Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-31
CIRCUS HOTEL
A BIG 1 !: 4
Must Provide for Nearly Five
Hundred People, Three Meals
a Day.
WILL Spend SUNDAY here
The Al. G.. Barnes Circus vii
Spend Sunday In Bismarck
Watch it Unload.

watch 1t UnlOau.
The Al G. Earnes Circus, which is
billed to show here on Monday, June
lst,. will really be a two day visitor
in Bismarck. The big show will sun
day here. d., "
l., Sunday is a much-lOOked.fOrWard'to
day with the circus family-the Sun
day town is selected with much care
for the one chosen must meet many
requirements. 1t must have churches
and places of entertainment for the
people, parks, drives, etc. Sunday is
the rest day with ~circuses--the run
day for it's peopleand this feature
this Sunday town matter-is carefully
catered to by the circus management
Another important thing is the food
question. The Sunday town must pro-
vide ample facilities in this line. It's
a very important item.
Among some people the impression
prevails that a circus slips into town,
gathers in a lot of, money and then
steals away in the night without
spending a cent. That's wrong, abso'
lutely wrong The circus is a gooc
spender in. every town it visits. .ua,
Bismarck will fare especially well
in this regard with the Barnes show.
1t will be here for two full days and
the local merchants will have the
chance; to supply the aggregation
with every article of food consumed
by the people and animals during
that time. o. ...
There. will be fruit, vegetables,
-four, meats, butter, g bread, milk
etc. for the people and hay, grain,
meat and vegetables for the animals.
These quantities are not figured by
pounds but by tons. AS an example,;
the elephants are each given a bale
Of hay at a feeding and are fed five
times a, day. Each lion gets fifteen
pounds of meat for his feed. There
are sixty Of them with the Barnes
show. Then there are tigers, leopards,
jaguars, bears and fifty dogs that
must be provided with meat. The
horse family numbers $50 members.
You can judge thea mount of hay and
grain they will consume in two days.
The quantity represents what the
Barnes show will buy of the Bismarck
merchants, as no provision whatever
are carried, with the show, but are
bought locally.
Three Meals a Day.
The circus family numbers over
500 people and their contracts with
the shows management calls for
three square meals each day. Quite
a crowd to feed. Larger than that
handled by any hotel in Bismarck
These people are all fed in the cir.
u hotel and no better meals are
served anywhere than those in the
circus hotel. The Sunday morning
menu usually consists of fine steaks,
ham, bacon, eggs, hot cakes, biscuits
fruit and hot drinks. Pretty good
meal, isn't it? Wouldn't you like to
join them for breakfast?
A Wonderful Institution.
The circus hotel is quite a wonder
full institution. High salaried chefs
and an experienced superintendent
looks after the hotels management.
A courteous waiter. comes after your
UTUcI JuSt lAc SAME DIS Ill ally well
regulated hotel. Absolute system pre-
walls, The Barnes crew has establish
ed several records for expediency in
serving meals and in one town this
season served breakfast in just forty
five minutes after the first wagon had
driven on the lot.
Have You Seen a Circus Unload?
Have you ever witnessed the I'M
loading Of a big circus and the build
ing Of their tented city? If not, it's
we'll worth your time to pay an early
morning visit to the circus grounds
tomorrow morning and witness the
sight incident, to the shows exhib-i
tions here Monday. Twenty-Five dou'
ble-length cars, filled to the very brim
with cages, wagons, tents, poles, ami
mails and general circus paraphrenalia
will be moved to the show grounds
and properly placed-a tremendous
task and one that requires the ser
vices of over two hundred men and
as many horses. The greatest working
system in the known world prevails
around q circus. You can see its detail
tomorrow at, the show lot.