Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1916 — GREAT WAR COPIES CIRCUS METHODS [ARTICLE]

GREAT WAR COPIES CIRCUS METHODS

Warring Euorpean Factions Move All Their Supplies Like a Big Show. When the Carl Hagen beck-Wallace circus was -in Euorpe several yewra ago the Kaiser obtained permission from the management for Gen. Van Bruent and a detail of army officers to travel with the big show for a fortnight, that they might observe the business-like details by which the great institution was moved from place to place. Careful study was made of the manner in which* the ponderous wagons were unloaded from Jflhe oars, of how several thousand meals were served daily in tbe canvas hotels, and they went away declaring they had never witnessed anything so marvelous. Gen. Von Bruent declared that in the past the army officers unloaded thenr commissary wagons over the sides of the core by means of a block and tackcl, instead of rolling them down a runway. The leaders of the European war employed American circus method* in transporting their guns of war and supplies. The circus will come to Rensselaer on Saturday, August sth.