Arizona republican., 1907-09-28
FRIENDS ARE COMING
 FOR A SHORT VISIT
Rinsling Brothers Will Not be lone-
 some When They Get Here-Jack Quinn Will Meet Them at the Depot.

Jack Quinn, who drives a hack for Charlie Stevens. is jubilant over the expected arrival on Sunday, of a large party of his old friends who will re- main here over Monday. There are some thirteen hundred of them. be- side six or seven hundred horses and the largest and best travelling menag- erie on earth, for the Ringing Broth CTS spent three of the best years of their lives travelling with Jack and the circus. Jack was driver and a rather skillful one too, for he held the strings over a ten-horse team. The Ringlings went along with Jack and the other fellows who really made the circus and all they had to do was to run it and pay the bills.
 Jack was a well known hack driv- Ter here many years ago. but one day he succumbed to the wanderlust and pulled for the big tents. He first at tached himself to the John Robinson circus which he followed for three years. and then spent a couple of years looking after the interests of Barnum and Bailey. He finally dis covered the Ringlings. and finding they were the best people in the world to work for. and had absolutely the biggest and best circus. he attached himself to the aggregation. He did not desire to become absolutely indis- pensable to the circus for fear that he might die sometime. and leave 1t in an embarrassing position. so after three years he tore himself loose and came back to Phoenix.
 He says though that without doubt the Ringlings are the kings of the cir GUS business. They are the finest people to work for and have the big gest and best show. The secret of it all is fair treatment and good disci- pline. The five brothers were har- ness makers a great many years ago. when they conceived the idea of going into the show business. They adopt ed the business principles of getting the best help. paying good price for il, then demanding good service- Even the common laborer with the Ring lang circus has a good place to sleep when on the road and the best cuisine that can be furnished in a cooktent. They pay the highest wages for the SeTNltt pcIlOIIltu, tSpeSldil TUT lIlc skilled employees and then they demand the best work. No drunkenness is permitted while men are on duty. no boisterous conduct on the grounds. not even the cursing and personal abuse that In the old days was the portion of the common help at the hands or the mouths of the bosses. The bosses treat the humblest employe with respect. They tell what they want done IL is either done or the man gets his money at the treasurer's office. Moreover there are no graft ing or thieving projects carried along with the show. If a crook Is found among the circus army he is a strang- ger and just as much an enemy of the circus as he is of the people in the towns it visits. And it is seldom character of this sort is met with. The management hires by contract its de- tective force for preventing these things. IL also carries with the show a physician and an attorney so 1t is ready at all times for almost any sort of a complication. It is a sort of a big moving city. of which Otto Ring ling is the mayor and the rest of the brothers are the aldermen.
 The boss hostler is a man named Del Donovan. and he is supposed to be the best judge of horse flesh in the country He buys and sells all the stock. the owners never giving that part of the business any attention.