Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-07
INTERESTING FIGURES.
A Census Of the Barnum Il Bailey
Employees.

A Census OF tine 6aEuuIu " ooAAoy
Employees.
The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on
Earth would keep a company OF census
takers guessing. 1t is a Tower OF Bapei
for tongues, a panorama Of nations, con-
gress of religions, a gathering of families
and clans and 1t has six pay days week.
Ten hundred and sixty-fve persons are on
the circus pay rolI-men, women and chill
dren. They come from twenty-five differ
ent parts of the world, and range In color
through the whites, blacks, browns and vel
lows. Ten of them are Japanese, thirty
are French, two are Swiss, twenty are
Italians two are Portuguese, four are Bo-
hemians, six are Austrians. ten are rus
sian fifty are German, four are Belgian
eight are Scotch, four are spanish, ef ign
are Polish, two are Egyptians, one is Sin
galese, ten are Hungarian, two are COS
sacks, two are Burmese, three are Weisn
about 295 are Americans, about $50 English
and one or two are Koreans, according 10
how YOU consider the Korean twins.
The animal part of the aggregation in
cludes about 700 heads-also tails. There
are more than 500 horses, thirty elephants
four giraffes, twenty camels and nifty cages
of smaller beasts. .
yided into classes according to the parts
the members play. There are about 3OO
performers; 125 bill posters, advertising
agents and members of the press bureau
100 railroad men, known as "razorbacks;
seventy-five cooks and kitchen helpers. fifty
hostlers, or, as they are called with the
circus "grooms,'' and 314 canvas men,
property men. menagerie keepers ana less
important individuals. The canvas men
look after the tents, the property men see
bars for the horses, lay the carpets In the
rings and do other general work. The
menagerie men look after the Gagged beasts.
There is besides these one chaplain.
In religion these are Greek Cathoiics, nc
man Catholics, believers in Shintoism, fol-
lowers of Mohammed, Brahma and Bud
dha, Episcopalians, including the majority
of the Englishmen; Presbyterians, including
the Scotchmen Baptists. Methodists, Luz
therans and Hebrews. Many OF them are
deyout worslipers in their religions, and a
large percentage of the Christians go reg
ularly to church when they are nome ana
attend the services conducted by the CHAP
lain when on the road 49,
The nav DAYS are divided among the diff
ferent classes of employees. The perform.
ers have one the canvas men announcer, anu
so on down the line. This arrangement
was made because of the imposslpii.y Oh
such times that all would have chance
to collect. The lowest salary Is 500 a
month The highest Is pretty ciose 10
81 GOO week. The clowns draw from 700
to 500 week, accoioih5 ~ ~iiS-
of humor.
After these come the riders of horses They
are paid from SIS to $12o week accOroing
To their ability and reputation: fihaliy
there are those who do the aerlai ac.s oii
tho f1ying trapeze or on bicycles. They are
tho ones whose envelopes are the fattest,
for the management thinks they do more
than anv others to draw the dollars or the
public to the box office me salafles go, Vi
Volo the Volitant, who cycles Inc . aerial
arnb and Anteilotti, who daringly loops
the gap" are the highest in the snow.
There was a time when the riders OK
horses were the most highly PAID perform
ers but when the aerial events that MAKE
tbe SPECTATORS hairs stand on end entered
The arena the demand for riders fell OH
and their salaries dropped In propor.loIn n.
Old circus-soers will remember CnaIieS
Fish, At one time he drew SooO Me r,der
couca of his ability as BAREBACK riosr'
hnt before his death he had dropped TO 30.
Now II is the man or woman VINO can pro-
duce the most startling ana DANGEROUS "a
and go through 1T alive VINO mas lne cai,
and the more daring the act 'ie AsneA ''
pay. -.on,o ba1e
The majority Of the circus people naVe
members of their families with them. Inere
are men and their wives, sons, dauenters'
cousins uncles aunts, nephews and nleces.
The Flor enz troupe of acrobats Is MADE up
of two branches of a family. Ihere are tie
head of the house, his wlfe, tneir son, ms
brother his brothers wife ana ms pro'n
orc
the troupe are all blood relations, enemy
cousins In the Grunatho troupe OF eight
women gymnasts there are the motn9r,
three daughters and four nleces. In me
Imperial Viennese troupe there are Itauvs
his three nephews and four OF his nepneWs
cbi,dren besides two cousins, the Alien Dis
ters In the Herzog family horse trainers,
there are Hugo Herzog, who Is unmarried
his brother Manuel MIS-. M GiIetti an tramne
riders of high school horses, there are herr
Cuilatti his wife, her half-sister ana her
cousin Rose Wentworth, the DarepaCA
rider, is the wife of Henry Wen.wor'n t .se
clown. Ella Bradna, another rloer, Is tne
wife of Fred Bradna, ringmaster. 80 II
goes on through the list until one comes 10
the Korean sisters 0wins), VINO are hter-
alIy related by flesh and blood.
The circus travels in ninety-tWo speciai
cars made up into FIVE trains Into these
are packed the show people, the anlmals;
the gilded wagons, for the paraoeS any an.
ali the paraphernalia OF TINS polysio'
World when the circus is on the show
~round II occupies fourteen tents includ-
ino the abig top" There are one stretch OF
canvas for the main tent, one lcr inc
menageries one for the Kitchen, announcer
for the dining room, one for the dressing
rooms and others for each separate de-
nartment of the management.
THE daily expense of maintenance ana
Transportation ranges from sn,Vv 70 $3.50, $500.
hnt these figures are not so startling when
n is realized that the main exhibition
tent can comfortably seat 1880 persons,
and that crowds are often turned away
rhese are some of the figures of the cir
Gus. If Uncle Sam wants to know more
ebout this heterogeneous travelling town,
the management would probably let him
turn a census agent loose In II, put the
gent had better take a corps of inter-
nreters with him, and even he would find
q few languages that the interpreter
would not understand. AS the snow arrives
In Washington Sunday morning the pubic
will have a good opportunity to study this
modern Babel. Exhibitions will be given
Monday and Tuesday.