The Washington herald., 1907-04-29
CIRCUS REACHES CITY
Parade Promises Mucn for
Younger Washington.
CROWDS SEE TENTS RAISED
Grounds at Fifteenth and II Streets
Northeast Under white Canvas.
COmmIssary Department Makes
short Work OF Feeding 1000 Peo-
pIe-Performers Go Sightseeing.

Circus day. little boys and girls. 10
speak emphatically. II ungrammatieally,
has came This is the morning for
notes TO teacher from mamma or papa
requesting the privilege of being excused
from school In order TO watch the glitter
ing. glorious grand 'steen million dollar
parade wind its superlauvely spectacular
way through the city streets. II mamma
or papa won't write an excuse note,
get a to0thache, headache, OF tummyache,
but don't miss the cute little elephants
and the monstrous, ponderous lion cubs
no it's the other way around-the mon
strous, cute-well, don't miss ii. anyway.
The parade viii start from the show
grounds at Fifteenth and II streets
northeast at $50 o'clock and proceed west
on Maryland avenue to b street, and west
on b street to New Jersey avenue, thence
along New Jersey avenue TO Massachu-
sets avenue, and west on Massachusetts
avenue to X street. The procession viii
follow along K street 10 Twenty second
street, south to Pennsylvania avenue,
east on the Avenue 10 First street, north
to b street, east to Maryland avenue. and
thence east 10 the show grounds. Fore
paugh & Sells" announces that the
parade this year Will be the finest thing
ever seen for nothing All the familiar
old features Of this time-honored pTelim-
mary to the circus have been retained,
and TO them have been added spectacular
and novel features calculated TO interest
young people OF all ages from five 10
sixty, and make little boys want TO be-
come lion tanners.
Comes in Four Sections.
seventy-nine freight and passenger cars.
in four sections brought the big show 20
Washington yesterday. II being Sunday.
there was no need Of putting the intricate.
ciock-li6e circus machinery in action at
full speed On weekday engagements
the vast. smooth-running organization
performs daily miracle. but yesterday
the preparations for to-day's two perform
ances We're taken in comparatively easy
stages for a circus. The first section Of
the trains arrived In town at about 8
o clock. and at in the afternoon, when
the dinner flag was flung from the mess
tent center pole, everything was ship
shape
The operations of the circus men were
witnessed by fully 10000 interested spec
tatOrs of all ages, sizes. and descriptions.
From morning until night, the big lot
was fringed with crowds of the curious.
and hundreds sWarmed about ali parts Of
the grounds watching the work at close
range. The circus men good naturedly
permitted the crowd 10 pry about TO It's
hearts content, and perfect order pre-
vailed at Il times
Employees Well Cared For.
a more perfect organization than that
Of such al enterprise as the FOrepaugh
& Sells circus is not extant. II is a small
city in Itself. a city Of 1900 inhabitants.
Working on the principle that the best
is none too good for their employees. the
/ circus management provides every com
fort compatible with this life OF incessant
travel. and no detail is overlooked that
tends to contribute 10 the health and hap
piness Of the circus people.
Perhaps the most important department
Of circus organization is the commissary
/ Good food and plenty of il is an absO-
/ lutte necessity to people upon whose
| health and strength depends the success
of the undertaking. Il is the commissary
/ tent that first spreads its canvas. and On
/ ordinary one-day engagements, when the
/ performers and employees have dressed in
/ their cars and driven or walked 10 the
/ grounds. they are greeted by the appetite
/ ing OdOr Of good coffee ana breakfast
eatables,
Chef Early on Grounds.
/ Commissary L. h. Nicodemus. the man
with the Forepaugh 4 Sells show who
has entire charge of the culinary depart
ment, arrived on the grounds yesterday
morning at 10.15 o'clock. He found the lot
vacant and bare, except for a few police
men and a crowd Of boys With the
commissary came W. II. Tomkins. the
/ circus chef who in winter holds that
/ post at one OF the best hotels in the West
and his staff of eight cooks and a baker
! Besides these, ninety other members OF
/ the commissaTy department. divided up
/ into gangs Of potato parers. dish washers,
walters. and helpers arrived with the
wagons bearing the cOmmissaTy depart
ment's paraphernala.
The ranges were set up and fires built,
and the kitchen tent reared around them
Adjoining. the great mess tent. seating
]. 900 persons, rose like magic, while within
its rising walls the corps OF table men
busted themselves setting the tables for
breakfast At 1880, one hour and fifteen
minutes after CommissaTy Nieodemus
arrival on the bare grounds. the break
fast flag was hoisted. and an appetizing
and substantial breakfast stood ready for