The daily sentinel., 1905-07-24
THE BIG SHOW COMING

Barnum & Bailey's No. adver-
tising car was in the city today. and
a small army of bill posters and lith-
ographers were busy recovering the
billboards and Frightening up the
gaily Colored circus paper In the store
windows. This will be the last ad-
vertising car to visit this city before
the coming of the big show.
According to w. ID. CoNey, one of
the agents of the show. who called at
this Office this morning the Bar
mum 4 Bailey circus will prove a rev
elation TO local show -goers.
There are many interesting feat
ures of the big snow, however" said
Mr. CoNey, that the public never
sees. The paraphernalia is Impress
i've in its magnitude, and the per
formance sends the crowd away filled
with wonderment; but the motor
power behind the big show and the
marvellous organization that makes
its operation possible is not in evil
dence to that part of the people
which sees the performance and the
multifarious eNhibiternl features,
and nothing else.
"The Barnum & Bailey show en-
ploys the services of nearly l,100
men and women; it requires IS cars
to transport It from city to city; it's
staff of agents embraces a dozen men
who are paid salaries equal to those
received by a bank president: 1t has
four advertising cars, and nearly
hundred men are engaged in posting
the bills and spreading the tidings
of its coming; II spends n quarter of
a million dollars every year for
printing; its newspaper bills aggre-
gate another hundred thousand dol
1u n In IN
with five newspaper men to keep in
touch with the public through the
press; II employs over 500 high sal
aried performers; il maintains a spec
tacle at an average expense of ST.
600 a day: il comes into town at day
break. puts up IL acres of tents,
plays to from 5000 to $4,000 spec
tators, and the next day is dong the
same thing a hundred miles away
it carries its own commissary depart
ment, feeds its hundreds of employees
in its great dining tents as well and
as generously as a first class hotel,
and far more eXpeditiously; handles
through its ticket wagons and finan-
cial department from $4,000 to Sl5,-
900 every day and costs from $1,000
to 5000 every day 1t runs.
THE Barnum & Bailey show eX-
hibits it's magnitude and system in
other ways. 1t is the only show that
provides tents for the transaction Of
its financial business. for the mana
ger and for the staff of bookkeepers
and auditors. There is also a press
tent for the use of the newspaper
men. Every ticket is a coupon tick
ct, and everyone who buys a ticket
for the show is insured a seat Stand
ing room is never sold. There are
L nf %
chair. slap-down reserved seat and
a general admission seat. The latter
all have footrests, which means dou-
BILE expense to the show, double
number of boards and double force
of men to handle them.
THE performance is given on
colossal scale and the menagerie is
immense A dozen different exhibit
tions are given for one price Of dd-
mission. and every way one turns
there is something suggested by the
magnitude and broad gauge charac-
ter of the great show.
There is no parade this year the
show has become too big to make a
street procession necessary or desir-
able but this Is compensated for by
remarkable free exhibition which
Is given on the show grounds prior
to the opening of the doors. The
show also presents many remarkable
new acts this season. The most dis
cussed is the Dip of Death in which
Young French woman loops the
gap in an automobile. This is un-
doubtedly the arenic sensation of the
year"
There will be only one show in
Grand Junction at 10 o'clock, Mon
day morning, July 81.