Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-05
GREATEST SHOW IN
 SMALLEST TOWN
DON LUIS BECOMES A CITY OF THE FIRST CLASS FOR ONE
 DAY ONLY.
Not Less Than Nine Thousand People Were on the Grounds Yesterday for the Afternoon Performance of Bar nun a Bailey's Mammoth Circus.
..wbera in b-l is Don Luis?"

Where in h-l is Don Luis?
 That was the answer received by the advance man of Barnum & Bailey s big circus from Mir. Bailey when he was advised that Don Luis would be added to the circuit through Arizona.
 Explanations came thick and fast until the situation of Don Luis to BIS bee was thoroughly outlined. Spec ial trains carried tho enormous crowds yesterday to the suburbs of bisbee, three miles distant, and the F. P. & s. w. was taxed to the limit, but be it said to the credit of the officials hay ing the arrangements in charge, that the five thousand people who used this means of transportation, were handled without a mishap, and all trains were run on schedule time.
 The town took on a holiday aspect early in the day, and by noon the streets were jammed with visitors from Cananea, Tombstone, Naco and Douglas The first train out of Bis bee carried eighteen hundred people, and the next section handled a little more than two thousand. Three trains were run to the grounds com mencing at II a. m-
 4 Review man was permitted to see the inside workings of this gigantic army whose business is to entertain the American public. The green room" was visited, where two hundred acrobats and clowns were busy as bees changing their costumes for the next act. Two hundred trunks were ranged around the dressing tent. Each trunk contained the individual cos tune of the performer, and are arrang. ed in exactly the same manner day after day as the big show jumps from one town to another. All is hurry and bustie. A horseback rider sits alongside the "star" clown, and the Japanese iuggler is a partner with the trapeze man. Not a minute is to be lost. and at the sound of the bell new costumes and new faces are ready foT the next scene. The big stables, tlse cook house and dining room. the black smith shop. the general offices, are all objects of interest behind the scenes.
 "Slivers' Oakley IS the "star" clown. He draws S1G0 ger week for doing the baseball catcher stunt and several others.
 Over at the circus stables are 500 draught horses and two hundred ring horses. Tn the dining room 72 wait CTS and coffee boys are busy feeding the army of HOO employees. Three thousand five hundred pounds of beef were purchased in Bisbee yesterday: 20 bushels of potatoes, 700 pounds of bread. and three barrels of sugar, for this purpose.
 In the main the nature of every cir GUS performance is similar. But it is not idle compliment to say that yester- days performance excelled in good things. There was more of the mar vicious, more of the hair-raisirg, more of the graceful and accomplished, and also more of the humorous. Only a few years ago it was considered al most an impossibility for a rider to run and jump on a horse, alighting on his feet, and there were put a few of the best riders who could accom- plish this feat. Yesterday, in one act eight persons did this little trick, and during the performance there was probably a score of men and women who did it at one time or another. Tn
 
 two women on the same horse, and they all mounted in that manner. It is suspected that one of these accom- plished ladies could even get off a street car without turning backward and that for a woman, is the supreme test.
 Tn the dancing and time stepping ac complishments of the educated horses there could be no more perfect work and the hippodrome races at the con clusion were wild and inspiring, show ing both the cleverness of the riders and drivers and the Ieai earnestness Of the horses that participated.
 The performance opened, of course with the big spectacular event the Durbar of Delhi. It was all that was advertised, and was a very impressive ceremony. Though many of the Hin docs. Eas! Indians and others whp for the moment, occupied positions of dig nity and importance, were store heards aud faces as solemn as though they were really in earnest, poth were entirely suitable to the occas' on, aad che mar was heard to remark ,.Iat he did not Lelieve tho real DurSas csTilf hold a candle to it. The moral is ths: the RasLum & Bailey circrs u-ses OI'el tai splendor ashans; C itself.
 Rarnum and Bailey report the sSa son as the most successful in the his tory of the show, and will give theiI last performance at Hot Springs. Ark. on the 2Sth inst
 Eight thousand people saw the bie show yesterday afternoon. and last night the crowd was estimated al three thousand. Today the circus will be at Douglas. Friday at Deming and Saturday at Fl Paso.
 It is 10 be hoped that Barnum &