The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-09-23
.REIURGUS WAGONS
COMING TOMORROW
Three Special Trains VIII
Bring Mammoth Show
to Fairmont.

Three special trains will arrive In
Eairmont early Friday owe the B. &
o.afrom GAINESVILLE. Ohio. Aboard
will be the ~paraphernalia and equip.
ment Of the Carl Hagenheck.WalIace
Circus, which is scheduled for two
performances. on the circus grounds
tomorrow.
The circus specials will arrive 80
minutes apart, according TO the sched.
ule given out yesterday morning by
railroad officials.
Fairmont 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 and the
officials have made preparations for
liandling a large increase of passen'
Eers. Visitors will come In many
ways, according to reports. Some
willScome aboard automobiles, others
II carriages, and others will ride
horseback, while not a few will walk.
liut 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 the cir.
cusjspecials arrive they will be parked
inBthe railroad yards and the work OF
unloading will begin. There prom
itsess 10 be no halts or p%erpleSing de-
Clnys. Everything around n big show
III done with system. Each nun has
q special task TO perform, and Is held
directly responsible for 1t. He per.
FIRMS the same task day after day
sndin time becomes wonderfully pro-
ficient
The first wagon to be unloaded will
he the enormous kitchen van. 1t con-
tsins sixteen feet OF steel cooking
s5ace and upon 1t Is prepared all the
meals for the circus followers. While
the space is necessarily small, yet 1t
10 compact.
II requires 90 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 tent, which
houses several hundred rare and cost
IL animals, and the big arena tent,
which comfortably seats many thou
Sand spectators. This mammoth tent
ed palace is the largest arena pavlt'
lion ever constructed. 1t required So
men three months to complete the
task. II is valued at a small fortune
alone.
Probably one OF the most interest
ing little tents is the top" which
houses the. barber shop. Here may
be semitic regulation barber pole OF
red, white and blue. On the inside
the circus tonsorialist wields his razor,
Time is a valuable asset to the show
men and they are ever ready to re
sort to time savers. 1t often happens
thatthey cannot find time to run down
town to- get their daily shave, and
hence the little barber shop.
The Carl Hagenbeck.Wallace Circus,
whenitis pitched on the show grounds
In Fairmont early Friday morning
will form q little city all In itself
There is a lawyer. a dentist, a doctor.
two veterinary surgeons, a minister oil
the Gospel, the Rev. Cadesmas Pope,
D. D., half a dozen blacksmiths and
harness makers, besides a whole
corps of bookkeepers and stenogra'
one ofsthe most interesting features
about a big circus Is the erection OF
the monster tents. It Is the custom
with ali other ~circuses to uso eight
OF ten men to drive the big stakea
into the ground. With the Hagen
beck.wailace circus there is q pile
irtyer on the wheels which does the
wnrk Of forty men. Another time
t,Ter may be found oyes In the cook
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