Arizona republican., 1905-09-29

are Austrians ten are Russian. fifty
 are German, four are Belgian.'ei are
 Scotch, four are Spanish, eight are fo-
 fish. two or Burmese, three are Welsh, about 295 are American, about 590 are English md one or tV-o are CoTeln.
 Tke animal part of the aggregation includes about 700 heIds-aIsO tails. There are more than 500 horses, thirty elephants. four giraffes. a dozen cam els and fifty cages of smaller beasts. The human part of the show may be divided into classes according to the parts the members play. TAeie are about 800 performers: 125 bill posters, advec Using agents and members of the press bureau; 100 raiirCad men, known as "razorbacks"; seventy-dve cooks and kitchen helpers; 150 AOstlerS, or, as they are called with the circus, | 'groOms," and 314 canvas men, proper 1 ty men, menagerie keepers and less inn DO. tant individuals. The canvas men ! look after. the tents, the property men { see that al the apparatus is in place, i hold the bars for the horses. lay the l carpets in the ring and do other gen 1 eral work. The menage-ie men look | after the caged beasts. There is be- ! sides these one chaplain.
 Tn religions there are Greek CathO- | lies. Roman Catholics, believers in Shintoisln. followers of Mohammed. i Brahma and Buddla; EpiscOpalians | including the Scotchmen; Baptists | Methodists. Lutherans and Hebrews. Many of them are devOut wcrShippers 1 in their religions and q large percent i age of tine Christians go regularly 10 i chu- ch when they are at home and at , tend the services conducted by the lcnaplain when on the road.
 l The pay days are divided among the different classes of employees. The 1 performers have one. the canvas men ! another and so on down the line. This 1 arrangement was made because of the ] impossibility of handling 1c65 pay en- 1 velopes in a day at such times that ali would have a chance to collect. The ] lowest salary is 50 a month; the nigh ] est is pretty close to S1.GG0 q week i The clowns draw from $65 to S100 a
 week according to their brand of 1 humor
 | After these come the riders of horses. ] They are paid from S75 to S125 a week 1 according to their ability and reputa 1 tiOn. Finally there are those who do l the aerial acts on the flying trapeze or 1 on bicycles They are the ones whose ! envelopes are the fattcst, for the man ] agement thinks they do more than any others to draw the dollars Of the pub ] lie to the box office. The salaries of 1 Mile de Tiers who Hoops the gap" in an automobile and of VoIo. the volatant, 1 who cycles the aerial arch are the highest in the show.
 There was a time when the riders i Of horses were the most highly paid 1 performers. but when the aerial events 1 that make the spectators hair stand on l end entered the arena the demand for riders fell off and their salaries drop ped in proportion. Old circus goers will remember Charlie Fish. At one 1 time ne drew $500 a week because of l his ability as a bareback rider, but be- i fore his death he had dropped to $T5. ] Now it Is the man or woman who can 1 produce the most startling and dan l Eerous feat and go through it alive who ! has the call. and the more daring the act the higher the pay.
 The majority of the circus people l have members Of their families with them. There are men and their wives, | sons daughters. cousins. uncIes, aunts. ! Inephews and nieces The Florenz troupe l Of acrobats is made up of two branches l of a family. There is the head Of the | house, his wife. their son his brother | his brothers wife and his brothers two 1 sons. The other five members of the l troupe are all blood relations, chiefly l cousins.
 Tn the Grunatho troupe of eight wo- men gymnasts there are the mothers l three daughters and four nieces. Tn l the imperial Viennese trOpe the-e Is q ! leader, his three nephews and four Of his nephews children, besides two cou-
 sins-the Allen sisters. In the Gull l lietti troupe riders of high-schooI l horses. three are Herr GuiIIietti, his | wife her half sister and her cousin. i Rose Wentworth. the bareback rider,
 is the wife of Harry Wentworth, the
 clown. Ella Bradna, another rider. is 1 the wife of Fred Bradna, Q ringmaster.
 So it goes on through the list until one l comes to the COrean twins who are lit 1 erally related by flesh and blood.
 The circus travels in ninety-two spe- | cial cars made up into five trains. Into
 these are packed the show people, the animals, the gilded wagons and all the paraphernalia of this polyglot world.
 When the circus is on the show grounds
 it occupies fourteen tents. including the
 | "big top.' There is one stretch of | canvas for the main tent, one for the | menagerie. one for the kitchen. an-
 other for the dining room, one for the | dressing rooms and others for each ] separate depaI tment of the manage
 ment.
 ! The daily expense of maintenance 1 and transportation ranges from S6.0O0
 to S7,500 but these figures are not so
 startling when it is realized that the
 main exhibition tent can comfortably
 seat 14,800 persons and that crowds are
 often turned away.
 | These are some of the figures of the | circus. If Uncle sam wants to know
 more about this heterogeneous travel | ing town, let him turn a census agent loose in it, when the show exhibits in l Phoenix, Monday. Oct. ?. but the agent had better take a corps of interpreters
 with him. and even he would find
 lfew languages that the Interpreters wouldn't understand