Evening journal., 1903-05-16
Cause Disappointment to
Thousands OfResidents
and Visitors From All
Parts of the State
Reason Given Inability
of Railroad to Bring the
Circus From Baltimore
Here on Time

Women with children, women with
paby coaches, women with market
baskets, all sorts and conditions of men
and goodly showing of young girls
ana lads hlled Market street to over
flowing this morning. OF course they
all We're out to see the circus parade
ana equally of course, nine-tent of
them were disappointed
Disappointment was written deeply
IN particularly upon the faces of the
little ones, and those of their elders
whose dress indicated that perhaps the
parade would be the only part of the
circus they could afford to see. Some
of these. maybe, had come from dis
tant parts of the county. The sorrow
of the country children was very keen.
The Evening Journal was the first
to announce upon it's bulletin board |
that there would be no parade and no
afternoon circus. Then the telephones |
kept jingling by persons anxious, yet |
dread confirmation of the rumors De-
spite the fact that there would be no |
parade, the people, most of them Wis
itors, prOmenaded Market street from an /
early hour this morning until the time |
OF going TO press. Instead of visiting /
the Brandywine and other pretty parks /
adjacent to the city, they marched up |
and down the crowded thoroughfare. |
The merchants gained what the circus |
lost for those who had money to spend /
were determined to spend it, anyway.
Cause of the Failure.
There are over 100 cars used by the |
circus, and the inability of the Penn |
sylvania Railroad Company to bring
them here from Baltimore on time is
the reason given for doing away with
the parade and the afternoon performs
ance. AS a matter of fact, the circus is
so stupendous that it is well-nigh i'm
possible to give the parade on the first
day. The cars make continuous train
three-quarters of a mile long.
The first section carries the wagons
containing the seats, tent poles can
vas. herd of twenty-six elephants;
twenty camels and other animals, in
Guiding Speck, the Shetland pony.
which is no longer than a good-sized
dog.
Eating Tent First.
A wagon drove up and a bundle of
canvas was thrown out. Stakes were
driven, canvas stretched and the mess
tent was ready for business. Twelve
hundred persons are fed here. at one
time.
The feeding of the 1000 circus en-
ployes is one Of the most wonderful
4 features Of the circus. The mess tent
. is always the first one put up. The
cooking wagon, which is a wonderful
contrivance, precedes the tent. The
wagon looks like an ordinary circus We
hicle, with its red sides and white
wheels, but when the sides are lower
ed a large stove is disclosed The stove
is divided into eight ranges. which are
in constant use from daylight to dark
ness, with five cooks preparing the g.
600 pounds of meat and the vegetables
that are served each day. on either
side is the butcher tent, the pastry tent
and the sxty-six barrels of potatoes
that form part Of the daily menu
When meal time arrives there is a
rush for the mess tent. where every
body from Mr.. Bailey to the humblest
workman eats. The breakfast hour is
$50 lunch at IL o'clock, and dinner at
4.30 after the afternoon performance
For the performers dinner there is al
ways soup. fish, two meats and vege-
tables and coffee or tea and dessert
For the tentmen and other workmen
the meal is the same, except that there
is only one meat served. There is no
limit TO the quantity. Coffee and tea
are the only beverages permitted, and
of the former 40 gallons is served each
meal, and of tea about 100 gallons. one
thousand loaves of bread are consumed
each day. For the animal trainers and
others who are unable to get the after
noon dinner a midnight dinner is
served,
All the foodstuffs are bought by con-
tract To obviate any difficulty in OBJ
tanning meats. refrigerator wagon,
capable of containing five tons of meat
is carried. The meals are served by
fifty uniformed walters, who get the
articles direct from the cooks, each tax
ing his turn at the stand where the
cooks preside.
The erection Of the other tents is
also an interesting proceeding. The
head tentman is waCSing about the lot
casting his eye over the expanse, and
calculating to a foot where every pole
is 10 be. He walks about with. a hand
full of flags, very similar to surveyor
flags and sticks, red ones in some
places. for the main poles, and a circle
of white ones for the outer poles
Everything is placs1 as accurately as
Il it hsd been land out with an insiru-
& nent.
Putting Up Big Tent.
BY this time the wagons containing
the seats are on the ground, and placed
with their respective sections JUS
where they will be when the tent /.
8 put up. The seats are dumped out an'
the wagons driven away. Then th'
q poles are placed in position and raised
and the canvas, like mantle of white
4 spread upon the ground. The sections
are laced together, and with a tuggini