The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-27

Magnitude of the BaFnam & Bailey
 show.
 ''The big show comes to-day!'
 '.Ihe sense of exhiliration that sweeps over the community at this announce ment is not confined to the small boy nor to the small boys big brother. It is, a popular and legitimate thing for pater familias to ''hem and haw'' lit- tie. when asked if he is going to the cir GUS, and finally admit, in half depre- eating way, that he will probably have to g: otO take the boys, and see the an- imals." But way down in his heart, unless that useful member is warped, and calloused beyond all hope of recov- cry. there is a sense of jubilation-a surgfng of the old feelings and old memories-a perfect flood Of recollec- tions' in which the one-ring show of other days, and Dan Rice and "Jim'' Robinson, the champion rider of the universe and a long list of once fam ous ring celebrities are photographed upon his mind in composite picture of other days. He may possibly say that the new tangled circus of these strenu- ous days, when there is so much to see that the spectator is constantly threat ened with strabismus and mental aber- ration, is not to be compared with the. old time circus, with a single clown, one elephant, and a lonely family of aero bats; but. nevertheless. he wouldn't miss the show for twenty times the price of admission, and down in his heart he knows he is good-natured hypocrite and that he would take in'' the circus if there wasn't a boy on this side Of the north pole.
 And So this morning, when the five long trains of cars used to transport the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth comes rolling into town one after l the other, the curious army of greeting ! will not be confined to the small boy. Not much; pa will be there, and ma, and the small boys big brother and big sister; with few uncles and aunts, and | most of all the boys neighbors. Why? We'll, there's something no one can ex- I plain. It's the fascination that is part and parcel of the circus, and that is all | that can be said about it.
 ! The big show will pitch its tents on | Washington street, at the junction of
 Putnam and West streets. As fast as
 the cars are unloaded the great vans
 and wagons will be transferred to the
 exhibition grounds, and there the work
 of erecting the tents put in operation. l The magnitude of the Barnum & Bailey
 circus makes this tast of herculean pro I portions. The first tents to go up will
 be those of the connmissary department. 1 By clever arrangement the ranges are
 on large wagons, with drop platforms,
 so that they do not require to be un- 1 loaded and set up on the ground. This is great economy in time, and even be- fore the dining tents are erected the cooks are at work preparing breakfast. This will be So this morning. and be- fore 6:S0 o'clock every one of the HOO employees Of the show will be served with breakfast and thus stimulated for
 the work of the day. One after anoth- CT, the horse tents, the rrlenagerie pavil- l ion, the office tents and the great hip-
 podrome amphitheater will be erected l The city of tents will have over a dozen
 canvas buildings" and every one will
 be essential for the purposes of the big
 show. In the hippodrome pavilion, the I hardest work will be the erection of the
 grand stand which is carried by the
 show and the vast number of footrest
 seats provided for those who simply buy ! admission tickets. Around the show lot
 there will be many typical scenes to in-
 terest the thousands of curious specta- l tors-the placing os the cages in the
 menagerie, the grooming of the horses,
 the preparation of the meals for the l army of employees, tn etravelh1g barbe
 shop, the harness department. the hors