Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-27
AMUSEM ENTS.
An Invisible Clock.

There is an invisible clock with the
Cole Brothers Show that tells time with
never failing accuracy, that is under
stood only by the attaches of this CO.
lOssal aggregation. This clock has
neither hands nor dial, requires no
winding up and a blind man could tell
time by it but a deaf man could not.
This clock is nothing more than the
band that furnishes music for the per-
Torrance. 1t may sound strange to
talk about telling time by a band OF
music but it is q fact. The caDvaSman
who patrols the outside of the tents to
keep dishonest ones from sneaking in,
the grooms in the horse tent, the per-
formers in the dressing tent and the
cooks and walters in the dining tents
all measure time by this great band.
When the first strains of the band
are heard you will hear some one say,
THE doors to the big show are OPEN"
and then until the music for the races
is heard, which tells them better than
any other clock could that it is time
to prepare for dinner, the band is the
only clock they know. 1t would sound
strange to a layman to hear one groom
call out to another and ask what time
it is, to see the one asked stop his work
and listen for a second and then shout
back, Little Icdna's in the ring" That
would sound strange, but it would
sound stranger to hear the man who
made the inquiry shout back, I'll have
to hurry little and l had no idea it
was so late" Or to be around the din
ing tent and see the steward suddenly
spring from Il chair and call out,
Bread up, Mike Roney's on
How do they know who is performing
when they are so far away? Solely by
the music. Every act has its own mu-
sic and this music is never changed.
The methods with Cole Brothers Shows
are so perfect that the time of the acts
do not vary half minute during the
entire season. The employees know
what music is played for each act and
the moment they hear the music they
know what act is on and that is their
knowledge of time. Should a stranger
ask a circus attachee the time he would
listen until he heard the music and
then would tell him the act. He
knows whether this act comes on
fourth fifth or twentieth, and could fix
the time according to the stranger g
way VI ttulilS IL " WItlllil IL Lew ScC-
onds. Time after the afternoon perfor-
nance is gagged between the opening
of the doors and the races and
concert. From the concert it is
guaged by the opening of the doors
to the evening performance and
from then to tearing down time,
AS all time around a big show
such as the Cole Brothers will bring
here. is governed by the shows movc-
ments, a better clock could not have
been invented. In unloading the show,
erecting the tents, and tearing them
down, and loading them in cars, no
one cares what time it is. All this
work has to be done in the quickest
possible way and time has nothing to
do with it, The working system is so
perfect that every minute is occupied
and when there is work to do the time
of day never bOthers the working man,
for he is doing all he can and whether
on time or behind time he could do no
more There is no such thing as being
ahead of time with the Cole Brothers
Shows, for they have no set time for
performances. They utilize every min
ute.
Cole Brothers Show will be seen in
Augusta. August 5.