Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1902 — A LESSON FROM A CIRCUS. [ARTICLE]

A LESSON FROM A CIRCUS.

Tho general staff of the French army was all present at the scene of i. battle of Sudan recently for the purpose of receiving an object less on in American organization in. moving, housing, and feeding an arm. us people. The first of the four, ig trains of Barnum & Bailey- < ireus arrived at 5 o’clock, and by ( a hot and elaborate breakfast for " 1 ! 0 was served at tables. Meanwhile every tent had been erected and cu’.ry seat mounted. Costumes had b",.n unpacked and hundreds of hor- stabled, curried and fed. The...staff declared that even the crank artillery regiments could not equal the performance, and the Thirty-sixth field artillery regiment was ordered out from barracks to entrain and detrain. Various faults were pointed out by Mr. Bailey and his superintendent. A stenographer took down the suggestion.-. which will later be embodied in a report to the minister of war. T 1 staff was served with supper in the circus tent, and then the whole cir us melted away toward the next town in three hours.