The Cairo bulletin., 1913-09-04
TOMORROW WILL
BE Circus DAY
Great Hagenback-Wallaee Shows
Scheduled to G.lse Two
Performances.

be the paraphernalia and equipment
of Carl Hagenbeck and Great Wal
lace Shows combined which Isl
scheduled for two performances
The circus specials Will arrive
80 minutes apart according to the
schedule given out this morning by
railroad officials.
Cairo will probably entertain the
largest crowds in many years on
Friday. All railroads entering the
ity have made arrangements Tor the
running of excursion trains ana
the interurban officials have made,
preparations for handing a large IN
,rease of passengers. Visitors VIII
>ome in many ways according TO re-
ports. Some will come aboard auto
mobiles, others in carriages, and
others will ride horseback while not
a few win walk. But they viii Set
to the circus just the same.
Agentr who have been in F1e
ity the past week have made their
dnal preparations AS quickly as
he circus specials arrive they viii
)e packed in the railroad yards
md the work of unloading will be
lin There promises 10 be no halts
Or perplexing delays Everything
around big show is done with a
system. Each man has special
ask to perform and is held directly
'esponsible for it. He performs the
iame work day after day and in
time becomes wonderfully proficient
The first wagon to be unloaded
will be the enormous kitchen van
It contains 10 feet OF steel cooking
space and upon it is prepared over
5000 meals daily. while the space
is necessarily small. yet it is com
| 0act.
1t requires Is separate tents to
| properly house the Hagenbeck-Wal
lace shows. They cover IA acres OF
| around. There is the cook house
| tent. stable tents, four Of them,
blacksmith tent, harness tent, side
show tent, the menagerie tent
| which houses several hundred rare
and costly animals and the big
| aroma tent which comfortably seats
| 10000 spectators This mammoth
tented palace Us the largest arena
pavilion ever constructed. It re-
1uircd So men three months to com
| plete the task 1t is valued at
small fortune alone.
Probably one of the most inter
esting little tents is the top which
houses the barber shop. Here ma!
be seen the regulation barber polt
of red. white and blue. On the in
side the circus tonsorialist wieldi
his razor. Time is valuable asse
to the showmen aud they are eTel
ready to resort to time savers /
, often happens that they cannot fine
time to run down town to get thei'
daily shave ana hence the little bar
Der shop
The Observation-Disclosures circus
! when it is pitched on the show
grounds il Cairo tomorrow vii
| form little city all in itself
There are 1000 souls, most of then
are performers who take part in the
big shows program, while Others
are workingmen and members OF
| the executive staff There is a law
yer. a dentist, a doctor, two veteri-
nary surgeons, a minister OF the
gospel, the REV Cadesmas Pope, ID.
D.. half dozen blacksmiths and
harness makers besides a whole
corps of bookkeepers and stenog-
raphers.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures apart a big circus is the cree
zion Of the monster tents 1t is the
custom with all other circuses to
use eight or ten men to drive the big
stakes into the grounds. With the
Fa1enhcck- Wallace circus there is a
pile driver on wheels which does
the work OF 40 men. Another time
saver may be found over in the
! "cook house. II is little ma
chine which cuts bread as fast as
man can operate a crank and in
/ sert the loayes. The Hagenbeck-
! Wallace circus is the only tented ag-
gregation in the world which car
ries a soda pop factory on wheels
Spectators who 90 to the big show
have no ned of going thirsty as the
soda water distillury daily manu-
| features 200 gallons of the bever-
age,
The first part of the circus pro
gram Friday will be the monster
two-mlle long street parade which
viii leave the show grounds at IL
o'clock The principal down town
streets will be passed through.
There will he upwards of so cage'
and dens containing wild animals
half a hundred deliberately carved