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Show CIRCUS WAR IS ENDED Ringing and Barnum Shows Come to a Peaceful Peace-ful Understanding. NEW YORK, Dec. 5. Barnum & Bailey and the Rlngllng Bros, have entered en-tered Into an agreement ending the fifteen fif-teen years' fight between the big circuses. cir-cuses. Under it, there will be no raising rais-ing of prices after a successful first performance; fewer free tickets will be given out, and the circuses will do the bulk of their advertising In newspapers news-papers instead of on billboards and barns. Today Hamilton, Barnum & Bailey's representative said: "The day of the flaring circus poster Is about over In the circus business. In one way this Is to be lamented, because people, especially es-pecially In. the West, have come to look upon the three sheets as a sort of curtain raiser or free show. But Its real value as an advertising medium Is doubtful. Hereafter the newspapers will get more and dead walls less. This also means that we will not have to give out anywhere near as many free tickets as we had to in the past. "The circuses have been guilty of ra Icing prices at a second performance when they saw the people become circus cir-cus hungry. We have agreed to cut that out. t The routes of the circuses are to be so mapped out that Barnum & Bailey can be doing one circuit while the Rlngllngs are traveling another. an-other. There will be no more conflicts In territory, and altogether the public will be the gainer by the arrangement." |