The Cairo bulletin., 1913-09-05
OH JOW This
IS CIRCUS DAY
FOR ALL CAIRO
Great Hagenbeck-W Wallace Shows
Arrived This Morning From
Harrisburg.
GIVE TWO PERFORMANCES
AFTERNOON AND NIGHT

This is circus day and the small
boys star will be in its ascend
ancy.
The Carl Hagenbeck and Great
Wallace Shows combined, the
largest circus organization in the
world, arrived in Cairo early this
morning aboard three special trains.
The show came to this city from
Harrisburg over the Big Four rail-
road.
For weeks the small boys have
been preparing for the big day O"
course Christmas and che Fourth OF
July are very fine days in thei-
way, but circus day--well, it seems
as If none can compare with 1t. The
circus spirit seems to affect tn,
older boys too, some of them are
about sixty years old They have
been saying that they "will probably
have to go and carry the little ones
to see the animals" But way down
in their hearts, unless that usefu
member is warped and calloused be-
yond all hope of recovery. they
know that they would not miss the
circus for fifty times the price of ad-
mission.
Final preparations for the com
ing of the big SHOW were complete
yesterday, when the last body of ad
vance men arrived. Those whr
were here We're: AL Hoffman and
Charley Pheeney. the twenty four
hour men and Jimmy Davis, the cfr
Gus chef
During the forenoon Mr. Davis
went shopping. He did not carry /;
market basket either. For wher
one has 1000 mouths to feed three
times day, it requires gigantic
thinking and action. Mr.. Davis first
purchase was 5000 pounds of beef
then came l,200 pounds OF mnttor
ieuti pork ne bought 200 pound
1f cabbage, 10 pound OF carrot, SF
buhels OF potatoes two hogsheads D.
sugar, Ia huge sacks Of coffee and
so gallons of ice cream Napoleon
once and that an army moved or
is stomach and the same may bc
said of a great circus organization
Show folks lead hard life and ii
naturally follows they are ne
slouches when they gather around
the boards
The first Of the circus specials to
arrive today is known in the par.
ance Of the show folks as the flying
tquadron.F 1t carries the equip.
ment necessary to the immediate
wants of the encampment as fol
ows stake and chain wagons. tens
wagons, baggage wagons and the
great culinary department which Is
better known as the "cook house. .
The train also carries several care
Of draft horses and -four sleepine
cars Of workingmen. The seeonC
ection is made up almost entirely
With Carl Hagenbecks wild animals
together with parade and tabeauy
wagons The third section is com.
posed Of twenty-six Pullman sleep
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