The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-18
NO COMPARISON
 BETWEEN TWO TOWNS
ONE OF BARNUM 6 BAlLEY'S AGENTS SAYS THE lRMlNGHAM HOTELS oUTSHlNE ANY HOTEL IN BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

Whiting Allen, one of the agents of the Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth is in town. To a reporter of the Age Herald he said last evening:
 T suppose anything 1 might say about Birmingham and it's marvellous growth would be a good deal in the nature of a chestnut in current phraseology but when tell you that 1 came here more than twenty years ago and it has been several years since l was here last you may understand to some degree my amazement at the improvements in Bir- mingham and the many metropolitan as- poets of the city. 1 spent little more than month this summer in Birming- ham, England and when l state that the great workshop city of England with nearly three-quarters of a million of popu- lation has not SD many fine buildings and that the Grand hotel of that city, which is the largest hotel in England outside of London, will not compare favorably either in size or furnishings with one of your hotels here l am entirely sincere and 1 honestly believe that l am not ex- aggerating for the mere purpose of say ing something agreeable to you. If Bir- mingham is to keep on at the same rate it is fairly staggering to contemplate its future, and not many years ahead at that
 Referring to the show which he repre- sents he said:
 "One thing to be remembered by all who intend going to the Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth on next Saturday, the price of each ticket is plainly printed on it and the public is warned by the management against all persons who attempt to charge more. There is complete set of 14SO0 tickets printed for each performance. When they are all sold the sale stops and no stand ing room can be bought at any price. As the seating capacity of the Barnum and Bailey show has always been much the largest of any show in the country and is now fully double it's size of six years ago when it left this country to start on
 it's famous tour of five years in Europe. Mir. J. A. Bailey it's owner, is satisfied with having the seats filled. Another inn Is coupon to show that he is entitled to a seat with comfortable foot rest but also to see everything: the mammoth menagerie with it's enormous collection of rare and strange wild beasts it's museum with it's massive assemblage of living hu- man curiosities and abnormalities, the very largest in the worlds history; the splendid circus which will be prefaced by | a superb spectacle and grand ballet; fol- lowed by the completest circus that has ever been organized with three rings and two stages filled with the newest acts per formed by the highest salaried circus ar lists in the world And most important of all is the positive promise of manage ment whose record for keeping faith with the public Is absolutely clean and un- broken, that here in Birmingham as well as elsewhere the performance will not be in any manner reduced. cut down nor cur tailed but it will positively be identically the same in every detail as it has been this year in New York, Boston, Chicago and all the largest. cities east of the Mis- sissippi river