Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — Magnitude of the Circus. [ARTICLE]

Magnitude of the Circus.

The circus business demands a small army of performers and attendants. Mr. Barnum, in the coming season, will have 600 persons in his pay. The “master of thasails” will have 125‘ent setters; the head groom, 60 grooms; the loading-master, 100 razor backs;” the menagerie, 60 attendants; and the advertising department 70 men,al ways ahead of the show. There will be performers of all kinds,caterers,side-show-men, etc., at least 200 more in number. The master of the sails sail that.in 18 minuses his force of 125 men had taken down and packed in the wagons 15 tents, containing 260,000 yards of canvass, to say nothing of ropes, poles and other appointments. The National banks all over the country are preparing, under a call of the Secretary of the Treasury, to report their condition on the 31st of December 1881.