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?atsortheboxxuslay.sowtareThe01'5.ibcrcm-theget-, fur the itilar Iros? rscs. as-mcdwitheked' themen1 for■ thenaryants.shoprceps' ha-^radcsorauve proox 01 uie anegnuon uiac il costs money to run a circus.’*To move the hi? show from town to town with such skill that at the end of the season there may be a good profit on the investment is no child's play. Perhaps the routing of the organ-: IfcaUon for a season's travel is the moat Important detail of the whole management.In a tentative way mucn of the routing is done in the winter time and very often contracting agents are busy during the winter months arranging for grounds, licenses and other details in towns which the circus wont visit in six months' time. It often happens, too. that at the eleventh hour the route determined upon may he very material?- altered. The question of visiting Kansas, for instance, depends upon whether the crops will he good in Kansas. The routing powers of the. circus receive ah the crop reports issued by the government and they keep ■ close tabs niton agricultural and i ruins-1 11rim conditions in all sections of the I country. State? like Kansas. Tmva and ! Nebraska, for instance, in which tb| prosperity of the circus depend? al- s most entirely upon the prosperity ofj the farmer, sec but little of the big show except in gaod** years. Thedons, routine agents dodce the rtcrienllur-'l, and legal^yyyvwvwv‘*V*^V*W{Continued on Page IS-)
Newspaper Details
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Sun, Jul 12, 1914
Page 30
Full Page
Clipped by
Fred P.
OH, USA 08 Jul 2020
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