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Show CIRGUSTIGKETS Wonderful Systom IVovalls With Curl llnfjenbock Wallace Show No Individuals about a circus Institution In-stitution aro regarded with greater awo and solemn wonder than tho threo persons who sell tickets in tho "big show" wagon. There 1 1 something some-thing almost uncanny about their dally exhibition. Their flying hands put to shamo tho clutching display of tho octopus. No quicker bralnod, moro resoluto or moro peculiarly gifted men exist than aro with tho Carl Hagonbeck - Wallaco Circus which will corao to Logan Aug. 2. With eyes fixed steadily beforo them, fingers and hands never lingering ling-ering or sluggish but accepting coun-torftt coun-torftt offering like a flash, tbo ticket sellers work as If human automatons Everybody seonia oxclted and sorao- tlmes unreasonable Uniformed employees em-ployees maintain order. Tho wheels of tho tlckot wagon aro burled to the hubs or It would bo swept away in tho rush. A mountain of bills and coin grows and Is toppled Into baskets. bas-kets. Soon these aro filled and money mon-ey litters tho floor. Thero is no chance to assort or collect thorn until tho ticket sale has ceased, and yet the day will record a balanco as correct cor-rect In details as tho most exacting banking Institution. Tickets are distributed to the sellers sell-ers In bundles of fifty. They are placed In racks above tholr heads. Tho scrutiny of a few moments In doductlng tho empty racks from thoso untouched shows tho exact sale. Tho assistant treasurer furnishes tho management man-agement with a box-ofrtce statement and as a double check tho ticket boxes at tho main ontranco aro counted up by an auditor. Instant dismissal and possible criminal pros-ocutlon pros-ocutlon awaits any employe of the Hagenbeck-Wallaco circus guilt of-"short-chango" or othor swindling methods. , Every department of tho Hagenbeck-Wallaco circus Is governed" with a system oaual to that followed p.t tho tlckot wagon. Tho big show has gono on growing every year until today to-day It Is unequaled by any othor tented exhibition. In tho neighborhood neighbor-hood of 1000 pooplo are connected with tho enterprise. Threo of tho longest trains ever used to handlo a clrcu3 transport tho Institution from city to city. Moro than 400 clrcii3 artists of international fame appear on tho program in addition to tho famous Card Hagonbeck trained wild animals. An immense street pageant at 10 a. m. will bo given on the exhibition ex-hibition day. The performances aro at 2 and 8 p. m. |