Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-25
CITY BUILT IN The NIGHT
Busy Scene on Show Grounds While 0mahs
People Slept
RlNGusGs' BIG SHOW PITCHES ITS TENTS
Splendid Organization OF Great Enter
prise shown by Its Arrival and
Preparation for Its Per-
fOrmances To-day.

While the good people OF Omaha were
sleeping peacefully in the early hours Of
this morning a canvas city was being built
in their midst by strange colony OF peo-
pie numbering more than 100 The work
was done swiftly and in silence. There
were no disturbing features. and when the
slumberer awakes he will be told the story
by nuttering flags of all nations and
procession OF excited youngsters hurrying
and chattering toward the magic city
The new settlement may not have a state
charter OF common council but it has
hotels, blacksmith shops. laundry. wagon
shop. postoflce, harness and barber shops
and it's doctors, lawyer. dentist. detectives
and clergyman, The name of Ringing
Bros. flies TO the breeze over the main
entrance to this odd encampment. Four
special trains brought the people, horses
wonderful animals and enormous equipment
to Omaha just as daylight was beginning
to sprout over the eastern hills The hrst
things unoaded when the trains began TO
arrive were the commissary wagons. BY
the time these wagons reached the grounds
the field had been measured of and an
iron pin with a white ribbon tied to its top
marked every spot where a stake was to be
driven.
Brea kfast Served Early.
The dining rooms and kitchens were set
up within forty minutes after the first
wagon reached the lot and Immediately
breakfast was served from red hot wagon
| ranges, in which fires were started the mo-
ment the first train reached Omaha. While
the hungry sledge- wielders sat down to eat
the canvas men were at work stretching
and lacing the sheets and preparing to
raise the heavy fabrics skyward After
breakfast the sledge gang again took up
| their hammers and began work on the
! stable tents, so that the 675 horses con-
nected with the shows could have shelter
and food at the earliest moment. The
! canvas men ate while the animal keepers
and hostlers of the menagerie were hauling
the cages into one Of the big tents and
/ placing them in their regular order and
leading the big exhibition stock into theiI
quarters. Everything about the cook and
| dining tents looked neat and orderly, and
the tables fairly groaned with the best the
market affords. Steward Webb provides
food daily for over 1000 people and buys
only the best. for, as he says. at is thS
only way to get the best servants and best
| service"
This morning seventy-hve gallons of cot.
fee thirty-five gallons of tea, 100 dozer
eggs. $50 pounds of pork chops. 400 loave,
of bread and six bushels Of potatoes werC
consumed. The feeding OF such~a large
number of people as travel with q circus
like Ringing Brothers Is not an easy task
but things moved along so smoothly thii
i morning that one might think only a small
family was being cared for. Great wagons
of imperishable food are carried from plac,
to place, and in cities like Omaha where thu
markets are good supplies are laid in fo
several days At dinner time a menu care
is provided, and the performers are as wei
fed as the guests OF any hrst-class hotel
Splendid Equipment of Horses.
In the horse tents the splendid working
horses and thoroughbred performing
horses were chewing their oats in perfec
contentment before the morning sun had
begun to warm up the ground The hand
some animals of the circus are evidentl!
given the best of care. The ring horse
occupy a separate tent. and are in charg
of men who do nothing else. All the work
ingmen with the circus have regular hour
each day. The men who load and UNLOAD
the trains are busy a certain length. o
time each morning and evening, and tn
remainder of the day is their own to sleep
rest enjoy. The canvas men take 81
much time for taking up and putting dow
the tent; the grooms work on the horse
and the ring and property men have certain
hours for their work. Each gang of mel
ls under a boss and the group OF bosses ar
under a head boss. The entire business o
conducting this big circus is as systemati
as the executive work of the government
Two Performances Today.
The big circus will exhibit here today
giving two performances, afternoon an
night. For the accommodation of the pub
lie, Ringing Brothers will open down
town ticket ONCE at the MyeTs-Dillon drul
store, where tickets may be bought at eX
actly the same prices charged in the tickle
wagons on the show grounds. Tn
street car company will make every efror
to handle the big crowd without delay o
confusion. The parade, for which Ring
ling Brothers are distinguished, will star
from the show grounds, Twentieth an
Paul streets, at 10 o'clock this morning
Three hundred and seventy-1ve performer
} are concerned In the huge program tina
, Ringing Brothers circus is without quail
ication the worlds greatest show" Mos
OF thees artists are appearing in Amerlc
for the first time. Not only the best q
circus valuc is woven into the list OF 10
acts, but the best In farce comedy. cOmi
opera, pantomime, minstrelsy. vsudevill
and spectacle. Forty elephants and IL
cages and lairs OF the rarest wild animal
. occupy the menagerie tent Three hun
dred dancing girls are a striking featur
of the opening spectacle. The costumin
OF this production Is extravagant and beau
; tiful. The whole circus In its personnel
, menagerie features, exclusive circus acts
excellent music, smart dressing, beautiful
: horses and general quality and conditio
OF things is unique and worthy of unre
served praise The highest expression o
the circus idea is undoubtedly that give
by the successful Ringing Brothers.
SCALPERS' CASES PENDING
Ticket Brokers still in Court will