The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-07-28
THE Big CIRCUS
THE GREAT HAGENBECk-WAL-
LACE COMBINED SHOWS
HERE TOMORROW.

Three special trains will arrive in
Madison early tomorrow morning.
Aboard will be the paraphernalia and
equipment of the Carl Hagenbeck-
Wallace circus which is scheduled for
two performances or the circus
grounds.
The first wagon TO be unloaded aft
er the first section arrives will be the
enormous kitchen van. 1T contains
sixteen feet of steel cooking space
and upon il are prepared all the
meals for the circus followers.
It requires twenty-five separate
tents to properly house the Carl Hag-
Wallace shows. There Is the
cook house tent, stables, four of
them, blacksmith tent, harness tent.
side show tent, the menagerie 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. Ii required
e%ighty-fve men three months to com
plete the task. 1t is valued at a small
fortune alone.
The Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace cir
Gus. when it is pitched on the show
j grounds will form a little city all in
itself. There is a lawyer. a dentist,
a doctor, two veterinary surgeons, a
minister of the gospel, the Rev. Ca
desmas Pope, ID. D., half a dozen
blacksmiths and harness makers, be
sides a whole corps of bo~okkeepers
and stenographers.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures about a circus is the erection
of the monster tents. 1t is the Gus
tom with all other circuses to use
eight or ten men to drive the big
stakes into the ground. With the
Observation-Disclosures circus there is a
pile driver on wheels which does the
work of forty men. Another time
saver may be found yer in the cook
house. II is a little machine which
cuts bread as fast as a man can OPP
crate a crank and insert the loayes.
The Observation-Disclosures 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 distillery daily manu-
features 200 gallons of the beverage.
The first part of the program 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 ami
mails. half a hundred deliberately
carved and decorated tableau wag-
ons and floats. Some will represent
empires of the Orient with their re
spective rulers. There will be eight
bands in the line of march and two
enormous steam calliopes. that appa-
ratus which the gentlemen of color
call the steam fiddle.
The doors to the afternoon show
will be opened at i o'clock. One
hour will be allotted to the students
of nature to study the are and costly
wild animals. They are all from Carl
Hagenbeck's animal farm at Ham
burg. Germany. Several of the spec
linens are the only ones in captivity.
Preceding the performance by thirty
minutes a concert will be given by
Capt. r. G. Jacks band of forty-two
soloists.
Doors &c the night show are open
at Z p. m. The performance begins
an hour later. One admission ticket
will carry the bearer all the way
through the big show.