Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-02
Great Show Syndicate Erects
Twelve Acres of Canvas In
Three Hours.
LIKE GREAT MODERN MIRACLE.
Crowds Flock to Agricultural Park to
See the Beginning Of Two Days
OF Immense Display.


there were ~ acres OF tents staked
down. and the entire show was repos-
ing each item In It's place. just as
though II had always been at rest
there. One large tent had nothing but
saddles piled up along the walls. and
these were neatly covered with dust
cloths, while force Of colored men,
resembling an old fashioned fire bril-
gade, spread water from many
mouthed hose nozel over the ground,
thus doing away the dust-curse which
has spoiled many circus riders COM
fort. In the animal tent the big griz-
ely bear was rejoicing In the pleasures
OF an ice bath. and bowling In much
glee about IL, while the giraffee sisters
looked down from among the over
head guy ropes and wondered what ice
baths We're for anyhow.
WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION.
The man who said that the German
army was the most perfectly organ
ized body In the world, hadn't seen the
B1rnum- Bailey circus pitch camp.
We don't have to eXaggurate, said Mr..
tishell who remains at leisure for
newspaper men, as he opened the flap
OF a tent as big as the main tents OF
most circuseS. and showed prospect
OF half a thousand draft horses
munching their morning hay and roll
Ing In comfortable beds Of clean straw.
the show is big enough,--our problem
Is system System IN everything from
the biggest item to the littlest"
WHAT CIRCUS SHOWS.
The circus shows that the world
moves, There were no gangs Of heavy
hitting stake drivers. but a machine
went putting along planting stakes as
q tomato platter passes over the UP
to date farm a tap or two and a
shove In each case did Il, and the most
Of the time was lost IN moving from
neo TO peg,
CLEANLINESS AND ORDER
The circus from the outside Is entire
ly attractive, The men who rush about
are not uninvitlng or uncleanly Dress
cd, Everything about them however
negligee the attire suggests cleanliness
at least, and the atmosphere Of 1t all is
wholesome and free from the faint of
the brutal and tough. Even the spiel
ers are not the usual type with more
mouth than head. And over II all Ia
system, system that never gets out Of
Joint for a minute. In the eating tent
K was pay day, The men were lined
up in one end, and the call make
ready came from the other end, In
hardly the time II takes 10 tell It ny
proof covers were off the dishes, al
ready arranged, tho table covers were
turned back, and the kitchen force
was ready to feed thousand men.
EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS.
Out near the main entrance was
sort OF executive headquarters. One
little tent marked private office"
housed a busy looking manager and a
force Of typewriters clicking OFF letters
and business documents. Next TO Il
stood the press bureau, where bright
young fellow rNnrultel from some
newspaper Office, was working with
paste-pot and shears, adding the morn
ing newspapers articles to a big scrap
book, filed with all that It said on the
show. This book he said, pointing
to q document to he measured with a
Foot rule. "just represents the last II
weeks. We need a new one pretty Of
ten"
Nothing Is overlooked I'm the man
agement Next the press tent stands a
red cross tent, with a surgeon In charge
ready for any emergency. and next
that stands the weather prophets ap-
paratus, with a reliable prophet In
charge, tipping of the show constantly
as to what Is coming UP within the "a
hours, and especially within the nearest
hour or two. The arrangement Is said
10 pay FOR Itself and prophet In the
saving to costumes and apparatus,
SUBSTITUTE PARADE"
This morning at fl o'clock the substi-
tute parade went on at the show
grounds themselves, the principal fea-
ture OF which was a slack wire per-
Torrance by man and woman so
Feet above ground with no net below
TOO LARGE FOR STREETS.
The lack OF parade is a feature with
this circus. Instead OF being a sign
Of weakness, which they would not
show by allowing a public to gaze at
II, II Is purely on account OF size that
would not permit Of a parade in add.
ton 10 the other duties, The parade
was the beginning of the circus The
medieval pageantry had the parade
first and the show was tackled on af-
forwards. Now II seems that the evo-
luton of the circus has carried 1t To
a stage where 1t has forgotten its
source, and after hundreds OF years has
become a show IN tents only, and not
for the people lined up on the streets
II Is SAT- Lakes first experience with
the new phase OF circus shows and
oplpion Is very much differentiated as
TO the merits OF the change, the small
boy vote being pretty solid against e.
The FIRST show began at this af-
lernoon, after side shows and freaks
had gathered IN the dimes Of the con-
stantly increasing crowds from 10
o'clock on.
This evening the advance sale of
tickets indicates an immense crowd.
Each ticket sold, however, VIII en-
title the holder TO a numbered seat,
and after that the crowd will have 70
wait till the next show. The standing
room curse Is eliminated.
THE BlGNEss OF 1T ALL
Knowing fun well the proneness of
'howmen TO pad figures the Deseret
News asked Mr.. Dan s. Fishell, its
lhief press representative TO give an
absolutely correct statement as to size,
'ost etc, and these are the figures he
saying they were absolutely
Eighty-seven cars.
one thousand and sixty-hve employees
Six hundred and ninety horses.
Twelve acres Of canvas.
-Four advance cars, employing lI5
men.
Twenty-three advance agents.
Main tent seats 1850 people. No
tandlng room ever sold.
Three thousand meals served daily
n cook house,
L'Auto-Bollde or the Dip Of Death
apparatus weighs 20 tons,
sixty ushers
Forty property men.
ONCE force consists OF IL expert |
oookkeepers, q assistant tressurers,
ix OF the highest salaried auditors In |