The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-10-06
SERVE 1900 MEALS A DAY.
Ringing Brothers Canvas Hotel Is On,
OF The Wonders OF the World.

Oh the WONDERS OF Inc N0rfa.
just 1000 meals are served every
day in the week in the canvas hotel
on the show grounds of Ringing Bros
circus. It is not unusual for 5000
pancakes to be baked at single
breakfast. Other. edibles disappear
in the same astonishing proportions.
The daily expense Of maintaining the
commissary department is over ST.
900.
Meals are cooked in all languages.
Twenty-nine nations are represented
among the performers. As each likes
his Characteristic dishes. there are
chefs from all parts Of the world TO
cater TO all tastes. "A corps OF 50
cooks, walters and kitchen. helpers is
needed to look after the comforts Of
the l.2SO employees when meal times
come. The Ripglings believe in the
best Of everything fer the tables. The
most humble workman has the same
bill Of fare as the expensive performs
ers. The best the market affords lis
provided. The steward OF the show
is A. L. Webb. He is wonder. II Is
no small job 10 keep over Thousand
men OF all tastes and requirements
satisfied. That is what Mr. Webb
does. His meals are the acme OF the
culinary art. He does all the buying
himself In. the local markets.
Webb buys flour by the wagon load,
potatoes by the ton. sugar in DOZEN
barrel lots. and meat by the carload.
The dining room is divided into three
rooms. The performers haye'one, the
bosses haye another and the workmen
eat in the third. The kitchen is sup.
piled with an the ranges. broilinr
ovens and pastry ovens found in the
best hotels. The soups are cooked
on caml.-fre. One hundred and
dfty gallons o. coffee can be. made Al
one time.
Another important Institution on ths
show grounds Is the dynamo plant
Current is here supplied for 5000 dec.
liric lights, beacons aud arc lamps
The .menagfrie, cages are studdes
with incandescent globes. The mai
exhIbltion tent is lighted with thirty
six fiarfng ares and battery OF spo
lights and calclums. Gas Ii also gen
erated on the grounds II is used Il
soften the intensity Of the electfii
flights The dynsmos also suppl!
lpower for the machine shops.
And the circus has IT'S own post
Office. Jules Tnrnour, recently *
plotted IN the Saturday Evening Post
Is the postmaster. He Is a very inter
esting man aad has had many exper
fences IN all parts of the world dur
ing MIS- 4s years Of circus life. II
Is the subject OF a very interesting
book written by isaac +. Marcosson
the novelist and magazine editor.
All the various shops found IN al
ordinary city are operated on tn
grounds u this circus. There Is ais
a library. practice room. and
Turkish bath parlor. The show car
RES rs own lawyers. dentists. doc
tcrr and police force. II Is city i
ftseIf.
The train upon which the show ira
vels Il over a mile IN length. II
eut into I've sections. The lrst sec
ton to reach town Is the kitchen All
hotel outfit. II is packed aip and az
patched to The next days stand I'm
tnediately after supper every dag. 9
there may be- no delay ia sersIn
breakiss III the morning
The biz circus will exhibit III Dur
ham Oh Friday. October q. bringIn
the same organization that appeare
in New YORK,