing the past summer. The year before
that it was in England. The Greatest
Slicw on Earth is 10 remain permanent
IL in Europe. under Mr.. Bailcy's di-
rection, says the Washington Post, but
for America lie is to establish even Il
greater circus, ON more advanced lines,
than hitherto, and lie promises that
next summer this twentieth century
circus will prove that there has been
evolution in the circus business as in
other things.
According to MIR. Bailey, who has
perfected his plans for the new style
circus. everything has been revolution
lied. from the tents. seats. side shows.
rings aud animal cages down to the
individual star performances. and even
to ticket boxes. lemonade and fruit
stands. All of the innumerable objec-
tionable features that have invariably
made circus going a torture and a bore
TO every one except the small boy have
been done away with. and the grown
up population will no longer be
stretched forth on a blue and red paint
ed rack, With weary backs and over
hanging legs. roasting in close and
tot atmosphere. stutiing their ears
with cotton 10 keep out the crazy rack
et and din. and vainly upholding the
noisy young offspring above the heads
of The people in front. who never will
''Sit down. please"
There will he seats that are seats.
They will have hacks which will not be
wabbly or addicted to perpetual mo-
tion. Furthermore, they will have, in
addition. footstools. upon which the
f'ct may rest in security, and they will
not I'r marked by any NO Trespass"
sign or card. Preserved" The reserved
portion will be all-nay. more than the
moneys worth. for there will be boxes
as good as any in the auditorium of
Madison Square Garden. If it is alb
normally hot. there will he electric fans
to make it cool. while on the cheap
seat sides there will he palm leaf fans
cDaincd to every seat. for the use of
which the public will have to drop no
nickel anywhere. In fact. in the new
kid plraseology. everything about the
new circus will be "all skinlley. all
skye"
In the way OF general comfort every
thing that can be thought of or devised
has been adopted. The new tents will
be vast Improvement on the old ones.
They will no not only bigger and kept
cleaner, but they will be perfectly ven
tilated. There will be more room in
the passageways. and if the spectators
follow posted instructions and walk in
the right directions the overwhelming
crush that has always been Il part of
| the circus routine will be avoided
There will be ice water .frec of charge"
and handed around by neatly clad per-
sonages. while the sickening scarlet
connection known as "circuS lemonade
will be entirely discarded. and bever-
age snnely mixed and normally colored
and in the hands of responsible parties
will be administered. \ special soda
water. or. rather. several of them. will
also be an adjunct to the public COM
fort in the epicurean line. while reg
ular corps of walters will serve ices
and ice cream. all. of course. for con-
siderations.
One of the particular new features
will be the little crackerjack boys.
two dozen of them. all clad in the most
striking and picturesque uniforms. who.
with knapsacks filled with good" pea
nuts. popcorn. chewing gum and choc-
olate drops. will make their rounds
with the gayest whistles they can whfs-
tie. Then there will be some genuine
old Virginia dariy women. red ban
dannas around their heads. and large
checkered aprons. who will travel
with the show and set up some of the
"eatable stands" while there will be
what circuscs have never had before,
excellently fitted dressing rooms. each
in charge of Il maid. where there will
be lounges. clean towels and plenty
of soap and water. which during the
intervals of hot and dusty circus per.
formance will be an exceedingly de-
sirable feature.
So much for the physical comforts of
the new circus. The other new features
are almost too numerous to mention. In
, the first place there will be larger
and more representative collection of
animals than ever before. Mr.. Bailey
says he has had animal catchers in
Asia and Africa during the entire past
year, and they have obtained large
number of the wild jungle beasts at the
greatest risks aud through continu
Gus series OF harhrcadth escapes \
famous man eating Bengal tiger. which
/: had ravagad the northwestern part OF
India for the last ten years and carried
Off natives. has been secured. and is
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