Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-04
THE BIG SHOW
 COMES TO TOWN
Circus Train Will Arrive at Don Luis 8 4. N. Free
 Performance at Il
"The big show comes today!'

The Dig show comes IOuay.
 The sense of exhilaration that sweeps over the community at this announcement is not confined to the small boy nor to the small boys big brother.
 It is a popular and legitimate thing for batter famflias to he" and "haw" a little when asked if he is going to the circus, and finally admit in half deprecating way, that he will proba- bly, have to go and see the animals" But, way down in his heart, unless that useful member is warped and calloused beyond all hope of recovery, there is a sense of jubilation, surg ing of old feelings and old memories a perfect flood of recollections in which the one-ring circus of other days, and Dan Rice, and Jim" Robin son. the champion rider of the uni verse; and a long list of other fa- nous ring celebrities, are photograph ed upon his mind in a composite pie ture of other days. He may possibly say that the circus of these strenuous days, when there is so much to see that the spectator is constantly threat ened with strabismus and mental ab- lS UOt u DC hlth the old-time circus, with a single clown, one elephant, and a lonesome family of acrobats; but nevertheless, he wouldn't miss the show for twenty times the price of admission, and down in his heart he knows he is a good natured hypocrite and that he would ''take in" the circus if there wasn't boy this side of the North Pole.
 And so. when the five long trains of cars, used to transport the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth come rolling into the city, one after another. the curious army of greeting won't be confined to the small boy. Not much; father will be there, and mother and the small boys big brother and big sister, with a few uncles and aunts. and a large contingent of the small boys neighbors. Why? Well, that's something no one can explain. It is the fascination that is part and par eel of the circus. and that is all that can be said about it.
 The show will pitch it's tent on the grounds at Don Luis as fast as the cars are unloaded, in the E. P. & S. W. yards where the vans and wagons will be transferred to the exhibition grounds, and the work of erecting the tents put in operation. This is one of the most interesting features incl dent to the arrival of the big show, and always furnishes the crowd a great deal to see and to marvel at With the Barnum & Bailey circus this is true to an unusual extent, for the reason that the tents are the largest that have ever been constructed and require the heaviest poles ever util- iZed in a travelling exhibition. The center poles, particularly, are as heavy as any three poles used by or dinary circuses while their length is equal to the tallest mast of an ocean l going sailing ship. Notwithstanding | the great amount of canvas and the | immense height of the poles, the tents l will go up with almost increfble swiftness and within two hours after the arrival of the first wagon on the show lot, the erstwhile barren field will be transformed into a veritable city of canvas, with all the life hustle and novelty of a great fair.
 Everything will be in readiness for the free show which is to inaugurate the engagement. This remarkable exhibition which will take place on the show grounds between 10: 30 a. ID. and II a. m. and will be worth going miles to see. The Weitzmans, who give it, have a worldwide fame.