Bisbee daily review., 1905-09-27
BEHIND THE SCENES
 AT 4 BIG CIRCUS
Workings of the Greatest Show on Earth Employ
 ing SOmeIl3OO People

According to w. D. Coxey, one of the agents of the show, who called at this office this morning, the Barnum & Bailey circus will prove a revela- tion to the local show-goers when it exhibits here, Wednesday, October 1.
 There are many interesting feat ures of the big show, however" said Mir. Coxey, that the public never sees. The paraphernalia is impres- siye in it's magnitude, and the perform ance sends the crowd away filled with wonderment, but the motor power be- hind the big show and the marvellous organization that makes it's operation possible is not in evidence to that part Of the people which sees the per tormance and the multifarious exhibi- tOral features and nothing else.
 The Barnum & Bailey show em- ploys the services of nearly eleven hundred men and women; it requires eighty-eight cars to transport it from city to city; its staff of agents en- braces a dozen men who are pad salaries equal to those received by a bank president; it has four advertising cars. and nearly hundred men are engaged in posting the bills and spreading the tidings of it's coming; it spends a quarter of a million dol lars every year for printing; it's news paper bills aggregate another hundred thousand dollars; it maintains a press bureau with five newspaper men to keep in touch with the public through the press; it employs over 300 high salaried performers; it maintains a spectacle at an average expense of Sl,000 a day; it comes into town at daybreak, puts up F acres of tents, plays to from 15,000 to 25,000 specta- tors, and the next day is doing the same thing a hundred miles away: it carries it's own commissary depart ment, feeds its hundreds employees in great dining tents as well and as generously as a first-class hotel, and far more expeditiously, and handles through its ticket wagons and finan- cial department from 5000 to s15,0O0 every day and costs from S5.O00 to s7,000 every day it runs.
 The Barnum & Bailey show ex- hibits its magnitude and system in other ways. IL is the only show that provides tents for the transaction of its financial business. for the manager and for the staff of bookkeepers and auditors. There is also a press tent for the use of newspaper men. Every ticket is a coupon ticket, and every one who buys a ticket for the show is insured a seat. Standing room is never sold. There are three kinds of seats, a grand stand chair, a slap- down reserved seat and a general ad- mission seat. The latter all have foOtTests, which, means double ex- pense to the shOw-a double number of boards and double force of men to handle them.
 The performance is given on a colossal scale and the menagrie is immense. A dozen different exhibi- tions are given for the price of one admission, and every way one turns there is something suggested by the and broad guage character of the great show. There is no parade this year. The show has be- come too big to make a street pro cession necessary or desirable, but this is compensated for by the re- markable free exhibition which is giv- en on the show grounds prior to the opening of the doors, afternoon and evening. The show also presents many remarkable new acts this sea son. The most discussed act is the Dip of Death, in which young French woman loops the gap Tn an automobile. This is undoubtedly the arenic sensa tiOn of the year.