El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-26

the early throng. He hurried OIL TO
the postoffice, where bundle OF sew
eraI hundred letters and packages
The Livestock shipments.
The circus, it was discovered, allots
% horses to each stock car. Barnum
& Bailey carry more than 500 equlnes
of ali kinds, colors and sizes, from the
saucy ponies and fleet. slender cnar-
riot racers to the big white ring ana
draft horses. They are so loaded that
they must each stand erect during the
railroad journey, for injury and per-
haps death. experience has taught, IS
the inevitable result of one of the ami
mails disposing himself by accident or
design in any other position Although
to the layman it would appear that
they are crowded to an unnecessary ex-
IRENE, the circus man understands tnat
the compression, in reality, renders the
railroad trip more comfortable, for the
JTrenches and Jars Incidental to the
journey have far less deleterious erect
upon them than would be the case Il
they were not closely loaded
Putting Up the Tents.
With the arrival of the chain and
stake wagon the active work of erect
ing the tents began. The cook tent
was first in position, that food might
await the hundreds of circus folk on
the way. The scene was one of hustle
and activity. Teams of horses were
soon pulling the towering center poles
of the big top" into upright position
and the skeleton of the. monster was
in place. The vast reaches of canvas
were enrolled in sections and laced to-
gether while flat on the ground Then
the mammoth white cloth swelled up
ward and was attached to the side
poles.
Wagons and apparatus kept arriving,
and riders, ringmasters, animal train
ers aerialists, gymnasts, juSglers,
eQuilibrists, clowns, ticket sellers and
all the rest of the heterogeneous throng
were putting in appearance.
The Marvellous Cook Tent.
The cook tent" is one of the mar
veIs of the modern circus. Nearly 5000
meals will be served today and service
and quality could hardly be improved
upon in the large hotels of many cities
1t was the custom in the old days for
the circus management to send its en-
ployes to the local hotels for their
food. Now the combined resources OF
the hotels in many towns would be I'M
able to meet the demand. The food.
cooked in the open, has it's own pecu-
liarIy appetizing flavor. 1t is served in
abundance.
Everybody at Work.
Seamstresses WORKED with needle and
thread amid the Whir of sewing ma
chimes in the wardrobe tents; the har-
ness and blacksmith tents were COM
plete in their facilities as any station
airy establishment; the stable tents de-
lighted the children and commanded
the admiration of the elders; in a
shady and sheltered spot, the ashen
cloth of the circus barber shop showed.
Cages were thrust under the menag-
erie tent only long enough for the feed
ing of the animals and hasty burn
ishing of gilt and cleaning of wagon
wheel and body. Soon horses reap
peared. nov plumed and ornamented,
and drivers donned the uniform of the
parade. The sound of music began
from many bands. Clowns, chariot
GERS, jockeys. knights and ladies, cam
els and elephants made appearance.
and soon the picturesque cavalcade,
nearly three miles long, was in mo-
ton. Fred I:radna, equestrian director,
led the line down to town and back.
He had already been over the course