The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-13
GREAT CIRCUS TO
 COME OCTOBER 27
BARNUM & BAlLEY'S ADVERTlS- ING CAR ARRIVES IN BlRMING- HAM ToDAY-sHoW WILL HAVE
 MANY WONDERFUL FEATURES.

Barnum X Bailey's No. advertising car will be in the city today and a small army of bill posters and Photographers will be busy covering the billboards and brightening up the gaily-colored circus paper in the store windows.
 According to w. D. Coxey, one of the agents of the show, the Barnum x Ball ey circus will prove a revelation to local show goers when it exhibits in Birming- ham October 27.
 ..There are many interesting features of the big show, however, said MT. coxev, that the public has never seen. The paraphernalia in itself is impressive, and the performance sends the croWo away filled with wonderment, but the motor power behind the big show and the marvellous organization that makes its operation possible is not in evidence to that part of the people which see the performance and the multifarious eXhlpi- tional features and nothing else.
 "The Barnum & Bailey show employs the services of nearly HOO men and wo- men: 1t requires lightweight cars to transnort 1t from city to city; US stan of agents embraces a dozen men Who are paid salaries equal to those receiVed py a bank presidents it has four adVerlsIls cars, and nearly hundred men are en- saeed in posting the bills and spreadlns
 
 quarter of a million dollars every year for printing; it's newspaper bills aggre- gate another hundred thousand dollars if maintains a press bureau wlth nVe nevspa per men to keep in touch Wlth tne public through the press; II employs over ROO high salaried performers; It maintains . spectacle at an average expense or e,ooo dav. if comes into town at day breal nuts up twelve acres or tents, n,avs to from 15O00 to 25.00o spectators and the next day Is doing the same thing ,oo miles away: it carries its own com ,n;ssarv department, feeds its hundreds of emnloyes in great dining tents as well and as generously as a nrst class hotei' and far more expeditiously: handles saoo,.tnant from S5O00 to si5.000 every day ,,s nasts from 5000 to 5000 every day 1t runs. ,..,.,. ,.. ,,agnitude and system in other ways. If is the only show that provides tents for the transaction of it's hnanclal pus- iness-for the manager and Tor the stait of bookkeepers and auoltors: ,here ls also n press tent for the use of the news ,.arar men Every ticket Is coupon t;cl,at and everyone who buys ticket for the show is insured seat. standing room, is never sold. There are three klnus of seats: a grand stand char, sap down reserved seat and general ad- ,oission seat. The latter all have foot rests, which means double expense to the show-a double number of boards and . double force of men to handle them.
 .,The performance is given on a colos- col scale. and the menagerie is immense. dozen different exhibitions are given for one price of admission and every way o,s turns there is something suggested bv the magnitude and broad guage char acter of the show.
 .There is no parade this wear; the snow ,.a. haoome too big to make street ,srooassion either necessary or desirable. The show draws entirely on its merits. The lack of a parade is, moreover more than compensated for by number of sensational acts. In which the very last word of reckless daring seems to have been said These include thrilling somer- sau,ts in midar on bicycles and in au-