The Circus Motors to Town 



Not dependent on the railroads it can give 

 performances in towns never reached before 



HOORAY! the circus is coming to town in 

 motor- trucks and Pullman trailer cars! 

 Look down the road and count 'eni — one 

 hundred gorgeously decorated trucks, seventy 

 freight and sleeping-compartment trailers, all 

 the members of the vastest aggregation ever 

 assembled on earth, including the baby hippo 

 and the human what-is-it! 



That's what you will see this summer if you 

 are on the route of the million-dollar motorized 

 circus which is to start from Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 and which will be able to give per- 

 formances at 1,214 towns never 

 visited before because of poor 

 railway connections. Not only 

 will the motorized circus save 

 from $1,200 to $1,500 a day on 

 railroad transportation alone, but 

 there will be no delay in holding 

 the "grand parade" — the one im- 

 portant feature of the circus business. The 

 total outfit will weigh 3,500 tons and the 

 average move will be fifty miles a day. 

 Each machine will be geared down to a ten- 

 mile-an-hour speed, so that the performers 

 and helpers can sleep with comfort in the 

 Pullman trailers. The motor-truck train 

 will have its Own wrecking crew and a 

 motorcycle squad 

 of guides and 

 pathfinders. It 

 will be a parade 

 in itself all along 

 the route. 



Like an army 

 the motor-truck 

 circus is divided 

 into units — the 

 menagerie, per- 

 formers, and the 

 freight and 

 commissary 



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