The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-26

cars of the European pattern tnat we
needed and there was no charge either
for the new cars or for the use of the
borrowed ones. l call that pretty good
treatment.
1.-THE show that we gave in Europe
was the same that New Workers saw
before we left, except that it was a
little larger. In the circus business
you can't stand still and our show in
creased a little in size all the time. 1t
was impossible to prevent greater
growth of the show than did take
place.
"Only one part of the American show
was omitted That was the parade.
When we were in England we held the
parade just as we did in this country,
but in Germany we were told that it
would hurt our attendance, as people
would think that when they had seen
the parade there was little left to be
seen.
Our cars were made in England from
the models of those used in the circus
train in the United States. Over there
their freight cars are very small, as
they think that a short car rounds a
curve better When our long cars were
completed there was much doubt eX-
pressed about their ability to round
curves. We knew that they would do
anything that the smaller cars would,
as they were equipped with American
movable trucks, so we had trials with
our cars andSucceeded in convincing the
railway people that they were all right.
We had no trouble with the cars, al
though we used 81 of them and carried
800 people"
Did you have any trouble with the
customs officials?" Mr.. Bailey asked.
mo" he answered. that part of it
SEE cVonOfbly nVPTVt hin q
else. Our advance agent furnished an
inventory of everything in the show TO
the customs officials and gave bonds.
When we crossed a frontier the Gus
toms people compared the equipment
with this inventory and when the show
left the country the bonds were can
celled We suffered little delay from
examinations.
II was much interested in the foreign
circuses," continued Mr.. Bailey. They
have nothing like our big shows and 1t
was on that account that we were so
successful The European circus is a
small affair." usually having but one
ring. They have good performers,
though, and I got some good ideas from
them They do not travel around as
much as the circuses do in this country.
Il don't think that our show will be
copied there 1t is so different from
a big undertaking to start one. do
not think that any one over there dare
try so great an experiment.
I'm Europe they do not use the big
posters for advertising the way we do
here They have a great many posters
of the ordinary small sizes, but ours
were so much larger than any they had
ever seen that we had some difficulty
in getting them up. We had to erect
our own billboards for them in many
cases. The city officials were very len
lent about the erection of those bill
boards. They allowed us to put them
up almost anywhere we wished to nave
them so they were put in public
squares, along side churches and in
many other places where they would
not be tolerated for an instant in this
country.
Mr.. Hamilton who is the author of
all our literature on the subject of the
grandeur of the circus. had a hard
time We had to have handbills in
fourteen different languages. Mr..
Hamilton is a goodGerman and French
scholar and he wrote them all right
in those languages with nearly the
same adjectives we used in New York
In the other languages, however, he
had to make use of interpreters who
did not always grasp his ideas. The
work was finally done to his satisfac-
ton, though there was a great deal of
work attached to it.
Everywhere the circus met with the
greatest success. We made a great
many friends and we feel that when
the show returns and Americans see
the production we exhibited to Europe
no one will be ashamed of the show
that represented America.