Show PITCHING A CIRCUS TENT The great reat canvas ten tents Is so familiar to the circus going population are arc enormously enor enor- enormously mousy heavy weighing oCt often n five ve tons ton or more more and handling them thorn quickly quIck is a task th that t formerly taxed fifty mo men mox for two hours and th then was accomplished well Bv Es' a now new device only Indifferently wh which eh is hI illustrated d In hi the April Popular I lot lar r Mechanics Magazine a big bh wagon on It Ii 1 equipped with a Ion bug toner roller operated by bya a gasoline engine winds up the bl canvas as as as and ea easily as a clothes wringer handles handlos a sheet Indeed lImo tho resemblance re I la something than thao fanciful for tor this appliance e wrings time the canvas perfectly dt dry dt oven even on a a. rainy nl night ht so that the tent may be DO transported trans trane- ported without fear of oC rotting or 01 mildew Reversing the process and pulling the bl big canvas off the rollers by the tha entire tent ma may be ho raised quickly th tIme the roller on the wagon alon being utilized to pull up tip the time ropes rope which raise the poles polee sav saving v log Ins nn an Immense amount of hard work ork and hours of time The gasoline engine is used only for operating the roller the wa wagon on being hauled IJ by eight horses |