The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-04-20
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One Mile Long Conveys the
Big Circus of Ringing
Brothers.

a train one mile in length and cut
into hve sections, is required 70
transport Ringing Brothers big
circus from city to city. One train
OF twenty cars is needed to haul the
parade equipment. Another train il
needed for the menagerie. When
the show is under canvas 1t covers
fourteen acres OF ground. 1t is a
city in itself.
On the payroll of the show are
1880 names. In the canvas stables
ard CSC horses. In the menagerie
are forty elephants and over a
THOUSAND other wild and semi-do-
taestie animals. The horses aloas
could ¬ be bought for 5000, 900.
The menagerie is worth $1,000, 900.
The parade equipment is worth an
other million. The rest of the or
ehnEauon properties are worth
Nsaany fortunes. The daily expenses
or the show are $500.
In, a single season the vast organi-
zation often travels $4,000 miles,
estoppine a about eco cities, and cx-
btlattng before 100000 people.
40 other show ever enjoyed such
popularity. There are 375 per.
formerS Fifty OF these are clowns.
There are over 200 European artists
I who until this season never per-
formed in America. The show has
its onwn dinamo plant 1t supplies
power for thirteen various kinds Of
shops. and power for 5000 electric
lamps. searchsiights and beacons. On
the show ground is also a postofflce
which every day receives mall from
. all parts of the world. Jules Turn
our, the, postmaster. has recently
come into fame He is the hero of a
biographical story written by
Isaac +. Marcosson, one of the edl-
tors OF. the Saturday Evening Posi-.
Jules is also clown. He has had a
remarkable life. 1t is truth that IS
stranger than fiction.
Another interesting department is
the hotel. 1t is operated by a force
.of seventy chefs, cooks. walters, and
Kitchen; helpers. These men cook
, anu serve, 4, 900 meals every day ii
iHe week. Nearly one thousand
/. persons can eat at one time. The
show Also carries its own doctors,
lawyers, dentists and detective force.
There are library and Turkish
BATH parlor Among the inhabitants
yor Ringlingville there are no less
than. twenty-nine nations repre-
seated. Interpreters are carried.
= The business office of the show is
a model of convenience. 1t has its
letter files, adding machines, type
writer's, hot and cold running water,
electric lights and hot water heater.
Three advertising cars travel ahead
.of,Ghe show The first one is three
weeks in advance and the other two
: follow It. week apart Each car
-;has a crew OF twenty-five bill
{; poSssfs. a superintendent and car
manager. In addition to these there
/. are twenty-five advance contractors,
sahditors and purchasing agents.
= This is the only circus in America
that is represented in foreign coun-
tries. The Ringing Brothers main
tain offices in London, Liverpool,
Parts. Berlin, st. Petersburg, Wen
ma, 'capetown, Hamburg, Calcutta,
fiongkong, constantinople and
! phenos Ayres. They also have their
own Jungle hunters and trappers
who work out of the small inland
Villages of Africa and from the re-
mote cities OF South America. 1t is
the wonderful system and the far
reaching facilities Of this circus that
haze had much to do with its sue
cess, Through Its many agents and
representative it keeps in touch
aiwith the entire world. Naturally u
is the first to introduce novelties te
the American people.
This circus will be fhere Friday
April IS.