The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-07
FACTS ABOUT BARNUM
 IN THE SHOW BUSINESS
He Was, as a Snowman, Born
 100 Years Before His Time

Final arrangements have just been completed for the visit to this city of the Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. The date is Friday, June A. Two performances will be given. They will be the same in ev- cry particular as those presented in Madison Square Garden. New York City, where this circus opened it's sea- son last March.
 Added glory attaches to this show because of its new equipment, which cost the management 3,500,0O0. It's new parade is described as a marvel of pageantry. Its enlarged menagerie is the center of interest, and the con- pany of 400 world-famouS artists pre- senting the program have brought 100 surprises from Europe. This circus is over fifty years old. It was founded by P. T. Barnum, the father of mod ern advertising and big circus ideas. Barnum was born 100 years ago. He was over a century ahead of his time. Were he alive today he would still be looked up to as the greatest amusement manager in the world. It was his brilliant mind that made the modern circus possible. He found the circus a disorganiZed institution, op- erated without system, intelligence y. lifted it up into the fine arts. He established it on the same systematic standards that make railroads a, suc- cess. When he died his only success. sors were James A. Bailey and his inn mediate staff of associates, then, young men, who were able to perpe- tuate his wonderful policy because of long schooling under him.
 Bailey has been described as the greatest snowman of his day.. He grew to be another Barnum. Under his management the worlds greatest circus became even greater. No other circus in the world ever dared to at tempt the gigantic projects that this genius carried through to success. He Asia He visited every city of promi- hence in the old world. Like a roll ing ball of snow, it gathered and grew. On its return to America it was a worlds fair of ten thousand wonders. Today it has reached a point of size that taxes the railroads to their ut most. It covers fourteen acres of ground.
 The organization of this year num- bers 1,280 people, 700 horses, forty elephants, thirty camels and 1,200 wild and semi domestic animals It trav- els on train exactly 6,123 feet in length. This is over one mile The train has to be handled in five sec tions. The circus performance is in- troduced by new and costly spec tacle The 108 acts that follow begin a new era in circus ideas. All is novel, ty Desperate, rash Frenchman, works on the emotions of spectators by leaping from the dome of the tent and landing on his bare chest on the ground. Jupiter, a magnificent white horse, heightens the excitement by riding to the dome in a balloon and then shooting off a battery of rockets and other fireworks. He takes a beau tiful girl with him on his perilous trip.
 The latest sensation is the act of the Adonis brothers, who balance on the extreme point of swaying ships mast.
 Amazement is still increased when Charlie the First, a chimpanzee, walks to one of the stages and there presents a bicycle and juggling act surpassing in skill the efforts of the best human performer that ever lived. More thrills are given to the audience by the dar- ing leaps and double somersaults of the Siegrist-Silbon aerialists, the Kon- yot family of acrobatic equestrians, the high wire dancing of Victoria Co., dona and feats of the La Faille com pany of strongest men in the world Tn the menagerie is the only baby gi- raffe born in America. It would take columns to tell the rest.