Show Circus us Model Modell oe 1 Of Modern Efficiency John Robinsons Robinson's circus which will exhibit here on Friday o August 27 is 11 a a. model of or efficiency Tho The management management management man man- has kept pace with every cery modem modern Improvement with the result It t Is alleged that a a. bigger better belter more entertaining show Is now given than han over ever before Superintendent GurUs has haq 9 Invented a large lare spool which rolls up the canvas section b by section Taster faster aster than It formerly took many men nen to think about it It This labor and time saving device has done much to eliminate the tho drudgery of oC closing shop Circus Illumination has changed ed too oo Not so BO long ago all nil lighting was secured via tho gasoline route but buthe the he John Robinson circus carries its own dynamo and electricity now illumines illumines il- il every part of oC th the show grounds and tho the big arena Great has also been mado In the erection o of the tents where It formerly took eight men to drive each ach stake this work Is 18 now new done by a steam which the tho operation In less than quarter one of or tho the time There Is Is' also a a. steam driven contrivance for tor pulling up the stakes I Circuses have havo always been trou trou- bled by transportation difficulties to and from Crom the tho show rounds grounds Hitherto Hither Hither- to it has hall always bien blen necessary to tomake tomake tomako make mako from three o to four OUT trips trip as al it wa was Impossible to carry enough hor horses es to move tho entire circus at once Hero IB is where tho the John Robinson Robinson Rob Rob- inson mana management ement a again aln comes to tolie the lie fore are this time with powerful motor motor motor mo mo- tor tractors which haul as many as a. five rive wagons at once However the horse continues to hold his hla own for forat forat forat at times when the wagon wacon sinks Rinks Into the tho mud up to tho the hubs of ot the tho wheels tho tractor Is 15 with withold old Dobbin is once more called callec upon and with as many as twenty horses pulling and a 11 huge hugo elephant pushing the tho wagon It Is moved to tomoro more moro solid ground Thus the horse horae still reigns supreme In final test And the tho elephants do their part nobly too being used in erecting tho the huge center pol poles that th support the theten ten tents ts Thus Is necessity on once co more tho mother of or Invention |