Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-09-13
EVERYONE GETS A SEAT
Opera Chairs Are Also Fur
nished Patrons of the Bar
mum & Bailey Circuses.

One Of the announcements of the
Barnum & Bailey circus that attracts
particular attention is the statement
that seat and foot-rest are fur
nished every purchaser of ticket
for the big show. What this means
need not be explained to anyone who
recalls the discomfort and crowding
attendant upon a visit to the ordina-
ny circus.
Zone important feature of the
Barnum & Bailey seating plan, - said
an agent of the big show, lis the fact
that every ticket issued, whether re-
served or not, has a coupon. Where
a seat is not reserved in advance, the
admission coupon does not call for a
specific seat, but entities the holder
to certain section. Each of these
sections has accommodations for a
certain number of visitors, and as
only sufficient tickets to fill them are
sold, there is never any possibility of
overcrowding. In the seats ordina-
rily furnished by circuses to those
purchasing admission tickets only,
visitors are compelled to bangle their
legs uncomfortably in the air, or to
excite the resentment of others by
resting their feet on the seats in
front. At the same time the man
who is thus taking advantage of his
neighbor to rest his feet, has the an
noyance of suffering the same inflic-
ton from those behind. BY the new
foot-rest scheme inaugurated by
Barnum & Bailey all this discomfort
and cause Of i'll feeling is obviated.
Every seat has an extra board upon
which to rest the feet. This means
the carrying of just double the num-
Der Of planks, but the show has its
reward in the increased comfort and
consequent satisfaction Of the pub
lie"
This reform in the arrangements
of the show also extends to the high
er priced seats. Formerly, the re-
served seats were nothing more than
the ordinary blue boards covered
with piece of carpet. Then came
the crude slap-down seat, which is
still retained by the shows. The Bar
mum & Bailey show has some of the
slap-down seats, but they are of an
improved pattern and are sold at an
intermediate price. The best reserv-
ed numbered seats are modern, up
to-date, comfortable opera chairs,
placed upon platform so solidly and
substantially constructed that child
could play hide-and-seek- on it with
out danger or injury. The Barnum
& Bailey circus is the only travelling
show in the world that furnishes
seats of this character, and while it
means the employment of many more
men to handle them and the utiliza-
ton of several extra railway cars to
carry the paraphernalia the cost has
been more than justified"
There is little doubt that those who
witness the performance of the Bar
mum & Bailey circus when the big
show exhibits in Hopkinsville, Sept |
26, will have their enjoyment en-
HANGED by the arrangements care
full preparation for their comfort and |
safety. The show. it is announced, |
will present all the new features
here, just as soon in New York dur
ing the opening engagement of the
These include the dip of
DEATH" the aerial automobile sensa-
ton; the 1.-TWO Twirls of Terror" in
which mid-air somersaults are turn
ed by daring wheelmen; the new
"Peace" spectacle, and long list of
riding, acrobatic, aerial and trained
animal novelties.