Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-08-09
CIRCUS TRAIN MILE LONG,
Ringing Brothers Have Wonderful
Travelling Circus Eqipment.

A train one mile in length is re-
quired to haul the great Ringing
Brothers Circus from city to city. 1t
travels in five sections. 1t has eighty
five double-length cars. 1t is the
home of 1880 men, women and child
rem. They speak Twenty-Five lam
guages. The train is a Tower of
Babel on wheels The family within
the Pullmans is very happy and con-
tented, for they have every comfort
And they are domestic. Like the
snail, they carry their house around
with them.
The first section of the train carries
the commissaTy department. This
section leaves town every night for
the next days stand just as soon as
possible, so that there may be no de-
lay in getting breakfast in the morn
ing. A corps of 10 cooks, walters and
kitchen helpers and $50 horses travel
on it. AS soon as they arrive in town
they unload the kitchen and hotel
equipment and haul it to the grounds.
The fires are burning in the hotel
ranges by the time they reach the
slot" Twenty minutes after, the
kitchen and dining room are erected,
coffee is boiling and breakfast is well
under way.
On the second section come the
menagerie and more horses. On the
third train are the parade equipment
and the bulk of the draft horses. On
the fourth settion are the fourteen
acres of canvas, the hundreds of ring
properties, rigging, poles, seats, shops
and other paraphernalia. The per-
formers, the business staff and the
elephants and camels come on the last
train. By this time breakfast is
ready.
And the cooks and chefs have had
big job. But they are used to it.
They know how to handle three big
banquets every day, because they are
artists. They have prepared for this
one breakfast 5000 pancakes, 600
pounds of pork chops, fifteen bushels
of potatoes, 80 gallons of coffee and
many other things in like amounts.
AS soon as this is eaten, they begin
preparations for dinner. When din
ner is over there is supper to think
about. After supper the diningroom
and kitchens are packed up. The
ranges are folded into wagons. The
dishes are washed and pigeonholed.
whisked away to the next town, where
the same program is repeated.
This is only one of the institutions
found in the city of "Ringlingville."
There is also a postoffice. Mail is
received there from every quarter Of
the globe. And there is dynamo
plant, which furnishes power for 5000
electric globes, arc lights and beacons.
And there are all kinds of shops in
Ringlingville. You can have wagon
made and beautifully painted. You
can have a horse shoed. You can get
a shave. You can have tooth pulled.
If you are not feeling well, there is
doctor to go to. You can have your
shoes half-soled. You can have suit
of clothes made. You can get a
Turkish bath. Then you can go to
the library and read for an hour. All
this time there is detective force to
protect you and lawyer to advise
you.
In the ZOO there are 1000 animals.
In the stables there are $50 horses.
In the dressing-rooms there are 375
persons. There is no other city like
this one on earth. When it annexes
itself to Wausau on Saturday, Aug.
20, it will be the capital of interest
for this section of the country. 1t
will have floating population during
part of the day and evening that
will number way up into the thous-
ands. 1t will be the happiest city in
the United States.