12 CIRCUS WILL ARRIVE IN CITY EARLY TO-MORRQW MORNING FOR TWO DAY STAY While residents ol the city sleep to-night a great modern caravan, comprising eighty-nine private cars, ■will be drawn here by four of the massive engines of the Pennsylvania railroad. The- freight of this cara van is the great Barnum & Bailey circus, which gives its first perform ance on the circus lots, 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. The circus will be transported from York where it Is now being shown. Before dawn to-morrow the four sections will have arrived in the Pennsylvania yards and the work of unloading will begin. The first sec tion to arrive will be the "Flying Squadron," containing the commis sary and the animals, both wild and domestic, numbering in all more than 2,000. This will be unloaded and on the way to the circus lot be- i fore the arrival of the second and third sections which carry the red wagons with tons of new canvas, poles, flags and bunting for the I thirty-two tents covering twenty acres of this city's territory. Assist- I ed by 700 men. forty elephants and 600 horses, "Happy Jack" Snellen.! the famous boss canvasman, will I proceed to erect the white tops, in ! which you will see the show Jion- j day afternoon and evening. 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Great Street Parade Monday will usher in the day of | days—Circus Day. with all the mer- I rymaking of clowns, the splendor of the street parade, the grandeur of the pageant, the gorgeous costumes, thrilling performers, elephants, lions, tigers, monkeys and all the other ferocious jungle beasts; the side show with its strange company of surprising human freaks, the steam HARRISBURG I&26S£ TELEGRAPH organs, lemonade and peanuts and popcorn. After breakfast Is served Monday morning; to nearly 2,000 persons, there will commence the prepara tions for the street parade which this year will be a greater event than ever before. More than three miles in length this brilliant procession will leave the circus grounds at 10 o'clock sharp. There will be beau tiful floats, tableau wagons contain ing richly attired girls in representa tion of the stories of fairyland. Alle gorical cnrs whose sides are of twen ty-two carat gold, representing an outlay in precious metal alone of more than $15,000; 40 elephants, 750 horses, 35 camels, open cages of wild animals and 1,300 persons. Six bands, three steam organs (calliopes) and a compressed air piano will fur nish the music, while eighty clowns wll cavort asd make merry as the procession moves along. 'ln all this great cavalcade represents an out lay in money of more than J 1,000,- 000. Many Baby Animals And all this beauty and gran deur is but a meager sample of what circus day really means to the boys and girls, and men and women of this city. The performances are to follow, afternoon at 2 and evening at 8 o'clock. The gates will be open one hour before the performances commence In order to allow an in spection of the zoo with its many new animals, including five lion cubs, six young leopards and tigers. 4 baby kangaroos, all born during the past winter at the headquarters of the circus in Bridgeport, Conn. The performance starts with the triumphal entrance of Aladdin and the Princess Badroulboudour, the chief characters in "Aladdin and his Wonderful Ump." In this is dis played all of the magnificent glory that ancient China would have known even in those days when the riches of the land were in the hands of its sovereign and worlds were ransacked to add to the splendor of royal courts. There will be 1,275 persons, a caravan of 35 camels, 500 horses and 40 elephants. The ani mals will be comparisoned in all of the richness of which history and mythology tell the magnificent East was capable. Ten of the elephants of the leaders of the court will have on their backs robes that have cost SI,OOO or more each In material and labor. For the convenience of patrons a downtown ticket office has been es tablished at Bowman's Departmen' Store, 314-16-18 Market street where the same prices will b< charged as on the show grounds. J "*1 &% A MWr <~ "7"" v " " ' " ** 's x \, . . ' ' "* T""^''^* 4 %j Tt fW* J f •mA ^ 1 ~ '"'■ '"' Hr. JKHHHD f ; <&&' 'SSSKnSfr* viiiT'^'•l'• •- ' . :al* ' -^y^ - : - ■'• ' • rv'-J£ ■ • Republic Trucks . have again proven their RELIABILITY and STABILITY—having just completed an 800 mile run from our factory, at Alma, Mich.— over some of the worst roads of Michigan and One complete truck was loaded on the chassis of another truck. A perfect score in this severe test is the best evidence of the Republic ser- I A j.jjf vice that thirty-five more buyers will receive • ,f | i on delivery of these trucks. ■ SjgP^ Pen-Mar Auto Co. *J... lirfW f M. K. THOMSON, Mgr. >. njpr BeU Phone 2696-J 1135 Mulberry Street • 1 \ * SAFETY COMMITTEE OUTLINES ITS WORK AND FIRST COST By Associated Press Philadelphia, May 19.—The com-i mittee on Public Safety for the Com- | monwealth of Pennsylvania, of which , George Wharton Pepper of this city | is chairman, has made public a; statement containing the history of ; the organization, a review of the I work it has so far performed and a , statement of expenses and contrac- i tual commitments up to date. The j statement was made public In con nection with published reports of al leged extravagance of the committee and also In connection with to-day's meeting in Harrisburg of the execu tive committee of the committee | with the Commission of Public Safe ty and Defense recently created by the legislature with authority to expend $2,00p,000 appropriated by the General Assembly for war pur poses. Governor Brumbaugh is chair man of the commission. In detailing the organization of the Public Safety Committee, the statement says that Governor Brum baugh advised the 'committee that in order that it should not be Im peded by lack of funds, he had caused to be prepared a bill appro priating $2,000,100 for the work of the committee. The governor sub mitted a draft of the bill for ap proval and it was introduced In both houses "at the direction of the Gov ernor." Plans for co-operation with the Council of National Defense and the advisory committee are gone into in detail. Financial Report The financial report accompany ing the statement shows that E. T. Stottesbury, Philadelphia, a member of the executive committee, had ad | vanced $25,000. Out of this had been spent up to May 18, $642 in J salaries, $1,541 in rents, $2,652 in stationery and printing, $2,359 in j furniture which will be repurchased, and other miscellaneous expenditures ; making a total in all of $7,938.20. j There are outstanding In unpaid I bills, largely chargeable to statlon jcry and printing, approximately $5,- j 156, of which $4,746 has been in curred by the publicity department on behalf of the department of food supply. The total overhead expenses In contractual commitments to date amount to $2,426 a month and $29,- 115 a year. These commitments in clude a salary of $5,000 n year to Frederick T. Pusey, recommended by Governor Brumbaugh, as secre tary in charge of local committees, and $9,250 a year for office rent. The annual salaries of sixteen em ployes as clerks total $14,300. Staff Roster A roster of the staff of the com mittee also accompanies the state ment. It includes John Radcliff. treasurer's assistant, at a salary of $2,000 a year: Ivy 1,. Lee, publicity council, reimbursed for expenses in curred such as traveling, clerk hire tae.. Thomas K. Orr, employed and' compensated by Lee on a basis S2OO per month. The report states that the executive committee ten dered the post of publicity counsel to Lee on the basis of SI,OOO a month, Lee to employ and pay all assistants. He, however, preferred to l>e reimbursed for expenses in curred and to contribute his skill and experience and the assistance of his organization to the committee. There are many other persons em ployed by the committee who are either volunteering their services free of charge or their services have been given gratis by their employers Among these is Lewis C. Sadler, vice director of the food supply depart ment, who put aside personal inter ests and came to Philadelphia to take executive charge of the depart ment. 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