The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-28
CIRCUS TRAIN MILE LONG.
Ringing Brothers Have a Wonderful
Travelling Equipment,

Ringing Brothers Have a Wonderful
Travelling Equipment.
A train one mile in length and cut
into five sections, is requiredSto trans
port Ringing Brothers big circus from
city to city. One train of twenty cars
is needed to haul the parade equip.
Ement. Another train is needed for the
Imenagerie. When the show is under
Icanvas 1t covers fourteen acres of
ground. 1t is city in itself.
On the payroll of the show are 1880
names. In the canvas stables are $50
horses. In the menagerie are forty
elephants and over 1000 other wild
and semi-domestic animals. The horses
alone could not be bought for 5000, 900.
The menagerie is worth $1,00O,000.
The parade equipment is worth an
other $1,000,000. The rest of the Or
ganization properties are worth many
fortunes. The daily expenses of the
show are $500.
In single season the vast organ
izatIon often travels $4,000 miles, stop
ping in about 200 cities and exhibit
ing before 100000 people. No other
show ever enjoyed such popularity.
There are 375 performers. Fifty of
these are clowns There are over 200
European artists who until this sea-
son never performed in America The
show has It's own dynamo plants. 1t
supplies power for thirteen various
kinds of shops, and power for 5000
electric lamps, search lights and bea-
cons. On the show grounds is also a
postof1ce which every day receives
mail from all parts of the world. Jules |
Turnour, the postmaster, has recently |
come into fame He Is the hero of a |
biographical story written by Isaac |
+. Marcosson, one of the editors of |
The Saturday Evening Post Jules is
also clown. He has had a remark
able life. 1t is truth that is stranger
than fiction.
Another interesting department ~
the hotel. 1t Is operated by force OF
seventy chefs, cooks, walters and
kitchen helpers. These men cook and
serve 1000 meals every day in the
week. Nearly 1000 persons can eat at
one time. The show also carries it's
own doctors, lawyers dentists and de-
tective force. There are a library and
q Turkish bath parlor. Among the
inhabitants of Ringlingville there are
no less than twenty-nine nations rep
Interpreters are carried.
The business office of the show Is a
model of convenience. 1t has its let
er files, adding machines type writers,
lot and cold running water, electric
lights and hot water heater. Three
Advertising cars travel ahead of the
show. The first one is three weeks in
Ldvance and the other two follow II,
! week apart. Each car has a crew
II twenty five billposters. a superin-
endent and car manager In addi-
ion to these there are twenty-five ad-
vance contractors. auditors and pur-
'hasing agents.
This is the only circus In America
hat is represented in foreign coun-
ries. The Ringing Brothers main
ain offices in London. Liverpool Paris.
Berlin, st. Petersburg, Vienna, Cape
own Hamburg, Calcutta, Hongkong,
and Buenos Ayres.
hey also have their own jungle hunt
RS and trappers who work out of
he small inland villages of Africa and
rom the remote cities of South Am
RIGA. 1t is the wonderful system and
he far-reaching facilities of this cir
us that have had much to do with it's r.
uccess. Through Its many agents and
representatives. 1t keeps in touch with
ne entire world Naturally Ii Is the /,
rst to introduce novelties to the Am
rican people.
Ringing Brothers circus will show
i Fargo next Thursday