The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-09
THE CIRCUS SHOWED
MlNY STRANGE SCENES
ALL OF ANDERSON HAD EN-
JOYAba.E DAY.
SOME FEATURES.
Circus Men We're Wen Pleased
with the BusineS. 'Ehat They
Met With In Anderson.
SOME FEATURES.

Did you ever get up early and go
out to see the big show unload?
Well sif you haven't you have missed
about half OF your life for that is an
experience worth the trouble. One
sees r.ie @eu driving on a single
stcJ, sees horses with more sense
ffan some Of the drivers, cailiopes
anu everything else. "a es 8 y y,
EestSsfay m6rninE sariy H.
Willianlss the pfInce oei publicity
men and an ali round good fellow
TO boot, who travels FOR the Ringing
Brothers shows, came around and
carried couple Of Intelligencer men
ut over the whole show before It
started and then again after it was
started. The beautiful part about the
whole procedure was that ne told
straight facts about everything asked
Those show people are regular
folks and enjoy life to the fullest ex-
tent. they afa ioviel. all sneak 20 ench
otner with cherry good morning as
II they hadn't seen each other in
month, and maybe they don't, for
there are, 1850 of them and each fell
low gets around about once in every
80 days.
OF that beakfast they served to
the party. 1t consisted OF p tender
steak about the size OF two Plates,
with nice sweet new-corn mullins.
Irish potatoes, French drip coffee,
country butter. o it's too good to
talk about. The cooks have a couple
of mascots along, a kitten and a game
chicken rooster, they were walking
about on the ground around the big
kettles and pots and having the time
Of their lives. The. kitten was partial
to the not steam pipes for the morn
ing was rather tanguish.
Out the crowd went to watch the
process Of lifting the big tents and the
way 10 men could stand about and
drive with the sledge-hammers on one
stob was such wonder that one
newspaper man couldn't see anything
else. That stob never stops from the
first tap OF the hammer nutl the last
lick finishes the job. They take It in
rotation and there e constant "tar-
tap-tap" on the stob that Is rythmical
in the extreme.
Another newspaper man, however.
was extremely anxious TO see the elu-
pnants anu 80 the party moved on 10
the big tents where the anir;als are
kept, nothing doing, the big fellows
had failed to arrive, but about this
time the excitement OF raising the big
tent poles fixed the attention of the
party and they wsro watching this
when teamster drove In with 10
horses to- one truck, and attention was
Tiveted upon the way he handled the
tenn until his wagon was brought TO
a standstill.
Speaking OF eating breakfast. never
before did that party sit down with
such a distinguished audience; the
man with beard eight feet long sat
iurt over the way. He is German
and was being worried a great deal
about sne strength or his army. The
man with wire hair instead OF eating
his steak with pair OF wire pliers,
was contentedly eating It with hfs
knife and fork.
When some one remarked that the
workers would eat about two OF those
big stealCs, member OF the party
remarked that that was nothing sur
pricing, considering the number OF
stakes each one drove.
Is certainly was worth the trip out
There and especially so along with a
mna like MIR. Williams, who saw to
80 that everyone had q big time and
afsey I'll those show felix's are pretty