Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1916 — TENTED CITY WILL BE HERE SOON [ARTICLE]

TENTED CITY WILL BE HERE SOON

A Wonderful Business System Controls Carl Ha genbeck-Wallace Circus. T The show grounds of the Cal Hag-enbeck-Wallace circus is a city within itself, lacking only a town council and a State "Iflrter. It has its own lawyer, postmaster, dentists, doctors, carpenters, painters, detectives, blacksmiths, wagon-makers, laundrymen, barbers, shoemakers tailors, sail-mak-ers, harniess-makers, storekeepers and photographers. It supports a great hotel", in which thousands of meals are cooked and eaten every day in the week.

Twenty-two tents that cover a small-sized farm houses the circus in the day time. The largest tc»t is 540 feet in length and among the biggest ever constructed. Six gigantic oak poles form the chief support. Any one of them is larger than the' largest malst on a sea-sailing, vessel; the smallest tent is the one used to house the circus barber shop. At night the circus is transported on a show train one mile in length and divided into three setetions. On Saturday, August 5, the big show will come to Rensselaer with an entire new equipment. The program that is offered is the best this season in the history of the organization. There are more titan 400 artists on the list that offer new and sensational novelties and thrills. Fifty cloWns will add fun. The Carl Hagenbeck trained wild - animals will be seen in an immense steel arena. The circus day festivities will be opened by an immense street parade at 10 o’clock in the morning on the day of the exhibition.