The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-14
E|CHTY-E|CHT CARS
Required to Bring Barnum & Bailey's
Circus to Cairo Sept. 28-NearIy
Eleven Hundred Men EN-.
ployed.

Barnnm a. Baileys No. 2, advertis-
ing car was in the city yesterday and
ographers We're busy recovering the
billboards and Frightening mp the
gaily'colored drcus paper in the
store windows
According 10 W. D. Coxey. one of
/ he agents of the show who called at
this office yesterday morning. the
Barnum & Bailey circus will prove
Irevelaton to local show-goers when
\ comes to Cairo September %.
i There are many interesting fea-
lures of the big show however said
Mr.. Coxey, that rhe public never
sees The paraphernalia is impress
'sve in its magnitude, and the per
tformance sends the crowd away filled
with wonderment. but the motor pow
or behind the big show and the mar
voIous organization that makes its
operation possible is not in evidence
to that part OF the people which Sc
he performance and the multifarions
| eXhibitional features, and nothing
| else
The Barnum K Bailey show EN-
ploys the services of nearly eleven
hundred men and women; it requires
lightweight cars to transport it from
city to city: its staff of agents en- /
braces a dozen men who are paid sal !
aries equal to hose received by 4 |
bank president: II has four advertis- |
ing cars, and nearly a hundred men
are engaged in posting the bills and /
spreading the tidings of its coming;
il spends quarter of a million dol
lars every year for printing; it's news
paper bills aggregate another hun
dred thousand dollars; it maintains a
press bureau with five newspaper men
to keep in touch with the public
through the press. ii employs over
800 high-salarled performers; it main
tains spectacle at an average eX-
pense Of ST 600 day; it comes into
town al daybreak, puts mp twelve
acres of tents, plays to from 5000 to
$4,000 spectators, and the next day is
doing the same thing a hundred miles
away; il carries its own commissary
department., feeds it's hundreds of en-
ployes in great dining tents as well
aud as generously as a first-cass hotel
and far more expe,litiously; handles
cal department from SIS 600 to $4,000
every day and costs from $1,000 to
81 900 every day it runs.
The Barnum & Bailey show eXhib-
is its magnitude and system in other
ways 1t is the only show that pro-
tides tents for the transaction of its
business, for the manager
md for the stat of b0Okkeepers and
auditors. There is also a press tent
or the use of the newspaper men.
Every ticket is coupon ticket and
veryCne who buys a ticket for The
how IL insured seat Standing room p
5 never sold. There are three Kinds CT
t seats. grand stand chair, slap !,
own reserved seat and a general ad-
Mission seat. The latter all have foot
~"N'f "ii'Nh hcibi' tAith9f w
ne show-a double number of boards
nd double force OF men TO handle q
hem. pi
The performance Is given on a NJ
Dlossal scale. and the menagerie is 10
immense. A dozen different exhibit NJ
ons are given for one price of admis- pc
on, and every way one turns there 81
something suggested by the magni-
lde and broad guage character of the
'eat show.
There Is no parade this year. the S;
low has become too big to make a
rect procession either necessary or
'sirable. The show draws entirely
its merits. The lack of a parade A,
moreover. more than compensated in
II by a number of sensational big W;
rs In which The very last word in to
ckless daring seems to have been fo
i'd. These include thrilling somer- ex
ults in mid air on bicycles and Co
Doping the gap in automobiles. and cis
her startling feats. Tncidentlly. an
iractive free show is given on the sal
hibition grounds prior to the open to
: OF the doors. afternoon and even. tn,
:. The Barnum q, Bailey circus is sci
eater than ever this year and I am aat