The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-26
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With its Auto Dip-Things About it
Trains and Travel From Cor
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At Corvallis, Thursday was day
of circus excursion trains. The oc-
casion was the Ba-num & Bailey
show at Albany. The crowd start
ed from Corvallis on the $50 train
in the morning, and made contribu-
tions to each departing train there
after. At nine o'clock the regular
Bay train arrived, two hours ahead
of time. 1t brought in a quota of
seasiders returning home, who
waited over at Corvallis for the de-
parture Of the Westside. The same
train and another at 1890 ran the
4. number of Corvallisites circus
bound, up to 153, to say nothing
of the huge list that made the trip
by private conveyance. Another
train at six in sthe evening made
total by rail of as during the day.
The show is claimed to be the
biggest thing of the kind on earth.
Some Corval1isites dispute this,
saying Ringing Brothers circus is
its peer. However this maybe, the
Barnum & Bailey aggregation is
big enough to satisfy the ordinary
circus attendant.
1t moves on 81 very long cars di-
vided into four big. long trains each
propelled by two of the Southern
Pacific Company's heavy locomo-
tives,
1t required 200 bushels Of oats,
$4,000 pounds of hay and $50
pounds of bran to feed the. 600
horses Thursday. The meat re-
quired by the circus cooks consist
ed of 1000 pounds of beef, 100
pounds of bacon, and one big ham,
1900 1oaves of bread, 200 pies. IS
lerge cakes and rs dozen cookies.
This circus is conceded to be the
largest and most complete amuse-
ment enterprise in the world.
Five years cf continual tours in
Europe, e1ectrifying and amazing
hirty nations, thirty two years in
America, playing on an average of
5000, 900 people each year, eighty
seven cars, one thousand and sixty
five employees. six hundred and nine
ty horses, twelve acres Of canvas,
four advance cars, employing IT'S
men, twenty three advance agents,
such is the circus 4
The main tent seats 1882 peo-
p1e, with the most wonderful seat
ing capacity the public has ever
seen. Three thousand meals are
served daily in the cook house. The
dip of death apparatus weighs 20
tons. There are sixty ushers, for
ty property men, aud the Office
force consists of fourteen expert
bookkeepers, twenty seven assist
ant treasurers, and six of the high.
est salaried auditors in America
Among the performers are, Span
iards, japanese, Austrians. German
French, Turks, Russians, Amer
leans, etc. The daily expenses are
$500. There is a complete secret
service department and Red Cross
department.
The blacksmith shop employs
: twenty one men, the wagon shop,
twelve men and the paint shop, six,
teen men. Three veterinary sur
geons are with the show.
They have their own attorney,
postman and weather forecaster.
There are four giraffes valued al
$4,000, two hundred and sixteer
rare animals, twenty four perform
ing elephants in the menagerie
which is valued at a quarter mil
lion dollars. They have the Oldest
elephant in captivity, aged "a year:
The side show contains thirty ore
freaks, among them, the tallest mar
in the world, and the smallest cou
pie on earth. One robe worn BY
an elephant is valued at $r2, 900
The S. P. is selling round triE
tickets between Corvallis and Port
land for S. good going Saturday
or Sundays and returning Sunday
or Monday following, either OF
East or West side, but good only
on afternoon train from Albany t.
Portland on Saturdays if East sid
is taken. Passengers to pay loca
fare between Corvallis and Albany