The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-10
CIRCUS TRUST Is FORMED
It Will Include Everything From
Elephants to Tent Pegs.
New York Telegraph.)


If any of your friends should be for
tunately enough to own a circus out
fit, a travelling caravan or troupe ami
mails including a white elephant, gid
ed wagons, spotted horses and side
show tents that have not made money
on the road, bid him to be of good
cheer For the circus trust has come
to town.
It is now possible to sell your sec
Ond hand lions and tigers for a good
round sum and dispose Of broken down
chariOts for almost as much as new
ones would cost, minus the price of a
pot of gold paint.
John r. Lawrence, a st. Louis cap
ttalist, organizer of the circus trust,
was here last week on business con-
nected with the venture and went to
SaybroOk and other towns in Connect
cut to look for suitable quarters for
the menagerie, rolling stock and repair
shops.
The name of the new corporation is
the Circus Renting company, and its
name implies the exact nature of the
business to be conducted. 1t starts with
a capital of $500, 900, which viii be in
creased as the success of the enter
prise warrants. The new company will
own responsibility during the coming
season, but viii confine its business to
the buying Of circus stock and prop
critics for the sole purpose Of renting
them out again to any person who has
money and thinks he can make a sue
cess Of a circus on the road
The promoters of the enterprise be-
lieve they will give a tremendous boom
to the season and not hurt any Of
their Independent rivals. Mr. Law
renee, contrary to the practice of most
officers in the trust making line, talked
freely of the scheme and said he want
ed to issue general invitation on his
return to New York to everybody in
terested in the circus business to call
on him and say what they are seeking
or have to offer. He said:
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I'VE don't propose to go on the road
at all ourselves, no matter how good
the season may be. Somebody else can
have the worry of taking a show out.
We merely want TO rent our animals.
circus vans, tents, seats, etc, and be-
Heve we can make it pay US well, be-
sides giving individual circus pro-
prietors a chance TO do business on
the road
L know there is money in renting
circus stock because I have done it
before on a limited scale. Now we
want to get a menagerie so complete
we can rent animals to shows already
organized that are in need of some
particular beast they can't afford to
buy. How often, for instance. do you
hear Of lion being shot because Of
repeated attempts to kill the keeper, or
some other animal dying on the road
An event Of that nature always makes
a gap in the circus which is hard to
nil. And there is where the Circus
Renting company viii be a sreat factor
in equipping broken down and dep'et-
ed companies for a very small portion
of what it would cost them 10 buy
stock and make themselves strong
enough to finish up the route
1.-THE transaction VIII be conducted
on cash basis and good security viii
be required. Very often we win be
called upon to supply small entertain
ments on holidays, such as the Fourth
Of July, which is always a good circus
day.
Circus burlesques and benefits are
in our line. II any of your society
milliOnalreS want TO give a refined cir
Gus performance on their big country
estates, why, they can come to Us Tor
a refined and finished performance
the real thing, you know.
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The menagerie lot, if we can get the
farm we are looking for, viii be about
twelve acres in extent. The show wa
CONS will be kept under a big pavilioa