Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-13
.BIG SHOW BILLED
 FOR DOUGLAS OCT. 3

DOUGLAS. Sept. 12-(S (Specan-
 This morning the first advertising brigade of Ringing brothers arrived in Douglas and the announcement was made that the Worlds Greatest Shows" would exhibit in this city on Thursday, October 8.
 The agents have been busy making their contracts for supplies and as the time goes on others will come to town and make similar contracts TOT other supplies. It takes a lot of de tail to run a big show, and the agents must make arrangements for no small amount of stuff to be delivered at the show grounds on the day of the cir GUS.
 For instance, during one season with the RingIings fOrty-fiye tons of bread alone is consumed. while the milk proposition is of a quantity suf of Uncle Sam's navy. The expense of maintaining the Hotel Ringing does not make a healthy spot on the ledger when compared with the total outlay required to operate this stu pendous enterprise. During the road season over 1900 carloads of hay is fed to the horses, besides the tremen' dous amount of oats and corn. the elephants and geological members re quiring an additional amount. Ele- plants never suffer from indigestion and to keep the twoItailed critters governable you must be liberal with feed. They never sleep longer than two hours out of every twenty-four. So 1t is almost a case of supplying feed continually. At night when the lum- bering scamps are loaded on the cars IL Is q IIIS1T tszi cise!e cise!e that each car cn-i taias enough hay to keep the big prutes munching. After a person ha. figured tde total cost to feed thh great gathering of human and jungle members, let him turn to new page and commence on the amounts ex- pended with railroads for transporting eighty-fiye double length cars over the United States and Canada. Let him figure what it requires in good legal tender to advertise this tented mon arch. To furnish the Autographed paper posted in advance of this show necessitates a continuous grind, win ter and summer, of the presses of Americas largest show printing estao- lishment Besides this tremendous output. a printing firm in Chicago is under contract to print ton upon ton of soft matter" such as dates, her aids and cloth banners. Far in ad- vance of this circus are 200 agents and bill posters who must be men toned on the expense account. By this department 2700 barrels of flour Is used for making paste with which this advertising matter is posted. When the cost of tb.s IS satisractori- ly figured, reflect what the Western Union and Postal Telegraph. compan- ies receive each season Tor telegraph ic service
 When the big show comes here. take an hour of and figure the amount required to pay the I280 peo- pie on the Ringing salary list, some of them draw bank rolls every payday that run into three figures, while a certain per cent top the scale at the four figure mark European perform CTS are expensive features and as there are 200 of the foreign tongue representatives trayeIing with the show this season, the salary envelopes are naturally well filled. There are a thousand other items of which an out slider would never dream, that run in to big money. and it is declared that it requires 75O0 real American dollars to cover the expenses of Rigging brothers circus each and every day during the tenting season.