The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-27
WALLACE SHOW HERE
ONE OF THE CIRCUS TRAINS
 CAME LAST NIGHT.
Big Tents will Be Stretched in Todds Field Today - Something About How the Show
 is Handled.

CT GUS, which VIII eXhlDir m MontsoH- cry Monday, reached the city from Troy just before midnight last night. The cir- GUS travels in two special trains and the second enc will reach here about daylight this morning.
 The circus will give two performances tomorrow, afternoon and evening. in Todd's show lot on Goode Street and the big parade will get down town about 10 o'clock in the morning.
 When the cars arrived here last night they were quickly unloaded and the cir GUS paraphernalia was taken to Todds | fel1.
 Although the public is always deeply inter estcd in circus the people as a rule are extremely ignorant of the man ner in which b;g circus like the Wal; Wal, management and systematic work Is es- sentisl to the life of show. Tho Wal, lace Show hss upwards of five hundred persons upon its pay roll
 The advance department of the show comprises sikty-two persons who are en. gagged exclusively with the hsraldins @ or the shows coming MT MT; wanace aYsncs is aoo hence he employs general agent, ". E. Franklin. whose duty 1t Is to route the show end superintend the advance. l conversant with the financial and crop conditions of the entire country, ana man as capable as MT. Franklin receivss Il d big salary. After he decides on the route, the railroad contractor. very i'm portaint parsonage. J. P. Pagan, hastens to the railroad centers to arrange with the general traffic managers Q. the o, Va1 ~ the show, and he secures the proper con I tracts and papers. for the several move ments from stand to stand, learns tne the bridges and sees that the heavy show trains are properly handled
 l. Then follows in quick succession eacm of the several ageS5s and the snh three ,nd. SlIl yidual having his own work to do a' | each stand
 The "twenty-four- -hour-man. Fred Wag, to keen a day ahead of the' circus. hence the title, .'twenty-four- -hour-man He examines the lot which was rented sew eral weeks ago by the asent: sr: saa safe ssfs Hs arranges with the yardmaster for a gooo crossing on which to unload. ana then ]. selects the shortest and safest fou'e eS uS the lot This done he calls on the tee9 man and examines the quality of the teed and sees that 1t is ready for prompt ae- livery The question of feed IS an I'm, n, gortant item with .a.,sy snoW Ssrce sn the horse is a hobby of MT. Wallace's. and ne claims to have "the finest horses of any Sho" Unloading the Trains.
 | When the two circus u ails at. them "twenty-four-hour-m meets .,,s vhein ,he When the trains approach the cisy .he night watchman goes back to @ IMs codoit ,siyh, es and calls the bosses, me s,av s ny sil night. and keep walking back ano forth the length of the train to see ana' | the wagons have not been snaken ioose sIso to see that no one Is riding on the train who has no right on it. In spite @ of the vigilance of the watchman' wa wa, gons sometimes sa fall from hsan Known tne E to fall out of the elephant car while tne trsnt tbe was in motion. With the calling oi nd tnd bosses the watchmen's work IS ehueu anu 'I Frank Thorpe, the train master, Is the the first boss on the scene. He soon has ms men. called "rasorbacks," at the cross ing, and as soon as 3 the e,,os ears are s liked al the end of the first fiat car. nai, na, nver ia taken with the lowering rope ovst st the "sn,Iphins post" which ,hs ts Sn Booked sd end of the rope is caught on the mho |, axle of the first wagon. the tongue ts nIaced and the pull team s."i .s down the railroad pulnng p. .rg The runs, the rone is frightened on the "snubbing pos, and the wagon, guided by hand descenn; .,,; slowly The pStoysfr psdat of tSe runS and thu "nnII-awsv team Is hastily hitched tC the end of the tongue and pug 'ne fer TS Uon out of the way taklhS it ,..' Yards to one side. With good cF3ssm, twelve 'razorbacks''- and two neat' teams. whole train of flat cars can D' unloaded in forty-iYe minutes:
 Pitching the Tents
 Simultaneous with the unloading or tn fat cars, all ether departments nave com menced operations. Thomas Fay ana nl assistant. A. J. Smith. the boss canvass men. start to the show lot witn tne, , layout pins and their men Ihey 500 500 "size up" the lot and decide where M tn Ientrance' shall be, where the menaserI and circus tents shall go, where tn dressing tent cook tents and horse tent shaIl be placed. With keen eyes ana ion tane line they soon survey the lot, puttin a Din at every point where staKs inus
 No sooner is this done than the "stak 6nd chain wagon" appears on the lo,. an coon the iron capped stakes are driVe horne by six sledges In the hands oI n .ix men who shower the blows upon Rosa Hostler, w. w. Scott, and his as sisfsnt- known as 'Whitie," arrive an heein to shout directions to the dinereI drivers as to where to drive or 10 ul
 hitch, The "pole-wagon," the heaVie'
 wagon with the show, arrives an strsightway the tall, straight. blue centf holes are up and guyed. The balls penvaas are unrolled. the middle pieces are laced together and then the rount ton at the ends The canvass IS hooke tP +ha haU rings and pulled up tw'