Show HOW A BIG CIRCUS IS OPERATED Work Done in Preparing to Entertain tho Public The Rlngllng Brothers show arrives In this city tomorrow In speaking of the way In which the circus Is operated Press Agent Brady said last evening Places of exhibition are generally reached at 5 oclock In the morning I though there have been times when we did not get In before that hour in the I afternoon and even then had our parade ond two performances The first thing Is l to breakfast and unload and sometimes we have to travel five 10 twelve miles from the railroad to the show town Arrived nt the spot we find that an advance Van has se cured the lot and marked off where every tent Is to go Including the tent entrances A leader who has been over the ground directs us to the places and I aCtor the nhow Is over leads back to the cars so no lime Is lost In hunting huntng the way Down go the stakes of tho kitchen I tent Jlrsl then the dining tent the horse blacksmith hospital laundry menagerie Bide show and other smaller tents and lastly the big or hippodrome tent A man holds a stake for eight men to drive with their sledges and after f bloW or two he goes on to tho next keeping several gangs steadily at work We can put up all or our tenting In three hours the work being carried on while the street parade Is being gdt ready and on the route rho blg tout Is 500 feet long and 210 feet wide the largest In the world and will seat lfi000 people It IIIIH an oval racing track a quarter of 1 mile long with three rings and two patforms Inside In-side and with all the fixtures necessary neces-sary for midair performances The great canvas Is laid on the ground during dur-ing the slake driving laced and as the pVjlos are act In position the vast spread of canvas Is hoisted Into position We use gasoline mostly as electricity and acetyllnc cast shadows But aectlnc catt we carry a dynamo and gasoline engine and use Incandesccnw In some ports of the how Taking down tho tents begins ap soon as the cvunlng performance and by the time It Is over the big tent alone remains to come down I I We have three advertising cars out I I in advance and each supplementing e I the others work BO the towns are com I plctely billed Then there IH n man who does all the purchasing a day In I I advance the circus and what he has I to do may be Judged from the amount I of provender consumed by our circus dally For Instance there arc 2000 pounds of fresh meat 900 pounds of pQunts bread fifteen tons of hay seven ton of straw 1200 pounds of vegetables sixty five gallons of nil He forty gallons ot tea eighty gallons of coitee Ypu galons 1pl see we have 1048 people on our payroll > 200 of whom arc performers ImYol the menagerie Includes seventyfive cages of anlinajs and twentyfive elephants Aftccn pt jvUch are pjjrforjnlnff ole n phants arip t very extended collection of nnlrls om all over the earth Vet ice good care of our Deople No drinking or smoking 01 or cardplay lag Is allowed on our train but C give them the best of food and In case of Injury or sickness we have a physician toattend them and the horses are looked after by a corps of veterinary surgeons Breakfast and the last meal are eaten on the cars but It Is customary cus-tomary to eat the midday meal on the grounds hence the kitchen and dining tents |