Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-04
MONSTER CIRCUS
HERE TOMORROW
Carl Hagenbeck Wallace Circus
Will Give Two Performances
Il. in City. Y.,

STOuIOS tOIlIOIIOW.
The circus specials will arrive 50
minutes apart, according to the SEIZED
ule given out yesterday morning by
railroad officials.
Bismarck will probably entertain
the largest crowds in many years on
tomorrow. All railroads entering the
city have made arrangements for the
running of excursion trains ard the
officials have made preparations for
Gambling q large increase of rasscn-
gers. Visitors will come in many
ways, according to reports. Some will
come aboard automobiles, Others in
carriages, and others will ride horse
back, while not a few will walk. But
they will get here Just the same.
Agents who have been IN the city
the past week have made their final
preparations. AS quickly as tic cir
Gus specials arrive they will be pack
ed in the railroad yards and the work
of unloading will begin. There prom
ises to be no halts or perplexing de-
lays. Everything around a big show
Is done with system. Each man mas
a special task to perform, and is
held directly responsible for it. He
performs the same task day after day
and in time becomes wonderfully pro-
flcient.
The first wagon to be unloaded will
be the enormous kitchen van. 1t con.
tains 16 feet Of steel cooking space
and upon it is prepared all the meals
for the circus followers. While the
space is necessarily small, yet it is
compact.
It requires % separate tents to
properly house the Carl Hagenbeck-
Wallace shows. There is the cook
house tent, stables, four of them,
blacksmith tent. harness tent, side
show tent, the menagerie arena tent,
which houses several hundred rare
and costly animals, and the big arena
tent, which comfortably seats many
thousand spectators. This mammoth
tented palace is the largest arena pa
vilion ever constructed. 1t required
IS men three months to complete the
task. It Is valued at a small to"t'ine
alone.
Circus Barber Shop.
Probably one Of the most interest
ing little tents is the top which
houses the barber shop. Here may be
seen the regulation barbar pole Of
red, white and blue. On the inside
the circus tonsorialist Yields his ra-
zor. Time is a valuable asset to the
showmen and they are ever ready to
resort to time savers. 1t often hap
pens that they cannot find time to
run down town to get their daily
shave, and hence the little barber
shop.
The Carl Hagenbeck- Wallace cir
Gus, when 1t Is pitched on the show
grounds in Bismarck Thursday morn
ing, will form a little city all in it.
self. There is a lawyer, a dentist, 4
doctor. two veterinary surgeons, a
minister Of the gospel, the Rev. Ca
desmas ope, b. D., half a dozen black:
smiths and harnessmakers. besides a
whole corps of b~ookkeepers and ste.
n%ographers.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures of a big circus is the erection
of the monster tents. 1t is the Gus
tom with all other circuses 10 use
eight or ten men to rive the big
stakes into the ground. With tae
MISUNDERSTANDING circus there is a
pile driver on wheels, which odes the
work of 40 men. Another time saver
may be found over in the Cook
house," 1t is a little machine which
cuts bread as fast as a mar can oper-
ate a crank and insert the leaves.
The Hagenbeck-Wallac circus is the
only tented aggregation in the world
which carries a soda POP factory on
wheels. Spectators who go to the big
show have no need of going thirsty,
as the soda water d;stillery daily
manufactures 200 gallons Of tive bev-
erage.
Big Street Parade.
The first part of the program
Thursday will be the monster two
mile long street parade, which will
leave the show grounds at 10 O'Clock.
The principal downtown streets will
be passed through. There will be
scores Of cages and dens containing
wild animals, half a hundred elabor-
ately carved and decorated tabieau
wagons and floats. Some will rep.
resent empires of the Orient with
their respective rulers. There will be
eight bands in the line of march and
two enormous steam calliopes, that
apparatus which the gentlemen of COL
or call the steam fiddle.
The doors to the afternoon show
will be opened at / o'clock. One
hour will be allotted to the students
Of nature to study the rare and costly
wild animals. They are all from Carl
Hagenbeck's animal farm at Ham
burg, Germany. Several of the ,speci-
mems are the only ones in captivity.
Preceding the performance by 80
minutes, a concert will be given by
Capt. r. C. Jacks band of AZ SOLO
lists.
Several hundred noted circus ar
fists will take part in the big shows
program. Among a few of the fea-
lures will be Herr Won Ritter, a dare
devil wac slides on his head down a
silver wire from the highest point in
the arena; the Ward troupe of six
as1ialists from the Royal Circus, Am.
sterdam, Holland; the Eugene troupe
Of nine male acrobats; the Cottrell-
Powell family Of riders. brought to
this country from France; Oscar Lo-
wande,. the noted equestrian, who I'm
til tlis season only appeared in Eng
land an the continent. Lowande is
One a. the only two riders in the
world who turns a somersault from
the back Of one running horse to an
other; the Julian family Of riders
nd scores Of other noted cidcus
tseupes., q
Eneors to the night show are open. at