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Show CITY OF TENTS WILL BE BUILT TONIGHT Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth Expected Early, TRAIN OVER A MILE LONG Day's Exhibitions Will Begin with a New Street Parade at 10 . Oclock' in Forenoon. Tomorrow proiuiscs to be the greaU tri circus day In the history of Og-; Og-; h. Already visitors arc arriving from all points of the compass. Rail-roud Rail-roud officials are putting forth every chort to handle the additional throngs tomorrow. The first suction of the circus train is expected iu town by 1 o'clock lo the morning. It will bring tho hotel cud the kitchen outfit and the horses oud men necessary to haul it to th.) grounds and get breakfast for 1,2h0 i jen, women and children. A corps of seventy chefs, cooks, waiters and kitchen helpers tome with this department. de-partment. The other four trains will arrive Us soon after the lirst section as tho regulations of the railroad will permit. per-mit. The performers and the business staff live on tho last train. P.y tne time they arrive breakfast will be waJting on the "lot." Breakfast means about 5,000 pancakes, 500 rounds of yorkchops, 150 dozen eggs. 200 gallons of coffee, 100 pounds of butter, 100 gallons of milk, llfteen buphels of potatoes and a. lew other items In like proportion. The menagerie will come on the second train. In it are 1,200 wiid and semi-domestic animals which also must bo fed and . watered. They will consume for tomorrow's broaklast i.L'UO pounds of meat and Ave tons ot hay, to say nothing of a ton or two of vegetables. Alter the unloading of tho mile-long mile-long train and tho building of the city of tents the next event of Intercut Inter-cut will be the parade. It will b2 three miles long. Every mile of It will be a mile of wonder and novelty. Tho pageaut is on a plan entirely dlt ferent from those of the past. It will leave the grounds at 10 o'clock and follow the usual route. The per-i'ormances per-i'ormances here will be exactly tho rarue as those presented In Madison Square Garden, New York City, where tho circus opened its season, last March The afternoon performance will begin at 2 o'clock. The night s!iow will begin at 8 o'clock. The o'oors will open an hour earlier to give the people an opportunity of visiting vis-iting the biggest and best menagerio on earth. Hero1 will be found the only giraffe ever born iu America. During this preliminary hour there will be a band concert, and uniformed i-ttendants will show patrons around among the 100 pens, dens and cages. The downtown ticket office will be conducted In The Utahna Drug store. It will open early In tho morning. Reserved seats and admissions can be bought there at the same prices harged on the show grounds. Thoso who v.lbh to avoid the crowds wl'l lind tho down-town method a great convenience. Much has been said of the fine European program under the main tent. But the half has not been told. Tuis is the most splendid season of th best show In the world. Jupiter, the balloon horse; Desperado, who leaps from tho dome of the tent and lands on his chest, and Charlie tho Tlist, tho chimpanzee acrobat and bicyclo rider, are worth ten times the admission fee. |