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Les cartas, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent litre fiimAa i das taux de rMuction dlff«rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atra reproduit en un aaui clichA, 11 eat film* i partir da I'angia supArieur gauche, de gauche * droite. at da haut an baa, an prenant la nombre d'tmages nAcessaira. Las diagrfmmea suivants iliustrant Ja mAthoda. 1 ' 2 3 .^: 1 6 k • 4' ■ ' '- ' ■ 1 * ■-J -t ■ ■ ■ . 1^^'* I,. ;, ^ ;.. ■*, ^li^' '^ •V'A^^ s. -i^^ p. T. BARNUM^. ;^ '' r ^^ ''j^'^-fi^^ti,^^ ^'•'^ MRS. P. T. BARNUM. ■'.# !i«ipBB»W«fP ■' ■. V. *'■. lir- '-^-"'V'^MVNliMiMMIfwai^ sm ' it ^'iw i k' i iv 'j'_'T^rf'l^4 Jf- ■i»" ' >*wMytv^.>a''#^\Ji-* »^ ^ II I I I lll l l I j 'tT*<-if^^fV re BARNUM IN His HOME. • f \\ ^THE LIFJ; OF BARNyM WORLD-RENOWNED SHOWMAlfl. "^ HIS EARLY LIFE «d*STRUQOLES rsOLD VKNTilRM T„„ ^"^cnl^'l'^r^' woNDBR.uJS:^LTmr WHICH HE MADE AND LOST FORTUNES CAPiTl " lON^S ''oT;J^"^''^"' ~°^'"^^ AND M^^r" ^ IONS OF PEOPLE; HIS GENIUS, WIT • ELOQUENCE, PUBLIC BENEFACTOR ' LIFE AS A CITIZEN, ETC., ETC I A Remarkable Storyg^bounding in Fascinating Incidctits. Thrilling Episodes, and Marvelous, Achievements. •' ra WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. -t^'f .■ To which is added '"" THE ART OFpONEY GETTING ' -GOLDEN ROLES FOR MAKING MONEt PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. aOH N 8 . BROW N v ' PABB. ONTABIO. CANADA. " ■-«-y 4 K/x*. Cf^i^j(6iA^ -i^^^t- ^M, ik^ ¥• I*. fc , "^ %■ ■ '" ' * 1 fl .. , « - ■ . . ^; T r - • 1 m ■i)- :.'.:* '--1 i 4 ft- •.. ^ / - J. . tiHla r^ ' f - '.r \a { v#r Vim mhn irf tiyjl life ha^^ h^A - -v • •» •^*^P"^» aJia vanous intercouTBo with "fViy u., .."^ With the .Itenu^tioBs of JZ 1 d^ ^ f *" travel in this find fo>i^ l.»^ , defeat, extenare fc l.u«.H,«d h»uoUtAneM W the character. The itoarj ircNi (. .,»^4t, maSBAOE. u the actor', own Kps haa always a charnr it can never hare when told bj^other. * Thafmy narrative is mtersperee^ even the recital of some very practical jokes, is simply because my natural disposition impels me to look upon the brighter side d life, and I hope my humorous experiences wiU entertain mt readers as much as they Were enjoyed by myseli An^ if this record of trials, triumphs, struggles and successes, shall stim.- late any to the exercise of that integrity, energy, industry, and courage m their callings, which will surely lead to happiness and I prosperity, oae main object I have i^elding to the solicitatioai I of my frie»dir a>rd my pubUshers wijfllve been accompHshed. I*. T. BABNUM. **• \.i^< •IfM-i.!-!^. I'll *■" I- 1^'*. . vm»immti>mMAiiis»t:.m» \. T'*' § .'^/^ 'T!^j^ BARNUM'S MONUMENT. f CONTENTS \ , OHAPTEE I.— EABLT LIPB. m THnro Qtmwi0W-«iVT»*ir a^ KOBAM-THB BRBBL MWCTIHO HOOTB- om 91 rEB.n.— INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES. CHAPTEK m.-IN BUSINESS FOB MYSELF. / OBBMlVASai 0»8Din)AT_™ li.rr«,T «»L^^^ ''"'^ TOM-mr HABIXB- A m.--IB«!SSSLlf« 7x tl^^^r™ ^ ^^<*-W.AMKa OCT ' - " • • • «> CHAPTEB IV.-STRUQGLES FOB A LIVELIHOOD. % 1 OM AT A UOTTOlf- ln i ^ - 'TiT. r..ow woma^-— A hb w wxxaf=r «• A >oAmBim.aoiwi^ whom ikbt oh kt » if ^^ ;-5|iR' «5: 14 •OUTBNTS. OHAPTER V -MY STAET AS A BHOWMAN. ■', < ^ AMUSiaaanr busikms-diffkbtot obadbb-catwukg. '^L^^VJ^'^*^ ^AIMS. AIM8 AND .FFOBT9-JOI0. HKTH-APPABEKT <»«I«'°™" °' "f ^ioSBS-BEOINNJNO LIFE AS A 8HOW«AN-..r001ffl8 OF KT '«"^=^^°"- I^ND STEP IK THE SHOW LIl«!-8IONOB VIVALLA-MT FIB8T ^«f^,^*" BTAOE-AT WASHIKGTON-ANNE BOTALL STIMULATING THE '^"J-^^™^ TWEEN VIVALLA AND BOBBBT8-EX0ITEMENT AT FEYEB »«^^-«^S^%™^ WITH A 0IB0U8-BEEAD AND BUTTEB DINNEB FOB TH. ^=0"' ^ff*^"^"^ ESCAPE FEOM SUFFOOATION-LEOTCBINO AN ABUSIVE """""""J^^^JJ?^ A lEBBIBLE PBAOTIOAL JOKE-I AM BEPBIDBENTED TO BE A MUBDMHr-BAIM Al« LTNOH LAW-NOVEL MEANS FOB 8E0UBINQ NOTOBUCTY •T \ CHAPTER VI.-MY FIRST TRAVELING COMPANY. THBBE MEALS AND LODGING IN ONE HOUB-TUBNING THE '^^^^^^^'^^'^ - AS OLD AS HIS FATHEB^LEAVING THE CIB0U8 WITH TWELVE «"«f»*f ~"^ MT FIB8T TBAVELING OOMPANV-PBEACHING TO THE PEOPLE-APPBABIHO AB A NEGBO MIN8TBEL-THBEATENED WITH ASSASSINATION-ESCAPES ^^^^^^^^ TEMPEBAliOE-BEPOBT OF MV ABBE8T FOB MUBDEB-BE-lKFOBOINQ ift OOMPANT _'• BABNDM'S GBAND SCIENTIFIC AND MUSICAL THEATBE "-OyTWITUNG A 8HEBIFF -••LADT HATE88" MANSION AND PLANTATION-A BBILLIANT AUDIEN0B-BA88 " DBUM 80LO-CBOS8INO THE INDIAN NATION-JOE PENTLAND AS A SAVAGE-TWUIOB AND FLIGHT OF VIVALLA-A NONPLUSSED LBDGEBDEMAIN PEBFOBMEB-A MALE EOG-LATEB-DISBANDING MY COMPANY-A NEW PABTNEBSHIP-PUBLIG LEOrOBINO- DIFFICULTT WITH A DBOVEB-THB STEAMBOAT " OEBES "-SUDDEN MABBIAOB OH . BOABD-MOBBED IN LOUISIANA-ABBIVAL AT NEW 0BLEAN8. • • ■ « OHAPTER Vn — AT THE EGOT OP THE LADDER. DISGUST AT THE TBAVELING BU8INES8-ADVEBTI8ING FOB AN ASSOOIAra-BUSB Q» THB MILLION -MAKEB8-COONTEBFEITEB8. CHEATS AND QUACK»-A I«W BUWKMS- BWINDLED BY MY PABTNBll-^DIAMOND THE DANCEB-A NEW COMPAKT-D^BEBXIOOT -SUCCESSES AT NEW OELEAN8-IN JAIL AGAIH-BAClf TO HEW TOBK-AOTWa AS A BOOK AGENT-LEASING VAUXKALL-FEOM HAND TO MOUTH -DBl^BMIHATIOH TO MAKE MONElr-FOBTUNE OPENING HEB DOOB-THB AMBBICAN MUKTOM FOB ■AM6- NEOOTIATIQNBFOBTHE PUBCHA8E-HOPE8 AND DIBAPFOINTMBNT8-TM TBAW I.A1D ^.SMASHING A a«VAL OOMPANT ~ CHAPTER Vm.-THE AMERICAN MUSEUM. A TBAP SET FOE ME-I CATCH THE TEAPPEE8-I BECOME PBOPBIETOB OF TM AMXBICAV MUBEUM-HISTOEY OF THE E8TABLISHMENT-HABD WOBE AND GOLD 0IHHMB-A1»- DITIoiJS TO THE J^USEUM-KXTBAOBDINAET ADVEBTISINd-BABNUM'B BBIOK MAH- EXOITING PUBLIC CUftlOBITY-INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTE8-A DBUHEBH AOTOB- IMITATIONB OF THE ELDKB BoOTH-PLEASIHO MY PATBON8-BBOUBIHO TBAH8IBHT NOVELTIES ^LWING OUBIOSITira-MAEII^O PEOPLE TALK-A WILDEBNE88 OF WOH- V T;^ V T xa-4 R il F A I,f fl W ITH BEAL W ATEB-THE CLUB THAT KILLBD 00O«-«BLUHO LOUIS QAYLOUDOLAEK-THE FISH WITH LEGS-tUE FEJil MKaMID^HOiriTran' INTO Ml P08SK88ION-THE TBUE STOEY OF THAT 0UBIO8ITT -JAPANIM lUHDFAOTDBB OF FABULOUS ANIMALS-THE USE I MADE OF THE MEBMAID-W«OU*AL» ^a AGAIN— THB BALOOHt BAND— DBXaMOHl) LIOMIt. .... I 00NTENT3. CHAPTER IX.-THE BOAD TO RICHES. 15 EEFOBMINO THE ABUSES OF THE BT^^J^oVI^^Z^^^^^ '**"^'' »»^^-' KUSETTM-ADMNO TO THE SALiNS-A^EKNOo ' tS> ^""'^ ^<^M»W AT TH*. FO.BTH OF .... ,.AO^xHE HcVuHTo^^r wTtH ^ Sl^^^T OVEB THE VESTBYMEN-THE EOBESS-,ST PATim^u^.r -PAUL 8-VIOTOBX -THE CITY ASTOrNDED-BABT SHOWS A^^™3:;^"°''''^'' ""^^"'^ AND POU.TB, 8HOW8-<,BANO FBEE BVrZ:^Z,7l?-^^l\'''j:^' "^ THE WOOLLY HOBSE-WHEBK HE CAME FHO»r_/v^r ^J HOBOKHN-N. P. WlLtlS- _ OF THE EXHIBITION-AMEUICA^ ^ml^^^'^Z^^^^Z:'^'^-^'''''^' BPHreiBB. . . XA«B-P. T. BABNTJH EXHIBITED-A OUBIOUB ■ • . . . . M CHAPTER X. -ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SPECULATION. ^ MALES MUSEUM-MYSTEBIOtJS MESHBBI8M-THE BIVAL Mr«-T,wo 4, BATTLE OF TUE OIANT8-MY FIBST XNVEKVIEW WITH C^IhSTs" Jr»!""'^- " OENEBAL TOM THUMB IN NEW TOBK-BE-E.NGAQEMENT-AN !^ P^^.V "*^^''~ BEBT-THE PBOFXT3 OF TWO YEAK8-IN SEABChTf I i^VlZt^^J^ "^"^ . LIVEBPOOL-THE GOOD SHIP ' ' YOBESHIKE ' '-MY p! JtyISS;^ .T ^^ '"" HOOK-THE VOYAOE-ABBIVAL AT LIVFRPnnr J^„/*"^«-*^S«>BT TO SAKDT THUMBINLX^EBPO0L-FIBST^'LA'JEi™EM^VFTLra°^"'"^^ '^^ CHAPTER XL-GENERAL TOM THUMB IN ENGLAND. AEBIVAL IN LONDON-THE GENEBALS DEBUT IN THE PBINOE««-« T»-.-. OrS 8UCCE8S-MY MANSION AT THE WEST END-DAILY I.lvX?f ^»«^TM-«»OMC. " OENTBY-HON. EDWABD KYEBETT-hTs in™, ,N .It " ""^ MOBILITY AND BAB0NE8S BOTH8CHILD-OPENING IN E^YSlATHAr^r pt '"'^''^^^''-^'"^ ^° ™« HUBBAY. MA8TEB OF THE QCEE^S HO^TD-rT BuW^rAM^^L!^ MAND OF HEB MAJESTY-A.BOYAL BECEPTION-THE FlvoBTBLt , Ji^^ ""^ *""■ BY THE GENEBAL-AMC8INO INCIDENTS OF THE VISIT-Ia™ onr T^" •""" A POODLE-COUBT ,OUBNAL NOTICE^ECUND VISIT TO THE Tu^v TH "^^ """^ WALES AND PBINCES8 BOYAL - THE QUEEV nl \.r,^ ^ ~^^ ^^^^^^ ^F BUCKINGHAM PALACE-KINO LEOPOLD OF BE^^nV^ BELGIANS-THIBD VISif T9 PUBLIC -CITED-EGYPTIA^TArL^rowrD^^^-r r^A^^^^^^^ »^- -^•S WATCH-NAI^I^N A.D THE ^^KE ^r^E^S^T^^J^S^^ t * « • • m CHAPTER Xn.-GENERAL TOM THUMB IN JUANCE. ITu^JThe^^L^TaITab^-T^a"^^^^^^^^ ' . AH AOTOB--. PETIT POUOl^ "ITnovrA^ iTJ:,^ ™'''^"'""-^^* GINKbIi. AS ■— — • • • . » 1S4 . Ajliffifa»L, SHI m^i^^^i^^ 'k:'-. 16 00NTENT8. OHAFTEB XHL— IN BELGHTIC. k-'' OBOOmrO THB IBONTUO— PBOriaSOB PIHTB— QUAIiinCAIICWS or A CWOD SHOWKAHo AT BBUSBBLS— PBBteKTATION TO KINO liEOPOLD AND HIS QUKBWi-THS O^NXBAIit JBWELSSTOIiBN-THB THIBT CAUGHT— BEOOVEBY OF THE PBOPEBTT— THE FIXIiD QT WATBBLOO -WtBAOULOUSIiT JTOLTIPLIED BELICS— AN AOCIDENT— OBTTINO BACK TO BBTTSSXLS IN A OABT— STBATTON 8'WINl>IiBI>-^I-08IHG AN BXHIBITION— TWO HOUB8 IN THB BAIN ON THB BOAD— THB CUSTOM OF THB OOUNTEY— A 8TBI0T OONSTBUOTIOBIS* — " BBUmCAaBM " BBLIOB "—HOW THBT ABB PLAITTBD AT WATBBLOO. . . 181 I ^ <■ I \# >•■ OHAFTEB XIV.— IN ENGLAND AGAIN. LETffiCB IN BOTPTXAN HALL— UNDIMINISHEb SU00X8S— OTHEB BNOAOEMBNTS— " UP TH A BALLOON "—OOINO TO AMBBIOA— SAMUEL BOOEBS— AN BZTBA TBAIN— AN ASTON- ISHED BAILWAT BUPBBINTENDENT— SUNDAYS IN LONDON— BUSINESS AND HLEASUBE— ALBBBT SMITH— A DAY IIhTH HIM AT WABWICK— STBATFOBD ON AVON— A POETICAL BABBBB— WABWIOK CASTLE— OLD GUY'S TBAPS— OFFEB TO BUY THE LOT-THBBAT TO BUB8T THB SHOW— AtBEBT SMITH AS A SHOWMAN— LBABNINQ THE BUSINESS FBOM BABNUM— THB BOAD FBOM WABWICE TO COYENTBY-^PEBPINQ TOM— ALBBBT SMTTH'S ACCOUNT OF A DAY WITH BABNUM. . . " . . ... . . 187 CHAPTEB XV.— RETUBl? TO AMERICA. i^i' TKB WiaAtfD OF THE NOBTH— A JUGOLEB BEATEN AT HIS OWN TBIClu>— SBOOND VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES — BBVBBEND DOCTOB BOBEBT BAIBD— CAPTAIN JUD- KIN8 THBEATBNS TO PUT ME IN 1B0N8— THBBB YEAB8 IN EUBOPB-.r-WA|lM PEBSONAL ■ raiENDS— DOOTOB 0. S. BBEWBTEB— HENBY SUMNBB— GEOBGB S. AND LOBEN|;p DBAFEB— tfXOBGE P. PUTNAM— OUB LAST PEBFOBMANCE IN DUBLIN— DAlTlitli O'OOMNBLL— END OF OUB TOUB— DBPABTUBE FOB AMBBIOA. ... IM CHAPTEB XVI.— AT HOME- BEHEWINO THB LEASE OF THE MUSEUM BUILDING— TOM THUMB IN AMBBIOA— TOUB THBOUGH THB OCUNTBY— JOUBNEY TO CUBA— BABNUM A OUBIOSITY— CEASING TO BX A TBATBLINO SHOWMAN— BETUBN TO BBIDGEPOBT— ADVANTAGES AND OAPA- BILITIB8 OF THAT CITY— SEABOH FOB A HOME— THB FINDING— BUILDING AND COMPLETION OF IBANISTAN— GEAND HOUSB-WABMINO— BUYING THB BALTIMOBE THB PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM— OATEBING FOB QUAKEBB— PUB- KOT i PM- nF j iWINft CBASING PBALE'S PHILADELPUIA COLLECTION— MY AQBIOULTUBAL AND ABBOB- /OULTUBAu DOINGS- HOW I BOLDLY POTATOES— HOW I BOUGHT OTHXB PEOPLES' POTATOES— CUTTING OFF GBAFTB— MY DEEE PABK— MT OAKE-KEEPEB— FBANK liKJl— ri^AtUBXi OF H«MB. IM • ONTENTS. .,' OHAJpa^ X7n.-THE JENNY UND ENTEBPWBE IT SBAiri, SOHMa-00»OBlH(P^F ALL Ki.TIO»B-A BOLD A»D BBILLIAKT BITBBFmnttl. 0OBB«PO»D«»0S WITH HISS LI»I>_BEN1U>I0T AND BELLKTTI-^OBHD* BAmJT CHKYALIM WTOKOFF-THK OONTBAOT Wig:^^, BEOKPTIOK OF THX kSwL THK BHTIBE SUM OF HONEY FOB THE KoAOBJaora- 8BKT TO LOKDOK-M »»» Ji^ IJtXTBB TO THE PUBLIO-KTJSIOAL KOTE8 Uf WAl^ STBBET-A fBITO » 9 158 -QHAPTEB XVm.-THE NIGHnNQALE IN NEW YORK. DBFABTDBE FOB AHEBIOA-ABBITAL OFF 8TATEK ISLAND - HT FIB8T nrnBTI>W WITH JBKHT LWD-THE TBKKENDOU8 THBONO AT THE WHABF-^^KP^S^ -.'WBLOOKE TO AHEBIOA". EXCITEMENT IN THE CITY-SEkSaJe AT^IB^ HOUSE-THE PBIZE ODE-BAYABD TAYLOB THE PBIZEl^-" BaL^. I^ KASSI«..-..BABN.M0«XS';-FIBST OOKCEBT XN CASTL, OABDEN-He; ' ""^^ AOBEX- MENT-BEOEPTION OF JENNY LIND-UNBOUHDED ENTHUSIA8M-BABNUM Oatt.^ OUT-JULIUS BENEDIOT-THE SUCCESS OF THE BNTEbSi« E^AB^SL^^ O^ND CHABXTY CONOEBTS IN NEW YOB.-.DAT. OF tS^^T'^^ST^N- • • • *. les OHAFTEB XIX.-^3U0CESSPUL MANAGEMENT. HBAD-WOBK AND* HAND-WOBK-MANAOINO PUB^^O OPINION-OBBATIKO A »n«»v THE NEW YOBK HEBALD-J.NNY LIND'S KVIL ADVIsZ^I^^lliJ^:. «A3f;~n' ^"""^ ^'^^™ BOSTON-THS KlOHXINriT at lilNTJSSL^i IBANISTAN DID FOB ME-AVOIDINO OBOWD8-IN PHILADELPHIA A vn l^^I A SUBSTITtrrK FOB MISS LIND-OUB O^rl^Z^ij^^ii ''^^JL''^^'^^ .FOOTK. BENTON. SCOTT. CASS. AND WEBSTM VT«™ «^^ "I-LKOBE. CLAY. PBESENTS-NEW YEAB^ EVB-WE G^^TJrVA^A W A^' ^«''°'^-<'«««"'^ B.EMEB-A HAPPY MONTH urTuBA "^^^^^-^^AXINO BALL-*BM«bIKA • • ... 178 f«. CHAPTER XX.-INOIDENTS OP THE T^UR. «OT«T AGAINST PBICES IN HAVANA-THB CUBANS 8U00UMB-«NNT LWD »A.« THE CTTY BY 8TOBM-A MAGNIFICENT TBIUMPH-OOUNT PE^aTJS^ ^»,^^ OFFEB-BENEFIT FOB THE HOBPITALS-BEfS^ bL^vTt;!'/^^^^^ AND HIS DOO-HENBY BENNETT^HIS PABTIAT tJLak^!^ THANM-TIVALLA oir_-D^=i,TJ7i;rA"B^;^^ 'J ft'.-' !4 !i' i» " OONTK-lfTS. / OajLPTBB XXI.— JENlsnTliDnft. ABBITAL AT BT. LOTJI8-HKTKPBI8INO PBOPOSITION OF HIBB I.IHD'8 8«0B«TA»T— HOW, TOT KANAOKB MANAGED-BEAD1NE88 TO CANCBI- THE 0ONTBACT-CO««OiTATI0K WITH ''UNCLB BOL"— BABNUM NOT TO BB HIBED— A "JOKE"— TBMtBBAUCB LECTURE IN THE THEATBE-SOL. SMITH-A COMEDIAN. AUTHOB AND LAWTEB- CNIQUE DEDICAtlON-JENNT LIND'S CHABAOTEB AND CffABITIES-SELlTgH ADVI8EB8 —MISS UND'8 OENEB0U8 IMPUL8E8-HBB SIMPLE AND CHILDLIKE CHABAOTEB- jrxTsnox to miss LlSb ANt> mkbelf • ^^ ' CHAPTER XXn.— CliOSE OP THE CAMPAIGN.- * MHITENT TICKET PrB0HA8EE8-VISlT TO THE " HEBMITAQE "-" APBIL lOOL ' FU* —THE MAMMOTH OAVE-8IQNOB 8ALVI-QEOBQB P. PBENTICB-BD8B AT OINfflySATI- —ANNOYANCES AT PITTSBUBGH-BETXJBN TO NEW YOKK-THE FINAfi OONOKBTS IN CASTLE OABD^N AND METKOPOLITAN HALL-THE ADYI8EB8 APPEAB-THE NlSKTT THIBD 0ONCEBT-8TOBY ABOUT AN » IMP^OPEB PLAOE "-JENNY'S CONCEBT8 ON HEB OWN ACCODNT-HEB MAEBIAGE TO MB. OTTO QOLDSCHMIDT— COBDIAL BELA- TtONB BETWELN MBd. LIND GOLDSCHMIDT AND MY8ELF-AT HOME a6AIM-STATE- lOENT OF THE TOTAL BEOBIPTS OF THE OONOEBTS 1»» CHAPTER 'XXln.— OTHER ENTAeRFRISES." AKOTHEB VENTTJBE-" BABNUM'8 QBEAT ASIATIC CABAVAN, MTJSECM AND MENA(|EBIV*' -HUNTING ELEPHANT8-QBNEBAL TOM THUMB-ELEPHANT PLO'WftNO IN CONNECT*. OUT-CCBIOUS QUESTION? FBOM ALL QUABTEBS-"^HE PUBLIC INTBBEST IN MY NOVEL FABMING-HOW MUCH AN ?^LEPHA«fT CAN BEALLY " DBAW "-COMMODOBE VANDEllBILT -SIDE-SHOWS AND VABIOC8 ENTEBPBISES-THK CBYSTAL PALACE— CAMPANALOGIANS-AMERICAN INDIANS IN LONDON-AUTOMATON 8PEAKEB-THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON-DISSOLVING VIEWS^THE CHINESE COLLKCTION-WONDEBFUL SCOTCH BOYS-SOLVING THE MYSTEBY OP DOUBLE 8IGHT-THE BATEMEN CHILDBEN -CATHEBINE HAYES-IBANIBTAN ON FIB»-MY ELDEST DAUGHTEB'S MABBIAGE- BEKEFIT8 FOB TMe BBIDOEPOBT LIBBABY AND THE MOUNTAIN GBOVB CBME- TSBT. . . aoo •\ CHAPTER XXIV.— WORK AND PLAT. *.LFBED BUNN, OF DBUBY LANE THEATB^AMUSINQ INTEBVIEW-MB, LEVY. OF TH« LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH-VACATIONS AT HOME-MY PBE8IDENCY OF THE FAIB- FIELD COUNTY AQRICULTUBAL BOOIETY-EXHIBITING A PICKPOCKET-PHILOSOPHY Qg ncMBCQ A CBOP-FALLEN TIOKWTBBLLEB -A PROMPT PAYMASTEB^BABNI iM "" B08T0N-A DELUDED HACK-DRIVER-PEQITONNOCK «ANK OF BBlDQEPORT-THl ILLUSTRATED NEWa-THE WORLD'S FAIR W NEW YOBK— MY PBESIDENCY OF THE ASBOdlATION— ATTEMPT TO EXCITE PUBLIC INTEBBflT— M0N8TKB JULIEN OOWOEBTB lOSATIorf OF THE OBTSTAL.PALACE PBESIDENCY. »! ^.:v V^'»AU1^«. ft... :■ y......y OONTlBNTS. CHAFl4 XXV.-W JEBQME CLOCK COIJPANY ENTANGLEMENT. rax KAST BXIDOSPOBT INTSBPBISK— PLANS imi. * «^« .,«— •» « MI8"b^|^wHa^*p^'±!?-"'°°" BUBBLB-«0BAX,18T8 MAKING Csk BOWK a-TBM^^ PBBAOI^BBa. PAPEB8. AND PKOPLE BAlD AB9OT M^ - aif y\ V CHAPTER XXVI.-<3L0UDS AND SUNSHINK t (AOI^FI- '™°" "^ ™' HMOUB-JSQU^y OFFBBS BBPCSBD- BENEFITS DtCLimoy-M^,^ OUST OFFKB OF PBOMINXNT NEW TOBK CITIZENS-wtt i t7« » ^^ *^"" „ KKIOC-WILLIAM KIBLO-OENEBAL^; T^i^SSilA^l^pf'''*'^''-^'^'* WO W BBIDOEPOBT-BESOLDTION8 OF BE8PECT AND OON^«Nr,r «^ ' THE tlTUATION-TENDliB OF FIFTT TBOUBAND nnr^.Jf ^ "" I-KTTSBON OmpEE XXVn.-REST, BUT NOT )ruST. "■^^'m^a'tiT^; TcBr^r^MArATA^^"^ ^^°"'=™ °' - <'---- «B seIson on loLTlani^the Is^™^'''^"'^^^ «'^«'- •MAT NATUBAL OUBI^liyS S w\*t ^ '''' SrfOW-OHABLES HOWELL- WMtBLEB' AND WI^N ^Wlto HA^^^^L^ ^^^' "^ SUMMEb'S BOABD-TH •MDGEPOllT-THB Srv .r„ „"t '^"^^^^-^==^» EEMOVAL TO >BOP«BT^ LOOKINfl n? .'^ '''''' °''°^'' '^"^^^ OCCUPIED-NEW O^ «JWL«OOBDKLUH?WAB^^ ^ ANGLAND-OENEBAL TOM THUMB-- ■ >■ ■ ■ • • • . . 228 ^ CHAPTER XXVni.-ABROAD AGAIN. •U> FBIWDS IN OLD ENQLAND-ALBBBT SMITH A« * «wnww. ; >'<>'"BLANO-THBOABBICKOLUB-"PwLATonTPplA,^° ''~°'*^'*'^ TIBOINB OF COLOGNE-WILLIAM i T^-t^ ™' ''l''''™ ™°^'^» -Z^mj^A^ONS Sth xL'^r^f.f ^^f - ^ i° X^O Visijst.xo AMEBXCA- f' M ^^p- l^f CONTENTS. . ^ cnkFTjm XXIX. -IN gebmant. ^;^ r,OKDOil to' BADEHBADEW-raoUBLB IW PABI8-8TBA8BOURQ-gCHKBlP|| 1KRMAM CXJSTOM-HOUSB-A TZB^IBJLK BILL-SIX 0KNT8 WOBTH OF AQONY-OAH- »MKQ AT BADBN-BXDEN— QOLDEK PBICK) FOB THE QENKBAL^A OALL; FBOX THB X|K» m HOLLAND-THK OEBMAIT SPA* "AMBUBQ— KM8 AND WEI8BADBS— DOWN TBS Kaan- -DSFABTUBB FOB HOLLAND. mm "OHAPTEE XXX.— IN HOTJiAND AND ELSEWHEBE. rat TINXBT AND FLATTBBT OOUH3PBT IN THE WOBLD^-BUPEB-OLXANLINESS— HXBITS AND OUBTOMB— •• KBEIOB "—THE ALBINO FAMILTT—THE HAQDE— AUGUST BELMONT-, • JAPANI8B MUSEUM— MANtrFAOTUBED FABULOUS ANIMALS— BACK TO ENGLAND— BB- TUBN AGAIN TO AMBBIOA— FUN ON THE VOYAGE— MOCK TKIALS— BARNUM AS A tBOBECUTOB AND AS A PBISONER— COLD SHOULDERS IS NEW YORK— IRANISTAN BtTBNED TO THE GROUND-SALE OF THE" PROPERTY- ELIA8 HOWE, Jft.— ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND— LECTURE ON ART OF MONEY GETTING- ITS UNQUALIFiaD . APPBOVAL— LONDON TIMES— THB BOYB AT OXFORIJ AND CAMBBIDOE COLLEGE— IIJDB M MONIT^OFFEB FOB COPYBIOHT TO LEOTUEE— TOO VALUABLE. UM cha;pter ^ptxi.— an e RISING ENGilSHMAN. AN KNOLISH YA|fEEE— MY FIB8T INVERVIEW WITH HIM— ADVERTISING FOB FABTNi. - —HOW MY BOLES MADE HIM BICH— METHOD IN MADNESS— THE "•BAaaTOM " 0» BUBY— DINNEB TO TOM THUMB AND COMMODORE NUTT— MY AGENT tH PABI8— MHASURINO A MONSTER— HOW GIANTS AND DWARFS STRETCH AND CONTBAOT-AN UW^ILLINQ FBCENCHMAN— A PERSISTENT XBASUB]^— A GIGANTIC BU]^,BVO-THX 8TBt^M , SNQINES: "BARNUM" AND " CHARITY "—WHAT "CHARITY" Sd FOB "Bia»rDM"-SKLLINQ THI SAKE GOODS A THOUSAND TIMES-TBB SANltABT OOM- WanON FAIB. 24S CHAPTER XX J^ri. -RICHARD S HQiSELF Ai IHM^^T OF THB CLOCK DEBTS— BARNUM ON HIS FEET AGAIN— ^* ?3P!P?UM— A GALA DAY— MJ BBCEPTION BY MY FBIXND8 ^W Tibj,! XVXMKG ^CBtajFtHcrW -T-WTDEir ABHOBE- THOiraS T&"thk" IPONSEgJiUSBUM VISITORS- THE RECEIPTS DOUBLED— arVED THBOB%li" OF BESTOUATION— THE BOSTOiN BATUBOAY •IK; , Iff / 1 iM>)A--*^^ '* Tf^'.if.,'^ ■-■ \' .OHIPTBB XXXin.~Mtaf^GEBI^ AND mJmm J^^OBJOG^ ■'gw^ ^d/hs— 1 -TWiBIBLT WOUNDED BT BBAB8-MT UP-TOWN S^W-^oMxiSf ^ AND VIQOB-A LESSON FOB HUNOHAtTSEN-THB OALIFO "li C^^D^iaw^ -MOKOM OF ALL COLOBS-^BOCESS OF THEIB CBEASJS-lTau^riS^^ HATTBALIST DEOEIVED-THE HOST WONDEBFUL BIBmTn ^hJ WOBLlS^^^. OBIT^ laiANBFEEBED TO THi MENAOEBIE-OLD ADA^ tIJL T ^^^W - ""^^i?" "^" °^^" ^""»-°^" ««^^- i:«i>HSiySoiB~oF^ b1^ lt«^« ? f '' OOUNTBY-A BEAITTIFUL HUNXIN<«mT-I LIW aS^D^ vfii!SMl/ ^AOKB-OLD ADAMS WINS-HB, DEATH-THB LABTWD ON ^a^ VVm-TiU JPBINOE OF WALES- VISIM THE MnawTTi^ t o.TT rON-THB HUSETTK FLOUBlSmNr «''»»'^«-^ <^^^^ OJ, TH» ««« IN " ' ' ' na OHAPTEB XXXIV. -EAST BRIDGEPOBT. ^f / UroraEB NEW HOMB-PBOOBESS OF MT PET OITT-INDnCEMENTS TO SETTLB^WT OWEB-EVEBY MAN HIS OWN HOUSE-OWNEbIwhISKT AND tSIoS JSi^S;!? E8TATE-OBEAT MANUFACToil^WHEELEB AND WIL^N^BStSSlil^ THOUSAND SHADE TBEES-BUSINESSS IW ttt,!. «»w o,™!/ NAMEB-tKAKT .• . »» .CHAPTER XXXV.-MOBE ABOUT THE MUSEUM. MTTavTTw «i„» :^^ TANK-SALT WATEB PUMPED FBOM THE BAY TO TB. ™T«S^7orTBo:fclL'^rZr" ™ -BBADOB-THK FIBST hTp^O^A^ fHE TWO DBOMT^^n^ ""°°°^'' ^'^^ ^''^ =^8 ^^^ST ••ENGAGEMENT"- «HISF8. ,<^ WOBLD— INDIAN lit /" TEB XXXVI.-ME. AND mtM. GENERAL TOM THUMB, ™« OENEBAL'S OT^iSS^lS^i^ ™' OENEBAL-VISXT AT BRIliGBPOBT-. OENEBAL-A LILLSSfANT^vf """ ''^^''^^ IMPBESSED-o'alL OF TU «BTT-H« PBO^^^„^^.r j;r„f ^!°'^.^^^'^°'« ^^^^^°«' OF BIB PBO,- ■IT.BKTD JUNIUS WIlIS «NOAOj^NT-THB WEDDING IN OBACE OHUBOH- . no™ » S) ^~tf""^ ''""'=« =^ "<^« TAXJIp-OBAND BBOKp/ NPTOXiSl/^^^"'^^°^~™* OOMMODOB. IN M^ OF A OB-N l> ' ^JtM- T'^'H iiwii^'lit «T '^. * . " ^ CONlfENTS. ' OOAirrfiR XXXVn -POLinOAL AND PEBSONAL. ~WIBK-PULLINO-THK XIV Ainrwtiiin,wi ^^ BAILBOAD MONOPOLIES «,,o» _ V ^°"* '»0*» THE OONNECTIODT OpN8Trnmo»-MY ■PSICH. 304 % ' CHAPTER JCXXVm.-THE AMERICAN MUSEUM IN RUINS. 'r^iS i?:;nis^sr.rs;r.r'^™° o;xi..K.Kio.K ««^ THE MUSKUM-X ^^^^^Tc^'J^^ZvA^iZ'S^r:^ ^'^ I»»XBCCTXOK Or ^^MIPLOTEES AT THI ACADEMY OF Mtj8I0-MY ««^.^ " ™ ™* *"""»» XHB PUBLIC. «iJo*u«-opEiiijiO XHK XSXABLISHICXIIT TO m CHAPTER XXXIX.-MY WAR ON THE RAILROADS.^ T^^xE^^fc.s'^irTirAijrrcr"""-^ - ««- "--"^ xBovEBaY-Ex^LrNx'iioro x« rB;:;^rBrL ';:,r '"^~'^" ~"- OOMMUXE&^PEOPLE PEOXECXEI> fL^ TH^^tDEH^H^ „ J" "•^^'^ °' bBAWN INTO A 8TAXE AND THEN OH^XED^T tJv » f , "'' BE1TL.B8 ABB J^OHT. FOB COMM.XEB3 --TANTrx^PAL^E^^^BSiwrxr^^^^^ K.W HAVEN BAILROAD COMPANY WANXED TO DO-EIpiuKr^F xL\ ^x^ -OONSXEIiNATION Of\hE OON8P1BAXOB8-MY VICTro"irGA™ E^-^SM LMIBLAXUBl^UNITED SXAXM 8ENAXOB FEBBY-EX^TE^oi W ^^^^ "" -THEODOBB X'V c:r aoTtXtU^m. o»w,„. EX-Q^BBNOB W. A. BOOTIWOHAM FIATB;) . OO^O* ■AWLJtY-NOlOHAjiD roB OOKOBM AHD M- CHAPTER XL ^BENNETT AND THEJHERALD. 'lS»^SI!'f t"" "'™'^** ^^A«-m TALUB-BBNKrrX OF TM tttALB itm IT FOB •aOO.OOO-H« PDB0HA9E8 THE PBOPEBXY-OTEBEBXIMA^'. ^STT™ WO-IT !S! ».BALD-8 INFLUENCE AND HABD EXPEBIBNOB-BENNr^^ ^Z^^ l2^7J^t « XAKINO BAO. XH. MrSEUM LEA8E-I D«OL.N._BWNr^ iK^U.i^iT.nJr TOUBNT. INXEBviEW WITH MB. HnPHON-W., n'^^ll^T^X ^ T l^^^^ HllAIlJ-TENNCT HI.MBLED-L088 OF XHE HER xTn'. P»T^«- ^^ "*^ «».rr.. ««A.LI.H«NX-TH, Tx^B r^;jni,V^'''J^';t" ~ CONTENTS. OHAPTEE XLI.-PUBLIO LEOTI?EING. \ HT TOtTB AT THE WBST-THE OUBIOSITT ETBt^t-t^, THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELv™ T^i^^'J™ "^'"^^'^ ^ OnWO«TT-H,i.pnro ENQAQEMENTS-TBICKS TOsbJEITsEAM ^.^ t ''°^«0"^«-r™OTUAUTT IN MT COME EATHEB TO A YOUNG V.lntZZrr^r J« ''^''''^' "^^"^ StJDDEKLY B«- IHXTOB CHAPIN-TEMPEBANCE-HOW I ScA tp". 1 '°'^''"" I>ENIED-aKVEBK»D INO AND m DANOEB8-DOOTOB CHAPIN B ^n- '''''=°-"°"'»^»« °«I^-«- EirOBM IN THE TEMPEBANCE c!u8™,^^rN, r.l" BBIBOEPOBT-HT OWN TK 8T0BY OF VINELAND IN NEW «BMT ' THBOCQHOUT THE OOUWBT-/ 3*4 CHAPTER XLn._THE NEW MUSEUM. AOIOANTIC AMUSEMENT COMPANT-IMMENSV *n«r,.T CUaiOSITIES FHOM EVEBY WH^i^THr LtZ T ^ ™" '^^ °°'^*^<>"- AFBIOA-A 8UPEBB MENAGEBIE-^0,iT^or! l"*"™^^ COLLECTION ,BOM MF88B8. E. D. MOBOAN, WILLIAM C BB^T hokIi^ '''^"°''^'' XN8TITUTION- MY PLAN-PBESIDENT J0HN80N INDOMM IT nZZ '^''^^ ^^° °*=«^ '^^0« BY FIBE-THE lOE-OLAD HUIN8-A s^T Y^ s^.^Z^'' "' "^ ««0ONI> -T^SEUM CHAPTEK XLlri£oURIOUS^xNOn>ENCES.-NUMBEB THUtl^JCN. TAr-TSB^rrBC— ITe^^^^^^^ BATUBDAY-BAINY ... WE8TEBN TBIP-BINOULAK FATALITY N^MB^« ^L ^"^^"-^C^^*"* OF MY «»CAPE FBOM THE FBIOHTFt^ FIOuXAD^fcE op T- '"^ '''" ^<»'^l^«0 THIBTEKN COLONIE8-THE THIBTIENTH ^ A ^« ?J *HHICAL FBIEND-THl « 0HBI8TMA8 rABTY-THIBT«r^!.°:i™ ^;;;X«^^*««-™^HX..N ^^ THE THIBTEENTH .AY IN TWO MONTH»-TH«T^ pL^i'-fc-^^^^^ ;'-"^- ^JJa^PTER ^V.-SEA-SID»PABK. tAITH- TALKING TO THE FARM J^IT*'''"™''"'" MOPEBTY- THE «Y« OF P*P«M -. P«OPLE-OPEm;roF «A.«mE rXlJ^™r ^"^"'^^X'TS TO TH. WWTOKKANDBOBTON-MAGNIFICEj?nI?v-/ "A'^rrL OBOOND BITWMN -MtrilC «,B THE -XLUON-Jy T« r^X"^" *l?'^*°"« °' »« "«*nON CONTENTS. OHAPTEE XLL-PUBLIO LEOTITEINO. 18 ■\ ■J;-'-! mr T017B AT THB WIST— THK OUBinarr THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVl*^ BlS^xTr ""'"'' ^ OUBIOKTT-MLPnrO KNGAQEMENT8-TEICK8 TOsS^IT 8EAT« TV tJ-^^^^^'-P^NCTCAUTT I» « COME FATHEB TO A YODNO KABBiED florrlr J ''^''''*' '''^^"^ StJDDEKLY BE- DOCTOB CHAPIN-TEMPEBANCE-HOW I BEn A i^~. 1 '°'^''^"'' ^J^NI^D-BEVEBEKD INQ AND m DANOEBS-DOOTOB OHAPIN « ™t,1 ''^''''^~"°''''*^™ ««»'«-«- ef^ob™ in the tehpebanoe cAvll^lir^'^ZJZ ^«^"^««>«^-inr own THE STOBY Of VINatAND IK NEW JEBSEY * THBOTJGHOUT THE OOUWBY-/ 34J CHAPTER XLn.-THE NEW MUSEUM. AaiaANTIO AMUSEMENT COMPANY-IKMENSir *,^«T^r CUBiOSITIES PHOM KVEBYWHeLeIxhe iuZ T '^ "" '"'^ '^'^'^^O^- AKBIOA-A 8UPEBB MENAOEBIe!.^™^'*^''^ t"""'^°« OOLIJtCTION ,BOM MF88BS. E. V. MOBGAN. WILLIAM C BbSIt „n„ ^ NATIONAL INSTITUTION- MT PLAN-PBESIDENT JOHNSON Tn^,"^^' ^Zt"'' '^'"^'^^^ ^^" °*««« '^VOB BY FIB.-THE lOE-CLAD BUINS-A S^T T^T a '""'°'' °' -T SECOND MUSEUM ..»X.»^,OOTBAC.ATTHETHtTE"tfouJT"Ix^r^^:L^^^^^ ^ ^ CHAPTER XLlri:_CURIOUS.<^IN0IDENCES.- NUMBER THIBTEEN. ^^^^'^'-^^^S^17^^^^^^^ -.TUBDAY-BAINY ..N- WE8TEBN TBIP-SINOULAK FATALITY-N^iB^B ^^ I-ONDON-INOIDEN. O, MY i«OAPE FBOM THE FBIOHTFUL PIOUBi^Anvf J "'' '" '''^'"^ HOIEL-NO THIBTEKN COLONIE8-THE THIBTEENTH^HA,!,^ * t"^"*^ FBIEND-TH. « OHBISTMAS PABTY-THIBT^^LLAB^T" "^ OObJthIANS-THIBXEEN AT THE THIBTEENTH DAY IN TWO -ONTHrTrT^^PA'a^^rtLr "^^^ "^^ CmPTBR jt| JY, ... S EA Sm& fttMC; PKOPLE-OPENINO OF «A.8ID« T^L-tn^l^r^I OBOHND-oirT. TO TH. •4j p , "t |T" V ^>;r^»w*y;^FP'^'^'^ct^ » CONTENTS. « 0HAPTEB XLV.— WALDEBIEItE. KY PBITATK L1FE-PI,AN8 FOE THE PtBLIO BBNEFIT IN BBIDQIPOBT-OPmn»« ATKNUE8-PLANTINQ SHADE-TBEE8-OLD FOOIlffl-CONSEBVATISM A OUESE TO CITIES -BENEFITING BAENUM'S PEOPEKTt-SALE OF LINDENCBOFT-LIVING IN A FAKM- H0U8E-BT THE SEA-SHOBE-ANOTHEB NEW HOME-WALDEMEBE-HOW IT CAMS TO^BE BUILT-MAOIC AND MONEI-WAVEWOOD AND THE PETBEL'S NEST-MT CITX UEBIDSNCE. 8W CHAPTEB XLYi:-RB|r ONLY FOUND IN ACTION. if A HEW EIPEBIENOB-" DOING NOTHING "-A FAILUBE-EXCITEMENT DEKAKDK)- VISIT OF ENGLISH FBIENDS-I SHOW THEM OUB OOUNTKY-TBIP TO CALIFOBNIA- BALT LABE OITY-BBIGHAM YODNG-SACEAMENTO AND BAN FEANCI800-ADHIBAL • DOT-WILD BUFFALO HUNT IN KANSA8-MY GBEAT TEAVELING BHOW^TBIP TO OOLOBADO-FOUBTEENTH 8THEET HIPPODEOME-A BBILLIANT ACDIEkOE-DEPABT- UBE FOB THE SOUTH-NEWS OF THE CONFLAGRATION-SPEECH AT THE AOADEMY- AN EXPENSIVE EXHIBITION-A PLEASANT EPISODE-AN OCEAN VOYAGE-THE VIENNA ■XHIBITION-DEATH OF MBS. BABNDM * v«««A CHAPTER XL Vn. -AMONG MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. iraOWilTY FOB ACTION-MY NEXT 8EN8ATION-A TBIATBICAL OONTBACT^THl TIOH- BOBNB TBIAL-EETUBN TO NEW YOKK-GBEAT ROMAN HIPPODBOME-JAPAKESI ATHLETES-DONNYBBOOK FAIB-CONGRESS OF NAT10N8-A PUBLIC COMPLIMEKTABT DIHNEB TENDEHED-T0A8TS, SPEECHES, ETC.. ETC. -OPINIONS OF THE PBEBS. . 3»1 CHAPTER XLVIII. -HIPPODROMICAL, HYMENIAL AND MUNICIPAL. » ■UO0E88 OF MT TRAVELING HIPPODROME-MY SECOND MABBIAOE-P T BABmjlf EXHIBITING A LIVE EINO-ELEOTED MAYOR OF BRIDGEPOBT-THE OENTENNIAL- PBOFES80R DONALDSON ^OLOSK OF THE SEASON- THE IIIPPODBOME SOLD AT AUCTION -THE NEW TBAVELING SHOW-MY VALEDICTORY MESSAGE AS MATOB Of BBIDGE POBT-THE NUMBEB OF PATRONS OF MY SHOW DIBING FORTY YEAB8 40« CHAPTER XLIX.- FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. WttAKFAST WITH LOBD BOSEBEHY AND MB. TUPPEB- MY SHOW IN KOTA BOOTIA AND BLBEWHEBE-MY NEW BOOK "LION JACK "-DEATH OF MY YOUNGEST DAUOHTEB- «T VISIT TO ENOLAND-LEOTI piNO THlJur-THE LONDON WOBLD'B DEBOBIPTION Ol XT HOME AND HABITS IN bAiDGBPOBT-FATAL AOCj^DENT TO THE ADVEBTIBItlU. '^TC^ .'Oi.ub<;bo-My THIBD iLROTION TO, >HD DOINGS m, TBX OOKNTOTICnrTT LBOISLATU UK -BUILDING A DYKE-BYRONIO POEIBT THEB* •K-mr fOU«TH BI.IOTIOM TO THE tJKNERAL ASUMBLY Of OOWNKTIOUT ^^ 1-! ■i^..- J f*r- iKg.~ r^'^SP^'W*^*"^ - ■■ s;-^'.,^. 'p^^-fi^^. CONTENTS. CHAPTER K-THE GREAT ALLIANCE. 96 BEBGH TAKQtnSHBD-TBANSFOBKATION BOBNP ba^, ». .,A5CB-WINT=B QnABTEBS OF THzZe^I^^^^^I ^^^^^^"^-"^"^ *»"**T ^" SHADOW OF DEATH-FOUB PULLMAN n* ^x""'' ^"°^-^*^^''» <>» Mb MY VOTAOE TO EUROPE Pr^^p^'T'^^! ^"'^^ «-^«^^^^" ^ND ABTHUB- -BARNUM BOOLEVAKD" AND DVKPToL ^^'^'^''^'^ ™ «^™=^ = ^I-SO. THE .LEPHANT-..,pKBO THE OBE™ o7^ ""''^ BRIDOEPORT-ANOTHEB BABY ^BrST FOB THE SM TH80NIAN xtS™ OB^AT-ENOB^foTTS 8HOW SeCEIPTH HAY0B-8IB JULITTS B^EmiiiSJcr^ wT ^^«°^«-^«^^^« DINNEB-LOBD aOBKBT OOLLTBi-PATTX AND BaSxS. 7^"=«-"^"« OF OAMBBIDOB-BEY. 4;)o CHAPTER LL-TWO FAMOUS BLEPHAOTB. WTMTra .r....n, .„™, „„^., .^^ „ u(»!-a;;;^ ,r,^ BOARD or THB TORK, AF^UO. 0. X Hi CHAPTER LII.-THE WHITE i^PHANT. •m OHAf LIB8— DBATH OF TOM THTTwa w.o... .AOR«D WHiTJi ILBFHAHT-IW ABBITAI. ,w .^ I ■»0»T«»-«Bn>ni» FOB A - «M MUNICIPAL. CHAPTER LIU. -ALICE. CHAFFER LIV.-THB CHURCH AND OIROUB ■urow OF rn oaoD»-iiomAUTT of WMruarMm-tnAmm Of «Tb CHAPTER LV.-MY FIFTH GREAT FIRE. «H ^rHr^iRTX)r HONEY QETraoT om OOLDEN RULES FOR MONET MAK^KO ■■ CHAPTEB I. EAELY LIFE. / go to sabool. and the n.-«t date 1 remember inscribing upon my wrltlag-b,>ok was 1818. The f.rule. ,u those days waT^I ««l8tant school-moster. I was a willing, and I thiuk, a protty apt scholT 1 «.lthmetlc I was unusually ready and accurate and remember at the^.« f ten years, being called out of bed one night by my teacheT whn T ^ with a neighbor that I could calculate tSe coL"^;::2r ^f reetTn^.^^^^^^^ wood in nve minutes. Th. dimensions given, 1 ngured out th« L u f ^ntr ^ ^" '- ^^•"^' ^' - -^- --« - rur::::srerof n:;^r:f^:Tcrr.z^n=:r -J - Before ^ was- was SIX years old my capital amounted toT urilcir'to "xT "1 '""^ ' ver dollar, the poest-sslon of which made mo tSt., T! , *'"*'*"«'' '^'" « «"" felt in the world. *' '^''^^ '^*" * '»''^« «ver since aZr TdCit'^e^rrieTth;: ^"^^ ^'^^ ^ -^-^ - -- days and '..training .ays."-.:C ^^ e^ng^ m^y ^m" T 7 ""• small peddler of molasses candy ,of homo make* gluger ^rLd r^ii. * . k"" ' rum. and I generally found myself a dollar or two rkZr «rfh' ^^ * ''*'*"' than I was at the beginning. By the tlm« 71 . *"'' **' "'^ *'«"'**^ property. I was the owner ! a sh^p ^Ta caT ,7 ^""^ "''' '*"''^" "'''«' Oecome a small Croesus, had no ^y raT.lr\Tnd.v'r T. """' "^^ '''"'•■ '"'^'' own Clothing, w^lch somewhat .^ucLCmurjr:"™"'-^^ " ""^'^"'~ ">' wppw. h.«in, Mr. Brown say to my father that he laMmaed to buy mo.. r 33 ^* %ARLY LIFE. oata^ and that h« would be glad to hire a boy to aMl/m dHW^. *v— ^ , ^ mediately besought my father to secure the sltual^re^^^^St ^ mother's consent was gained, and at daylight next m^^T^^f^J ^ ^e mMst ot a heavy snow stor. to ^o/j:^:::^: ^^Vo^^Z^ field. I was Bent on horseback after a stray ox and in \«.m . "~^"°* **"*«* . and my tokle was sprained, i suffered ^yo«iVbl^.f"°r*' *^' *''"" '*" emplo,^r should send m, back. r^rrlvTr* New to^l iT.^"^^"^ "^^ "^ «xd put up at the Buli's Head" Tavern whtLwI l^' . f"* **' '**" ^' the drover disposed of his cattle. It w^ eventful ^^k^o "^^'^ V^ ''"*• home my mother had given me a douJ^fl f '*"' "*' ^'**" ' »«" ^t that heart .uld tlsh. My rt^ut^ taa' rrrS^r f S^^^S were four pence apleo^ and as- "four pence" in OomxeoUc« wm L I!Sf r ==ro-rr^----rSE^ "Koolf and send a stick some Uttle distance and ^l! gTi JouJ^LT' hit the bar.keeper, who forthwith came from behind the counter -1.^-^.^ and soundly boxed njy ears, telling me to put C gun out " ^ S^^ orT wou|d.put ,t intp- the Are.. I sneaked to my room, put my t.1^: Zx^' ^ pillow, and went out for inother visit tb the toy shop. v^^^ure under tha There Unvested six ctnts In -torpedoes," with which I Intended to «.t«ni.i. my schoolmates m Bethel. l could not refrain, however from «nl"!!2f n^n the gueste of the hotel, which , did when they were'goCnTSm ^Z^"^' *"'' *'*' '"""^'"^'^ ^^«"'^ "«^« " '°»°-«= two loud ^pJrtT* Mtonlshed guests.^lrate landlord,_dlscovery of the culprit, and e^wm^^^u;: ishment-for the landlord Immedlatelj floored me with a single bZ^Sff^?^ ' open hand, and Bald : T • ^^ ""^^ **"• "J* "There, you little greenhorn, see It that will .teach you better than to «nl«<,. your Infernal flre-crackers In my house agate " . * axplode The following morning found me again at the fasoloating toy shop where r «w « beautiful knife with two blades, a gimlet and a oorLtliItZ^l otrpenter shop in miniature, and all for thirty one cen*. BuTSLTiTad onW ' leven cents. Have that knife I must, however, and so I pBop<3 to ttt^.Zl eTer ^rf r' "^'^ ^^ '*"•' •^^^^^••^ -^^ ^^ •»«'»» ^rcZr^nd^th Ty maZ ."' "' ''"' "^^ ''""*• ''*'« ^'"'^ °^»"re consented. In^tSI makes memorable my first -swap/' Some fine and nearly white molai^oai^, then caught my eye. and I proposed to trade the watch for Its equivalent^ ^dy The tranwouon was made and the candy was so delicious that befo« uLr^ gun was absorbed In the same way. The next morning til torpedJ^" iJLt «?^ n the sam, direction, and before night even my Gloved k^^ '°* **" elmllajrly -my guuuB an 10TO,T^lraaM tw6 pSoHiliSdkM^IS -- - — --.- M »..v«uiu uuK nauii lor nine mon iti molauea oandy. and then wand*ed about the city dl«»n«xUte. •Ighlnc beean.. Vaaae more molMMee candy to conquer - '^ -■ — uee i:.:.:J K W ;^>.* . -ffi .'^ ::Ki: ./f H ■^.p>.i y F ? , r - ,'.i.'-? ■ • ■ ■'::-■''•■•;:; ;-■■■ ■•■ ■ . . •_ ' '■ ^ '■.^-i^:^.-r' _ ■ ".'l! -■'. t '. ■ « «4l •^^ 'W: f-^^f ^ ft nNmdmtj aad Aan liwi i im i m d w— 1% £ ^ ^i ^ rtlr I * faftaN dayto wmk» in tiMt ]o«%>m praprUkot and as tlw ofth* J£Sa'!^S**^*'^*^ woodwtag for »wMk,]fr. Brown look n» in WMVi awl on the eyoning of the ftdlowing day w» arrived te I hMl **'*»^*^*^«»«»*»»«wa» metropolis My brothew and **«» hwr- wo. XIUMingkgioiMiytininatodmyilntThtetoNewYariL - "'"^tonvviitttoNewTaA.Ithinkitwaeiniaao.wl.mlxTj^ mryaaa mttr ahray gpofce of me (in my preeenoe) to tiie neigliban and to Manim as tlie riohert diild in tofwn, rinoe I owned fhe whole of *«lTr Ii1hmL>> «i»o v^vnmiwfM iry fW joynmke yon dck, fbr remember, rioh h. ^ a«s^ ttJSbTeJmS feara before yon oan come faito p aeiM ri on of yom-fortmie.'' ^Bhe added much more good advioe^ to all of which I prtjmieed to be oahn and r When IV arrived at the meadow, which waa In that part of the 'Miim Ti*-» toown«"Bart 8w«n|,'' I .eked my Ihther whe« "I^iSLT vT^ ^ ^ to^jtoreooon I turned graa. a. flirt a. two men conW c^ ^rrjiaatat noon, one of our hired men, • good natuml IriehLian. named Wnwnd, took an axe on hi. dioulder and announced that hTMrne^STS •ooompa^y me t^ "Ivy Idand." We -^tedT^Sn^ a^i^LS^^^ » watai.^wslliiradd to tne ffiemina a nnum dThbrnte i^M^^ aZj-u * faj^the altitude erf another bog I wa. cheer^ byT!lS^^ ■waty dry *••»»•'. ^^ »wi lABLT LIF& . to torn a temporary bridge TinT " Llaa""°? "'' '"' ^" '""-^ • '»*" «* ceeded to the oente, or m, domain. «w noST.""^'"' ""''' "^ »'^ and,»traggl]^ treea. The truth flashedTLn t ' * * '^"^ -tuntett Ivle. iug-.toc»of theramUyandnelghJhtdtorTe^^'V "?" "^^ **»• ^•"«''- wa« an almost Inaccessible, worthless bit ofl^rianf T"**"'" "'"^ "'"•^" «ng mysudden downtall. a huge black sn^^w' '"'"* ' '"^ '*«^'«'- me with upraised head. I gave one shriek «n!,^ . ! "^ f*»i^t«) ' approached This was my first and iLt rll to I'lris^""'.? V' *"'''^V I liked my property ?" and 1 respond^ th Jt ^^ *"" '*'''*'^' •'^«' »• "kit, AS I grew Older my settl^d^i 1^ TLZil till T ^ °'*^ ^ ^Oi^fs. to various-ways, which wer* sTt .Town t T' '^ "' °*^'"' '^^' *" in despair o« doing better with me ^^1 l *®°"»^ "~«» <>' l*»iftt». me. He erected ^ulldLH rth" ^T ^r^ 2 " T^ ' »-^' purchased a stock ot dry iroods h«^„ *'"'"" ^««* •• • PllSer .-tall^lmeasolerklnthlsTnieC"'' *'^''^''' '"'^ *«-"- -oUo^S We kept a cash, credit and barter store and T dm, . ''* women who brought butter, eggs, beeswa^ JT.. / 1 ' '*""'* ***^»"» ^^ ' foods, and with men who ;anS T7^. Tl '*'*'"^^ *° «°'^*^ '<»' ^ry hats, and other commodities tor tenZnTuLlI IZ"'^"*'''?'*' "-^'•^^ It was a drawback upon my dlgnlty^Tt 7 w ™°'*««««. o». New" England ru«. •weep the store and make'th*^^ I rLliTed "T % ^* """^ "^^ «*"»*«• and the perquisites or what profit l' could derive rrom plrchaZ'"' "' "^^^ own account to sell to our younger cuslomerH inV P""***^* candle, on m, that I Should clothe myseir: """**^°'«"' "d. as usual. ^fiith«r sttpuuSl" There Is a great deal to be learned In a country ='. • " that Sharp trades, tricks, dishonesty and d^Zn aiT '"'* '""'"'^' "^ the dty. More than once, m cutting oZ buLr ! °° «»««« confined, to exch«iged ror goods, and w^rantertobeTllln^n.'' "^' *'~««" *<> «»•• lathe interior worthies, woolen iTh and someUm"^ "'*°"- '''*"• '^^•^ Someames. too. when measuring loads or oasTr^tl "^""^•'•"^•^ ""' *'*^ " a specified number or bushels, say sUty i hav;rundV^'',*''^''^ *° ~"»^ rtxort. in the evening and on wet days Tde Z a^J" T °' °"* »'"•^•- tlme. U.e storytelling and Joke.pUylng\r:nd "^^^^'^Wir '* '"'"^ wsemble In our store, and irom them I, derived conl^^frlu ^* """^ *** profit Alter the store was closed at nlghr I Tr^uenT i?T°''''*' " °°* Tillage boys at the houses or their parents where rr!^!^.^?r*^ '°'"' ^' ^''^ couple or houl-s would soon pass /y. andCn "' ^J^ T^Z ' """ ' ^^^' * I went home and slyly crept up stairs so « not ^ - v"^' " '"*''~ '*'"**^*' Whom I Slept, and who would be sure to re "rt my Tate hou™ ""l """*"• ^"^ attempt, and laid .11 sorts or plans to catch Le on my wtuL"",,. T^^ *^ >Tertook him. I managed easily to elude him ' * " '^^^^ '^'•y* JJke most people m qonhectlcut In those dav. t «. v eburoh reg^UHy on Sunday, and long ZZ T^'u d^'~"^* "^ ^ •"«- ^O^olar in th^^day School. My Z mother LuT^fJTy.Jl'^J^f;^* T M Utatat and ■N \ Mi^^^ •A ■ \i:i<:'^ 'h i^ Ml • aaialloak r over J p^ stunted Mtm 1 the I»ugh- •Ivy Island" stood deiJlor- ) < approsobed ed me "t^m ter Una, was ' of IsfUUpa. mex^ihiouier notloiai^^ialiA uvalna witb age tor dry •xe-beivea, icland rum. the shutten my serrloe^ Idles on mj rstlpalatild" PaUy thls~ oonflned.te «bt to Im! «*i.t1. wbich aB ■tliMhil rfnktag aU diffenmoM of creed in the Fttabyterkn ftith. Tlie
ughaieeetheooogwg.*ionwoiild* tin b«1n«wood« frame, the hMm perfcwted, tod tatt«H^^ smaU iq[Darp irda diah, which oontahied a fow Uve coaU oomwl with l*e^ ito^wwe awafly reiJenlAed jost betore meeting time a* aoBi bort near the me e U a g ^ioiMei -----*»««» aoni ^ JiSL'J!!!!!^!.*?!"'''''^ "^ sDfteririg, one of the bnHirai had tibe im)podtl0n waa voted dowp jy an overwhehning majority. AnoUi«TJr«m- uound. andln November tte atov. q^^-^^ S^Soi^ST^xX r°?r'.^?r*- '**«b3ectwa8di«nm»diDrSSJS^S;.^fa^ aodetT^ meetfai^,'' in December, the stove was carried bra mftMi^^^^ andant mfdden ladiee we«r>.E> oppreeaM by the diy and hmb^^^Z^ ooe«J«edbytlM,wi<*^ oirt fato the cool air where t^y iqpeedily r«tunied to oon«dM^^ when tiieywere informed thatiWltagto the lack of imola^^S^^tv!^^^ had yet been made hi the stove. The next SmidaT waaTwfctorLS^-?? ^ "" '^Ti ^ welH^^oaed hidm^.^T J II!:: SSSSo^S ^J maay.anddiqdeasedoDlyafbw. ^ ::- '^ ^™ " "• Dming the Rev. Mr. I^wtfte mtaiitratio^ at Battel, he ftnneda Bible ebm -rfj^ I waaa member. We used to dmw pwpriKaondy ft«n . hS?lSfl« aoripture and write a compoeition on the text> which oonmodtloMiww iMdrffcll «rvioe m the afternoon, to such of the ooQgngation aa nmalaed to^^i^ •xerdsea of tlie das* Once, I remember, I d«w the tak Lok. x 4a. "S ^ thiogi. needful; and Mary hath dKwnthat good part wUdi ili2 not ha taken away from her." QiMsWon, "Whatistheooethhwneedfttll* lfrMI--I was nearly aa ftdtowa : —•««-««» jajanaww "This qjMsUon 'what is the one thing needtair i.oai»htofl« iwiv^ answers, depending mndi upon the penoos to whom It k addNssed. ThTmZT ;m)eraUy, wt&ont beatfaig down and pay cash for aU theiTw^Sir^ S ^roar might wply.that'liie one thtogneedfMfalaigefaa mrtj^^ % be of opinion that « it is an unmly ooomnmtty, always --^ mf a*^ in ■wl^gatksia' The deigyman might reply, 'It is a fttaalaiy with muWdttidis !L!5!f".r?*°*^***"'^P*^^^'»^P«' «*"«*' Tbabadielor might «»Wa. '»«i»«wttBrwttswliPtov«h»hn*«»i.airtwl»ta«Z^ ■ H- • 40 '4. ^ --■■■',• I on buttoaa. The maiden mlsht &»>». .t^ . <*«.-» «d protect me wLX a^rLl" Bu't Sf "?"" '*"' '^^ '^ ' doubtleu that Which applied to the o«l «f w "*** *"*P'* •"*»'' "« •ndobey HI. oommandJenta We W ^,W '*'' *" ""*• '^^-^^^P*' »°^» «^ tunlty ot admlnlsterln/rht^eZu^^'i" Zt°'-r '""""^ '''^ ^^^'^ '. Ut. a life that we can alwaw iSr^il »1 Z^ '^* *~ "^ "*«<»'"'' <■*<>♦- everto contempUte li S^Saion ^tTt^^rHj^I^r'^ '"' ^ '""•^^'^ «tred It to «a. .urroundlng u. with iLm^aWe wl^; ^f w": ^'^''V"""- heart and wisdom to receive them ma proper mi^er^' ' '*^' *"** "»• ooS:;.r rln^h^c^r ciiranT^^ '^»' •»— ^ «•. Bamum" wiu. .hi-,^ "I . ™®'^*y™*" Wmaelf Joined^ and the name ol "TaTi/>* wrtttraaoawer toth* aueauon "Wh.ti. th^-T^ «^! ""y »»»•* H wiw • wrtl - M««auuu, wnat u the one thing needtul T" ■ b b M W in iat BO « f ■ml OHAPTBB IL IKOIDBNTS AND AmSODOIM. In!lll!i;?^^ ^T*" ^^ "»y ">aten>«» grandmother met witb an .e^ ■«nriUetli«rL-«Zr^^ ?"****• ^^•™>^ symptom* "oon made har wliat In w day ^ouW be called a Norwalk Exim* • and he^ fcJL^^ h.m^h.Tebe|mamanofmarkandmeana Not that he ^.S-SS wMJioutego«m^IniayaayIlnherit«ltha*oharacteri*ia MybMtoL%d«S' «oo^ -good a.tb.llmlt«lileld affonl«i.and I «« o#^i!l'^?S!r^'i '^»»~» »«~ -<* -nee the month i£^oftL:itarS^':2;:S**^^ J^rmotberwaalftwir;* IT^.^ ft j^-joon w«ntthat my fMherhad provided noSS b a^LJ^ '^'»^>byeoonomy. todu-iy, «d pemTeniS «~iSd to * am yia» aftrwarda to radaemlng the homertead .nd h,!!^'.!^^^ KSTtL^'S Sf *^? **^***^ ** «>y«Wi»«, theworUlooSdriooS SriiJI^ lii^lILii:? ~o«mnlat«la«l loaned to my fattHr, WdK ■oaa wmtmot, were «i««<4 Mi to be Um nrfMij«.ii» <.# . —jI^ •_ • t * tetiMrand 80 to th« ZZTL^^I Pi^V ol a minor, belonging lo the ?! T*"^. '!**°.*^ ****»> ■°<'»°y"°»Mq'>toiwaaniled out IwaaobUgwIto ■I •uila with nothing, and ww ^anfooiuj aft '"-^ * s'wv "^p" ■nmilMMaraor Jamaaa Kaalar 4fc Lewla Whltlock at dx doUan a month "^ lflt":^L!!!^^^^7^'^'^ h erdaiXll J^ •Md ma m«yft«illtt..tor making «».y on my own •JooSHTi loS MWMjgifMiadiTepeaaJaikimandAioQeadedmfallli^aflBaUnnaf K -^= _ I .» XVOIDIHIB AITD AirBCDOT0|. ,^ ^Ipdd to unsalable pod. iM. very p,x>fltable price-. m>wU>^^^Z J^?*n 2^ ^* ^lem. and as it wae also deetaOde togM ridof •!«« ^^^'~":^'*'^**^^"'«»^°P for year, and W^iitoS Si^JSlirtK^' ^'^^ •'^"^ *^ P*y*"* *^ goodirtohTdedgnateriTS I!;;^^^!S1" *^'* "^* '"'*^'*^ and the wohi tin and gi«J^bSl«W« speedily turned into cash. "owaw ww» Am my motlMr continued to keep the Tillage tavern at Bethd. I namllv — «• ;«;^onS^^ MoSdaymonAnjSS toSX iSl^S;?^^"'*' ,2f *^'^y«^»^.«»"ringaTiolenithund«rAo^!^ !L *.S?^ ^tJ^ ^'"•"P °° liorseback to get a newl^; thSTi^ 2.^ * ilit* -^^^ ; «»d if -I wa. going to Bethel that evening A. ^*edm.toe»ortherodktomer. lawmted, and wentov«rto "AuntRoSa'*'' where I wa. introdoqed to "Ghairy" (Charity) HaUett. a fir ron^^ZT^t b^orn girl, wtttbeautiM white teeth. I «ri.S heiChJJ ^"^STSSi tag my own ho«», we trotted townnisBethd. ^^ "^ ™* lk™S? '?P"^°* of tW. giri a«I«wher at the hoa« w«««.4tag,. hjr very aifabK I regretted that the distance to Bethel was not ivemik. inrt^ rfooe. AflaAoflightoinggayemeadlrtlnctTiewoftheftweofmylUroom. S^^S"''^,^**^'*'^*'^'^""*-- '>«ri»goarrin S^Ji!l?l'T.' T^^ ^'"^'^ ^'^ *^ ^"^ Benedict, of Brthel Ite next 4ay I .iw her ai choroh, and, indeed, many Sunday, afterward* but I Md no <^q)artunity to renew the aoquaintaooe ttiat seawn. ~ Un, Jeralia Whwder, with whom I boarded, and her daughter Jonuha were temiUarly known, the one a. "Aunt Rusfaia,''and the other as "RuAia." Manr of oar rtoJne customer, were hatters, and among the many kind, of furt we sold tor the nap of hat. wa. one known to the trade a." Rumia.-' One day a hatter WMm Dibble, called to boy Mme fura I K>ld him mrml kind* inchidln^ "b^TW" and "cony," and he then adced fbr K>me "Rusda." wt^noa^MSf Mlwanted toplayaioke upon hhn, I told him that Mm Wheeler had^vlNd iumdradpomid.of "Rudiia.'' ^ •" "What on earth i. a wmnan doing with 'Ruiria f" said h* 1 ««W not an«w, but I a«utrf him that ther» were one hmdred and IWr^ pooml^ old Rushla and one hundred and^lfty pounds of young RusW. In]^ noj^V- Off he started to make the pnrohaw and knocked at the door. Mm WbMssr, the elder, made her appearano* **! WBOt to get your Rosda," said the =ifc- -^ ^ ihii k* Md oSb* fbr her daughter " Rushi*." "What do you want of Rushiaf adnd tihe okl ladK f'Jt- oroTDBim AiTD Atvowynntk 43 "To trim hati, I mippoae you mean?" neaponded Mra. .Wbedflr. . ' ' ' *'No, for the outgide of hata," repliml the hatter. , ; * Well, I don't know much about nata,-' said the old lady. " but I will call mj daughter." . ^ Paadng into another room where "Rtuhia" the younger waa ait wori^iltt informed her that a man wanted her to make hatR " Oh, he means sister Mary, probably. I suppose he wants seme laditf hata," ra|>Ued Rushia, as sl^ went into the parlor. " This is my daughter," said the old lady. " I ^faat to get your Russia, " said b4, addressing the young lady. "I aappoaa you wish to see my sister Mary ; she is our milUnar," lakl you^ ilushia. *' I wish to see wfaoerar owns the property," said the hatter. eUitor Mary was sent for, and, as she waa introduoM, the hatter informed iMt that he wiahedto buy her " Ruaria." " Buy Rushial " exclaimed Mary in surprise ; " I don*t nnderstaud you." * ' Tour name is Miss Wheeler, I beUeye," said the hatter, who was annoyad 1^ the difficulty be met with in being understood. *'Ilis,air." "Aht Tary wall Is there old and young Rnada in the hoaset'* "I balieTe there k," aaid Mary, surprised at the familiar manner in widab ha ■poke of her mother and sister, wlio were present ^ " What is the price of old Russia per pound! " asked the hatter. *' I baUare, sir, that oU Rushia is not for sale," replied Mary Indignantly. " Well, what do you ask for young Ruasial " pursued the hatter. "Sir," said Miss Ruriiia the-younger, springing to her feet, "do you ooma hm» la insott dsteweless females r If you do, sir, our brother, wbo is In the ganiM, irill pnnUi yon as you deaerre." '*l4uliesl" exclaimed the fitter, in astonishment, "what on earth have I done to ofltad ytmt I came here on a business matter. I want to boy soma BHria. I waatoki yon had old and young Russia in the house, bideed, tJiia yoong lady Jost iteted such to be the fact, but she says the old Russia is not for sala. Now. if I can buy the young Russia I want to do ao-bnt if that cant be dona, plsaii to »y ao and I will trouble you no further." ■ "Mother, open the door and let this mi|n go out; ha is ondoabtodlyi ■aid Mia Mary. "Bythundarl I baUera I dudl be if I remain here long,*^ eSbkimad the 1 aonsiderably axdted. "I wander if folks nerer do budntaiintlMai fart^llHl yottthinkamaniscnuqrif heattemptrauohathingt" > [: ^^oaineasl poor mani" said Mary soothingly, apinxMudih^ tiM door. 'l am not a poor man, madam," replied the hatter. ''My name is WaMv INbbla ; I carry on hatting axtsnsiTely in Dantmry ; I came to Oiaaij Plahita baytuT, and' haTapurohaaed some 'beavar'and 'cony,' and now it KunnTaM tobaoallad'OHu^'anda 'poarman,'beoaaaaI want tobuy aUttia'RiMila' to I up my aasortmsnl" fti and hia explanation threw considarabla light npon the ** Who ssnt you hsret" aaked ristsr Mary. — i^Tha dark at the opptmtU store," was the reply. *Baisawiakad young Mkw f ormaUBg all thia lrevhl%* all lht«Mli4v' *%i kna ba« Mk Mile «nr a lahai* 44 JM IVOISllin jUrt AOTODOfH. AJokel'J.exdairaedDibble.Inwiprise. " Have you no RuaBia, UmbI » My name is Jeruaha, and ao is my daughter's," said Mra. Wheeler, "and that Itappose, is What he meant by telling you about old and young-RuHhia." «. ^^^^® ^^*^ through the door wlthouc another word and made directlj tor our store. " You yqung scampi "said he, as he enterod; "what did you mean . by sending me over there to buy Russia?" ^^ " I did-aot send#eu to buy Rushia ; I supposed you were either a bachelor ot irtdmver and wanted to mar,„ ILushia," I repUed, with a serious countenance. . You lie, you young dog, aiul you know it ; but never mind. Ill pay you oil jome day ;"flod taking his furs, he departed with leas iU-hmnor than c^^ been eipect€(d under the circumstances. * ^^ '^-^r'^?'! ostomers were three or four old Revolutionaiy pensIonenL who tradM out the amounts of their pensions before they were due. leaviniTtheir papers as security. One of these pensionera was old Bevans, commonlyknown m " Uncle Bibbins," a man who loved his glass and was^ pnme tolSIS romantic Revolutionary anecdotes and adventures, in which he, of course, was W^cuous. At one time he was in our debt, and though We held his peiisioD pft^wrs. It would be three months beifore the money could be drawn, ftwaa desirable to get him away for that length of time, and we hinted to him that it woiUd be pleasailt to make a visit to Guilford, where he had relations, but he WoiOd not go. WnaUy, I hit upon a plan which '.' moved "him. . A journeyman hatter, nstmed Benton, who was fond of a practical toke. was' Sr.^ T?H^t^^^^ persuaded to caU "Uncle Bibbins" a cowaiS^ to teU him that he had been Avounc^ed in the back, and thus to provoke a dueL which he ISd, and at my suggestion ' Uncle Bibbuis " challenged Benton to flght him with musket and ball at a distance of twenty yards. The challenge was aooeoted. I was chosen second by "Uncle Bibbins," and the duel wa« to come off Imme. diately. My principal, taking me aside, begged me to put nothing in the guns * but blgnkcarta-idgea I assured him it should be so, and therefore that he nditht feel perfectly aaf& — hi"* The ground was measured in the lot at the rear of odr at^ and tiie prlndDak. and seconds took their plaxxs. At the word given both parides flred. "UnSe Bibbius " of course, escaped unhurt, but Benton leaped several tieb toto the air and fell upon the ground with a dreadful yell, as if he had b^en realW «h«*' «Unole BibWn." was frightened. I rea to hL, told himi hTnSi^ to extract the buUet from Aw gun (which was litendly true, as there waano bullet in it to extract), and he supposed, of course, he had killed hia adversary I^ whlapM^d to him to go immediately to (Juilford,tokUp quiet, and he ahould ka«- from me as soon as it would be safe to do aa He toed up the street on a l^andimmediately quit the town for Guilfonl, where he ke^ himself ^ ^JlT«^*^°*'^.*°'l*^u"^'^'^P*P«"- I then wrote him^ heoouM return hi safety; that hia adveraary had recovered from hiswomd* ■Mu OK hia known courage." ^ - — • —mmkoub "Uncle Bibbins" retum«l, signed the papers, and we obteln«l the Mnaion money. A few days thereafter he met Benton. ^^ *^ "My hmve okl friend," said Benton. "I fon^y ypp my terrible yrym A .«^ »ruuiiilueiiieut on the bHnl^the grave, and I bail^.^tofa^Wi!toa 1 towdted you without a t-auae." »-»i^e me aiaa l _«• 1 forgive you fhjaly, " said "' U ucle fiipbina; " " but," he W O^reful next time how you insult a dead ahot * V , .* »% #- — — -^^ 1 .'} ^^ I- . X CHAPTER III. " " ■• ■ «- ' ' ' "' ■ EH" BUSimBSS FOB MY8ELE. ' '<■■' . ■' ^OUnB Tatlor removed from Danbury to Brooklyn, Long Mand. vAmm to ^ •gfoony store and also had • Iai«e comb factory^anda oomhi^^ -^ ^ 1 accepted, ««i before long wa. entrusted with the purehaaing of 3 Kf i2i "l ; bought for cash entirely, going into the loWpar^^ J^al^J^nm?* Jeapert market for greceriee. often attem^ancto ^Jtoaa, «i««r% molaaaea, eta, watching the sales, noting price. MJta7«ri«S itequentjr combining with other, g«>crini to bid off luve 10^^^ ^w •tti fwSTSiaiLr'A ^ r *°'^*'^'"' ^^'^ manifeeted great Interest to nm, ■nu 1 wa« diaaatisaed. A salary was not sufBdent for meu Mv rf<«w^M». ^ ■ ^^K„r^r **^*^ ^"^"^ refused to be sJt^ed ^f ^^^JS^ ^^^'ir^'^'^''^'^'^'^ Thl.gickne«madea«d W?Z; my means. ^T»en I was sufficiently recovered, I went home to i«snr^ ^ niSS2L33S*~"°lf*'ry '^'^'^* ^"^ I ^*«d my old friend. a«d rZAi «r^^ aauett. A m<»ith afterwards, I returned to Brooklvn-wlMwi iS^JlS^t'"""""' «»yldouttogoodadvaSS Sd^i^'^Z?*^?!'^^^^^'''"^"'-^ ItwaaagreatreeortTS^S? ^.^1^'^^'^^''**^'^^^'"^ ^^^ opportonlti«3 ;^??lSf.^:::S5T"^'f°''-^™°»^ IUvedtoMr.Th«^fiunllyai oametoNewYe l«St In «S»ni^^S£.^!°'"^ J^«~».y. and while I do notlSTLt S^t;^^ ^JSll^^*" *^»>^^ th-a-nctioned by good 3Eia^ moSL^ JJI^*1J!ZJ'^ r^ ^''•'""^ Q«»o«»ooo.don.a,oangm.noalW ■or »nw week!, i told him that if he wanted any article of nL.^^ i- -T ««, to that it became a fi^rortte resort; the theater of tillage t^ and thT 'mnrS^*** ^^-VaxcapiaftbeJocoeeXL^^n^ •nd monshant In that true >«ort of village wlteandw^theooimSTrto^ ^I«••ndrimple,wi^b•«ln,tollndthe«r^M». Ujh^^^y^ MM^manymoat amuring inddentt, to some of wUch I waa m '--^-- l>M|tfa^Vthough to many, I was only a listener or q>ectator /*^' ' llwijUawtog »M»a makes • chapter to U^ ^^^^S» I MMtowf iwnni i >mn thi n r r more than a ilwwl ieWier. W^nnjf ^ ^=^ ^_^^.^^*°°°f^"°g*o°'"tom. but contrary to kw. A psnon frxnn New YcA ilii^ whom I wiU cyi Orofut, who was a £wm Mr His aeiMriii and hto raaUy knlbto pnl^iitty. oiJ4«i ~ ^ -£4i4££4 A ^'JF ifti ** .^''i^j.P^'^ JT' IK BTTSnrBSS FOR MTSBLF. 47 ia ay ttltte flrtablidmwnt engaged io cwveraation, ^rtien Nathan Beelye, Bm). . one of our village justices of the peace, and a man of strict reUgious prindpto^ oame in, and hearing Crofut's profane language he told him he -considered it his dnty to fine him one dollar for swearing. >Crofat responded immediately with an oath, that hedi^ notcaraftd^ nftor the Connecticut blue laws. "That will make two doUan," said Mr. Seelye. s This brought forth another oath. - "Three dollars," said the sturdy justice. Nothing bat oaths waw given in reply. umtaEaanfa-eSealvadaclarwrt «ia HM«.g^ 4iO the Connecticut laws to auioont to fifteen dollara. CSrofot took out a tweniy-d(^ bill, and handed it to the justice of the peaoiL witiianottth. i^-^n ^"Sixteen dollars," said Mr. Sedye, counting out four dollars to hand to M». Gkrofnt, as his change. "Oh, keep it, keep it," said Crofut, "I don't want iny change, PU d— -d som '■wearouttiie balance." He did so^ after which be was more, circumspect In hii ^ ooiiversati * ■ponNewton dropped into ^seat as if he had been shot. Thereupon, I rose ' with great Ofnfldenee, and speaking from my notes, proceeded to show tlie gam ,ar ther prisoner from the evidenoe; that tiiere was no discrepancy In the tsatt* Booy; that none of the witnesses had been impeached; that w^teftoseM been oftBTsd; liiat I was astonished at the audadty of Jboth ooimsel and prisotMrL no» Reading guilty at once; and then, soaring aloft oh genena prino^jfea, I began to lookabont for a safe place to alight, when my grandfather interrupted me wttb- Yoong man, will yon have ti»e kindness to Inform the ooort whkilriila wa ■wt piaarting fta^-theplatoMff or the defendant IP tfttia oomrt-room. Newton, irtio had been vwy downcast, kMkad up ' ^^y> lrin«pd thte two "eminent counsel " sneaked Out of the roomtn WMte tllN irifoiiK WM boiii4 orar to the next t^^ vMin TTi - #•». luw, sifet^ ) 4« # r» BtyswBaa P08 utautB. ■^^mybaaliieasinlfetheloonldnuwilo incnem beyond myexnU^ i probability of beios Jflted at laat (ST-h., T • ™^**^ '"*'* * ■^'«»» hi. ann. a^^^ta^ tht^ "^ *^ declined totaki oMPwr^rerillfa. » fa oertain*y not aflw the maimer of (aertertlald.hrt^i. ■acliatotter«sadi»ppointedloyer,gpuiTedby « ^nw»raeW, but ttli Tbe cra«i<«]r«d nuwstor, wkleh doth BMMk TiM meat tt fMa on; S3^S^^^^'***'*^'«»»MaUettthatwedkHUdb«^ * tonn., and Shepani «rting «i «aibe, W6 bonoocl«i the f oUo^ ^Mw^ nnr PoBB^t^w^^ W«f» Um •uphonlow aam«t «f IocbUUm la tb» vlolaltf { IK BUSnriSS l6S MTSBLF, 49 "kri /ncy iQir the daa* Mei •■^•Hd, M foUpm:] - raaripRk* how oftaa yon lutT* told me that yoa lorad nor could I, bat m ttao "veitM or two, whMi . r nda^iad whian, my dew glrL I I • bet^bpjn Miybodr elee. and I m ,«„ .^ .„..«-» „„, .oio wui Shepwd ooolrt not reooUe• -<»' ^^^ V r#>' Liuretla, dear, do write to Jack, ^d lay with Bean yon are not . And thua to main h>T« come iMtek, , AndflTe all other boya the mttt«. Do Uila, Lneretla, and tffl death V rn love yon to Intenae dlatraettau ni apend for yoo my every breaUkr-N. And we will Uve In aatlHAkcttdar '\ r Thrt wiiniu wir wen," aald MaDett nttle m&re." Ww obeyed ordeM aa f w/obVed^t^^^M fo3S;^':]^irfiSTeS!d 5?^ «t|dalned. Ht conrtde»»d the flmire rath« teld «nS^nJ«^«I L JM ''•* '*'*• ^* Jack MAUunt, m^J^t S!S??biftloM1SLd^anol?a'SS!^^ caae fahaU expect tn« pleasure of giving yoa nv i«?5?monSw^t '*'*^7' The effect of this letter upon Looretl^ I regret to Bay, wm wi •• fctToimljIe •• ^Mold h»Te bees (leiiinNL 8he' t- .-■? OHAFTBB IT. BTBUOOLBS *OB^^A LITBLIHOOD. tofttWntt^,andoffer«nM«»eLSf ^^^ who di«u«ded me trom^Z much grainier style^^^S^S^^SLS^^t"' •Jf*^*'"'* ^ "^ doyer. At the ei«i of that tZ h^^S^^^^ '^ ?' • '^ '^ '-«« i» ttto amount of our hotel bmasto^IS^r^' A^ "^ !f*^'^«^ *» *^ iojNew York, oar caamnJ^^^^^J^^^l'"^ ^'"^^ *^ Twenty-fire cento of thissu^wTttoZt^^^ 1*"* twenty^ven cento. •«■ tootaded i»our bilL B^y^^^^^^ Fortunately our bitakfiS *ni«-nriiW our stav fa iv«»T!L /^°**^ '^ returned home. ttcta*Bdii«rtly fromXcoSe^c^^ '^ thereafter I bought m^ -W«»We qu«»titie. Of ti^T^i^^**^ ^ ?""*^' "^^^^ <»»^ *«««Hln» in'the bu«inee8,anr« WfS^S^^ My uncle, Alanson -Riylor. •omkkni "liioky?^andIiSS^^!»lr^ P'*^ my office came to bi Daring this ttaw l3.«JZ *" ''^ •" I«^ o* «» country «K.tL^ifXl^2^^J?^,«^^ Styaotot,, jmd ««, wedding dTy^'^^.'j^-^f^ M^ suit waall^ l«ine«,andnoone but uJ^TtiL^J^.'^^^ "^3^ <^«^ "* "™™^*** w gbarityJBa m^^ m ^C 'r ras wooBfflMod eariy mairing^ Hm 0^,^ 9t mm mt t B A I Ol f dj w ■0 A no on In :^,,%,i^ih*SLV . ', ''pr ^ 9d>o(Brk|g» «, where we we meant to m. We wen* 7> thepritici- trota goiiur »f Tennenee^ iinftbuf the h for a pleas* we lived in we were in *t for home^ ring tioketi leven cents, ir hivakfast iitii for our A morning ewark a^^ le-half the from tdtfk ought my^ tned^the sllingcon^ n Taylor, me to ba 7- jr Ballet^ accepted, closely to that tiie stensibly followed ; and the iRied at ame tbm ireekwe cnnuLjlJI^ Cf ^ I SZSiSt^ SS^^^^i:^/*^ !?"«*' ^ ~'^*^ "«>' ^^« '"'^"d another r::rrci^f2r^ "•'^-^ --^vaiua^ i^-e^ Inthe trtnter of im^ my lottery budness had so extended that I had brtmcb office, in Danbury, Norwalk. Stamfoni and Middletown, as weUas^^def to ™^J^'""*'^"*^"^'"'*^*«^ Ih««ailsopurcl^Z^y oo^*^^S^v*^'"u*"„""^°°^'" ^ W*^'' *^«. '"veling about the * i^jM?^' ^^ ™y ""cle. Alan*m Taylor, and myself opened a country store in the yeUow store," as it was caUed, with a fuU assortment^ groceries. l3^ J^t^ "^' ' ^"**' °"* *"y '"^«''' ^^'^'^^ ««» we ZSJSS oh^i^* %'^e.^clrcumstonoee, partly religious and partly poUtlcal in their character Idi me intostdU another fleW of enterprise 3 hono^lyopeS^ ing^y youfti, this new enterprise reflected c»-edit upon my ability as wellas energy, and so i may be excused if I now recur to it 'Sth somethh^' ZpH^ J^llT"^ T"^ ^^^"^ excitement, 1 wrete sevenU commLcatio^f^ tteDa^bury Veeldy paper, setting fort Wh^^ -«rt«JantoterferencewUchwasthenarfarentinp *e event was cel» room in which I wa« oon^' Cte ^^J TTC'^..'^'^'^' ^« <->^^ tor the occasion, was sune • an «lon.^„. !.. * «>{ebration. An ode, written d^er foUoW by appropriate tSrd 3^^^ of a suznptuou. part of the ceremonial, which was rennrL^ ^ **™« *« trimnphaot fcsfoUowB: ^" '^P°''^^*»y paper of December 12, ;S% of three mi«T" u P'^^ »* variety of n Homer "aW; fc^^t'^f ri' «P tl.^b7autin.S mroSeVLli'^^^^'^'^^^ walk till ttie following '^e^ih^^ "^"^ *" ^^'- '«' ^e at ^ Meanwhile, I had ShI^ pL^Slf' T "^'^ *^ *^- ^^''^ Taylor J^ess, in 1831, and I l^ZT^ufT^^^J^'^'^ ^ ""^ meLnta. tonnlngapartnex^p i^er^he Si ofX^iJ*^ ^' ''°"'*y' *" ^^^S, they cerned,my8tore ,B8nota8u^«r?LJ ^/*^- 80 far as I wa^ con- bought largely a^d in olr^:^,,^^^' ^ ^ ^"^^ ^^ "»^ ' IluuianaccmnnlationofbaAii.^d^i^^^ Hence aeoounte balanced by " death^h3^.'« • ^ ^^'^ P'^^ents a long serieo of -similarly x^unen^^e^Cs."^ ™^^^ '^-^y.-by "failing." ancf by <^r '^^^Z''^^::7eX7^::^ f s -? ^ *^« -^^ of i«^ i iiadnopecmuaryiLmC^J^irJ^rJ ^^u* ^"'^ ^ Hudson 81^1 »»• oollectiorS^^tTCi 11 iT'f.* ^. ^"""^ ''^"^ ^^^ ■eek my fortune. li>pkZte^!\^^ aflxed salary, but soT^: t^cb t^ ^To^ Sf "^^*"« '^°"*' »<^«^ my individual tact, enenry and ^^^^^ ? the ppflts as might be due to But I could find no su^^S.!^"^^*"^^ ^ *^« ^^reste of the bu«ine«u* In in health; I^^rLSS'^r^arC^a ?^T^'^' ""^^^^ •everal 8toi« which allowed Ci Z.n ^l^** ^^**^«« "drummer''to iiit«)duction. ™*"°^«*»»«a««»allcomml«ionon sales to customer of my Nordidallmvefl«if^L»«-- -1^ X, # ^ M i;j !: !!^ ; !g:i;~^ \'ZX ' ^'^^ - i BTTtm Ml. and ' one hundi^ tU. • My rooD) the constant I accessions to '^ent was cel» ^ The court I ode, written ihe press was a sumptuous ' fariumphaot ber 12, 181i% >y8lx horses, ty horsemen, he coach was committee of editor to biy three cheers The band ot !l (a distance iome. Sweet nbury. The re are happy >Iishedt the 1834, after >e at T!(oT Taylor. aercantil* 1883, they was coll- ar me. I )• Heuoe : series of byofiher 1834-«^I street. I lebtsleft eraJUyto e, not at e .due to nuiaem.* ily weit|4 ner^to 'Of my ^ ^r ■M. y / *§-**■" ^^:\ ^ •s»r, H^ ■ntnoexas iob a utiuhooo. 5$ iBdinf no IwMarlNninaM, May 1,1886, lopmada amall prtyate boardinff^MxiM at Na 58 Frankfort street We loon haft a Twy good nm of custom from oar CooneeUoat aoqualntanoee who had oocaikni to visit New Yoric, and as tibls borinew did not snflkdisatly occupy my time, I boufl^t an. Interest witti Mr. John Moody in a grocery rtore, Na 156 Sonth street. ▲Itiiougfa HiB years of manhood brought cares, anxieties, and stmgi^ lor • Uyelihood, they did not change my nature and tiw jocose dement -was still an MsontinI ingredient of my being. I loved fan, practical fan, for itself and txm . the enjoyment which it brou^t Poring the jrear, I occasioniiJly viMted Bridge* port tviiere I almost always f oond at. the hotel a nqted jdcer, named Darrow^ who qxuped neither friend nor foe in Us tricka He was the Ufe of the bar-room and'wDold always try to entrap some stranger in a bet and so win a teeat for thn aompany. He made teveral ineffectual attempt! opon me, and at last, one evaa> ing, Darrow, who stuttered, made a final trial as fdlowsr "Come, Bamom, FQ make yoa another proposition; Fll bet you haintgot a whole diirt on your back.'* The catdi consists in the fact that genenilly only one-half of that oonvenient garment is on the back; but Z had anticipated the proposition— in fact I had induce^ a friend, Mr. Hough, to put Darrow iq> to tibe trick— and had folded a ^iiirt nicely upon my back, securing it there with my suspenders. TIm bar-room was crowded with customers ^lo thought that if I made the bet I should ba dcelycani^ and I made pretense of playing off and at the same time sfeimf vlated Darrow to press the bet by saying: " Xltat is a foolish bet to make; I am sure my shirt is irboiB because it is nearly lew; bat I dont liJce to bet on such a subject" **A good reason why," said Darrow, in great glee; "it's ragged. Oome, FU Ut you a treat for the whole company you halnt got a whole shirt on jaat ^b-b-backl" " , " lil bet my ddrt is cleaner than yours," I replied. " That's nothing to do w-w-with the case; it's ragged, and y-y-y(m know it" "I know it isnot," I replied, with pretended anger, which caused the crowd to laugh heartily. » "Tou poor ragykl f-f-fellow, come down here from D-D-Danbury, Vm taaj . fof^you," said Darrow tantalisingly. "Tou would not pay if you lost" I remarked. ^ ^ ' ** Here's f-f-4ive doUars Fll put in Gratain Hinman's (the landlord'i) hanita. Now b-b-bet if you dare, joa ragged o-O'llreature, you." I put five dollars in C^tain Hinman's hands, and told him to tnial the oai» |Mny from it if I lost the bet "Remember," said Darrow, "I b4>4Mfe joa hain't got a whole sUrt on your/ b wh«U Ali4 ftr«n off mj ^ badcl Buoh a duiek ot laughter as burst forth from the crowd I soaroaly ever beard, and certainly sudi a blank countenance as oki Darrow exhibited it would he bard toconoalT^ Bmliif that tewMBMH teoontinsntbr "done for," and p«roeivii« I 5« ITBnOSLBS lOB ▲ LTTBLIHOOD. •iidAAtoghlBflrtinW«fao«exclaJiMd: "^•W"»«niin J5!l^r^* "li° '^**' "^ *^*»* ^^* be«ty good will, forit^ •JUom that Wowlgot token In, and S wa« woh an Invi^ jZ^ ttoy ffl^ • ,.!.. CHAPTER V, MX 8TABT A8 A SHOWKAIT. , By tliig time It was okiar to my mind that my proper position in thk bun world wu not yet reached. The buaineaB for which I wan destined, andTl jBUeve, made, had not yet come to mei I had not found that I wag to cater for th^inaatiate want of human naturo-the love of amusement; that I was to make a sensation on two continents; and that fiune and fortune awaited me so soon as I should appear before the pubUc in the character of a showman. The show business has aU phases and grades cif dignity, from the eihibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama, which •ntranoes empire and secures for the gifted artist a world-wide fame which ^MlnoeapsU might envy. Men, womeaand children, who cannot Uve on gravity u JSttl?"''^"* 'o '^^ their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he« jHR *** '*^ ^'^^ ia in a business estobliahed by the Author of our 'rii£ia;^hi:redii^°^ •"' """^ '^^°"* -^^i - The least deserving of all my efforts in tiM show line wm the one which IiLv duoedme to the business; a scheme in no sense of my own devising; one which had been some time before the Itobllo and which had so many vouchem for ito l«u^eness that at ti« time of taking po-ssaon of it I hoosstiy bdleved it to U nJ"tSj r^ "US* ^\^ Bartaiun, of Reading, Comiecticut, lnlorm«| mjttrt he hid owned « interest in a remarkable negro woman whom he SJl^!!!"^°!Il*°'°*™'^^'***'«**»^ He then showtime a copy of th. foltowlng advertisement in Uie flm«yl«m^wa.^* r!r: Ife LfcHday and his exklbitiea TllJO"! ^^^ggggn^^g ?s JOr 8TAET AS A SHOWMAIT. >• uer pofliuon, sbe could move one arm at wilL hut hof i/>,^. n~.i. V^ "*«««8» di«appeai«i altogether. J''!^ "^ suuk » deeply iu the sockets aa to bavs nr utT" . ^" further claimed that she had iona been a nnr^ hT^ DOW. old she was. and onlv nvmnfiv tt^ -Zjj ^ ; j. ^^ onerniew or oarwl JJ^^eoulSorsa^t^tin^ *.aoo^ this negro woman as "the nu«e of WashSnT^ ^^ »• prtoe flnrt demandeiWtt^^^^ T^ one thousand dolh«. though «7 Pi^.. and began UteZ^T^ZT^M^C^t^ SZ'c^T "* ttat everything depended upon getdng^peooLrtZwn^ ^it^Jtif'' ourioa. and excited over and^rS! ^^TSl* T^ !^ <~Wan«aie.. adveraset^tn^l^peTJ!^^*- „A«ordlngly. port«n ^tion-we.,employed,^SJZni^J3'P^^ ^^^'^^ burial l^ Uie town of BetheL ^^ rwwvea a re^jwoteble At a po*4nortom examination of Joioe Heth by Dr David I. Rn»«i i«4k. ^AHnM H«-.„„Jli ..Ty'.T' ■»' ■••«• naa De«a aapumed for her; but tfaa ."'" -* MT 8TABI AB A BHOWMAH. 59 ^ at iMt fouBd taj tnw Tooatieoti^°had the merit of being, ik« every eflsentlel, unmis- takaUy fmuinie. I engaged fhunthe Albany Museum an Italian who called hinnelt *'Bignor Antonio** and who performed certain remarka|)le feate of h a l a ndn g, atUt-wpUdng, plate^pinning, etc. I oilBde terms with him for oim year to exhibit anywhere in the United Statea at twelTjB dollars a week and esp«aae% and induced him to diange bis stage naiao to "Signer YiVaUa." 1 • ttan wrote a notice of his wonderful qualities and performanoes, printed it in' Ode of the Albany Tpapem «s news, sent copies to the theatrical UMuaagera i^ New York and in other cities, and went with Vivalla to the metropoliflL ' Manager William Dinneford, of the Franklin Theatre, had seen so man^ per* lormanoes of the kind that he declined to engage my "eminent Italian artist;* ■ but I persuaded him to try Vivalla one night for nothing, and by the potent aid of printM^s ink the house was crammed. I i^tpeared as a supernumerary to aaaiife Vivalla in arriusginst his plates and other "properties;" and to hatod him his gun to Are vrtiiJe he was hopping on one stilt ten feet high. This yna "my first a|)peannce on any stage." The applause which foUowed Vivalla's feats was tre- inendous, and Manager Dinneford was so delighted that he engaged him for the remaindir of the week at fifty dollars. At tiie doee of the performance, in respoosa to aoaU from the house, I-made a speech for Vivalla, thanUng thMudi- eace for their qpin^edation and announdng a repetition of the exhibiOo^^cry evening during the week. ■ Vivalla remained a second week at tiie PranUln Theatr^ for which I received $16a I reaUsed the same sum for a week in Boston.* We'then went to Washing- ton to fulfill an engagement which was ftu- frwn suoosarilpl, since my remuneration d«|)andMi vpaa the receipts, and it snowed continually during the week. I was a kMer to sdoh an extent that I had npt funds enough to return to Philadefphla. t pawned my watch and chain for thirty-five' dollars, ^i^mq, fortunately. Manager WemysB arrived cm Satorday momiiig and loaned me the money to redeem mv property. ^ / '' • ' i ■ .^ As this was my first visit to Washington, I was much interested invidtingtfae capitol and other public, buildings. I also-satisfied my curiosity in seeing CJlay Calhoun, Benton, John Qulnoy Adams, Richard M. Johnson, Polk, imd otiier leading statesman of the time. I ivas also greatiy gratified in calling upon Anne RoyaU, autiior of the Black Book, publisher of a Uttie paper called " Paul" Pry " andquiteacelebratedpersonageinherday. I bad exchanged The ^feroMo/iiVw- dom witl^ her Journal, and she strongly sympathised iriih me in my persecutions. She was delighted to see me^ and altiioiigh she wasthe most garrulous old woman I ev«r saw, I passed » very amnsing.and pleasant time with her. Before leaviM her, I panifested my showman propead^ by trying to' hire her to give a ddS er more lectures on " Government," in the Atlantic dties, but I could vat engage ^ bar at any pdoe, although I am sure the speculation would have been a very pn^table one. I nev^ savi^ this eccentric woman again; site diefliS^a very advanced age, October 1„ 1864, at her residence hi Washington. ^- . I WM»t witii Vivalla to Philadelphia and opeiied at tiie Wajiiiit Sti«et Theatre. lluMii^ his performanoes were very meritorious and 4ete ^I reoeived,^ tiieatri- 10 stimulate the publia \ ^d now that instinct— I think It must be— which can annwe a OMnmunlty and --*-" it pacroniae, provided Um) artilole oflfered is worthy of |«t.rpiiage-an instiiu* "" -M rtrangdy in later years, astonishing the pubUo and surprWng M\ 4; MT STABT AS A SHOWMAUT. V*, '.,,;. .■>.•.'», C. This liiss, I discovered, came from one Roberts, a drcas performer and At»» T^tavJly Vivafla had done and something more. 1 at once published «S^^ thTi^'^T'!^**^'' *^ designated, a^d Roberte issued a^S mto^^T?^!fT ^*^°«>"*««^*«d^tt' Mr. Warren, ti^a^uiwof the ^ to S^tSr^^' '" on^thirdof thep«H«eds, if I shS^M b^^^i^ ToS w °i«*=f::^ agreement he could weU afford to make lis hS mjeiote S« !2to»^.il!r-^SL*"^°*y-«^'^°"^ Prom him I we^JT^^ |^08«ated di^osed to "back down," but I told him I should not insS UMn S s night a^rwiuf^Theti^^ i^^^^f^rJifi" "^ r^^ «Kl Vivalla was dlf alT^^^g:^^ tST^^^ r-tr^pfetirr.gS^'-^ -ckseach^uif .^o^^.r.^. was eager, and each had his party T^hehLTtt^JT^'' ,?f P^'^"™^" J^pjrfonnmce, to the rtog, „,„„ Iton m»te „p ,„; the tock rf l^c ,?? While we >yere at Cabotville, Massachusetts, on going to bed ond ni^ht «„ ^ my room-mates threw a lighted stmnp of a cLr £^a ^i^k.x mi«f^ n ^ „«« 1^^' ™«^™^^ ""« Sunday I attended ^.m^h^TuniaL and th- •«H»ire. wiwreupon. wKen he had read the clodng hymn, I wriW up th. pbS A.^'«i>i^^<>Ji'-^.L^i*K 4\.%. *. ^i,.<' *#* • yard, and though Avery was acquitted in court, tbe general sentiment of tbe country 1»ndemned him. It was tbls Avery whom TUrner made me represent. I bad not walked far in my fine olotbea, before I was overtaken by a mob of a dosen, which rapidly Increased to at least a hundred, and my eus were suddenly saluted with such observations as, "the lecherous old hypocrite," "the sanoiifled murderer," "tbe black-coated villain." "lynch the scoundrel," •' let's tar and featber him," and like remarks which I had no Idea applied to me tlU one man seised me by the collar, while Ave or six more appeared on the scene with a rap. ••Oom^" said the man Who collared me. "old chap, you cBn't walk any Ttnrther, we know you, and as we always make genUemen ride In these parts, you ma) Just prepare to straddle that rail 1" My surprise may be taiaglned. "Oood heavens I" I exclaimed, as they aft ~ineHwrncmr 'me. "iehOemen. what have I done V "Oh, we kn> you," exclaimed half a dosen voices t "you needn't roll ■anotimonloot ayes i that game don't take In^ this oeuntcy. Ckune* atntddla tlf «aU. and rmm t mr at i lt a t y ard/" ', ff^^t^ "* ■■' -^^. v H MT START AS A- SHOWMAN. {. kv t " The man who iMd me by the collar then remarked- "n«m. li- ^ uae, you see, we know you. and weTl ^ wJJtTS-'i. , f*" ^''- '^•••n/, tt^nt ^ou&r home again." ^^ '^^ «*^* y^'^'w-^oM'ynch law, and «ttrt ^^ i. no* Avery, gentlemen; yon «* mistaken in your m^M ■ponme. ^ "^ ^ '^ •*'°°' *<>»» PJ«»d on it, when the truth flaahed y^^'^'^Jl^^t^\"Lr^:'^'^ Ideapi* that Villain a. much «. torn sbory" ^^^' ^ I»rtner, has hoaxed you with this ridioo- «»I^^„X",::^ ^-' ««^ '^ y- -m walk to t^ hotel wiai m^ ni ^^ty^anflZ^^X^ mob received a re^on»m^t ofsome fl^ ^^^^^"^^^"^'^-^^^ be^ii^^r^co^^^- mud.UkeaprieBt««tIthouirh:^t A^e^ clothes on and he look, so Ihe crowd saw the joke and seemed satisfied. Mv new on^f h-^ k»- u ,- from my back, and I had been very roS^haSS SS^JT*^" *°™ apologiMd for the outrage. deelarln/thofTT °®"™ ^"* «>?»» of the crowd ■rfow I foi^averTunwr for Us raaodly " Jok^" «>«« » wm • kwg tiasf •1 ■M ^-■f -^ . I r*n,> y>Tt~i 3^1 CHAPTER VI. «. ItY FIRST TRAVELING COMPANY. , Am ammdng incident occuiDed wlien we wei-p at Hanover O art Honae, in Vir- ginia. It rained so heavUy that we could not perform there, and Turner decided • to start for Rictimond immediately after dinner, wlien he was informed by th» landlord that as our agent had engaged three meals and lodging for the whole — oompany, the entire bill most be paid whether we went then, or next morning. Ho compromise could be effected with tne stubborn landlord, and so Turner ' proceeded to get the worth of his money a» follows: ^ / He ordered dinner at twelve o'clock, which was duly prepared and eaten. "The table was cleared and re-set for sapper at half -past twelve. At one o'clock we all went to bed, every man carrying a hghted candle to his room. There were thirty- six of us and we all undressed and tumoled into bed as if we were going to stay all night In half an hour we rose and went down to the hot breakfast which Turner had demanded and which we found smoking on the tafal^. Turner was very grave, the landlord was exceedfcgly angry, and the rest of us were convulsed with laughter at the absurdity of the whole proceeding. We disposed of our breakfast «8 if we bad eaten toothing for ten hours, and then started for Richmond ^th the satistt^ction that we fairly settled with our unreasonable landlord. At Richmond, «fter performances were over one night, I managed to partially pay Turner for his Avery trick. A dozen or more ot us were enjoying ouinelves in the sitting-room of the'hotel, telling stories and singing songs, when some of the oompany proposed sundry amusing arithmetictd questions, followed by one from Turner which was readily solved. Hoping to catch Turner I then ptapoaoA the following problem : "Suppose a man is thirty years of age, and he has a child one year of age; he is thirty times older than his child. When the child is thirty years old, the fattier, being sixty, is only twice as old as his child. When the child is sixty the father is ninety, and therefore only one-third alder than t^e child. When Hbm flhUd is ninety t^te father is one -hundred an<]^w«ity, and therefore only one- /^ f ourtii older than the diild. Thus jou see, the child is gradually but surely gain-' ing on the parent, and as he certainly continues to come nearer and nearer, in time he must overtake him. The question therefore is, suppose it was possible for them to live long enough, how old would the father be when the child overtook him and became of the some agef " The company generally saw the catch ; but Tamer was very much interested in the problem, and although he rdmitted he knew nothing abou^rithnjetio, he was convioced that as the son was gradually gaining eu the father hk must reach him if there was time enough— say, i^ thousand years, or so— for the\ace. But au old gentleman gravely remarked that the idea of a son becoming as old as his fether while both were living, was simply nonsense, and he offered to bet\ doien of ehuapa g ne that t he. was a betting man, and who thought the problem might be proved, acoeptedsihe ^ger ■ but he was soon convinced that howsver much the boy might relatirie 6 t*. 'M > "7 'f56 MT F_BS1 TBAVEHJsa COMPANY. gain upon his rather, there wouM^wayg be thirty years diflferenoe In their aoM. The champagne cost him 125, and he failed to see th^^ioff-bf my arithiu^tia though at last he acknowledged that it was a fair offset to the Avery trick We went from Ribhmond to Petersburg, and from that place to War^nton. North Carolina, where, October 30th, my engagement expired with a profit to myself of $1,200. I now separated from the circus company, taking Vivalla, Ji^ Sandford (a negro singer and dancer), several musicians, horses, wagons, and a small canvas tent with which I intended to begin a traveUng exhibition of my own. My company started and Turner took me on the way m his own car- riage some twenty miles. We parted reluctantly, and my friend wished me every success in my new venture. On Saturday, November 12, 1836, we halted at Rocky Mount Falls, North Cai^ olina, and on my way to the Baptist Church, Sunday morning, I noticed a stand and benches in a grove near by, and determined to speak to the people if I was permitted. The landlord who was with me said that the congregation, coming from a distance to attend a single service, would be very glad to hear a stranger, and I accordingly asked the venerable clergyman to announce that after service I would speak for half an hour in the grove. Learning that I was not a clergy- man, he declined to give the notice, but said that he had no objection to my makihg the announcement, which I did, and the congregation, numbering about - three hundred, promptly came to hear me. I told thei^ I was mot a preacher, and bad very little experience in public speaking; but I felt a deep interest in matters of morality and religion, and would attempt, in a plain way, to set before them the duties and privileges of maiL I appealed to every man's experience, observation and reason, to confirm the Bible doctrine of wretehedness in vice and happiness in virtue. We cannot violate the laws of Gk)d with impunity, and He will not keep back the wages dt well-doing. The outside show of things is of very smaU account Wemustlo<* to realities and not to appearances. " Diamonds may glitter on a vicious breaste*' but "the soul's <»hn sunshme and the heart-felt joy is virljie'p prize." Ttii rogue, the passionate man, the drunkard, are not to be envied even ^t the best and % conscience hardened by sin is the most sorrdWf ul possession .WftCfli^pc of. I went on in this way, with some scriptural quotations and familidl^^iBtions, for threeKjuarters of an hour. At the close of my address several per^^fcbk roe by the hand, expressing themselves as greatly pleased and desiring toSS' my name; and I went away with the feeling that possibly I might have done some good in the beautiful grove on that chamung Sunday morning. When we jgere at Camden, South Carohna, Sandford suddenly left me, and aa I had advertised negro songs, and none of my company was competent t^ fiU Bandf ord's place, not to disappoint my audience, I blacked myself and sung the advertised songs "Zip Coon," etc., and to my surprise was much applauded, while two of the songs were encored. One evening, after singhig my songs, I heard a disturbance oUtside the tent, and going to the spot found a person disput- mg" with my men. I took part on the side of the mei^ when the person who was - quarreling with them dre w a pistol and exclairidng, " You black scoundrel 1 hoM dare you use such language to a. white man," he i|»roceeded to oock it. I saw tba he thought I was a negi-o and meant to blow my brains out. Quick as thought 1 =Toirea iSjyllOTVB np, BfiowfRlBif ikih, aurid said, "T ain as -Sehlte as you are, dr. ""^ he dropped his pistol in positive fright and bag^ my p&rdon. My presence »jf mODd wved me. - . .iJkMMi. ^^^-. i.^- , ii^jJ,.-/!.^- >!. MY Vlifft TKAVBUNO OOMPAITT. 6; h^fT "^T** ?r^**" ^ *°^ "** ^ **^* ^ • »««^ PJ»tol pointed at my head and each time I have escaped death by what seemed a miraci^^ m^^i; "^^ ^^,1*^ ^^^""^ *°^ ^^«° I **^^ «' *b««« thi^e« I realise my todeWedne« to an aU-protecting Providence. Reviewing my ZeeT^ , «^d oof dering the kind of company I kept for yea« and the as^cS wS which I was summnded and connected, 1 am surprised as w«ll as grateful that J ZJr^fTT** ^"T^^ ^^^""^ ^^ ^ ""^^ "^y preservation from the degra- of Uving and dying a loafer and a vagabond, to the single fact that I was never addicted to strong drink. To besure, I have in times ^ dmnk liq,^ but I h«ve generally whoUy abstained from intoxicating beverages, and formore than twenty years past, I am glad to say. I have been a strict " teetotaller « AtCamden I lost one of my m^ians, a Scotchman named Cochran, who was ar^fm-odvimng the neg^jj^j^who was shaving him to nm away to the- Free States or to Canada. I Jf^feLflort to effect Cochran's rdeas^ but^* was imprisoned more than siJliri&iiJ^W "^ ««««», oucne I bought four ^es anl^^p^d hired Joe Penttand and Robert *' White J> jom my company. ^^^MSPp^gro singer, would reUeve me f ^t ron^and Pentland, b^des ^^T«tpital clown, was celebmted as\ taloqutet. comic fflnpr, balancer, and legerdemain performfer. My i^^orced • ezhibltion was called "Bamum's Grand Scientiflc and Mfusical Theatm^ '^ JT\^^\ previously, in Raleigh, North Carolina, I had sold OAe-half of mv ticket-taker At Augusta, Georgia, the sheriflF served a writ upon this Henry for a debt of 1500. AsHemyhadfeoO^f the company's money in his possessiW I immediately proems a bill of sale of all his property in the exhiWticTand returued to the |beatre where Henry's creditor and the creditor's lawyer were waitmg for ma They demanded the key of the stable so as to levyon'tiie horses and wa«,na I begged delay till I could see Henry, and they crasented. Henry was anxious to cheat his creditor and he at once^gned the bill of sale. I returned aj^d informed the creditor that Henry refused to pay or compromise the daim. The sheriff then demanded the keys of the stable door to attach Henry's interest m the property. "Not yet," said I, showing a bill of sale. ^ J?" ^^^^'^ '",'"" PO^^^^^'O""' the property as e)^M|#wner. You confer y^^l^^' ^ "^ '" '^'^^ ^ ^^" touchip;perty, you do it^ They were very much taken «^back, and the sheriff immediately conveyed SrZJT/r"- "^^l^rf^y I ^««^«d that Hemy owed his creditors thiriL hundred doUars, and that lie had agreed when the Saturday evening performance r^hiTinf "^^^ over «^r»'^^™d dollar ^company money) and Vbill of saS of hM interest, in consid«»ration of which one of thehortea was to be ready for him to run away with, Wving me in the lurch! Learning this, I had very little sympathy for Henry, and my next step was to secure the five hundred dollars he reived i frem ViviUla, on Hemys order, as a mipposed means of procuring bad for Wm-on Monday moming. I then paid the creditor the fuU^^oun? obt^ed from Hemr^saie pric e of his half interest in the exhlbit i^ n.^ .^, , . ^ " ~ — 1 " ttxfciCT>D m too exmpit irm and *.w«h^Teturii an a«ugnraent of flVeTiundred cKIlaS of thi creditor's claims «nd a guaranty that I shoufd not be troubled by my late partnerfon that score Thus, promptness of action and good l„rk reiiev^l me ZSMotThe unpleasant positions lu which I had ever been placed. ^^^ ;.:.#. ., ,^ ■if^ j#» »i «. i^A 'sr 68 kr WaST TBAVELIKO OOMPAHT. m Whfle tnTeling with our teaim and show tbrongfa a desolate part of, GviwglA our advertiser, who was in advance of the party, finding the rpute, on one cooa- ■* sion, too long for us to reach a town at night, arranged with a poor widow woman named JpAyeSi'to furnish us with meals uid let o^ lodge in her but and out-house^ It was a beggarly place, belonging to one of the poorest of " poor whites." Our horses were to stand out all nighty and a farmer, six miles distant, was to bring a Idad of 4>rovender on the day of^our arrival. Bills were thai posted announcing a performance under a canvas tent nea^ Widow Hayes's^ for, as a show- was a rarity in that region, it was conjectured that a hundred or more small farmers and "poor whites," might be assembled and that the receipts jvould cover the'expensea Meanwhile, our adv^prtiser, who was quite a wag, wrote back informing us of the difflculties of reaching a town on that part of our route, and stating that he had made arrangements for us to stay j>ver night on the plantation of " Lady Hayes," and that although the country was sparsely settled, we could doubtless give a profitable performance to a fair audience^ Anticipating a fine time on .this noble "plantation," we started at four o'clndc In the morning so as to arrive at one o'clock, thus avoiding the heat of the aftei^ noon. Towards noon we came to a small river where some men, whom we afterwards discovered to be down-east Yankees, from l^Iaine, were repairing a bridge. Every flooring plank had been taken up, .and it was impoe^ble for our teams to cross. *' Could the bridge be Axed so that we could go over? " I inquired. " No; it would take half a d^y, and meantin^ie, if ^e must cross, there was a place about sixteen miles down the river where we could get over. " But we can't ' go so far as that} we are under engagement to perform on >> Lady Hayes's place to-night, and we must cross here. Fix the bridge and ^e will pay you handsomely." ^ * They wanted no money, but if we would g^ve them some tipkets to onr show fhey thought they might do something for u& 1 gladly conidnted, and in fifteen minutes we crossed that bridge. The cunning rascals hM 'upen our posters and knew we were coming; so they had taken up the planks^f the bridge and had iijd(^/i them till they had levied upon us for tickets, when the floor was re-laid ill (I quurter of an hour. ' Towards dinner-time we begAn to look out for the gr^d mansion of "lady Hayes, '{» and seeing nothing but little huts we cmietly, pursued our jovmey. At one o'clock — the time when we should h^e arrived at our ddrtination'^I became Impatient, and riding up to a povefty-stricken hovel and seeing a t^ged, bare- footed old woman, witi^ her sleeveff lulled up to her shoulders, who was wdshing ctothes in front of the door, I inquired— ' . ■ ♦ **Halk>i can you tell me where Lady Hayes livMt" The old woman raised her head, which was covered with tAngled, \po^ and matted hair, and ezc^n^med-^ ' , " ^ "Heyl*' "No, Hayes, Lady Hayes; where is her pUptatlonf" ^ "iniis is the place,|MM Answered: " I'm Widder HajM, and yoa are an to itey £>,, , mT FIBriT 'ix^rVLLSQ wMPANI, 7' by exdting oar appetites and imaginatioiiB in imticipation oi tiie hizii- riea we shoold find in the ma^^nifloent inansioQ 6i "Lady Hayes." Joe Fentland grumbled, Bob White hidulged in some very strong,]anguage, and Si^r Vivalla laughed. He h^ travel^ with his monkey and organ.in Italy ' and could put up with any fare that offered. I took the disappointment philo- sophically, simply remaridng that we must make the best of it and compenaato ourselves when we reached a town next day. l*e_n«xt forenoon we ajTived at Maoon, and congratulal|li&.ouraelve8 flurt^w had ttfoan reached the regioAs of civilization. ^ In gwng from Columbua^leorgia, to Montgomlry, Alabama> we were obUgei • to cross a thinly-settled, desolate tract, known as the "Indian Nation," and as ■everal persons had been mifrdered by hostile Indians in that region, it wtm deemed dangerous to travel the road without an escort Only the day before w» started, the mall stage had been stopped mM the passengers murdered, the driver alone escaping. We were well armed, however^uad trusted that our numbers would present too formidable a force to be attach though we dreaded to incur the risk. Vivalla alone was fearless and was ready to encounter fifty Indians and drive them, into the sw^unp. Accordingly, when w#hlld safely passed over the entire route to within foai^ teen miles of Montgomery, and were beyond the reach of danger, Joe Pentland determined to test VivaDa's braveiy. He bad secreUy purchased at Mount Megsi on the way, an old Indian d^ with a fringed hunting shiri; and moccasins and these he put on, after coloring hirffeoe with Spanish brown. Then, shobldering Us musket he followed Vivalla and the party and,, approaching .stealthily leaped into their midst with a tremendous whoop. "-i™- Vivalla's companions were in t^. secret, and they Instantly fled in aU dlreo- Uona. VIvallfc himself ran like a d^r and Pentland after him, gun hi hand and yelUng horribly. After running a fuU wile the poor Uttle Italian, out of fanath and frightened nearly to death, dropped on his knees and begged for his life. The tidlan" leveled his gun at his victim, but soon seemed to relent, and signified that Vivalla should tm-n his packets inside out-which he did, produc- tog and handing over a purse containing eleven doOaxn. The «avage then march*! Vivalla to an oak, and with a han^erchief tied him In the moH approved Indian manner to the ..ae, leaving h^ bfiit dead with fright PsnUand theq Joined us, and wasWng his face and changing his dren. w iS T'J5 '^ "^ «f V*''^ H« was overjoyed to see us, and when he wa. wOeased hte courage returned; he «Wore that after^ companions left him, th* Hidian had been r»«iforoed by six more, to whom, in default of a gi-n or other ■wans to defend Umaelf, Vivalla. had been compelled to surrender. We pre- •mded to believe his story for a week, and then^ld him tiie Joke, which h» twfused to credit and also declined to take tiie Jfeney which Pentiand ofTered to return, as it could not possibly be his sfaioe seven Indians had taken his money ' Wehad agreatdeal of fun over Vivalla's courage, but «» matter made htm so cross and surly that we were flnaUy obliged to drop it altogether. liVom that ^ time forward, however, Vivalla imvwr boasted of his proweai We arrived at Montgomery, Fsbrualy 9nh, 1 887. Hera 1 maS B-.*y nr.»t ^ LiirirT »-"^^'«^' ■"♦"^tbH mm one-nair of my sshlMtiaa. He had 'a ntOj wit, ahappy way of loi*llsin« his trioks. was vwr popular In that part o( tte country, where be had been performlnR for rwv».ml ywus, and I never s«li him nonplussed but oooa This was when he w«* performing on one ooc«rioinSi^ yi-known egg and hag trick, wh toh be did with his "^ialsBooA.iir ^^ ..^ — _ —J., ' ■""' < ■ ! iH j t I m . , ■ ■ .# • * • • 'V. -r ' '" ■ %/*'. ■'*. ,' «3=- -#= mmmtm mmm ^■ I ■9^ MT FXBST TRAVELIJ''^ OOMR after egg fn)m the bag, and finally breaking one to ahow " Now," said. Hawley, "I -will show you the old hen i they wen gMnita4 i laid thrai." It bap* poned, 'however, that the negro boy to vjrhom had been intrusted the dutyj)! ^ iiUHiiyiBg the bag had nuuie a sUjght mtetakB, whidi ^as manifest wheil Hawley ' triu m fihw ii t T y produced, not " the old hen that laid the ejlgs," but a rooster I The whole audience was convulsed with laughter, and the abashed Hawley retreated' to the dressing-room, cursing the stupidity of the black boy who had been paid to uitt a hen in the bag. After performing in different places in Alabama^ Kentowy. and Temieeaee^ we disbanded at Nashvine in May, 1837, Vivalla going to New York, where he performed on his own accoimt for a while prev ous to sailing for Ou(ba, HavHey staying in Tennessee to look al%er our horses which had been turned oat to jTMib »i|d I returning home to spend a few weeks with my family. Early in July, returning west with a new company of pttrfonperB. I rejoinoii Hawley, and we began our campaign in Kentucky. yiTe were not suooeasfal: one of our small company was inconipetent; another. ww intemperate— boui ' were dismissed; and our negro-singer was drowned in the river at Prank- ifort. Funds were low, apd I was obliged to leave pleHges here and there, in payment for bills, which I afterwards redeemed. Hawley and I didnlved in August, and ^gJong a^ new partnei-ship with zf Graves, I left him in charge ol the establishment and went to Tiffin, Ohio, where I re-engaged Joe Pentland, buying his horses and wagons. And taking him, with several mittid^oa, t>> Kentucky. During my tihort stay at Tiffin, a i-elig^ious conversation at the hotel introduced me to eeVeml gentlemen who requested me to lecture on the subjects we had discussed, and I did so to a crowded audience in the school-house Sundaylifter •oon and evening. At the soliciUttinn of a gentleman from Republic, I u l tw delivepd two lectures in that tow a, ou the evenings of September ^ and 6th. On Opr way to Kentucky, just befo>>i we reached Cindniwiti, we met a drow of hogs, and one of the drivers making an insolent remark be«uise our wagoni interfered with his swine, I replied in the same vein, when be di^anounted ^md, pointing a pistol at my breast, swore he would shoot, me if I did not ap'jlogiae. 1 begged hint to permit me to consult a friend in the next wagon, and the mlsan- 4l(Qerstanding should be satisfactorily settled. My friend was a loaded double barreled gun, which I pointed at him and said: " Now, sir, you must apologize, for your ^rdns are in danger. You drww ■ weapon upon me for a trivial remark. You seem to hold human life at a cheap price; and now, sir, you have the choice between a load o* shot and an apology." TUs led to an apology and a friendly conversation, in which we both agreed lliat many a life is sacriflcod ,in sudden anger, because one or both of the eon- tending parties carry deadly weapona . ' In out subsequent southern tour we exhibited at Nashville (where I visliea Oeneral Jackson, at the Hermitage), Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Vicksburg and inter- mediate places, doing tolerably well At Vickaburg we soM all our land oonvey» anoes, excepting the band wagon and four honea, bought the steamboat "Cerea," for n\x thotisand dollars, hired the captain and crew, and started down the river ^ *^'^^Titf nt piftfifff nn thfi wny Alt Nntrhnti mir mnk Infti nn, nnd I n t hn w n r r h f o r aoo^MT I foond a white widow who would go, only ahe expected to marry a painter. I called on the painter who had not made iip his mind whether to marry the widow or not, but I told him if he would marry her the next monilng I would bin liir at tww^flvr dnUart a mootb as oool(i MDptoy Ura at th» rry ■ It h^K ie duty^ &ti BAwley )stert Th« |r retreated . been paid , where be a, Hainiey iti>o:geam, I rejoinod Baooeesful: rate—boui at Prank- i there, in biBolved in charge oi Pentland, liciqiiu, b>> ntroduced ta we had dayafter lie, I alM imdSth. >t adroTS ir wagons nted and, jlogise. 1 be mlsun- d double m drewa ± a cheap apology." bh agreed t the eon* I Tlslieo ind inter- loODT^ "Cerw." the river nf ftrcbfo r marry a to marry lomlnf 1 tbtMMl *IB8r TBAViCLnsrtiP OOltPANT. 75 w^aap|dntOT,^thlx»»rdfOTboth,andaoa8b>K>nu8of flfl^ydoJ^ Timers WM a weddii««J» boardthe next-day. a«d we had a good oookaJd agoo^ ' JSt* *°* ""^ r^°^ performances at FrancisviUe, Louiaam, a man .Arted to Pa» me^at the door of the tent, claiming that, he had paid for admit, paaoe. I refused him .eiitraooe; and as h6 waa slightly intoxicated, he ek^ ine .With a simig shot, mashing my hat and grazing what phhfeologists call "the OT^ of caution." He wenfaway and soon returned with aV»g of armed and ba^-drunken companions, who ordered us to pack up ou^ "traps and plunder'' •nd to get on board our steamboat within an hour. The big tent speedily came S^*2° T" "^ P«'^«»d to help us, but the company worked with a wjlL .•nd wltWn five minutes of the expiration of tlie hout3»-,»w^«, board a^ m»^y to leave. The scamps who had caused our departure escorted us and our last toad, waving pine torches, and -^uted us with a hurrah as we swung ihto «^(»*T.^^ **^*"" "^ ^'^ ^^' 1^ announced fte arrival of the Btjaffler Cepss, Captain Bamum. -vith a theatrical company." After a week's PBrfOTmanoes, we started foi^ the 4ttakapa» country. At Opeloosas we ex- chun^ud the steamer for -sugar av* moIaa«8; our corapariy was disbanded; and I started for home^ arriving in N-w York, June 4^ IttW* :>. >t ♦ * ■nS3#- . 4 f ^ "^ ^ TS^^rw*^*' OHAPT^K Vn. AT THE FOOT OP THE LADDEB. LoHomo now tor tome permanent, respectable haanem, I advertised tor a nrt. n^, stotlng that Iliad $2,500 to invest, and would add rii, «nn«nitting perw^ attrition to the capital and the business. This advertisement gaveWS alto- gether new insight into human nature, Whoever wishes to know how some neobla iivey or want to Uve, let him advertise tor a partner, at the same time statinH^ beHv a large or smaU capital to invest I was flooded with answeretWiyei- ^•faeinents and received no lees than liinety-three dilfeimt propositions for the use of^yxapitaL Of these, at least one-third were from porter-house keeper Bro- kers, pawnbrokers, lottery-poUcy dealers, patent medicine men, inventonL and othei^ also made application. Some of my correspondents declined to spedflaZ state the nature of their busbees, but they promised to open the door touS wealwi., I had interviews withaome of these mysterious milUon-makersL dne of them was a counterfeiter, who, after much hesitation and pledges of secrecy showed one some counterfeit coin and bank notes; he wanted 12,600 to purchase pkner and mk and to prepare new dies, and he actually proposed that IshouM j<^Um ir thebj»meH8whichpromised,hedeclared,asafeandrichharve8t Anoaersedato fadividual, dressed in Quaker ^joitume, wanted me to join him in an OiTro^ tion. Bybuying a horae ani wagon, and by selling oats, bought at wholesale, in bagi^ he thought a good business could be done, especially as peopto wouU iMb b» particular to measure afte* a Quaker. -^—-j- f««j«i. wouia not d» "Do you mean to cheat in measuring your oats!" I asked. - - "O, I should probably make them hold out," he answpred, with a leeiv^ One appUcation came from a Pearl street wool merchant, who failed^kontK afterwards. T^ came a " perpetual moUon " mah who had a fortune-makinir machine, to which I discovered a main-spring slyly hid in a hoUow port^ ^ring making penietgal motion-till it ran down. PinaUy, I went into omW ship with a German, named Proler, who was a manuf adturw of paste-bladdnir Z^''1^i^^^'^^''*^r(^^ogaewe^andh^^ WetookS •tore No. 101)< Bowery, at a rent (including the dwelling) of fdOO per annum, •nd opened a large manufactory of the above artidea Proler manufa^ured and ■old the goods at wholesale in Boston, Charlwrton, Cleveland, and various oth« parts of the country. I kept the accounts, and attended to sales in the storau wholesale and retail For a While the business seemed to prospei-H»t lea^till mv capital was absorbed and notes for stock began to faU due, with nothing tjmei them, since we had scrfd^our goods an long credits. In January 1840 1 disLlved partnership with Proler, he buying the entire interest for $8,e00 on' credit, and thenjunning a^Jjo R^rdam without paying his note, and leaving m* not^i- nor ,*.#„„ ,^_ !,_,„ _. - j-looking, plaiMibVa, proinigin< f--«rw nn ^^m ■g^ my eo uu eu Uou imp rnacTT PBCiBii aopiffiyea^^ young dancer named John Diaraon.1, one of the first and best of the numerous ayroand "break^wn*^dMioei-« vyb. uaveainoBsurpri«rf ««ri »»..t,^»j^j,„k^I^^^ ^J^L^'&'t^UU-^ Ifenu'^ LtitJ^ - 1 v'l.''"- 1 J^f « ^fskL m AT THB f OOT OV THB LAODEB. 77 «Bd I entered into an engagement with his father f <»r his services, putting Di»> mond in the hands of an agent, |u I did not wish to appear in the transaction. In the spring of 1840, 1 hired and opened the Vauxhall Garden saloon, in New York, and gave a variety of performances, including singing, dancing, Yankee stories, etc. In this sWoon Miss Mary Taylor, afterwards so celebrated as an actress and singer, made her first appearance on the stage. The enterprise, however, did nok meet my expectation, and I relinquished it in August What was to be done next! I dreaded resuming the life of an itinerant show^ ! man, but funds were low, I bad a family to care for, and as nothing better pre-' •ented, I made up my mind to oidure the vexation^ and uncertainties of a tour in' the W^ and South. 1 ooUected a company, consisting of Mr. C. D. Jenkins, ai' excellent sing^ and delineator, of Yankee and other characters; Master John Diamond, the dancer; Francis Lynch, an orphan vagabond, fourteen years oldi whom I picked ijp at Troy, and a fiddler. My brother-in-law. Mr. John Hallett), preceded us as agent and advertiser, and our route passeci through Buffalot Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Ottawa, Springfield, the hitermediate places, and &b. Louis, where I took the steamboat for Kew Orlaans with a company reduced l^ desertions to Master Diamond and the fiddler. Arriving in New Orleans, January 2d, 1841, 1 bad bat $100 in my purse, and I had Bbuted from New York four months before with quite as much in my powbich» asl was among strangers, I could not immediately procure, and I was ibooord- ingly thrown Into Jatt till fouro'dook in the afternoon, when I was Uberated. «rhe next day I caosed the arrest of Jenkins for trespass in assuming Master Diamond's name and reputation for Master Lynch, and he was sent to jaU till jl^lbur o'clock tatteaffcemooa Bach having had his turn at this amusement, we adjourned oMAntroversy to New York wnere I beat him. As for Lindsay, I ^^^ "^^J^WP*! ! * "^ ^ ,* ^*'"*^^ ^ ^ *"^ twelye years afterwards, when L — wJwl un^nyA Borton wit h au a j M u g y . MC^WMiyBy^poor aM^Twiaia^K" prosperous, and I may add that Lindsay did not lack a friend. I arrived in New York, April 28d, 1841, after an absence of eight montfaa reKdved^pe more that I would never again be an itinerant showman. Thwi **y» *ft»' Beekman experience with that b«^^HBHH f^" °'*^ I had had a limited Mr. C. D. HarJier, waSHHfflPI^^? ^7™ ^ Pittsbui^, an acquaintiinoe. a New Yorlt paper ariS^TTTf ^ ® "^^ nothing to do, when I picked im Of the Bible. PhSSC'^ ]£ H^r 2f J^"' «*^^ ^"^"o- I bought him a si^en (ipy, ^^^t^^lt ^' "°u ** *^* «"l««rib«^ «;d -ii^holeeale price. iTie result w«« fho. i!!! „ J l^gS^yaL^ ' ^^ did not knowthe and niade $50,, My own venture in the 3P!Sf?f^^'^™ ^ *^« **3^ Wely, hadi.lenty of agente, and taL^rZ «^ A'"'^'^' ladvertiS June i4th?fremptySrr j:rs;[^r "nd«-myd|Pon.idatttiedo«.^f t»? ^ "7 brother-in-law, asWrnL- -bout. tWtfcS doll^ l^sltaH^^^^S^^ """^ we had^^ **",?I#"^^°««"»Ployment,I^^!?S^H !!^ ' wolffrc^edoor. I wWSyJlZL!^ ^ f "T^*^ *^* would Jc^ theatre, reiving for the s^^^^ ^^ °°*''^ '°'' t^e Boweiy Amphi- geJandlalso:^te^^2™th?r„^i^^ andrnwagingtogeTFliving. But I ^ af tS^ "^"^ ** ^*^ "°^"^^«on and it ^as necessarr^ mTe an elrtT,^^^ and It ^as necess^^:^ ^e'an effortTlSh^X I wa« specially stimulated to thi« .ffZ^T^^J^^t *bova want. ^ I was specially stimulated to this effort bTa'SLt^^T ^^"^^^^ ^ «me, from my esteemed friend, Hon. ^oLLTmSf' ^ '^^"'^ '^^ — held a mortgage of fl*© hunrfr«^ h^i °°™^ T- Whittlesey, of Dauburv »« Place a«|.4rwai^S^?^^J^,--„^^^^^^ that I mght as weU pay hi^ then as evT C^^^r mL"""^""*^' *^^ '^^^ ™« longer from hand to mouth, but to concentmi^« *'"^'^^^«*°^^eno something for the future. ? 7 -^ £^** ""^ •^«^«» 'Jpon laying tft^ While I was forming this»t>rocticali*»^^i^ *, t Wthority^S Mr, John Heath,1^ta^r *^ ^1f^ ^"^^ *«^ «»« coUection'was fifteen thousomi STirhW^ !!i ^i*^' "^«*^°' jfel^ent^ proba^ fifty ^.ousand dolla:^'SSn l^t:^^t^^ .Mr.'ILji? been^ to leave a large competency to ..had been for several years a lositig conoei ™!f^*l*^^P'^P''^y' ^ *^°"«ht I saw tH ^^*^'V°^ it a uaylng^-in^tutipn/ "^iP™y *be American Museum!" salrt « riWo»^ _»- l ftindiFwhat do you h^nd b^k Ittt?'^ ^ "^^ ^'^ *^« •*»*« Purtdawe It If ii. V$U Z^xZ "^ «^« I«3^«°t« when due. I therefore asked him td^^^ the «>Uectionmhi8.own name; t.. give me a writing seeming it to me;piSSdri made the payment* pmictuaUy. including the rent of his tailding; to aUow me twelve dcjlars and a half a week on which to suppbrt my famiJ^^d iTTTy aU that np^have been paid to that date. "In fact, Mr. oCtedT^lTntiS la my eanieBtne«s » you may bind me in any way/and as^yi yoT^^ on^ give me a cha.i«, to dig out, or scratch out, and I will^ so or foSS^ labor and trouble I may have incurred." "" «" or lonew au the Inreplytotluslotter,whichltooktohis«)usemy8elf,henamedanhourwh«»^ I couW cal on him, and as I was thei^at the exact mom;nt. he exp^seTSZT^^^ pleased rntt my punctuality. He inquiml closely as to my haS^ aS dente, and I frankly nairated my experiences fts a iterer for the pubh^m^S mg my amusement ventm^ In VauxhaU Qanien, the cirous, ahd in the exhibition. I had managed at the South and West. «=JLiuuiMonB ♦•Who are your references? "he inquired. *' * v^^^l'T^ ^^^ line," I replied, "from Edmund Simpson, manager of the Par J^eatre. or William Nx>lo, to Mess™. Welch, Jane, TitS; xli^^l^t grother circus or menagene proprietors; aJse Moses Y. Beach, of the New York " Can you get any of them to caU ott me?" he continued. I told him m.t I could, and the next day my friend Niblo r6dffttewaand hiul also eaUed^ and the following morning I waited upon him for his decision. I d(y t like^our references, Mr. Barnum," said Mr. Ohnsted, abruptli on as I entered the room. "'"pw^ was confused, and said "I regretted to hear it " ., .^S^^^^Z^'^^ y''<^^'>^ed,lB.v^bixig; "in fact they aUi Sntr P*^®™ *>' yo*^ and intended to share the profits." ^ Nothy could have pleased me better. He then asked me what securitv I oouM offer in case he concluded to make the purchasX me aij ij «r2ly agreed that, if he should do so, he should «tain the pro W SwL enttSv paid for «id should also appoint a ticket^taker and aL;mt^t (a mr.^r who should render him a weekly statembnt. I was ftuther to ta^^^a^S hitherto used as a billiard room inhis adjoining building, aUowMl^rS ayear, making a total rental of $3,000 per ajmum, onTlease ^MCSl^ then told me to see the administrator and heii-s of the estatJuBTtheir b«I terms, and to meet him on his return to town a week froitathat^r Offered $10,000, payable m seven annual installments, with good security. After several Wview^was flnaDy agreed tiiat I should havVrt for#13,^^^ ^1 If ^''t:*'"^^°^ ^^ ^^^ ^"^ *^" 15«^ o* November. mP. bixS ^ia 8dvMwet= no w^ff "^S* '^^ "^^^ *** ^' ^^^'^ ^'''"'^- H« «id that he had dgned ^e W^ ^.T' Z'^u^ "° "^^ *"«'^y ^'^^' '^^ tiiat it was his duty toS the b«st he could for the heira Mr. Ohnsted was sorry, but could not hrfn me the^ tenant, would iM,t «,uir« 14m tp taour a«y ri^, J^^^HIT^ . .'.f: 80 JM^^PBM mn <:0 TBx ladovi. Of ooume, I iromedlatoly Informed myself as to this character of Ftaatot Mo* emn company. It proved to be a band of speculators who had bought Pi^ale^t collecUon for a few thoosand dollars, expecting to unite the American Museum with it, issue and sell stock to the amount of $50,000, pocket $80,000 proflti, ami permit the stockholders to look out for themselves. I went inunedidtely to dev^ral of the editors, including Major M. M. Noah, M r. Beach, my good friends West, Herrick and Ropes, of the Atku, and others, and stated my grievancea. "Now," said I, "If you will grant me the use of your oolunma, I'll blow that speculation sky-high." They all consented, and I wrote a large number of squibs, cautioning the public against buying the Museum stock, ridiculing the idea of a board of broken-down bank directors engaging in the exhibition of stuffed monkeys and gander-skins; appealing to the case of th» Zoological Institute, which had tailed by adopting su^p plan as the one now prai)oeed; and finally, I told the public that such a specuJrftton would be infinitely more ridiooloos tha^ Dickens' "Grand United Metropditato Hot Muffin and Crumpet-baking and Punctual Delivery Company." The stock was as "dipad as a herringl " I then went to Mr. Heath and asked him when the directors were to pay the other 114,000. "On the 26th day of Deoeinberrorfbrfeit the, $1,000 already paid," was the reply. I assured him that Uiey would never pay ifb, that they could not raise it, and that he would ulti- mately find himself with the Mu&eum collection on his hands, and If once I ' started off with an exhibition for the South, I would not toudh the Museupi at any price. "Now," said I, "If you win agree with me confidentially, that in case these gentlemen do not pay you on the 2eth of December, I may have it on the 27th for $12,000, 1 will run the risk, and wait in this dty until that date." He readily agreed to the proposition, but said he was sure they would not forfeit tijeir $1,000. "Very well," said I; "all I ask of you is, that this arraagemoit diall not be mentioned." He assented. "On the 27th day of December, at ten o'clock *., M., I wish you to meet me in Mr. Olmsted's apartments, prepared to sign the writings, provided this incorporated company do not pay you $14 000 on th» aeth." B» agreed to this, and by my request put h in writing. From that moment I felt that thr Museum was Liin& I saw Mr. Olmsted, and told him so. He promised secrecy, and agreed to sign the document if the other parties did not meet their ^igagement. This was about November 1.5th, and I continued my showo- of newspaper Mjoihs ai the new company, which could not sell a dollar's worth of its stock. Meuiwhile, if any one apoke to me about the Museum, I simply replied t h< tf. 1 tedkitik ^^ ^il .^S r • II I. Ill 1.1 1. 1 I III i ij^^ ••f**"- * W" OHAPTER VIil. THE AMERICAN MUSEUM. n.e .ecre^r^ of that ^^P^Vc^o^l^^^^^^ "Tew Y^i^M; f " mZ.t: rritrt^i^^^^^^ *^« ^— - -' ^^^ L/^el^C™"iSet "';^^ -"-»-. -'i though I sa^ that he - reply L an inquiry as™ ^.''1 ""7^^" '"*''*''° *^* P-P«««op, and in a jL This wZroncltcSd 't t. f'^T*' k"^"''^' *'^ -m of 13.OOO after complimenting ro„^vlniL\h "''''T *" ^'*^'" January 1. 1842. and Bnrnun, 'we shall h:;Vri:e of ^.^ ,' ^1.""^^.^' '' " ""' """^' ^'• which I replied that I ahould " ev^r trv "''"'^"^ ^^'•""Sh "^e newspapers "-to and I took my W ^ ''"' '^^ ''''"'''' «^ "'^ employers." it WM as de» to iM as no(mday, that after Itoyw mv ailfinoe so A« f« date lieir stock, these dimrto« iUmt to seU out^ wtomZ^^ me to look to future stockholder formysaJarT tHaItS^ they oooJd, toavimy a.ey had nicely entrapped me. but llT^ ^'eaSTt^^ *" - doubl, thai For, suppoHing me to be out of the way. and bavhur nn «tho, -.^i these dii^„ postponed the advertisem^t^fSl^ to X«I^?^^ ' forget the attacks I had made on it, and they if t^l^nlL^^ %*^" ^ Ing the money pn,misedtoMr. HeaS, Dec^mteTSt^td^Zy^'not '*^' ^ on him at the appointed tdma But on the f ollowC^J^ ^^*T? was promptly and hopefuUy at Mr. Ohnsted's apartmen^wifh^; f*?*^ ' ' athalf-pastnlneo'dock; Mr. HeathcZw^^Z^Ittrfe o'clock that day I was in formal possession of the S^ ^^se^ C ^^2 a«m.««ial act was to^,» and dispatch the following o^Z^^^,^ , n Vu Pn^^t ana mZu>r. <^ Vu ^^J^Z'mu^^^"' """^ ^°«^ ^- ^'^ ^ ifiKJ^ Si&S^^i,^{^;^^JsL'"^ ^°" '••** ^" »^« p'«»<» «poa ths '• ao proeecate. «>d to j„«jy forfeited hi. depo«rmoZ '«"«'«^ but h. dU U.«ujh th^Sc«,ilTSS^riS^.''md^tf I^Jl'? - '4 ..*, I-;."' ^^^^^^^^^^E aa^Bii^ "^W ^i ."*;m 83 i:he aubbioak museux. '• and enterpriflb, and called for ever eamert and ever heroio endmvor. Wbether T should aink or gwiHgi, depended wholly upon my own energy. I must pay for the establisimieut within a Btipuloted time, or forfeit it with, whatevbr I had paid - on account. I meant to moke it my own, and brains, bsaSSa and every efforb were, devoted to the interests of the Museum. The 'nucleus Qf this establishment, Scudder's Museum, was l^rmed in 1810, the year in which I was bom. It was begun in Chatham street, and wa^ afterward* transferred to the old City Hall, and from small beginnings, by^purdiasjBs, and to . a considerable degree by presents, it had grown to be a large and valuable oolleo ' otion. People, in aU parts of the country, had sent in relics and rare ^iirioeitidi; ■ea captains, for years, had brought and deposited strange tlii|igs frontvforeiKB lands; and besides all these gifts, I have no doubt that thi^ previous profirietor had actually expended, as was 8tate(||||60,000, in making the collectioi^ No <;his , eoiild'go through the halls, as Uiey were when they came under my proprietor- ship, and see oue-half there was worth seeing, in a single day; and then, ka I always justly boast^ afterwards, no one eould visit my Museum and go away without feeluig that he had received the full worth of his m^ey. In looking over Uie immense collection, the accum^ulation of so many years, I saw that it Was only necfrntFy to properly present its meiits to the public, to qtake it th«r nu)6t Aiaracw^B and p^j^uJar place of resort and entertainment In tba United Btates. "'■* " , . ** , Valuable as* the collection was when I bought it, it was onljl*''the beginn&g of'; the American Museum as I made it. In my long preprietordiip, I consiAtS^biJ^ . more than doubled the permanent attractions and curiosities of thej^tablisb-.* iamt. Ih 1842, 1 bought and added to my collection the entire oontents^cK Peale's Museum; in 18.50, 1 ^lux^hased the large Peale collection In Philadelphia; and year •ftter year, Pbought genuine cariosities, n^jardleas of cost, wherever I cou^d find tiiem, in Europe or Americ^k '^ ' .'., ' ' -,»' At the ver}' outset, I wasdeteinnined to deserve fiic9ef& Myitlan of eooaDipy mcludiBd the intention to support my family in IVeV Ybrk on IQOO a'year, and myjtreasure of a wife, not only gladly iLaskited, but '#as willing to reduce the ■am to $400, if necessary. Some six months afte^ I had t)ought the Museum. Mr. Olmsted happened in at my ticket-office at noon,' and feund me eating a r frugal dinnehbf cold corned beef and bread, which ^b^ brought froiH honM. , 'i V Is this ti|e vrajr yoii eat your dinner? " hfei ksked, A$ I - j^*ll have riot eaten ^',^jvarm dinner, ftxcept on Sunqayii," I replied, "aini^ I Jiji^ht the M(t$eumi and I never intend to, on a week day, till I ain out qt debt." '' Abl " said he, clapping me on the shoulder, ^'yoU are safe, and will pay loTy Ihe Muix)um before the year is out." r And h^ was right, ior withhi twelve months I vfas In full poaeadon atttM propertf as my own, and it Wa| entirely paid for from the profits of the businem In 1865, the space occupied for my Museum piirpos^ was more than double what it was in 1843. The Lecture Rotnn, bri|^n|dly nalrow, iil-ooqt^ved and (noooTenipnt, w^s so enlarged and improved that it became one of the mostoom- modiooii and beautiful ^usfemeat halls in the city ot New Vork. -At flisit, my attractions and indui)0fhenta wery merely the collection of curiodtles by day; ■nd an evening entertainment , oonsHi ny of guoh variety p«t^nrmnnpra-aa w<>re ^ current ih ordinary shuwa Then Saturday afternoons, tpA, sot^ afterwanls, Wedneaday aftemwons were devoted tc «i)tf»rt4dnment8, and tBo {wpiilarity of Urn Muaeuui grew no rapidly that I pr^enently found it expedient Aoid; pruntAhle iA\ dMn ttaa gixiat Lecture Room erwy afteravon, aa well aM&rvtgJnrmitiiii, un evwi • • ' ! ^':-:- • -A, >.'-* V .^J WbotherT pay for th« I had paid very effort [n 1810, the afterwarda Unas, and to . ablecoUeo qqiriositite; Old tpr^ign prp^iingiflllHiblj^ i.^|£tabU9l^-. BiK Peale's , i\ and year : oot^iflnd if econoipy I year, and reduce the e Museum. te eating a iiH home. t, "■ln9e I it^deW 1U pay lor/ don oc tiM < le busbieMi '^' tian double liatred and 1 most com- it flist, my m by daj-. ifterwarda, uity of the -ofltAble t«'^ i,uueT«f| s ^ ' > *^^f ' «» ,«r -■; * *' ^ ^■4 ^ A THB AMBRIOAir IftTSBtTll. *"*> w«*day in^he year. The tli^ ezperimentB la tlUi AiMJctlon, morw than jimti Bed myiapctotions, for the day exhibitions were alwayii more thronged than e those of tjie evening. Of courae I made .the most of the holidays, advertising extensively and presenting extra induiemente; nor did attractions elsewhere •eem to keep the crowd from coming to the Museum. Oh great holidays, I gave ■8 many as twelve performances to as many different audiences. By degrees the character of the stage performances was changed. Toe tran- > Blent attractions of the Museum were constantly diversified, and educated doni todustaous fleas, automatons, jugglers, ventriloquists living statuary, tableaux, £pnM, Alblnoes^fat boys, giants, dwarfs, rope-dancers, live "Yankeesf" panto^ ■dme, mst»umental music, singing and dancing in great variety, dioranjasu panoramas, models of Niagara, Dublin, P&ris, and Jenftalem; Hannington? 2?^^** **"* Creation, the Deluge, FWy Grottio, Storm at Sea; the fink Ifinghsh Puhch and Judy in this country, Italian PVmtoocinl, mechai^aU figuraai fancy glass-blowing, kniti;ing machines and oth&- triumphs In tiie mSw- • 'oal arts; disBolvteg views, American Indians, who enacted their warlike and r^^omwremoAies on the stage,-tiieee, among othei^, were all exoeedinglyx I thoro4hly understood tiie art of advertising, not merely by mei^tt of priit- ' Zl SZ. , ** ^ ^""^ '^^^ "^ ^"^^y' *"** ^ yfUcYxl oaatem mywOi so moob fiutet)|ea for my success, but by turning every possible circumstance to my •oooonj. It was my monomania to make ttie Museum the town wonder and town toUt I often seised upon an ojjportunity by instinct, even before I had a very Asflnlte ooooeption as to how it should be used, and it seemed, somehow, to mi^ * K^ V ^"^ "^^ ""^ purpose. As an iUustration, one momhig a stout. heart;y^looklng man came into my tioket^fflce and lagged some money. I aakwd him why he did not work and earn his living ! He replied that he oouM get nothing to do, and that he wouW be glad of^ any Job at a dollar a day. I handed him %quaifcer of a dollar, told him to go and get lis breakfast md re«im, and 1 would (tanplby him, at light labor, at a dollar sn4 a half a day. Wh«nh*retumad I^ga^e him five common bricks. I , , •- « \"Now," said I, "go and lay a brick on the side^, at the Comer of Bn«dwav and ^ stire^ v anothir close by tlie Museuni ; a third diagonally abruM tlw r^* t ^..'^l™'' °' B«»d^*y »nd Ves.«r.«eteet. % tiie Astor House ; put down the ft^orth on the sidewalk, in front of'fi^ Paul's Church, opposite; tbin. with the fifth brick In hand, take up a rapid march from one point to the otter* making tb« circuit, exchanging y»ur brick at ewy point, and MjnottiiuE t^ " What is the objefctirfttjlsf" inquired the man. J "No matter," I replied ; "all you need to know istluit It brings you flftosa aentswa^pwhour. It ha bit of my fun, and to assist me pf<)«M-ly you must seem to be as deaf as a port ; wear a .^ous counteiA^ RnlWrno questions , ps BcKUtentien to any one ; but attend falthfuUy |Mwork,lM at the end of iVWT hour, by St Paul"* oloek. show tiiis ticket Jip Mitseuin^ door • enter «BlklnK solenmly through evwy hall in the build^^i|iai||^:|hd nnima yoor With thff mmwrk that tt ond w^ hwi!^ Urtac.** the man plated his bricks, and l).»gan jbis rounA Bjf mi iKMlr Uttm iMtf4i. «t iMK five hundred people were watching his mystMrioosniovMnentK He iiftJiiijn M.§^^ar mp tiotl Inarian. ami, looldng as K>bM>M a judge, h» J, ' 1 . mni MM i«!MMa ■iBirili^aMMHpf ts T^B AMBBIOAJT MlJSlfiOlt - H gular ocmdnoi. At the end of the fint honr, the sidewalks in the riotad^ ' packed with people, all anxious to solve the mystery. The man, as directed, then went into the Museum^ devoting fifteen minutes to a solemn survey- of the halls, and afterwards returning to his round. This was repeated ev«ry hour till sun- down, and whenever the man went into the Museum a doxen or more persons would buy tickets and follow him, hoping to gratify their curiosity in regard to the purpose of his movements. This was continued for several dajrs— the curious people who followed the man into the Museum considerably more than paying his wages— till finally the policeman, to whom I bad imparted my object, com- plaineiT that the obstruction of the sidewalk by crowds, had become so serious that I must call in my "brick man." This trivial incident excited considerable talk and amusement ; it advertised me ; and it materially advanced my purpow of making a lively comer near the Museum. The stories illustrating merely my introduction of novelties would more than All this book, but I must make room fo;- a few of them. An actor, named La Rue, presented himself as an imitator of celebrated hi*- trionlc personages, including Macready, Forrest, Kemble, the elder Booth, Kean, Ebunblin and others. Taking him into tbo green-room for a private rehearsal, and fl pHin g his imitations excellent, I engaged him. For three nights he gave great , satisfaction, but early in the fourth evening he staggered into the Museiun so dmnk that he could hardly stand, and in half an hour he must be on the stage I Cialling an assistant, we took La Rue between us, and marched him up Broadway as tar as Chambers street, and back to the lower end of the Parle, hoping to sober him. At this point we put his head under a pump, and gave him a good '*!• ducking, with riflible beneficial effect— then a walk around the Park, and another ()'-.cking,— when he assured me that he should be able to give his imitations " to • tttmrm." ^ *• You drunken brut^said I, " if you faQ, and disappoint my audienoi, I wfll throw you out of the window." He declared that he Mras " all right," and I \ed him behind the scenes, when I waited with cuusiderable trepidation, to watch his movements on the stage. Ho began by saying : ' ** I^ulles and gentlemen : I wiU ntfw- give jrou an imitation of Mr. Booth, tb« eminent tragedian." Hki tongue was thick, his language somewhat inooherent, and I had great mi»- givings as be {nxxweded ; but as no token of disapprobation came from the •ndlenoe, I began to hope he would gd through with his parts withtiitt exciting iaq>ioion of his condition. But before he had half finished his repcesentatiou of Booth, in the soliloquy in the opening act of Rldiard IIL, the house discovered that he was very drunk, and btigan to hiss. Thiii only seemed to stimulate him ta make an effort to 9ppea ' sober, which, as is usual in such caaea, only made iiiatters^ i*airM,.and the hissing hicreased. I lost all patience, and going on the stage anil talcing the drunken fellow by 'tiie collar, I apologised to the audience, OHsurini^ them that he should not appear before Uiem agidn. I. wai^abgut to mait;h him dC, whs|i^s6ep(lied totheffont, andsaid: ' J *' Ladies and gentlemen: Mr. Booth often appeared on HMTHage Ul « iM* d ' ftiobriety, and I \traa simply giving you a truthful i ?>■ . ■■,*■. Tola AKEniCATST MUSEUM B7 -Miglitied with hk sucomi ; but vrben he came tp imitate Fomsst and Hambliii. oeoewarily r^rewDting them as drunk also, the audietoc^ could be no longer mud^ , the hMmng was almost deafening, and I was forced to Bead the actt^off. ' K was his last appearance aa my stage. I determined to make peo^ talk about my Museum; to ^<^Iaim over.iti won- d««; to have men and wonom all over the country say: "Therei is not imother place in the United States where so much can be seen for twenty-iBve cents as.in Bomum's Aoterican Museum." It was the best advertisement I could poasiWy have, Am! one for wfaidr I onild'affou^ to pay. I knew, too, that it was an honorable jadvertisapient. taeeaiMS tt was as deserved as it wasi spontaneous. And ■ to, in additiri8e secure. . ^ It was the world'k way l^en, ai it is hofw, to «Bdpe theoonunuliity with flamtog poatert, promising almost everjrthing for noxt1» nothhig. I confess tiiat I took no pains to set my eaterprish^c feUow-eittens a betW example. I f eO in iHib th^ world's way; and if my VpuflSng" was more perAnt, my advertising more' audacious, ,my posters more glaring, my punures more exaggerated, my flags more patriotic and my transparencies monrfariUiant than tiiey would hive bbm under the man ag wrew rt of my Im^^Wmiv, it wm not because f had lew scrutds than they, but man anei^} £v oara 1iig«Buity, and a better foundation for suoh^miMi lBaUthi8,if Iaataiotb0jii8tifled,Iatleastflu4^>alliatiaointtie fact that I presented a wilderness of wnoderful, hwtructive and amuking realities of such evident aud married merit that I have yet to leom of a shigle instance where a vUtor went away from the Muaeom ocmplaining that he had bem de- frauded of. jEduBaodey Surely ttija bi aa ^rfEsafe l» any eccentricities to which I inay have resorted to make my MMWAMHit wUMy known. ^ Very soon after ta trn iii n l M n^ «lni odUbitiona, I purchaaed for 9800; a tiurioeity whiofa had muoli merit and wi— almiriiKy. It was a model of Niagara FaUa, hi which the merit was- tlHrf) tte ppppnrtions of tbe great cataract, the treeft. rooks, and buildings in the rlclnlty «'w» mathematically given, while the absurdity was to totroduclng,," real whter " io represent tiie falls. Yet the mo«ared in the papsrs, nor to interpret ray dKMP> biUa too Utraally, and assured them tiiat a single banzai c^ water, if my ponm ■WA to good ordw, woaW fumirfi mj- fkUs tar a moritti. < . '^ V It was evsn so, for the water flowed ii^ a resorvoir hdalmUfbi^tbmm, aad WM for«ad baok wtth-^a fKmp over, tto falls. On mjm oasasicw Mr Louii Oteykfd Caark, 1h» editor of the Kntohtrbwdcer, oncm p6 view my ifimiuii. and farti^ diioad htoit^.lo me. As I ^^ qttfte anxicwn tiuU my "f^^-jnhmiint Acndd rtodv H gn»-rate"nl- "ft .88 T&E AStBSIJCAB- KUSBUIL mi V, % «w ^ ?*™na. I dedaw, thla Isqulteaiiewldeft; Inerw MWtba Ifta 1 u ^ «o » I faintly .Inquire^ wlth^omothlng liko iwIvIm bopo, ^No,«'BBid(31ark, "andl hope. Wltli^Siy heart, I neywiSjI again.* ^ But tte ^nu:;car6o<*fc«. ^fce Jdndly of me, and «>£ralned from aU aUoi^ to ^Cataract of Niagara, with real water. " Some months after, COark came in toeaailess one day, and asked me If I had the dug with which Captain Gook wa» %^ MUed I. Aa I had a lot of Indian war cluha lu the collection of aboriginal ouriod^ ^ Ha^^and owing Caark something on the old Niagala Falls a6ooimt, I told him l had the veritable dub, with documents which placed Its Identity beyond oueatkni. » andlshowedhJmthe warlike weapon. . ^^ "PborCook I Poor Cook P said Clark, musingly. "Well, Mr. BamunL''iie -ntinued, with great gravity, at the some time extending his hand and glvine je a hearty shake, •' I am really very much obUgod to you for your kindnesT ^^had an Irrepressible de«re to soe the dub thAt kiUed Captain ^k, and I felt 'mS^T^ confidant you couJo accommodate me. J haVe been hi half a dox^Tunaller . -;3»u.eums, and as they aC had it, I was sure a la^ establishment Mfe youn ouki not be without It » ^,' ■ A few weeks afterwards, I wrote to Clark that If he would awaken curiosity to see and o^«». the 'i^iecimen, I invoked the potent power of printer's ink. <• , ' ^ Since Japan has been opened to the outer world, it bas been dlKsovered that certain "artasta" in that country manufacture a great variety of fabulous animals, with an Ingenuity and mechanical perfection well calculated to deceive. No doubt my mermaid was a specimen of this curious manufacture •! used it mainly tiP advertise the regular business of the Museum, and this effective indirect advertising is the only feature I can commend, in a special sho^ of which, I coflfess, I am not proud. Newspapers throughout the country copied the . menoaid noticee, for they Were novel and caught the attention of readers. Thus was the fame of the Museum, as weU as the mermaid, wafted from one^end of , the land to the other. I was careful to keep up the exciton.eiit, for I knew that every dollar eown in advertiring would return in tens, and perhaps hundreds, in a future harvest, and after obtaining all the notoriety possible by advertising and by exhibiting the mermaid at the Museum, I sent the curiosity throughout the country, directing my agent to everywhere advertijse it as "From Bamum's Great American Museum, New York.''' The effect was immediately felt: mon«sy flowed in rapidly, and was readUy expended in more advertising. When I became proprietor of the establishment, there were only the words- ' "American Museum," co indicate the character of the concern; there was no biistle or activity about the pJape; no posters to announce what was to be seen — the whole exterior was aa dead as the 8kelet6ns and stuffed skins within. Mv experienceshadtaughtmetiieadvantageBof advertising. I printed whole columii Ih the papers, setting forth the wonders of my establishment Old "foiries" opened their eyes in amazement at a man who could expend hundreds of ^Uim inanpounctogashowof "stuffed monkey skins." but these same old fogies paid their quarters, Wvertheles^ and when they saw the curiosities and no^lti^Tto the Museum halls, th^y, like all other visitor^ were astonished as weD as pkMML and went home and told their friends and neighbors, and thus assisted in iSm^ tising my business ' —auTwr. Other and not less effective advertistng.-flags and b«meri,-began to adorn annomioed" Free Music for the MilHcin." People said. "wS; that B«S H liberal fellow to give us music for nothing," and they flocked down td bmrmr T^iHT"^'""^'^ B-'ItookP^ to select and maintain the poorest band I could flM -r8 and actresBes were dressed for the stage as early as eleven o'clock in the morning, and did not rerome their ordinary clothes ti^l ten p'dock at night. la theae busy days th» meals ^rTfie company weireliisoiiffht in and serve*! in the dressiug-rooms' aoff^ ^p-awi-niomii. and the uompany always^ rec^eive*! extra pay^ ^jfdA.- mmmsmm .A_^^ '^^J!*^'' ,/ / .*WPi^ 'f ..«' M-.' f ^ , ■iV ■,' / i I- ■ \' ' , • >■■ . ' '■-,, '- "*. • 'f ■ # h ^ , v_ ff f ^ «-- ,.-. \ ■ A - ^ c r t i i" r • • < \ « V i-^ \ ■ ' T' '*■' '■" N H •* ■ ■ • .. ^ * 1 1'^ » •■ - ^ f ' ' t»' 1 l... U' " ^ * 41... , - ; h- ." 1 §- '"""*■".., ' ^'' ■. . f ^ ■# ■] , 'r >.' ' • .' J » ■...., % J^ ' ' • . ■ ' 1 ' / '■■.':'■'':{»:■ ■ ■^ ' 1 JT^ J^ £ K' , THB BOilD TO BIOHEt. 93 I eo nft w taat i liked Vbib Mosenm mainly for tiie opportunities it affotded tor rapidly fnaklng money. Before I bought it, I weighed the matter well in my noibid, and I was convinced that I could present to the Americun public such a variety, quantity and quality of amusement, blended with instmbtion, "all for ftwenty-fire cents, children half price," that my attractions would be irresistible^ nod my fortune certain. I mjrself relished a.higher grade of amusement, and I was a frequent attendant at tiie opera, first-class concerts, lectures, and the lika; but I worked for tlie million, and I knew the only way to make a million fnmk my patrons was to give them abundant and wholesome attractions for a small - mun of money. ' ^^^m^ ^ About tlie first of July, 18^ I began to make anj^HnntB for extra nov6ltie^ additional performances, a large amount of extriSiPertising, ajid an out-door display for the " Glorious Fourth." Large parti-colored bills were ordered, trao^' - parencies were prepared, the free band of music was augmented by a trumpeter, and columns of advertisemsnts, headed with large capitals, were written and piit ing into the street, I remarked: ''Really, gentlemen, these flags look very y beautiful; they do not injure your tree; I alwa^irtop my balcony music for your accommodation whenever you hold week-day services, and it is but fair tfiat yon " should return the favor." "We could indict your ' music,' aS you call it, aa a nuisance, if we chose," answered one vestrjrman, "and now I tell yon that if these flags are not taken =^Bf¥m i9 Uiu miuatsB^ / wfiiuot tiiran dowtt*= His indignation waa a| boiling point The crowd in the street was dense, and the angry gesticulation of the vestry^ian attracted their attention. I saw there was no use in trying to parley with him or coax him, and so, Ajgiipfping an angry air, I roltod vq|> my ilMvwH and azdaimed, in a loud tons^ --#. .i%)^ * '> ««i jjiim I ■ ■1 ■■■1 ■■ wmm ■ ■i i 1 ^■pr '^ :\ ^^^^^^^^^^^ Ti"^'"' '^-'^' ^.r-ffjWB^^^^t ^ *• 7 ^^- - s V ^., ^ 'f» 6 >' • 3t ' 1 * * / :* " 1 '> ' •4 ' ^ *■ 4 » ' ., - T i> ' , f" - » ' ^ ■' • , ^ "" ■ ' , ' ' .''-'*''' ' "• « - y-: * r » -v ' \ ■' ^. " r » - ., I H' ^^^^^^^K 9 4 • ^ - •* ■ 1 m ,f ,^ -- - % - -■- a ■ / 1 ^Bv(^. B ^B ' . ■ ^^^B'/ - - • * . 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"^ k ' ^ 94 ,Zn, BOAD TO BIQHM. / ^f^, r^ o' J°ly; you must be B 'Brltiidier' to make such a ^TITJu? tat ra show you a thousand p.U« of Yankee luuuls in tWo^uS^ "WJat'sthatJohhBuUa^^ wStoJ^'^^rt!"^^'^ "I^khe™.oldfeUow,-he;SL^y«^ ' ZI?l«rL*'^^*''*™^y°'^*^3''>°"^*»««r'dope.airn^r^ . tatta^i^ut ha^ down ^he American flag in the d^tTe^'Z^ "* -JnTT ^IJ!^*^ exasperated men crowded around, and the v«SWi. «e«ngtheeffectof myruse.8mUedfaintlyandsaid, "Oh,ofW«ttiJ^SS ' ' ^ .K"l'*i*' companion quieUy edged out of the cmwd. , » »-«^ »i«^ ^^u^*"*^' ^' •^"'y- ** «°« o'clock P- M., my mmrn^LuT i^A^A^^ o^p^e who stood ready with tiieir money to enter the Muteum. but who^ • rrir^r" iu ^^ carpenter and his assistants to cut thivughihe partZn ■nd floor in the rear and to putitta temponuy flight o{^^l,Z^^Z peorde by that egress into Am. street Brthri oSock Uu^^ wJToIS^ a»me in M tne rront Bfit I lostalarga amount of money that day by not nA^tnp. wfflcientJy estimated the. vahie of my own advertising and^^«^tJt .^ ha^ provide.l.for the thousands who had ™ad myZLicem^SSl Z «^de diow and 1^ taken the fix^ leisure day to vUt the M^^^ - ^ed^one lesson, however, and that was to We che egreii^S^a i^ * ti!^u^,?'' foUowing March I received notice b^ some of the Iriri. ixHwla- iK??." .^ r^^!;J^ ™^ carpenc«r, "get your egress ready A>r M*roh 17; .and I added, to my assistant mauager: "If there i> m,.^h J ^wd. don't let a single person pass out attHT^ evenif rt ^ ^^Mcl W™«lf^ut every man out threugh the egress in the rear." TlTTy^^J before noon we were caught in the same dliemma a. we were ontt^^";^ July , the M^mn was jammed, and the sale of tickets was stopped. I ^ Z ^' T^ ^J^^n*?"** "*" """""«' *^°^ "^y »>»"dreds had paS^f "Hundreds," he repUed, "why only three pereons h^rj^ L br «... ^and tiieycame b«*. saying tha. « wasaSstak^and 'b^tb^^e^J At this flme I espied a taUIririi woman with two Boodt lulMen niy am. I had - troo fatore iah popaltkr > day in the ready fbr much of a St Patrick came, and • Fourth of I went to It by thii o be let in tMYtt been ion to an- uid travel 1 whom r 'get into We hava nib Aaii IBB BOAIX TO aiOHKB^ 9? % npUed the woman, indignant^, **aa* Fm not gafa« ootafcan, alaU, ■or tiM j waa ov e rcrow d ed, and maaa- wliile hnndreda were waiting at the fnmt oitranoe to get in when they cooldi In despair I sauntered upcm tjhe stage behind the aoenea, biting my lipa with Vez- alHoa, when I happened to aee the aceneijMdnter at work and a happy tboui^t struck ma: "Ben," 1 exclaimed, "take a pieoe of oanvaafoor toet fcquare, and paint ^ta'tt, aa aoon aa yoQ can, in large lettei% ^ > ^- " 9~TO TBS B.OBBBI.'' Reiiing his Invsh, be flniabed the sign in fifteen minutes^ and 7 direooed the car* penter to nail it oveir the door leading to the back stairs. He did so, and as the crowd, after making the entire tour of the establishment, came pouring down tiie main stdira from the third story, they rto{q[)ed and locdEed at the new sign, while some of them read audibly : " To the Aigreaa." "Tb9Algk«aB,''8akl others, "aure'tliat'san animal we havent seen," and tha throng begui to poor down the U|ek auuni ouly to fliid that the " AJgrea^ waa the elephant, and that the eleidiant waa all oat o'doora, oraomudiof it as began with Aim street Meanwhile, I began to aooomn^odate tiboae who bad long baon . watting with their money at the Broadway entnimoew Money poured in itpm me so rapidly that I was aomettmee.iiotiia]ly enAar rassed to deviae means to carry out my original {dan for laying out the entin* profits of the first year in adTert^sipg. Imeanttoaowfii^andreapafbwwaitla I finally hit upon a plan which bdat 4 large aum, ami that waa to prepare kurga oval oil paintings to be placed between the windows of the entire building, ; senting nearly every important animal known in soology. Theae paintings ' put on the building in a single night and so complete a tnuuf ormatkm in the i4»- pearanoe of an edifice is seldom witnessed. When the living stream ndled down Broadway the next morning and reached the Ast House comer, opposite tha Muaeom, it aeemed to meet with a sudden check. I never before saw so maay< open mouths and astonished eyea. Some people were puaded to know m^iat it all: meant ; some looked as if they thought it was on enchanted palace that had sudj^ denly q;>rung up ; others exclainied, "WeU, the animals aU ae«tn to have ' broken ' out' hurt night," and hundreds came in to aee how the cetabliahment ao?Vived th* •udden «rupti(»L From tiiat momhig the Museum receipts took a jump forward of nearly ft Inm- dred doUars a day, and they never fell bach again. The Muaeum had beocmiean eetahlished institution in the land. K^ow and then Home one would cry out " humbug " and " charlatan," but ao much the better Isi' me; tthelpa4toadTertiaBiiia,and I was willing to be«r the reputation. _ On aeveral oooaakxia I got up "Baby shows," at which I paid Ubeml prlaes tor the finest baby, the fattest baby, the handsomest twins, for triplets, and so on. Theae Atm were aa popohur as they w|^ unkpia, and while they paid, in a flnoa* lo talking about me, thus givhig another blast on tha tsampet which I alwi^y^ tned to keep blowing for the Museum. FH)wer shows, dog ehowa, poultry shows nnd Wrd shows, were held At int^^rvalH in njv eKtatdishment and (|h«aioh instance the same end was atUuMKi as ^)r vaw baby showi, 1 0in» yrtiei Im tht ib^ a# ■* • i tha boao to ooafldenUy expected tlie capiUil pri;^ bright** and bwt, an^ '■■■ . " ■■ . * -«. w°';X''*"T'' ?''«'■ «««ntfc« mother ?^ > ^, Would give her1>aby for anothet J M«. So and So aa ^tmTtot^^Z^ll^'^^^^^ ^^^^7 of of Indignation that arose on everv ri^wS T^ ^-prepared for the storm chartered the f erry^boate foTo^^ h-^ T^Ji ^ nioeH»ur»e at Hoboken, ' 81st «.ei. would be a .. G^TfiX^'Hr.lt^ ^te HoJST"' ""'^ ^"^ Pewons to be admitt In* M^ captured with a te^ br^fL^?„£r^^ *° f °^ **°^ "»« ^^^ buffalo istflP ■tMted for New York, little dreaming who was the authmT^J tree^^and then what was its object . ^^ ■ ""*°^ **' "»^ aensation, or J«rlr ,«., „.otook -hen U„ ^"^2 t^^t^^^ ^Z\. " "" " densely orbwded that manv Demon- w«r» „k» "j "»^'»y «reet, and It was «, •MUkii Hi Uw uuintwg, WBoeVw ha^gfct be. ^ *^° ^""^ '^"w" fui » <^-x^'<^k'u' i -r^JSl old In flw f of tlOO a« ibwt^and i> f--,'»-^^!!J^ iimoaiiaed 16 baby of ^e stonn I. as thej I the suo- bused m« s," said I B another Thiswas 'enemie* I* theaeo- I did not lobokem, : arrived b August uTae— all nty-four > cooling taanln- uffalo ja^ till tiw e harms'* and the «d with id then tion, or tratingr r hum Itwaa was so igaand ft boat scried which ' Wii. tori f^!« t I ^-^-^ t^^w s t: %• ^-mCt/ff *:»-% i ^ ^ \ ' ^-a^ n ^ ,? / Si ' ^\, ■ i "•^■J^ -^ f I^J^aK .^,&. »_Sl44 1lk% ,^ .•!>-.• I^j~fci IHB ROAD TO JUOSM. 99 •n»"»a^ iwilMliroprietorof tii* InlrA *!»•» ---''^^ . XL. ■ ^ , . 0»nd BulJhto Hunt," I permitted it to be .niKHinoed (i«i^ Aniarioaii Museum was rnrthniMiKi* ««. *i!r 7T^^^ ^» P» Proprietor of tli» ■ky-rocket fcT-I^r^ ^5^ fia- the Joke, thus «Mi^ 1i» bulfalo Imnt m a SS«d^5S^r^" attention to my Ummm^t^^ J^^ ru^a, waa aitboue^ acme people cried out " hoidhtta.'' 1 l»i mAAZt *« ♦v^^ riety which I so much wanted. Zul T ^.nJZlJ^rTr]. ^* ~°*^ *® *•** °*^ NiwerhaniiedZr.!??^ . .u '*^^'*^** •*•'<» tilery of "humbug." *_Ir r^ DonUoeg and the ezpenaes of the "hunt" end Ou. .»»«»Il lS^ii^*°i^"^ This hon« waif oioed in In^«Mr.S™ rhiv^b^^j^ni'^^^^^^'^^-^^ ?w n *^ ^ ^ the mows of the Rocky Ifountaina) was tarn^t!^ -Woony Bfarne" trai exhibited in New York «MwIr^5^^ «»* remaAiAb anfinal tturt had be« c«pt,u«l^thr^^ JT *.^ !"*• "^ *" '"^'^ Northern provincial towtaa and aJ?A^Iw^ have feUen flat in Witthington. had it ii«fe hZ^J^^^ thf Aowwool.^ TW. a Benign. taJTS sSL^^^L^TSx^lSLr^^^ SS:*,:^^ :*-ed Hie ar^et of mylJ^S^LJSSrtwSy^^ fcmyoddmethodsof advertising T^r;^^^^^ 'if;ii 1 1 .vv«.OT^-«~»™5 too nCB BOi.I> TO BiORIg. ^-!eS£-: They lived and ^S^TJ^^T^ on tL^'.^T ^^''^ Vl»Po21« I cooked «.eir 0^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^J^^ "' ^''^ ^'^'^> ««« «*M»mtheLe(rtiiiiwllnnm»HTr!l^!!^ ^* ^^®y 8»ve their war-dnnces on tho realities. Uenoe^wbenZyZ^^^^.T^^"''^^^'''''''^^^"' parties, except ttleir ma,^ Srinte^r^^' t""^ ^^"^ '^' ««y they b. a flniahed tJ^eHaflZ^ tte?J^ to Wn" h' '*^'' '^" ***' "'•''"«°' -oenee in search of victims to/S^r to,«!f^ J! ?*°'*P^'*°«' *»t^d the •odienoe, we had a hieh rone harri^. TlT^TT ** *^® orchestra or the the front of thest^ ^ ^^ ^^^^ ^'^^ '»»«» ««i the savafee. oa After they had been a week in the Museum. 1 n«^Tw,-^ u •noe for the^eek foUowinir bv inhvJwf ^ Proposed a change of perfomi. Indian wedding d^« ^' SaT^ 7^ °!!^^**^ ^*>°« «»«*^ th. day aiuf evening during that^^^^r^K ^^^^^^ ^ «P«»*e««' twelve "wedding blankets,^S^r ^' "^^ °"* °' ****** •^ '*»• C. M. Sawyer, wife of tJZl ^^.TZZ^"" l:ZT^^ T' "^ Ihe border of Sylvan Water at ar^n^n^n^Z Do-humme was bari«l on j::raeS:t:zr;ir sr^^^^ toget back TWioqs dishes of food and placed them up^ the rSfXi V ^''^^^ *^^ ^eved the spiritofti^ departed «enTc^:'^;',oMteZr"'T> . ^J-wer, renewed eveiy morning during tt.e si^VI^^'gSiT'l.^S: .»-k«,"intomy^vaJ<:S^X„%^C^^ ■W •SBirt on the sofis she asked: """^ «>8»««d m «Tltujg, and, tiUt "Is this Mr. fiiurnum t" •*»*■," I wpU«l ■^S^j^M" wgfl my amw a r. «»MWB«f ^ ;Th, s.me.«> was my ,„- ^ ^""""^ "^ ""^""^^ i^^i^^pL. a>* IMitS- J>» L AssJ^i^^JE ', ,;af: ■•■■^M:- "1 Tp^M ■■■■f "papooMfl.'- Mufieum, and lances on tfao I the !tati8fae- Bir dances ai> ■ous for any the moment ) behind the »1 iQdeed, leetraor the oav^l;^ en >f perfonn- 1688 was tlw «ten Qargt sated erery uue off qn ^ woollea a ftither of Jcenabaok, le evening^ om, would 'U)e luUflSB I wasoolf , aadgaTT ig- another tliaofor Kiehad lameMra. luried am lonument get back le cooked lere they ad these s at th» oams t* I Maine, Ad, tak I ffji > ^i 'vfAJfttfcf^ 1 lAtnia; op THE OUNT^ '.i.A«i». i-;. X* ■Jfc V^r' P: y -^^sSiAa^Ae.^ •aa BOAO 10 BIOBM. I<^ to M^ pl«» or«m«o««t or puUte «it«tirfi^ ttcwj^ «d I have ««M*lm« Mt fly* ttay .T« i^S^^ drnma,' and the great good you«dot% for ttai1*»t«Mrirtfc^^ ImuatcomehereandMefiirinTHlt'* — » a-iMratmi warn i wan^fm At tfaig moment tlie goog mwikIwI to aoiMNinoa tiM ooanliic of tt^ t^.*m^ Room, and the crowd paMd '««»'"». ^hich he -PP^ to . wgher Class of J^ro * Tesle'L^" "'"•' •°*» '^' P"ten<.sU to M^iw. and he had a 8ubi.,ot upon who^ Ti " '"^''°* ^'^ *'"' «<"«°"flo at.rao uie subject was wholly u^lmpressible and th«„ ?^* * "'®'® ^•«> «°»«» Then - 'l'^'' »»'• ^oinan Put Into the CmeL.lL°:;^\^*''*'''«» P^«» tSelr Jney influences as I couM Induce. ThTls J^^^ "^ «»«copUblo, to such mesme^J ^e seemed to be duly' .. impressed " ^ TZtJT ""T^" *°* "°^ "^'^^ »'''' ten from her chair to the fleor- and iJ J JT^ ' """^^ ^" »'»'^«»" " I willed ; -1» was duly d^ll^hted or dlsgus^i She n« T? **' ^^^'^ *^ •"^""^ouTh •°r «^"«« to say, believe™" mesmerll t""** "" "^'^ '^"""^ P^'torm •' »ith the.g^ateet pleasure and addu^Terj' T '^'''^ »^«r |,erformances ' ^-1. in mesmerism, and -. ^PPrde^ rm::::oCIp^r:— -rsinTi^ii/riJnr.rrs:'^^--'-^^ — ^ne or tonfeu fl«y dollars. Of cou«^ ,„^/"^L^r ^^^ " ^"»»''^ Ave minute*, m^morlo state; at the ehd of three ml^uL ^7 """"T •^"* ""* » ™«« »" »!»« " Never mind." I would say. lookC ^t mv 17. " ""^^ *^*''« " "^^r. ' and meantime, to show that a ^rZ t ,°'.'^*'°^= " ' 1»»^« two minutes mor, propose to cut off one ot the ^ng'TrTo, iTuCl^ T''' ^""""'^'^ ^ P^^i ' tben take out my knife and feel of th> edlf *? ""^'^ still, aslee,.." j ^ouM e'rl Whom I left on the chair, .hi h^ fled ^1!^? -' turned around to the - "»"««n«at of the greater part of the1u3ll« t *''*' ''•^"•'' "^ «>*^ntense mesmerists who were present audience, and t9,.the amaaoment of the - • "Whyl Where's my lltUeglrl?" I«sk^ with #-i- ^ • "Oh! She ran away When you. bi^fteJf.,;?'^ astonishment. ^ " Then Sim was wide awike w^he^- "'""'^ °" '»'«»"-" ■ ^ "0'«>«>B«'She was. all the time" fifty dollars." IP "«». ana as I beUeye you are w. i "if . — \ \ ■ n ■ / -Jk^ » ».■ y *!«.; ^' '-3 -'5; 'l>:\-ilX!^%^t^^' r' \ X %, / <* •• .-> rf * « • > '■** 1; f ')< < , - • l>^ bfv' *. ' . «#" .V. icy >iBOMb"frtlhaM (htflpml Mid «( % «Doaiii» tMmpaa** and •*7«n»~ eacira cfaaiga. ^^l^«um bj«™ » njania with m^^ vient to it On the eve of ektotiooi^. tivni poUtidaos wotinS^fT^h^ w- gob* to vot^ «d my ««w« inTariSS^^'T^^^^ pab«^foodforn»d^amu««««ta.weU..wood^^ ^Q^I^SS a^wlio had wddanly become ridi, bnt who wa. a y^ iiSSirStiL^**** the wondeiBof the maiudon^^SL JSS proprietor ahowed him everything from baeementtoatlilc: papknrbed,S!^ ^nins^room, and," teid Hale% "whathe caSr^lSiS!^^^ the place where he intends to itodylii. epelling^BP^ ^^^* ""^ I had at one time two famoM Jhan, the Fi»oh riant It Bttln. » ^.rirrfi-. m^ and the Arablmi giant^ Ciolonei Ck»hen. IW m«x^Sil7Zk^ toget^ VBry wdl. fhoogh, of coum, each w»i jealoTof^ SS^^iS «d a llvety^interchange of oon^Jimento enmied, the Ai^Uan oS ^a "aanghai," and .^yed in wtuTth. eSS^TJ^Jg^..'^ toeee men threw themeelTe. between the gigantic comSmL w£ ^ dl^b^ic^ I r.nfr«n my private <-Bce toi^lTS^^ "Lookherel -nil. iaall right; if you waJt to^J^^S^J!^^ perhape killing one or both of you, that is your ai^-WmrSi.^^^ you «, both i»der«g.gementtom^aiif Sd«ri^r«^l^ll^^ public have a right to p^iidpato. iTmuat be dnly^vertiS^S^iT^ pJ«>eoDthertageoftheLecta«,Room. No perfoi^«^T^^ !?* jr«.tera«,,^ and l^youhiU each c*h.r.orS^^ «».bun*lntoal«,gh,ri«x*handi^«rfq,,,^„^^ ^^^ r to November, 18«M wa. at Bridgeport Com«»tiZrwhe» f h..rf «, J r«i«-kablyBnaU ddld,^and, at my liquit^mrtoB^ °^* bought Wm to the boU^ wa. itZ^^"^^:^ Indooed to talk with mi'L^dhTSrSe^^^ •ffearaome coaxing, he ui*>«« fl# '^ • „ ^^ — "~~ "" "" "*■*• ™^ •M ne told me that he wm ttaion o< Sherwood R StrattMi, and that hie own name wae CWle.a««l^ • N.«. 1 ,„ k Tta,k.Kiviag day, dS^TT Sr^^^^i^*'^ They aun. to «<»mpB„y him and I ™ to c^^ Z!Ji- ""^ "^ I^""« »■<" t» Aftor .„,^°^S^^X«;»^ « U« „a^ ^ .."J^j;^ on b«„d the new Md an, mmLg^^YZcM^^'J'^T^ ^ '"*■ ' "«•« "rtedhta, MU b.TOM, taZtTto tor^^**;"*"" "°"»^S, fordM I"!""! If poidUa; but t bad ban •/l.._H7i?r!r^ tbat 1^ to BiMUngbam- 4 ^tl I 'J^ .,-1 ■■ '■•^. 'M- ff ««-/ /f £ iiitiLi!^ ' ^ >A'tlvgu. i^^b\« tog to oontnust far « loi^ narind ^Ji^L-iuZ^?^ iMrtar. WjUJ. •■ 1 oomd bgtaj^yAort» bat htehi^ .w.....^ - ™ ^ totlwhail^i^ ken all •faae^" remlted in aa IwaaoBwill. ifc, tiioug^aii *Soaoon,tli«>. / J ^- %^ ft . >;- .^- .J CHAi-iJilE XI. GENEKAL TOM THUMB IN ENGLAND. ^t plea^H,. the .pectators. the manager or ^ylr I wL 7^"''* ''^'^ '" ^rma for . re^ngagement. bu. myTunle had L,l Tr T"^ *" '*'""" aow«^w«, spread everywhere that General C ThumWn t'^'^^.T^'"^' "^« w«. in the City, and It only remained tor ZJl^'ZZT ""^**' my own account, and In my own time and way ''~ "'^ P'**»"*'' **° I took a furnished mansion in Oraftnn att-^* -a ^ T.ry cent« of the most fash.onabtel^u r^i^r^.^'^^^ ^^' »" ^ occupied for several years by Lord TaC "nd Lom i'''"'' ^~' previously bee. famine, of the aristocracy LTl^^TiT.cl^^j:""''''''^ *"^^''" ' '^o"" this magnlflcent mansloui I .ent "ttei o nvluUo7tr7e Z^T'^':"'- '^^ ^ the nobility to visit the General M«.t J "»^»W"on to t,^e editors and several of The wor. of approU^wrr^ ^^U^ r "C ZVTl T""^ muee drove to my door m crested carriages, and Vere I'o' ^mld '"^'''*^ This procedure, though m some measure a stroke of JTiw .'w nor hazardous, under the circumstances iharnotyeran^'J^"'"'' "'°'"'" bltlon. and as a private American gentleman. J beImeLe"»T. 1 ''?"'' *'''- Of my position. I therefore Instructed my llvertS se "^rtHl V r"'""" -ee my "ward." excepting to persons who brought ^dT of tnT.?''"'" *" It in . proper manner, and no offence could be ukeL " ough I wll " "*' '''' «1« to send an Invitation Immediately to such « hTd ^ot^^ IZZ7' '*"'" During our first week In London, the Hon. BdwaM We« ^ i Minister, to whom I had letters of lntroducUon..l.Trand w« h ^b, T*" wltil. his diminutive though renowned countrym;n wt ^'nll ^th f5.f "^ day. by InvltaUon. and his family loaded L youu^ Amlic^l wul ""* Mr. Everett kindly promised to use his Influence at^epTlalin rL ""*"''"• view to having Torn Thumb Introduced to Her MaJ«ty Qu!;Xt^rU ' '" ' A few evenings afterwards the Baroness Roth JhiM "^"^^ ^'<"<>'^1*- W. were received by a half a ao^sTv^ts aafwl "w^^ "^"^^ ""^ "^• •f marble stair, to the drawing-room, wherl wt lltTh T "'' * '"''^'' "*''' twenty or more ladles and gentlemen llthT! """""^ *"** * ^"'^ »' .•nker In the world, we sirZut' two" rrs'^trwrtV ''T'^' jr-iMjuea pur. was quietly .upp^ ... „, ^^^LTzz :::ir:j':::^: wealth and fa^ion of London wLMirrep^e^Jd " ma'dTtb"* '""* "'* menu bwsauM I had UtUe honn of h«i„„ I're.enied. I made these anauig*- W.« 1^ MMIM MOINT. M »Htk»r Of OTWlitftkl* n,%t^ IfU ItM m ««»« t th« PrlB- i» who WM tar higher irered, tbe i curiosity pablio, on ad, in the >ual7 be«a It a dozen ». From " several ot arratlfledt unlnrltad r singular bile exbl- 4e dignity ulsslon to He did ya partio- Imerioan ' pleased the next presents. 1, with a tor ua. ad fllglit party ot richest leaTe a d began nent of ' lioh the trwngs- >raaenoe m' jiy '^^r^s^ap^'isse^^ vii n *^^ ^ "r'T' QUEEN VICTOBI^ '• 4 "I- hm ympnaw .«.;.■, '-si'. < jwf 4^' '^t^l^llti- , ^A^' wmm. " t D '-:<:'^ff!ffy ■ f / \i •nrBBAL lOM TETJMB MT BKOLAVa iij ^—rjf^^i'^yf^'B^^ In the opom of oooTeniittoii, Mr. Mmwr^ nent ahortly, though I ihoukl be glad to nanain If the Genendcoold hay»«c lirtMTlew with the Qneen, adding that Bach aneveat would be of great ooM^^ the Life Guartta, a tall, noble-lookii« fellow, bedecked as became wTrtatioa brought me a note, conveying the Queen's invitation to Qener^ Tom Thumb and his guMdian, MriBamum, to appear at Buckingham Palace on an evening --x* faed Special instructions were the same day onUly given me by JfcMumivb: - Her Male.tr. command, to suffer the Qeneri to apSar beTre hJT "^^m appear anywhere else, without any training In the u»e of the titles ot realty a. the Queen desired to see him act naturally and without restraint ' Determined to make the most of the occasion. I put a pi'aoard on the door of the Egyptfan Hall. "Closed this evening, General *Dm Thuml> beUg at BuoklM- ham Palace by command of Her Majesty." ^ On arriving at the Palaoe. the Lord In Waiting put me -und** J,iil" as to the manner and form In which I should conduct myself In the present of royalty I was to answer all questions by Her Majesty through him, and, in no event, t^ speak directly to the Queen. In leaving the royal presence 1 was to •• back out " kwjplng my face always towards Her Majesty, and thll» illustrious lord kin«iy gave me a specluiien of that sort of backward locomotion. How tar I profltMl by his Instruction and example will presently appear. / Wo were conducted through a long corridor to a broad flight of marble Mspa Which led to the Queen's magnificent picture gallery, where Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Wellington and others were awaiting our arrival. They were standing at the farther end of the room when the doors were thrown open, and the General walked In, looking like a wax doU gifted with the power of locomotion. Surprise and pleasure were dsploted on the countenances of the royal circle at beholding this remarkable specimen ol humanity so much smaller than they had evidently expected to And him The (ieneral a.lvnn.vd with a fina stej), and, as he came wlthiii hailinir dfa. tance, made a Xi^iy gmcefui bow, and exclaimed, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen!" ^^ A burst of laughter followed this salutation. The Queen then took him by the hand, led him about the gallery, and asked him many questions, the answers to which kept the party In an taiinterrupted strain of merriment. The General familiarly informed the Queen that her picture gaUery was " flreJrrate." and t61d her heshould like to see the Prince of Walea The Queen replied that the Prince ^ retired to rest, but that he should see him on some futin« occasion. Tbl General then gave his songs, dances, and imitaMons, and, aft^ aoonvenatioo with Prmce Albert and all present, which oonti ^ued for more than an hour w» were permitted to depart. ' Before desCTiWng the process and incidents of " backing out," 1 most acknowt •dff> how sadly I broke through the counsel of theLord tu Waiting M^ Prince AIHJ and others were engaged with the General, t|ie Queen was gatheiu Ing Information from me ta regard to his history, etc. Two or three qiLdoii were put and answered t hroug h the process indiW<]^ \ n mv d riiv Jt mm^ ^^^way or S^ buaness, not at allto my Jikiilg: „d I «,p^^ iBtoooBVwrttonwtthHerMajertgr. 8he»l«mj||«eaiednotdli|^toum] 'then turned ; to the door.4 tors. It wan ^stances, was sen's favorite bo startle th« and, with Ihi' isued, which B ante-room^ hope of Her >rd in Wait* re,heBhoiiM tesoorted to wuanxioiaf lore than ■ in, and, on in the daily id promptly L He even \^F ^-^MLi -. Il i- -^ X ■ t -'W," v^ ^-^ .t^?'"!! < l^'-il < »"S t : i .«<' («S i**.j«' .-'li .-. ; •MrniAii TOM nmcB nr nroLivD. »i'L 11^ ^« ''** ■*«'5«* into ia»ta gorjMW dr»wIiig^t)om brfiw 1^ •into had Ifltt the (Uning-nxMn, and, te Utej apimwhed, the Oenaral. bowed w^woiftillss and rooiaiiBd to Her Mi^Jerty " that h^ *' I think this ia a prattler nwm tiian the plotaie gallery; that diandeUar te veiT -*^;P- The Qoen anObigly took him I7 the hand, aad Hdd Aa hoped be 1IW Yi^ *• Y«)^'pti^» he replied,"! am lint wte." ^ ■' \ -' '^^'■"^^lfo*l'*naed the Queen, ••^thia ii the Prince of Wakfc InPoa, Fkinoef " aaid the General, shaking him by tiie hand; and Amb J h&Ue the FttDOB, he remarked, " the Prkaoeia taller than I am,batt ! Ugraa anybody," optm which hestrattedupanddowii\thenxnnae prouA _ aoeok, amid ahotiti of lang^ter from dU preeent ^ Ihe Qoeen then introduced the Frinoeee ^^ral, and the General immediately 1^ her to hie dcgant little aofa, iK^oh we touiii. with ua, and wjtii much politenew . ait liimself down beside her. Then, rieing from hie aeat, he went Oiio^ )ri» varioupeifnrmanoe^ and theQoeenhaiided him an elegant and costly aoB^nir, . whiidi had been ezpready made for him by her order, for which, he tohlbta, ** he was very much obliged, and would keet> it aa long ^ he lived." TheQoeea of the B el gi ans arty. When the merriment it occasioned had somewhat subsided, the Queen good-humoredly ' iw^ked; "Thatisaveryprettysang, Geneiulismgit, if you please. " TheOeneral Complied, and soon afterwards we retire^ I ought to add, that after efchctf our three visits to Buckingham Palace, a veky bandaome sum was sent to me; of coune by the Queen'k command. TUs, however, was the smallest part of the advantage derived from these interviews, as will be at once apparent to all ^db» consider the force of Court exunple in Bngiadd. . , The British pnblio were now fairly excited. Not to have seen General torn Tlumb was decidedly unfashionable, and from March SOth until July JOth, the. levees of the little General, at Bgyptian Hall, were continually crowded, the receipts averagfaig dning the whole pnriod about five hundred dollars per day, and sometimes gohig considerably beyond that smn. At the fashionable hour. y^ \ ot our eiddbitian looms in Piccadilly. Portraits of tl^ little G^ieral mm trabUshed fat aT tbe pillBrial pap. PolkM and ,2. ^" ^°'^'^'' ^***^*^« went iuha court dress, coi^fstlT^f » ri^iS^H^ **°^ afternoon. Ho «nd short breeches, white satin v^ wifv «?^»"^^^«'^ b^own silk-velTet coat "Why. General," said'^^^rS^^I^'^.Vt^^r^ tjHlay."' If""" w«wH«er, i think you look verysnuut "IguesB I do," said the General complacently A Jai^go party of the nobility were Dresent Ti,/. „m t^. u . ^ oflfered the little General a pinch of muff^^l ^t r J^Jl°* Cwnbridge hiH Hongs, performed his danoeTandS^ Lt Jokl ^1 ^" "^""^ «^ and delight of the di»tingui«S cimleT^toi'^'^'^ to the great amusement •ndchaH1*»^*^ "^^°"P®™^"6topn»entyouwithawatch and'arl^Ze^^m^'sh^^^iV^r ^^'^^^ *»-«»-» Dowager; prooer order was ^^^^^^ l^'^i^':^^ "^'^ ^^ that'the MaAborough House Annmil.^r^r^.. ^^*^'" "^^ ^™ called again to :; wen as Ze oJ^Seir^pTn^' ^'^^^'^^ «- -bihty were prS. ^ '^ »«»en>4QueeuAd6lalde^MZLihhrwi?r^ ..f^"^ compliments with the , «» Chain a«>undhi?^'^*^^J^»-"*^'^"t*^^ ' ^J^^^aS^^s^-^:;:^ was not only duly heralded but w«! ^'^^^ ^er Majesty the Que^n Dowager exhibition, tiethL:^'2;p^tet:m'^nt;:i.^^ '" **>« »"'"^^ «*« v«^. These preaente. to^Sw^'aS^ddJw^ and cov^a-ed with . mounted with turquois, minted bv h^f^ *u^ .^'''^"' ^oM snuff-box many other .o«tlylif^"'ofr t^^ ^d ^n^ry 'li'^^ of Dovonshi™, and the exhibition. TLeDukeof Wellinc+on^niT* .? " ^ attractioMH r.( thi-pubUcleveea The Lulme^^SSTlJT' 'l '" ^^ ' leon Bonaparte, marching up Z Z^toVl^J^ T P^"^"***^ Ntux. anuff in deep n.oditatioa He w«, Za«d in ^hlTi, ^ apparc-utly taking ■mperor, I intitxluced him to the^' ST^ " who ■ T.k"°''°"" "' ^"^ meditationa <• I wa^ thinkimr "o' thHl^;!. u . *""*^ ""« ""^«* oV*»V UttteOenenU-Himmediat;,^;,^' J2^^' *J\.^"'« °f Waterloo/OS^ the country, and was oriteell wnrt.rfi,^^ J '""^ chroni.kHl thrtfl§,out <3ene™l T^n, Thib h^viZ^th^jr ^ 1'^'""' *" *'*' -hibitioa'' who^wM «.n in Londo^ A^r .J^^etnt' ;:rttrz'r^e:r ^''r r*^ 2!;edto see Genera. Ton^T^-^IaThiT^^^^^^ . t i ^. wmmimX ^>^ ^.__ k.'Sr NSJ^^Hfe.'F-faH^^.s ^C^^B^v^ - ■"'' • ^^^. V * ■ j;-.-^- '""^^bBf" *'' ■ T % »■ • . 4 ■« , , ) • » ¥ • — -» ft- •** ■.. •;■ i « • ■ '*_ , ■* ^ 1 ■i ♦ . -» ^ • - - ■' ' ■ .', -^^ ■■/' ' ■' r ' » l^i^iB^^^BMi m •IVBSAL TOM TVmiB IV MSQULSD, 123 tlMpabUpl0T«iiat]Sg7iitittiiHaIL nMG«MnlwM»deoided pefcwiOiiomcof tlMflntlNi!iooa«:Mintbelaiid,anKaig^iiiomma7be mentkHwd Sir Bobeit and Lady Peel, tiie Dnke and Docben of BncMnghnin, Duke of Bedford, Duke of Dercmdiire, Ooant d'Oimj, Lady BleHiiigton, Daniel (yCknmell, Uxd Adolphns Fttadarenoe, Lord (Iwwtw r fleld, Mr. aadMr& Joaboa Batea, at the firm of Bariny BrotheniftCa.aiidiiuMiyotherpeiraoDsofdistinctioiL Webadthefreeentneto nil the tiieateri, puhUo gardens, and places of entertainment, and frequently met ibo principal artistai, editon, poeta, and authors of the country. Albert Smith wrote a play for the General entitled '^op o* my Thmnb," which was {weaented with great soccess at the Lyceum Theater, London, and in several of the provin- cial theaters. Our visit in London and tour through the provinces were enor- mously suoceasful, and aftera brilliant ■fioion fn 9rnitr B r***^' I m»^ {trmmntkwm lo M» tte Qwianl to Itek ^ ■r t T -. ■ 'i ti 1 r > ' i i - - ■ ^ ■J 1 .- - • » • , % > y !- '"• ~- •^ OHAPTBB Xlt ".V IN FBAITOX. ^'*^"*»'^ the «tfle GenenU aiul party to Pta*^ r ---* •n«ge J^praUminaries for oar can.p«i«^^ I was veiy fortunate In maUng the a«mainto»^S^ r^ » •o advise and assist me in ngaA to mmJr^^^Z -T* ^^^^ votonteawd the appnj^diing visit of tI»^e,S.^Zif:^2,^P*»*^ '*''»^ *» suitable aooonunodations forT^miSir^ h^S^J^*^ «»« to tto «,arch f or e^«nce. he saved me much tSS'e^ ^^ZS! )*^' **' *^ «^rtesy extended to me by this gentle^^^ I have never foTBOtten th. I hired, at a large rent, the SaUe MunnL Rna Viiri—*^ r ' . complete animgemente, even to stortdngXpiSSiZ^ I in«le themo* Papere; and after calling on thrSrSSi^SSS^^^T****^ ^ *^ ^'^rti States Minister at tS^ of ;^°'^ ^^ ItaJ. King, the United fa I>mdon, the,^ would be no rf«r^^ S^ hta various perfornumce. to the mani^SasSnSn^n^l^ >tte dose the King pi^eented to him a laCZJ^t^t^JST" , '^t^eralexp.^sedhisg^titode.auStte^ftS^:;''^??^ n>*y put it on the Geneml, if you ^aT" whlA^H^J^u^-T' ■**•*' '^«» ItooftheKingasweuTstheG^nSraT' ''*^°** '****> *he evident gnUMoa. mng Louis Philippe was so condescending and ooart*o~ ««♦ t ^u. . home in the royal presence, and ve^m^naaa ^ZrfT. ^ '^ **"**•■* d»nn*odebnUdon was comings d^««;X^ to ^^ '^"^'*»»- now conspicuous lor the diSavof court ^TfS^u, wllgious ceremony, hot mywe. and tt» Bolsdes^^o^rr^^ With m. Ivent^ *« sayT^Th^Jt J^^ j^JJJ^-^ Ij^^l* display, andl .d«Klhim if «.e S«^^ o^ JST^J" "^ mitted toappear in theavenue nerved for ^oo«rt .^^^5!^'^?^ not be per- representing that the Genend'. 3^ tut JtoL^^ diplomaao oorp.. yd little coachman and tootmiTw^ uld lify? * !^^ with its popje, ^^•^^-^^^ra^^^V^i^ was^wSSrtT^ Tha Ktag Bnlllngiy turned to o..« of the offl^IThis •evening with irfw for a few uwmso^ h»«iateiirv -I ^m M^ rvQhmtecavd lerdatiiig to to search toe Mnefltof his 'orgobbetatbrn hathePkrb the United mymoioeH on to King De before 1 llreoeiTBd 'eyening. ioDAl oonrt irsre intrc^ ms and her moors, the whom was tttthrongh mt^aiidat diamonds. id: "Too gratifloa- tt qoitea* rhe Long- nony, hot Champs onvening art in the Jt beper- tio ooips, Its ponies T«A1IU1M£1> WALRUS. *-«v.- ^JiM^tfittMifaiia^h ^^^m ijia,f.j,'^>>fa BiamaM aiaM^^ \ <■) 7 ' "<''"'*1*^J,».<*>|®8^ r v^ • < , •• • » X" Ur f BiKOS. la; *'CU1 on Um Vntm* at Mloe tomoRowaftenioao, and yon wQl find a psnnit twdf f-the uniform of Bonapa rto w aaooce exhfll^ ited, by particular request, as will be Longchampl day arrived, and among the many qitendid equipages on thegraaij avenue, ncoie attracted more attention than the siqperb little carriage with fbor i pmies and liveried and powdered wn«/»htnitn and footman, belonging to the G«n> eral, and ocniqplonoas in the line of oarriagea *^~'«^"fag the Ambaandors t» the Ckinrt of France. TlioaaBnds iqwn thooaands i«nt the air witii sham for *'Genand Tom Ftmoe."* Thus, before I opened the exhibition, aU Baria knew tliat Genend Itm Ibimib ras in the dty. The eUte of the city cameto the exhibition; the flnt day'a receipts were 5,500 fkancs, which would have been doubled if I could have "i*^ ixxMn for more patrona. There ware afternoon and evening performances^ and Cram that day secnred nat^at an extra jnipe, were engaged in advance tor tba entire two months. The aeason waa more than a success; it was a triunqph. , It seemed, too, aa if the whole dty waa advertiisiiig me. The p^pen w«i« livoftise in thair praises of the Ghneral and his perf ormanoea i'^ro, the AmcJk «f F>ri% gave a picture of an immense mastifT running away with the General'a caniage and horses hi his mouth. Statnettea of "Tom Ponce" appeared in all the windows, in plaster, Parian, sugar and diooolate; aonga were written about him, and his lithograiA was seen ev er y w h ere!. Aflnecafbon one of tlie boofe- vards, took the name of "Tom Rmce, » and diqtlayed ovor the door a lifeaiaa atatue of the GeneraL In Paris, as in London, several eminent painters expressea their ieUn to paint his portrait, bat tlie General'a^engagements were so prrwlim that he found little time to sit to artista All tha'toading acton and actreasia oame to the Geneiv"s levees, and petted him and made Um many pramiX Meanwhih), the daily receipts continued to Bwdl, and I was oompalled wSa a oab to carry my bag ««» ■ftM'ww^ aa we ware^^t leaving the pakoe, wa want toroo^ a hall h a ding to tiie front door, and in doing 80,paaMd the dttdng-roon i* wUdLfM royal family ware qpending the evwdi^. r m^^ igjaa5aBflaaBfcifi!BsrsgB^itai(iMniiff*ffl' -r ^-^^ " ' ' : i « either side o/ J«y for .ale, which were laS aXJn^'^'^"^ *«? P»«*« of embro, ladiefc "^ iJucJiesB de Nemours, and other titled «ld at auction. I attended thett f^r se^o^Tt , '"'* ^^^ effected •rbde. of vertu, and. among othera. 1 Z^^^ ^,«"«*««*o». buying many fag-eervice, and many rare^i^ ST^l?^^'* ^-^ '^^ * «»"^«r dln- tnitiab of the family'name SlTZl tTTi"^ ..^o^ "^^^^^^ ^^^ «^ the articlee, so that the silver ^d^^ ^!^ """^ ^- T." thus damaginir J)ought them, and add^ "B.'^ t?e^. p"? ^'? ?' ^^'^^ ^^^'^'^ value^l ^ VTrr«^r^-r? ~ sLed on a ^^ur though intermediate towns, IncIu^TS.^ N 7 '^'f "" "^ '^^°"^''°' ^ting aU ^ ««« a «view^tiie Sd^STo^ a^J h^^' f "^«*'«' "^^ ^ ^^ J^ encamped near the city. JW^^««n ^^"^'^^^ «' 20,000 soldiera who J^ Ma«eiUes. and m^y otiS ^S^ T Tf '° TouJon«e,Hontpellier. i«g«-or shorter time. While atiL^ Z^^ '^''fT- '"'^""« ^«^««« 'o*" a -^appeared in the theate™ in t^^j, ^^/'f. p^;l ^--;",f. th. GenenU written expressly for him in Ptaifc nd DeiS™^ »^.t """*'' * ^^^''^ P»»y Vanwviltoittthatr;!^. ^^"^ **"<*»«* wiaiareat eclat in the thiaSi 'I P^" 15% •«jii>.ito'' j.i.iiiMfc.1 Ls»a-&, < L ,'WA>/i>> , i. Wm to OQBM te itwocaDdli)8,{uid g at embroidery, a sorry to say, J on either side of >iece8 of embro) I worked hy ibi LDd other titled living in gr^ >Qal effects wera 1, buying ouioy od a silver din- rticles bore the thus HaiT^j igfa g b value only. I ble service, still I tour through isiting all th» where I wit- X) soldiers who se,MontpelIler, g levees for a 8, th«« (General a Fivuch play in the f '•^ »>,-*■■ :?, ->x<^ r,54w?'^ ^ ) "v«--^^> '-t-jTI .•r *Nv «• "> ^„ ^ MM -■>w ^ y. '^APTBR XIIL \ IN BELOrUM. ■ ' , fa cro«diig the bOTder from Pnaioe Into Belgium, TrotmarTbut^ oar Intav ^l^^""^"^ ^**°* '^^'^^''^ preceptor, discovered iiuit he hwi teft his pan- port behmd him-at liUe, at Mai^mee, or el-ewhere in Fnmoe, he oduld notS whfflpe, for It was a long time since he had beea called upon to ppBMnt it When we came to C!ourtral on the Belgian frontier, I managed to www m permit for hmi which enabled him to proceed with the party^ !«»««•• virffT^^f"^ ^ miniature and Is one of the mt«t chiuining cWet- 1 jw* we Tisited Kmg Leopold and the Queen at their palace. The King aS^Bwen chfldren and to the distinguished persons whom, we found aaemUed. . 2tSa most^^reeaWe hour we came away, the Gkmenil. a.u«ial..recel^nM«?^^ The f oUowing day I opeiuxl jthe exWbitlon in a beatttlful halL which e "Simon A ■ as gnldM^ be battle^ ^ y contest, lows'Trara aiboepted •eroeiTliig t«aaMrt rereoeir- . ^ ^> ■^^H mssK^smms^mi I Ik.', S J -^ « ''^.r '^•. k^'MS- ^ .(, . Dr. BSLaiim. 135 ^ ^t«niittlMMid,inoirdar. If poaAde, to get ourpartyinto BroM^ in time Utrntf ttw »fcemoon exhibition. He hastened to a fium-^wniae, accompanied by the in- •>arpreter, Profeaaor Pinto, Sherman and myaelf leisurely bringing up th:) rear. Strattonaskedtheoldfarmerif behadacanritagei Hehadoot. "BaTeyoanft vehicle f he inquired. P ''Yea, I havethatvehic^" hereidied, pointhig toan tion, he replied to our interpreter, " Well, tell the old robber to dinnp his dnm- cart aa soon as possible, or we shall lose half an hour in starting." ' -» The cart was "dumped" and a large, laKy-looking Flemish horse was attaehail to it with a rope harness. Borne boards were laid aOToes the cart for seata, *hr party tumbled into the rustic vehicle, a red^iaired boy, s(hi these <'peli«" ^ ■UsdiMoroT; '^wwioo parchMet lookad »tii«r nh ^ np , ^ V, V • :M- m^ = -.:w; ^^-.fj- y^^;^=z^^ T- -_f.=r^=^£^-^ OHAPTBB XIT, / m VSlQIJiKD AOAIir. long fctaTS -jS^iiii;^^ ^'"*' ^'^ *° *• wburtaVandtoT; fa order that iuT^^lf^ ^^ ^** "" 1*^°"'»°*» «" «» "<^ ■Kwt. Oneof fcly» nrin^^T^^ , oamtoof aa •ooompUshe.I .uul faithful mLI^lf^*"* »>o«pit^ty, wUch I «t«nded to my wLroifrCirS ' '•tarn for the many attentions shown to ma. It ««m-!i iT ^^^^** "■ -«»,5erftland. in London tbanrjTw^S^ I E^l^ J'i'»L^°^'^ *' hanker 8amiMW<«««r^ people wnom 1 met, I was introduced to the tMMft* dinner, I itepped aaide, «> that Mr Bx^mJT^^jr ^ ^^ *■ to\ m. n «B hGoor to ^lalknr •» fhttuiaootiipdlSfcn^-^ Ih.dm«leafl^ «-«*P«BWPfti,^^^lo|'>»rt^-n»toJty toijroourethebewitUWSoSok J ■. J h ija A- Lisnt), ** MTOLAlSfD^QAIir. #" «vWch added so mu^h to tht int^f '^T^"' V''' « ^^* "' tho 8«^dS' , My second visit to J^ fo^S uirSL'^nS*"' ^ ^^^ '^"" ^^--^' 6u- as Aberdeen. ^^ *^"*^'°" °' 8^^^^ exUbitions, extended u InEugland wewentt^Manchnrf^i. Pi-~i _i. «nJ'« carriage. P^aX'ch otS^rJi^e^* If '''^^ """^^^^^ «»« «^- aiito mode of traveling was not on^I Property" as vraa needed for our levee. ■nd in such places we gave some of our^ ^*^ «^* ^^ o' <»»vel, o«d the railway li^es SyTyil ^^'"'**'^ exhibitiona We atoo them up again whe^we^S^ ^^^ '' "^^ '*"*^°°' "^ ^king table ana W atwhatholu^ct^J^'dSu'S^/"'';!^'^- ^ ^ '^^' •xle to my carriage broke, and. as a,( Wwi^tSlT^' butunfortunately th« m hour in reaching the station The tiZ ZJ in jepou^ng It, I lost exactly- Rugby, where we had adverti^ a ^rfoltfc^ "! ^ S°'' "^"^ ' "^"^ '« *» tte superintendent, and told him '^ ,»?IT!: ^,^""«1 ««>«nd tiU I found Rugby." "N «pa told him I must ujstanUy have an extaa tmin to ^ "lathatallF'-IaskeiT^A^i f ^'^"''^ ' your sixty pounda ^t In tte ^rid^a^T^" immediately and here «* go to Rugby, or eWhei^ t Th^r "^ "^ P°"^^ <« ™«. whep I widi to he thought he must be dealKS»^r^3l,,Si"r ':^ *««^^ to give so much mmeyto^yT!:^^^!^^ Z^' *' '^^ * duk^was wUlfaK , whom he h«l the Wo?.;^ ''"*'**'" ^^''^•^'d he hedtoangly^^ "General Tom Thumb." *o«ldbepaidinthesmaUrii^;?tX •^^^^ ■"Ives with farthings, and a. m^ »-„ ?!LJ^^ acooitfingly pix)vided th«ft. tor his UckerrS ZL fo^^S ss.^ °^ «>*»• WM a great amioyance to^ sSTt^.u ^ ^^"^ °' theJ3 ««*«i^eller. and after cS^^Jt S^"* h^'. ^'"^''' '•^«^' ^»>« w«, , •M^to vMton, that Tom Thumb's mi^tiL *nH IhlTlS iT.r*'*^ ^ °'*« 5_^|P"j!|po«i(tf ths •^ - V BnlatEdinhartfi, »o Rcf»tch dialect, is anil elsewheie, ti(nis, ec^imided m * every dty. to^» he time — that is I )hveyed the Geo. ad for oor leveea. dependent, but it It lines of travel, i>itiona We also ition, and taklDg mch-line station, ■ I had a time* afortunatelytiui it, I lost ezactiy uid I mufjt be in undtiU I found . extm, train to r and here ai«> wh^ I wish to m ^M iW: '.I m II !!! iii:.!,i:".i!!!iliifl'l mkm ^^K.. m^t^€'' Moed, and oor ^»in and l«ft • M 1 \4 luUil llilll p WM i;,i i'f ^l| '■'^'W^y'*''"' Iff::? Mr VH.: 'ifiPiP''"' .41 !|ifc!!i ■^/'isttl J a ■%' , , --,■*> nr BlfOLAlTD AOAim* r4f^ -^,: itlMGcnanPsfidiMr. lUtiltMto poor StrattaB aaol^Mlotiiolitllt omiority, and he WM peitond Willi dl idrti of qoMtioM; ott oiw oeoMriOB n «li dowagor Mid to him: •* Ap» yoa rmSkj tha fattier of Gcpma Tom Thambt*"' /^ "^ ' , . "WaH'^npUedENntina, ^'Ihavatoaiqipoirthlml'* ^ maevadveangwierigoommoin gnonashin Nair aigjand, lit ^ Htwial ijati^^^ gar had her doabtB» and pionqitlj rojajned: "I rattler think he nqqporta yoal" It umrt not be atqppooed that during roy protracted itay abraul I oanflaai myjwlf whoBy to bmfaeii, or Bnrited my drolo of <*eBrvat*on witti » toldeii rim. To b*sure, I ever had " an eye to boalneai,'' bat I had ahatwo ^yw for obe«rT»» tion, and theee were boaUyempJoyod to Jeiwire horn* I made tlw moatof nv oppoftonitioe and aaw, hurriedly, it is true, neariy everything worth aealw ill tbevariooipIaoeawhicfalTisited. AU Europe waa a great oorioitty ttwptoiifc and I willingly paid my num^ftirttieahow. ^^ While in London, my friend Albert Smith, a joUy oompa^flp,^ well avft witty and aenriUe aothor, prraniaed that iidien I raaciied Bi^^ghi^ he wooli oome and qpend a day with me in "iilfllif iwrii^." inoludinga yMUiton in iiiddi Shakeepeare was bora. v Bariyona marning in the antmnn of lS«i my Moid BtaMk and myaelf tot* ttie hoz-aeat of an Bne^iA mailHXMdi. and were aoon ^Hiiriingat the nto « twelTemilee an hoar over the magnificent road leading fnan Birmingham # Stratford. The distance is thirty miles. At a little village foar miles tram Stratford, we f oand that the fiune of the bard Of Avon, had tnveled thus IML fof wenotioedailgnoveramiseralde barber^ttiop, "ShakerveanhaiislreariZ --«gooddiavef<^ap«Dny.'' In twenty minntea more w« wen est down at til door of the Red Horse Hotel, in Stratford. The ooaohmaB and eoani w«» mA paid half a crown as ttMirpeniaiRitea ~ waiter bronght in » book, saying ttiat we should find hi it the best desorintkm ertantofttiebirtiiandburialpiaceofShakespeam IwasnotalittleproadtoS this Trtume to be no ottier ttian the "SMclHBook* of our lltastrioM ooantaZ' man, Wattdngton Irvfag; and, in glanchig oyer his humoroas desortptkn of tks place, I discovered ttia* 1* hid stopped at ttie same hotel whew weSwre tSi awaiting breakfast ^^ _After examining ttie 8h-kespeare HoosB, aa wen aa ttia tomb and ttie ohoroh* J^an tt« is mortal of tt» great poet wste^ w. onleied a poptH^^lS W«wiokOastta While the horses wew harnessing, a stag^Hwach^toppS^S Mel, and two gentlemen ahghted. One was a sedate, sensibl^looking man; ttte ottier an addle-headed |oix The fonner was mild and unassuming in his «•» new; ttie l^waa an talk, wtttwut sense or meanh«-4n iiwt, a wgulw CSiatterbox. Ha evidently had a Ugh opinion of himself, and wm deteolitaii ttiataU within hearing riMwMandergtand that he was ao m e bo dy. 'PnmnOr^ ■Bdato gentleman asid: — — «~«j "^"^ "Bdward, tiris Is Sferatford. Lat us go and see the house where Shak^Mtfl was bom." J . . . . '3W* ■ «^Who ttw devil is Shakeepearet" aifced ttw seMflda yooiw "aloe young ha had never ttottM * to enjoy a vldt to ttw birth^ilaoe'of an iuttvidtel oT ' llie dirtanoa to Wlrwlek li ftMAesB OMllSk Md, aivroMhing ttM door fl( «• anil aUI^ - f y '^ MM ftBTOLAin) AAAXav *- , Tr«f Gat Boom." "The State Bed^K^^Udv^*^^!!?*^*"^'' "^ Pw Room," "The ChapeL" and^ o^ ZT^^" ^««*«^»" "The Com- jrftheOaBtle.thepoHte'S^Ll^SrfeStf"?^^ A. w, paased out la a style which 8jd.epKrt£nMr"SSf^ oom^had bo hat oolt) mother guide, who took us to the top T^'^J^I^J?^ ^ **«««« o' hetouchedhiB hat a shilling's J^ 2,d S!^ J ' ** f* *~***^ °' ^»»^ conductor, an old man^v^ ^T^iJ^ ourselves in chai^of athini WarwiiAVaseJLh^Ml ^^ proceeded to the Oreenhouse to see^ old ^tleman mountedr?^rS^'af4^i:;,^nir T ^ ^ flPeedi, which we beean to fJrtZ i«f • L *^ "^ commenced a set wel^himinl^eSeS roroa'"™^'^' "^^^^^^^^^ •urious things oo^jSWti^^^^'jr* "^^ P°^ ^°^«i «» that the most *<»•ourco^'tXt^^„t^£^JJ•^,*?^^^^ FeS^ W«wick. Among,a»eBe w^ Us S^^/ ?S ^^^^J^l^^'y. ^uy, Eari^i rtaflf, and tilting-pole, each of e«o™oS ^i^^"'' ^^^^^P^ ^««lWn8. •nough for an elephant, a larJZr^Zif^^u^!^ *™'"'' "^""^ !«««* ■te^ theribef rma8to(CwW^S!^ °' afamer's hay-fork, his lady'i wv ril buret up your show " necessity of coming here, and in that I ^tr^?:^Llfe^^ra„^^ Of tl« poH^r When Albert8mithbecvCmx«iS^.rT*'^'""'^^'^««^'«^wh^ ' to delighted ^a^Zt^t^r^^'^T^^^^^^''^^^^" tooM^t into his lec^crf^^^^:^^ *^ *^ ^^^"^ <^^«7 wkabootth. «»ta;;r;;^^,;^2to^r^^^« * ^^'^^ ^^n^^ W« munn^Mi tho hotel, took a poak-chaiae, and drove tlmnig^ deddedly the naxMt loTely ci^try I ever beheld. Since^ taking that tour, I have heard that twogentlemehonce mado a bet, each that^pMfilald name the most deUghtful drive in England. %ny persons wore present, and each gentlemOb wrot^ on a separate •dip of paper ,j|iev scene whlah he most admhred. One gentleman wtote, "The road from V^^irwlck to Coventry;" the other had written, "The road from CJo'frentry to Warysick." in lees tl^ aa\|ioar we were aet down at the outer walls <^!%bnflwarth Cartla ThiR once noble ttnd magnificent castle is now, a atupendoua ruin, which haa been ao often defwribpd that I think it unneoesaary to say anything about it hek«, , We ipent half an-l^our in examining the interesting iruins, and then proceM6d by poetHAaiae Jio Coventry, a distance of six or eight mUea. Here w«> visited Sb, Mary's Hull, itrhich has attracted the notice of nutny antiquaries. Wt run took our own " peep » at the efflgy of the celebrated " Fbephig Tom," after rrbiOi we Visited an exhibition called the " Happy Family," consisting ot about two hun- dred birds and animals of opposite natures and propendties, all living in hannotiy •og^Uier in one cage. This exhibition i»aa so remarkable that I bon^t it and hired th9 proprietor to accompany it to New York, and; it became an attnotive feature in my Mdaeum. ~ , We took the cars tiie aame evening for Bhrmin«^iam,^vdiiir«we arrived at ten o'clock, Albert Smith remarking, that never before in hia life had he accomplished • day'a Journey on the Yankee go«head principla He afterwarda published a Aiapter m Bentley's Magazine entitled " A Day with BanHim,'''in which he aaid we accomplished busineai with auch rapidity that, when heaMempted to write out theaooounta of the day, he found the whole thing ao confuaed in his brain that fie «me near locating "Peeping Tqm" in the- house of Shakespeare, while Guy of Warwick would atl<& hia head above the mia* at EenUworth, mmI th« Warwkk ViMeaiiieand in Ck^wtaj. -t'- / ?• 1 • t .» "vV-. ♦•^«r OHAPTBB XV. BBTUaK Tb AMBEIOA. I y^»«PPer.^r^pt^'wt^^1r ^« ^' *« *»»« hotel togeU^r to get. V/ ttoocu,^<«^^PP^^;^"^^«>°te f«m«nd Jokes togeU^a-, ^ of our friends who were^^SLl^^^^"'*'"^"^^ and. mewwhUe, fresh S^cti^S j^* ^*^ ^ "too much for S? •rtonish the town in the foUoWwtLTl ^2!^ .?^^^°^'''"»«>'~^ said: iwwmgweeic 1 accepted the situation at last> and liliiiXKrrdrsiJSfrve^^"'"? «f «-. on Monday evening l of^ who^atl^ tf,^^,^^ r^Py ^ «i-e onto of adnussr^^^ lJverpoolonboania(S^S«^^^^^^^?«^^ I took pass^^lSS fc »ny feUow passengen wastte ^^l^^T^^^^ ^P*^ JadST^One of ^ l»w«theEpisoqxaformofwJ,SS ^^'''*'''**^ ^"'^ «eakaasone having authorifT -IJ^^^i performs his duties on deck. Ha H" ^d besomeZ|^S^^^:^?2^-«>'-<»^»««f yh^^ ^wrenotspeedilyaSwewd. " *^ ******<»" (°»d« «« -ort of command) manaoned it to the passenger. a^Z^jS**'*^y'^?~"i*^de«^ I a««i og«tber, wben rarb dtting in :meaboat xaj\ ntlythatwuM much tor nrn" had made ma i," who waa>to «at lait^and lay eraning; I iaHOntotiMW baa thjrtjr or iahooaewith den alreadj Ibadratfa«N toAmoloa^ ias. Oneof ^1^ lad been for natiye land. Of course idUm, naed ideck. He i: that there oommaiuQ paanogen desired. I Ish mt ynu g [uortedtbe "vioe. He it thig' Y mrr^iB 10 PUT MB IK I om -9r, /"' ■■■■■i^l^Htai^a^ '*¥.■ ' li M »'i WW i . ^^^g^ _^ i-^iSJ.^. \'p , ! ..J .• ■■K > 'j% -he. mf 4^ ** .*" d ii ^. ^7 • ■'■■ X' :mi . t- '«?' ttrrmtxr TO A]daaoA,i, J47 ''Otddiidlytfaere^'' Implied the ci4>taln,gruffl7; "andttwfflnotteiMnaittod.*' "Why not? » I aaked, in astonishment "Iti/againsttherulesof.thediip.'' .t^. . . - . ;,* " What I to have religious Bervioee on boerdP "There have been religious services onoe tMitey, and that is enough. If 1b» (passengerB do not think that is good enough, let them go without," was the 4»ptain'8 hasty and austere reply. "Captain," I replied, " do you pretend to say you will not aUow a reKpe&MOB dmd well-known clergyman to offer a prayer and hold religious services on boaid your ship at the request of your passengers?" , "That, sir, is exactly what I say. So, now, let me hear no more about ft* By tiUstime a dozen passengers were crowding around his door, and exivesslng Uwirnirprise at his conduct I was indignant, and used sharp language. " WeU," said I, " this is the most contemptible thing I ever heard of orithe part of tlw owners of a puMic passenger ship. Their meanness ought to be puhlidMd farandwida" i~"u™« "You had better * shut up,' » said Captain Judkins, with great sternness. "I will not 'shut up,' " I repUed; "for this thfaig is perfectty outrageous. la that outrof-the-way forward cabin, you allow, on week days, gambling, swearing; mnoking and singing, till late at night; and yet on Sunday you have the impu- dence to deny the privilege of a prayer-meeting, conducted by a gray-haired and ««pected minister of the gospel It is simply kifamousl " Captain Judkins turned red in t^e face; and, no doubt feeling tiiat he -srm < '♦monarch of all he surveyed," exclaimed, in a loud voice: ' "If you repeat such language, I will put you in irons." * "Do it, if you dare," said I, feeling my indignation rising rapioiy. "I dan «nd defy you to put your finger on me. I would like to saU into New YUtiai7, 18*r. ■I'-N, ■!■■. * /•? ^ -»^i^. S.^ «'- 4, CHAPTER XTI. * AT HOME. .^ 0KB Of my main obJectB In returning borne at tbla time, was td obtain mtoant leaae of tbe premlaes occupied by tbe AmerloaQ Huseum. My lease had sUlI Ibrea years to run. but Mr. Olmstead, the proprietor of ,the building, was dead, and I waa anxious to make provisions In time for tbe perpetuity of my eetabllabment. for I meant to make tbe Museum a permanent Institution In tbe city, and If I oottld nol renew my lease, I intended to build an appropriate edlflce oji Broadway. I floally auooeeded, bowever. In getting the lease 6t tbe entire building, ooverlng fltty-slz feet by one huudred, for twenty-five years, at an annual rent of $10^000 a«d tbe ordinary taxes and assessments. I bad already hired In addition the upper stories of Ibe three adjoining buildings. My Museum receipts were more In one day than they formerly were In an entire week, and the establishment had become so popular that It was thronged at all ho^rs, from early memlng W closing time at night. On my return, I promptly made use of General Tom Thumb's European reputa. tlon. He Immediately appeared In the American Museum, and for four weeks drew such crowds of visitors as bad never been seen there before. He afterwards spent a month In Bridgeport with bis kindred. To prevent being annoyed by the curi- ous, who would be sure to throng the bous^ of bis relatives, he exhibited two days at Bridgeport, and tbe receipts, amounting to several hundred dollars, ww« presented to the Bridgeport Charitable Society. On January 1, 1845, while In England, my engagement with the Oeneral at.* salary ceased, aad we made a "hew arrangement by which we were equal partnert, the Oeneral, or his father for him, Siting one-half of tbe profits. A reservation, howerer, was made of the first four weeks after our arrival in New York, durtng which he was to exhibit at my Museum for two hundred dollar*. Whe» tfit returned to America, the Oeneral's father bad acquired a handsome fortune, and settling a large sum upon the little Oeneral personally, he placed the balance at intereat, secured by bond and mortgage, excepting thirty Utu>usand dollars, with which be purchased land near the city limits of Brldgepor^lLud erected a lAge and substantial mansion, where be resided ttU the day of his death. After spending a month in visiting bis friends, it was determined that tha Oeneral and bis parents should tratVel through ,the United States. I agreed t* a«oompany them, with occasional Intervals of rest at home, for one year, sharing the profits equally. We proceeded to Washington olty, where the i3eoer»l held hia levees in April, 1847, vialting Preeldent Polk and lady at the White Housa- tbenoe lo Btoh^ond, retuning to BalUmore and Philadeli^la. Our reoelpu Id Philadelphia in twelve dar« wore '•8,6W.Bi. The todr for tbe entire year reallied about the same aversgft The Jtx nanaea were from twnty nwm rtnii-., ♦« t* i 1rty dollan iwr day. rraal Philadelphia wa mat to ■oaton. Lowail, and Provideiwa. Our rwwlpta In one day In the latter city were WIt.VI. , We then visited Hew Bedford, rail Blver. Salem, Worcester, Springfield, Albany, Tiwy, VaUs, BaSUo. aad latermedUte plaoa^ and m nnuminf t» ir«w Yark wt «^' . r- ■f^^r-ir-'-fHt ^ 150 -- "AT ttOMW aiS?n??°p?r *T*!i°'' '''! ^"'^^ ^^^'■- ^^"^ *»^ '^*' ^ted New Haven. Hartford, Portland, Afe, and intermediate towna a much of a ounodty to mvpatrons. It I showed myself about the Museum S^ wherever else I was lmow?>found eyes peeri^ andLgers pointing atT^ oo^d frequently overhear the remark, " There's Bamum, " On one^^^n s^ ^ my returo, I was sitting in the ttcket^ffloe reading a newspapT^T^ SLtS^ J^ tacket^Uer, pointing to me, answered, "This is Mr. Bamum » Sd ^"TJ"^ ^^ ^"^^ ^*^ ""«• ^ '^^^ "P 'rom the papT^lii ' ^2^^"°^' ^/^f "It is," I replied. He stored at me ford moment ^ttm, throwmg down his ticket, exclaimed, "It's aU right; I have ^TTb. ;.^^Tr?''* l^^' "^^ '"^^ '°" ^^-^ '^e the steamer from New yS Sr^S JJ;f f r '; '^'^°' ^'"^^"^ Montgomery, Mobile and nTS teans. At this latter city we remained three. weeks, including Christmas and l^ I^"- 7!^!!? ^' """"^ ^y "^ BchoonS AdamsG^yrK^ l^L^ ^^^ '"?T^"^ *° ^^^ Captain-General and the Spanish nobility. We jenudned a month in Havana and Matanzas, the General proving an immenL^ favonta InHavanahewasthee«pedalpetK,fCountSantovar*J^]£S^? S B^^rJh^ iS^t*? J!? *^' '^°'*"^ °' * ^^'y ^«rican men^hmm ^ Brtnckerh^ Mi^, J. s. Thrasher, the American patriot and gentleman, w« ^too of great anistanoe to us, and placed me under deAobligatiom. The hotels in Havana are not good. An Americ^Twho is accustomed U jubston^ Uving finds it difficult to get enough to eat. We ^^ ef t^ Washington House, which at that time was " flrst^rate bad." PP~ «* «»• From Havana we went to New Orieans, where we remained several days, an wL JSSiS^S , T' •^15«*»^™^ ^ Louisville, Cincimiatd, and Rttsburgh We reached tte latter dty early in May, 1848. Prom this pt^Uit it was awS »«tween Mr^Stratton and myself, that I phould go home anrhencef^^ ^tZ?r"'*'''T2r'"^ I had competent ag^ts who oouireSiT^ without my personal assistance, and I preferred to relinquish a portdonof tiS ^rather ^ continue to be . traveling showman" I LT^^^^'Z ■toiggier from hom<.mo«t of the time for thirteen ye««^ and Lcamiot dew^b^ the feeUnJs of gratitude witi. which I inflected, thatVwng by th^^ SSo^ JoU and deprivations micceeded in securing a satisfactory competenTlAouW henceforth spend my days in the bosom of my family o^rJZ ^''""^.'^ S^'^ Connecticut, which was then nearly «ady for oooupMioy, was the WeU-known Iranistan. More than two year, had h^I •mployed hi building this beautl^ reridenoe. '^ ***l . i'??'^ ^ redd^withln a few hours of New York. I had never seen m^. dallghtful location, than tiien» llre»^„ the ..onlem of lZILiTsc^ U^tween New RocheUe, New York, and New Aaven, ConlS; ^ty^. propwdlstanoe from the great metropolis. It is pteasantlv rituatftd at the t er- Wjluui. of »*u itSmm^^m^lTKmmm. f«rHft^flTS;^„f the Naugatu.k «,d djvjnd there i. alm> rfa^y rteam»K*t oommunicatton iitii New Yort tli. «t«prl«, which ch««t«1«rf th. city. .,«nM to iMTk it]. d«*lned to *Jm^ l4»- ♦- b«d»l(^^^a 7°T°r' .m >^j.jdtmi^^ '^rm II imriNf rf 111 I I I i Trfi i innr ^ TTiiir ▲T Hom. m . Mind oinleiioe;a]idIwa>iiotIdi«indeoidiiiK with the oopcurrBuoe M>dfixiiitiiigivittiagoodTiew(qK>nthedoaiid. \ In ▼WtiiigBrlghtoi^ to England,! bad been gT«rtiyifle«fc^ •noted by Georgv IV. It wai the qnly qpedmea of Oriental' ardiitectore i* fci g i a nd . and the ityle had not been introttogpil » intn America. I oonduded to •dtqptit, and eDga«0d-a London andiiteot. to ftunish me a set of dimwinga after thaffansFal plan of the FttTilian, differing sdllciently to be adapted to the qnt of groinid aeleoted for my homeetead. On my second return visit to the United' ,- Bfeates, I Imilig^t these drawings with me and engaged a competent arcfattect and iv'lder, giving him instmotioos to prooeed with the work, not "1>y the job" hut •bgr^ day," and to qpare neither time nor expense hi erecting a comfortably •onrenient, and tasteful residenoei The wofic was thus begmi dad ffontfamed whOe I was still abeomi, and during the time when I was making my tour with General Tom Thumb through the United States and Cuba. Elegant and i^ppro- isrlate furniture was made expresdy for every room in the house. I flraGtsd vqwnrive watar works to supidy the premises. The staUes, ooiMervatories and ont^xdldhigs were perfect in their kind. There was a iBx>fosioa of trees set out , on the grounds, llie whole was built and established literally "regardless ^ wp s n s w, ** for I had no desire even to ascertain the entire coat. The whole was flnaOy completed to my satisfaction. My fsudly renkoved into ibb premises and, on the fourteenth of November, 18^ nearly one thoosaud Invited guMs, innludhig the poor and thc|,ridi, helped us in theold^fiMhiolMi ooitom of "house-warming." Whn the name " Iranistan " was anuovnoed, a waggiA N«wi York editor sylla- bled it,.I-«anri-atani andgaveasthehiter^rstation^tbati "I ran a long timebefqrv loooldstai^i'' literally, howevw, tha itmtnm ^ g^iOt^ " ifftyiTt CVjn nfr y FktfS|'> cr.nMireportifjDally, "Oriental ViUa." ' • ; y., .^^ , ^ ^ . ♦ ,, Ibe years 1848 and 1849 were mainly qpent with my ftmfly. though I w^ •very week to K«w Toi^ to look after the faitareaCfe of the American Museum. While Iwas hi Ihm^M, hi 184S, my agent, Mr. Fordyoe Hitolioock, iMd bought out for me the Baltimore Museum, a filUy-supplied establishment, in full opera- tion, and 1 placed it under the diarge of my uncle, Alapaon Taylor. A died in 184d, and I then sold the Baltimore Museum to. the "Orphean Family," ij^ wfaoli it was subsequently transferred to Mr. JohaB.'Owens, tb»^3elebnited comedian. After my return from Europe, I opened, in 1848^ a Museum in Dr. Swain's flat kuikUng, at the comer of Chestnut and Seventh streets, hi Philadelphia, I stayed in i%iladelphla long enough to klsntifjr myself with this Mossmnaad lb tnoosssfully start the enterprise, and then left it in the bands of different maqa-* ■■nMirho profitably oqoducted it till 1851, when, flndbig that it occupied too)nittl|i> «if my time and attention, I ^pld it t^ Mr. Cli^ip Spoooer f or MO^OOOt, A| ||m^ ■ sad of that year, the building and contents were destrsyed by fh«. ^--.^^ ' Whi^ my Philadelphia Museum was hi full operation, Peale's.PhiladelpUa Mn s wini ran me a stroiag opposition at the MasopicHalL PtMWseiri^erpcte proved ddUars, on Joint account of my friend Moses Khnball and myself.\ Thecuriosi- tiss wwB equally divided, one-half going to his Boston Museum and it Hit to my American Munmun In New Yerit. - - »■ , . • - •54 ▲T HOHB. f fil?? ^.'^ « ft^d.P^^dsnt of the FalrtSeld County Agricvittn«al Society in ilf ^ !!!? '^^ ^* *° **^ ^*^*y °' "^y residence and felt and stttl Aa .djep intei-est in the caoae of agriculture. I had begm^by importing SbmexSood rtodc for IraaiHton, and, as I was'at oJke time attacked 'by the "hen fever »'I erected several splendid- poultry-houses on m^ gronnda « ! - In 1819it was determined by the Sddety that I should deliver the annual addi««. L^S*^ ^ ^''r'"^, °" ^"^^ ^"^ °' inoompetency, but my excuses were of ^^^J*^ ", ^"^'^ "*^ ^''*^=™** "^y *'*'*^*«" in farmint, I gave them th« ^l. f T^.T^'"' ^^'^ ^ *^ committ^ Among other things, I told them thaUn the faU of 1848 my hefid-gardener imported thS; I had flftybushels M PO««»Wto spare. I thereupon directed him to barrel them up and ship them IjNew York for sale. He did so, and received two doUare per. barrel, or about BWy^n cents per bushel But, unfortunately, after the pdtatoes had been supped, I found that toy gardener had selected aJl the largest for markel and Irft my family notlfin| but " smaU potatoes " to livp on during the winter But the worst is still to ooma My twtatpes were aJl gone >fpre March, and" I was obUged to buy, during the spring, over fifty bushels of potatoes, at $1.35 ber bushel I I also related my first experiment in the arboricultural line, wnen I cut from two thrifty rows of young cherry-treei any quantity of what I sunpoeed tc tl^or^rS^''"'^^^''^^^^ bymyg^^erthatl Afrtend of mine, Mr. James D. Johnson, !ived Ina fln« house a quarter of a mUe wert^Immstan, and, as I owned several acres ot laiid at the comer of two rtreete, directfy adjoining Us homestead, 'I smromided the ground with hifrfa pickets, and, mtfoducing a ndinber of Rocky Motiateln elk, reS^, aS AmS suppose that it belonged to Johnson's estate, and fo render thU illudon inon sign in the pexk, fronting on the street, and reading: ^^ : r^f^^^^^ ^ '^'^ TKESPAsamo oir thes, (mounm, ob DnmniBiia , . J. D. JOHinKMI." , JJ'^^^rl^^ ~™'" ■"** '^ "'»** P**«*d vith the Joke. Jcinson ^^?^f ^ ? m.d«turbed for several dayi. It hapjfened at length ^«" U^ tK K , ?' ^ f*» capital joke on Bamum; he would not expl^ but said they should «e it for themselves the next morning. Bright and eaS heled then, into, the street, and, after conducting them a proper distance^ ' S^^i ?!!!^""^ ^ '"*"* °' **** ^- '^'^ ^ ^^^'^^y h« discovered that I hi^addwl directly un.lor his name the words " Oame-heeper to P. T. BarnMm.- ThorpufUT, }ir. Johrisrm was known among hik friends and aoqaajntunoes i^ Baiuum'H game-keeper." Sometime aftorwardu, when I was President of tto • Ptqtionnock Bank, it was my custom every yeiir to give a grand dinner at Ina. ^n to the directors, and in making preparations 1 used to dend to ostein • filends to the West for — '-'- -«-'-' ... ""^ '*' *^»m pm i rferhicktmatuui either gaaio.^ ^QH- <>Bfr^i<)ca^^ ^ boir, marked •• P. T. Bamum, BridgeiKJit; Qarae," wa. lying to the expnw sfflce, when Johiim)n, sHqlng it and espying the word " game," naid ^ LooklMwl I am ' Bfapuio'>gMn« 4 BW|n» r ,' •ndl'U t»to obarge of th» bok" V. THB IMMENSE ELEPHANT •• ALICE »• IN A STREET PARADll ^ , •'y '^^■^^^mmmm^im / . \ r\- -yA) "^f .».'V_ 19 Hi t CO r . **-,— ■4^ '^f ^g- »-£j- AT BOMl. W lad '*tetooli«f«»>* o( H h* ^H oanyiiig it hoiiM and noti^^lng m« tiMt H was in liii rrMiiafuu, aad Ihatlm he wm my fun»kM|Mr, hs troQld "hMp** ^onleipIanithimttiorderfQraiwwhirt. BeknsirfwyweU, thaklwoold gbe fifty doUan ratdul- than U» dfl|«iTed o< tlM box, and M iM^a^ gln» a game dinner at Idi owii hooaa, I qwMlily not tbe onkr iCdr tha ha^ MflmovrladcBd the good joke, and my own goeite enjoyed tiM dooUe "nma'* Diuiiv the year 1848^ Mr. Frank ImUb, iinae 80 widely known aa the iNitdiihw> of aevaral illiistFated Jqpmala, came to me with letten of introdaotion fftn London, and I en^tk^yed him to get up f or me an iUurtraied catalogoe of aqy Moseom. This be did in a q>lendki manner, and himdrals of thoonnda at copieB were aokl and diatribotod lar and napu:, thiw adding giwtly to ttH lawrwii i< tbaartabUiteMiitt f y . ■j^ X. Sx I T*A,- ->-.-' .1' ■■ ^m , OHAPTBB XV h. '■■:.> THB JBKKY LIKD BlSrTBBPBIgl. . ... . ., in^^ll'*"' *" ■*'~* *" " undertaking wWoh aU will admit wa^ lH)ld tolts conception complete la Its development, and aatoundjn, in It. "^ to me-I risked much, but I made more. > "* "»eu a lortune ttl« oountry. I had never heard her sing. Inasmuch as she arrived Inl^on. few weeks after I left that dty with OenanU Tom ThumlTTer re^uL , llowOTer, wassuffldenttorme. u.m. ner reputation, • tL'T^i; "^J* '**''° °*" ^"*'°' "^ ^"-»»»"» 'I'o had visited this country «Ui the Bax-Hom players, the best man whom I knew lor that pTrp^ a ^ Brutes sufficed ti make the arrangement with him. by which iV^r^t ^^"JT f"' ''"' "^^"^ it he tailed in his mUii but by wZ, aSi fee was to be paid a large sum If he succeeded In brlnglM J Jnnv n.^ t^ The sum of all my Inatructlons. public and Drlvai» tA wiu„« wnnng. «u. ». I.,.., ::,",! s» rTei^r^r HT.zrj' »'»'<«■-- her letters, that If she co«m h- ««^ ^nanent. He learned from the tenor ol aooompani;! by Mr JulZ Be^i^T *° '"", ^"''^'* ** '^^' ■*« '"''« ^ musK^l director, and auS 8h« w«f Si foompllshed composer, pianlsl; and^ tipon Mr. Benedict and also SlgnoTSolettT^^^ ^^u """*• ** "°** '*"«<^ numerous Interviews Was *niw- ^^.^liurrby^^trrrT^^rrrhT^r^'* ^ ^ --« - it WM JDold Its ■ufloesa. Id In a new If • fortun* onyLlnd t0 In London ft repuiatlon, Us country >urpo6e. A was to pajr nrbioh, aiw, Ind to our wrltlnip. nounted to zed bln^ to at, for any , Including osslstantB, wbat tbey ned la the [ton's com- the terms «pondence e tenor ol i must be anlst; an^^ >r BellettI, noe oaUed •n, atn Id ^ould oon. ilne^ the intJnirii urlng the L London, >nd hxH t, that at imerioaii ¥ This potirafiof Jenny Llnd Is taken tnBa "Ottq Fibst Oxmtuut," an /."' "^^ ;,-« J *:,»'.%- ^^ , -■'. 4 t/ ' ' ¥ •- ! t?,^ "" -/"'»" •'• — .^^i — i— -'3r-^ , -^ » * ,r.-;'-^3;---,,;/v ;•- #, - - - — - ~';::^ ■ "V':- - ' " - ^ . -.i'i.- ■// / dn 18fi af 1 Loi - ~ KM Mm the -/ Fl / ln6l biB 1" ot I nur eac fori t)ea S< «aid Van top pay 'zpi Han « atb Sact (tart V the .Broi '«rat Fl fort real ■Din or I SiiB an lara prol . exp< said and ' Mild as 8 ■hoi (ht lUet Fl mt IMI THE JBNIT' VKD EmrERPRigK 16] f V One of these geiitleiiuiu was a well-ftnowft opera manager in London; another, a theatrical man;iger iit Manchester; a iMrd, a mUsical compoeerand conductor of the orcheatra of Her Majesty's Opera in London; aad'the fourth. Chevalier Wyckoff, a person who had conducted a successful speculation some yean previously, by visiting America In charge of tiie r ^lebrated dansema^ Fumy Eillsler. . Several interviews ensued, during whic& she learned from Wilton that he had ■Bttled with Messrs. Benedict and Belletti, in regard to the amount of their diaries, provided the engagement was oonduded, and in the course of a week, Ur. Wilton aud Miss LinA had arranged the terms and conditions on which she «>as ready to conclude the negotiations. As these terms were within the limits fixed in my private letter of instructioins, the following agreement was duly- drawn in triplicate, and signed bj|Jierself and Wilton, at Lubeck, January 9,' 1850; aiid tiie signatures of Mij^j|i^|||»jyiul aod Belletti were affixed in London a few days afterwards- nlnw day of Jaacary, In ths year of oar een John Hall Witton, as agent for Panr- tea of North America, of the one part, i holm, in Sweden, of the other part wha MiMORAMsoif of an asreemenit, Lord one thouaand eight hundred - lUt T. BABM0M, of New York, in t .^ Miidemoiaelle Jenny Lind, Vocal^t^ Ihe said JeAny Llnd doth agree- ' '. ' First. To sing for the said Phineaa T. Bamum In one liundted" and fifty concerts, • Including oratorioe, within (it possible) one year or elgbteen months from the date uf bis arrival In the city of New York— the said concerts to be given in the United Siates '*' of North America and Havana. She, the said Jenny Lln(^, having full control as to the nura'jer of nights or concerts in each week, and the number of pieces she will sing In eac 1 concert, to be regulated ooudltlonally with her health and safety of voice, but the former never leas than one or two nor the latter less than four; but in no case to ap- pear in operas. ' Second, in oonaideration of aaid serviees, the said John Han Wilton, as agoit for the said Phineas T. Barnom, of New York, agrees to furnish the said Jenny Lind wiui a ser- ' Vant as waiting-mida, and a male servant to „and for the sole service of her and her party: topay"-- ' 11--— J ..-»-. . - *--.-_j^- - . • payi ^zpensae _ ^ _ _ _ Havana : to pay ail £otel expenaes'for bo^d and lodging during the same period • to~pIac« V at her diapoMl in each city, a carriage and horses with their necessary attendants, and to give her in addition, the sum of two nundred ponnda sterUng,-or one uiousand dollars, for eact^conoart or oratorio in which the said Jenny Lind slwll unl;. Thhrd. And the said John Hall Wilton, as agent for the aaid Phineas T. Bamnm, doth fhrtbf.r agree to give tlte aaid Jenny Lind the most aatisfaetoiy security and assurance for ^ the fhll smonnt of her engagement, which will be placed iiLjMKbinds of Hessrsi Baring Brothers, of London, brevioas to the departure, and subject wPMmrder of the said Jinia Lind, with ihi interest doe on its onrreat redaction, by her sWvices in the concerts «r ' oratorios. , Fourth. And the said John Hall Wflton, on the part oi the said Phhieas T. Bamnm, farther agrees, that should tl;\e aaid Phineas T. Bamnm, after seventy-five concerts, have realiztd so much as shall, after paying all current ezpensea, have returned to him all the soma diabursed, either aa deposits at interest, for securities of sakiries, preliminary outlay, or moneys in any wav expended consequent on this engagement, and in addition, have g lined a cletu- profit of at leai* fifteen thonsand pounds sterling, then the said Phineaa T. arnnm wiU glve»the said Jenny Lind, in addition to the former sum of one thousand dol- lars current money of the United States of Nortli America, nightly, one-fifth part of the profits arising flrom the remaining seventy-five concerts or oratorios^ after deducting even - •*,"?? SK current and appertaining thereto; or the said Jenny Lind agrees to try, with the said Fhineasjp. Bamnm, fifty concerts or oratorios on the aforesaid and first-named terms, and if then mnd to fUl short of the expectations of the said Phineas T. Baraum, then the •ind Jenny Lind agrees to re-organise this agreement, on terms quoted in his first proposal. S^"!i!^°-''---JL*J'* jyjSyyJ^ °°Py PL^*,!?*^!!! *"** ahonld such be found unnecessary, then shoirid I copy oi t~tnrttri of flftM - , — r •, B«' tinr"eiiir Of whioL~ , tae aforeeaid profit of fifteen thousand pounds sterling have not been realized, then tht engagement shall continue as at first— the sums herein, Hfler expenses '->' Julius Bene- dict nut* Giovanni Belletti, to remain unaltered, except for advancement^ Filth And the said John HaU WUton, agent for the said Phlne a^JK l. v^i^n, at the nquest of the said Jenny Und,.f«rees to pay to Jtalius Benedict, of XllH,^, to accompany «e stld Jenny Lind as araslcal director, pianist, and superintendent ortbe mniical di^ut 11 , -1 1 62 v^ THB JBNmr LIND EKTERPRIBI. ^mm^^Mwism ^i Md seal '"• *'""" **"« memorandtiiii of .greenieBt wo ««t hereunto ow SMi^^n"^'"""' ^«~» «"• ^"»«- T. B«.»«. Of N.W tW U. a Jduus Bbnkdict. 4 QlOVANMI BaiXBTTI. • vj * ■> ■ 'I «-■««.» or o.Ao.„.„.,c..„,.rHu«^«,„H;K,, .r„.4.i„a m^ "•i J- Ham- WiLTOK : Ntw Tobk, JViMw,n« and ita pro- t In liny city tbe interestii iofOod, b« ' rroporUou o( maGiovsnnJ tm Bhall pay aptiuK th08« y all partiu toning tot Phineaa T rcepting to* THE JBiriTT LIITD ElTTBBPllIOTi 163 Breonto ow 1 Wonrajf . ^«,18«. nd to viall ber to th» nd pHjr for "dred au,| to iiccoin ■ naeappcr- 'ts* urJs|ii2 nd to tba til^QOU* rk, Fsb- 9 was to V WlMB WB reflect how thoroaghly Jipny Lfad, her muatcd powm, her char JL!^ 'wonderful sacceoee, were ^rtteequently toown by aU claLes In thir^ country a* weU as throughout the civilized world, jlt is difficult to realize that, at tee time this engogemeut was toade, she was comparatively unknown on this side Oiewater We can hardly credit the fact, that millions of- persons in America had never. hear4 of her, that other millions had merely read her name., but had no distinct idea of who or what she was. Onlya small portion of the public wero , really aware of her great musical triumphs in the pld World, and this portion waj' confined' almost entirely to musical people, travelers who bad visi^ the Old World, and the conductors of the press. , thr^«rvA°"^^!f*^u°'^''"^°'^ On arriving at llinceton we mi' Tth^r^'n °^ "^ Vr^^'^^S the morning papery I waSurprised to Td m them a full account of my engagement with Jenny Lind. This prematura annomroement could not be recalled, and I put the best face on tto wa^ Anxious to learn how this communication would strike the public mind. I fafornwd tt«, omductor, whom I weU knew, that I had made an e^agemZwith Jenny Lmd, and that she would surely visit this country in the following August. ' Jenny Lmd I Is she a dancer i ". asked the conductor --e «ms •<. linforaiecihim who and what she was, but his question had chilled me as if his words were Ipe. Really, thought I, if this is aU that a man in the mSX^a raihxiad conductor between Philadelphia and New York knows of thTg^i^ «>ngstress in the world, I am^iot sur, U«t six months wiU be too lonH STto me tooccupy in enlightening the public in regarxl toher merita fT* - I had an interview with Wilton, and learned fr im him that, in aoconlanoa lis. «?8^rr.V'>r°?'* ^ r^"^^ for me t. place the enfl^lZTj^ h^i!!!'^'^^*^f*''*^^'^°^°°'*°'«^ I at once resolved to nX M:j!rzs:k^XiSr'"""'"""^^ I then began to prepare the pubjic mind, through the newBD«»r. t^ w^ reception of the great songstress. » How effeir^uaUy !L was dZTSSll^tS; ' «^"Pl«J»ed my purpose, I present the folio-- Jig extract from mv to* Z^ whJ A appeared in the New York paj,ers of Februiuy ^SM^ ^ ^ Perhaps I may not make any money by this enterprise, biit I aasuiVyoo that if I knew I should.not make a fartli.ng prxiflt, I would ratify the eZX^!^^ anxious am I that the United Stetes should b. >isited ^a^^XS^JcS powers Imve never boea approached by any other hmn^ibSMTJ^ [chaiiwter is charity. rimplld|3r. and gonifler^ Jlias Liad has great anifiety to visit America. She soeaka of tM. ««,„»^ ' and its inatitutions in the highest terms Of uraii-T In hL !! . oomtxf (whlrli incl«,l«- H-^«-\ u .u r^ pralae. In her engagement w^th me iwmclj includes Havana), she etijreasly reserves the right to aivT charil*hli. «n« ewts whenever sbe thinks proper. "^ cnaritahle coor "Since ber detmt in England, she has giv^n to the poor from her own AHvsi" pursemore t^ the whole amoimt which I have enWedT^Z^^^T^ PJ^o ILertsforoharlteblep^ gmtultouriy. have realised mors UMm ten times that nmrn^t" ^"^ privata to J A^—^±^^ ff-' ■'?! After itettlBg tUl buklng t« make up tTan.ount I h^^ ^hLmZoJ^^ n "k*" "^ •l.Tf«.tlyg...^b„t I omild n.,t M.^'.,tlntnb^,^ i^*T r.^''"'' **^ ^ ft . » Tins JBITNT LIND EXTP^nPRISB. 1 WTOt tothe prwfalent o# »he bank where I had dcme all my ta^ rjaij J oflteed him, » «carity fora loan, my second moVl«a^rrt •ddltl«al arf«»ment, I prt,poeed to make over to him my oo^S^ "n^ Ltad, with a written guaranty that he shouJd appointT receiver, who. at ml «pen». diould take charge of aU the receipt, over and al^e ^ tt^ Arilan per night, and appropriate them towards the payment of my loan. Hn fca^ in my tBce, and aaid: "Mr. Bamum, it is genenOly believed in Wm Jbje^that your engagement with Jenny Lind will .ruin yoo. Idonotthink 2ii^ ever iidoelve*) much a. three thousand doUani at a single concert^ was indignant at his want of appreciation, and answered him thaC I would not afc ^tLfl^ * was useless in WaU street to oflTer the "NlghttagT" Wd^ for Goldfln^es. I flnaUy waa intredured to Mr. John L. As^walL of t^SS rf^nl^^SU??**^ for a large sum on collaterel securities, which^I of genuine reqwct tor my enterprise induced him to accept "»«»»IHni «vi!I^,**^**^,^ """"^ P**"***' property for cash, I footed up the varioal^, !lT£i^.£^ ^T** "^^^ five thousand dollam short I felt ZuT ^JS^!^'**"''^**^**'"^"*««^«^'« »««*•" Happeningca^y ^ wT 'S"^ °P«"« «»« ««^'^b«l C. Thomas, of PhBadSSSTf^r^y ■Mn-wei^ fron my ihoiildank .v , ——•'»«»▼•»»• na^Br ■; /I ,;■-' / r / f \ J0tt i. •A. ^ - ^^^SH-'^^^ Mfor«|glit and as an vith Jenii^ rhOftOi my 9 thoumid ''loan. H» Ml in Wan >not tiiink ancert" 1 ouldnotat >on further t exchange it the firm i from hit Ichaqdiit lieTarioi||\ )lt that it gcaanall/ fornuury rditpoaa), Ami »■ ^ \ ■P ' >' & . . XHB lir?OHTI»rOALB IN ISTSW TOBK. / , OrWedneaday momiiig; Augoat 81, 1860^ Jmaj Lind and 4NHn. Benediot ■nd Belletti, aet aail from livelrpool in the ataaimihip Atlantici in which I had l their uae. Tb^ were aooompanied by mj agent, Mr. Wilton, and also by liiai Ahtnanwen and^tfr. Max Hjortaberg, oousina of Miaa Lind, the latter being l»r aeoretary; alao hj bar two aervant^ and ,the valet of Miiwrm Benedict and BeUettL It was expected that the ateamer would arrire on^tanday, September t b«l^ detennined to meet the aongatreaa on her arriTal vHMMiyer it mi|^t be, I vr«'nt to Stacen Idand on Saturday, and alepi at the hospitable reaidenoe of my trieod. ttar. A. Sidney Doanfs, who wai,at that tima the Health Officer of the Port of New Yorit A few mhratd^ bkf ore twelve o'dook, on Sunday morning, the Atlantio hove in aight, aad immediately afterwards, through the kindnwa of my frfand Doaae, I waa oo bdard the ahip, and had taken Jenny Lind by the hand. After a few momenta oonveniltton, Ae aakad me when and where I had heard heraing. t^y **I never had the pleaanre of aneing you before in i|iy life," I replied. ^ ** How is it poariUe that yoa dared risk ao much money on a person whoni yon never heard aing f" die asked in surpripa. **I rialud it on your reputation, whfeh in musiaal matters I would much rather trnat than my own judgment," I replied. I may aa well atate, tJiat although I rdHed prominently upoo J«my Liod's rqmtaticm as a gni-eat musical artiaU, I also todk largely into my estimate of her SOOoesB wltii all classes of the American pilblio, her character for extraordinary benevolence and generodty. Without thisfMculiarity in her dlspodtion, I never^ would have dared make the engagement which I did, aa I fdt aure that tberav_ were multitudes of individuals in 4nMirina who TsAld be prauptad to attend bar ooocerts by this fe^ng alone. < ' Thousands of penons covered the shipping and piflr% and othar thousand^ had coDgregpted on the wharf at Panal dareet, to see hen The wildest enthusiauu prevailed as the steamer i^iproaohed the dock. Bo gtiat was the rush on a ttloop near the steamer's berth, that one man, in his seal to obtain a good view, acci- dentally tumbled overboard, amid the shouts of those near hlin. Misi T^ind wttaeand Uiis ineldmt, and was much alarmad. He #aa, however, aoon reacnied, aftar taking to himaelf a ooM duck instead •*» ?»y will Bhow that nevftr before had the« . been auch enthuslaam lu the city of New York., or Indeed In Imerlca. WlX d^rrnlrbeTrrnC :4T?n z ^"T^ '^ "^*'^' "^^ ^ ^^« -»'- that afternoon »Lw^ *''''°'"« *^ ^«' "«"«"*• ' <"°«d *"»» her' llna^r^f le ILTrjr* to European custom, she j^repared to^ledge ^ u » Kiass or wme, she was somewhat surprised at my saylnir "Ml«i iinrt t Tr.mZT.r:'iT "''' "•'^^ ''^^"^ ""^ •"^'"^ whfch r:ouid nTtX'iy grant, but I am a teetotaler, and must beg to be permitted t^ drink your health and happiness In a glass of cold water " ^ - Sotler numt^L'""* T' "'^ "" "•""'^''«^ ^^ '"^^ ^«- »*^ Husl^al Fund «Z1V r / * *"" "'''' *'*^*^''' *w° ^»''<»'«<» musicians They were e^rted to the Irving House by^bout three hundred firemen. »ln their r^Jm e^n dur^rr. t "" V^' ^^''^^^ "^'^"« '^ ">« "^^ than Ir^i^ through a windows the balcony. The loud chock from the crowds lasted tor •everal minutes, before the serenade was pormU.ed to proceed again nm da? ri; "'"."""t "'''"'' '' ^"' "^ '"^'•"'^" °' "^« *'-''^«"'- «' Jenny Llnd's ?^L t- "• ^""^ ''^''' afterwards the «cltement was unabati HeJ nrev/t ,^; "'"'^ *" ''^"^ «' "'« •^*^' "'^^ " -«" -'^"^ -"• diZlty tir, LTevTsJr mT,'"*""" ^""^ ""-'-"^'"^ ''^ ""ogeth.r. and thus, i r Imn-T: *;""r"' °>««t"'i-'nakers. and 8h«,.kee,«r8 vied with each other iu. ZlTllZ '^•"' f •'^«-' ■'"""^ ^'n« »>««"«»». Jenny Llnd riding hats. Jenny Jinnr ?? ' ^' "' '^^' *""*'"• »«'"• P'«no»-'n 'act. everything wal ^rrilge Lppe.^r,,T ''«"'' «— "' -^»>«^. -«» the momen' Z x::::'^Ze:iTz:::;::z- -^'^^'^'^ ^^ -'^»"-^-. -«- - catch . thl" dTv*^ over my ..«,rap.b«oks" of extr«,u from .. , N.w York ,>aper. of that day. In which all accessible details concerning her were duly chronicled It ««!» almost lpc«dlble that such a degree of enthusiasm should har ei^isd An abstract of the "sayings and doing, " In regard to the J«iny Llnd manto for ths first ten days after her arrival, appeared In the London Tim» ot At «8 1800 Wd. although It was an ironical -.showing up" of the American enthuiuum.' mUnjMeveral columns, It was novertholoss a fallhfiU oondeasaUon of fact, whiob ■# ► i«yw)lf, tntjreTtitwn (trosmTtnui minify B^ors hsr arrival I had offered $300 fbr a prise ode. '.Oreetlng to Amerto^- to be siufby Jenny Llnd at her first concert Beveral hundred "poems" ««« wi •8 ' Jbtk^^i^'ju ',ie\t:-k Ss.-.^-.i ras inVftIt be musloai . 1 directed at; and ti Indows anu * renny: Lint bad tbere a. Within r„tbou8and lo nuinlier a with her* to pledge ifs LInd,[ I. not gladly our health ileal Fund ^hey were red shirts, ther4 was I led ber lasted tor my Llnd's ^ »ted. Her I In both a In tront ' ilty that 7 •bus, as I a sympa. Showered other 1&. t>le speol- edgmei^. )r praise. 'A, Jenny ling was Qent hor > catch a apers of ilcled, It existed, a forth* S3, 1800, luslasm, ta wtUob nerloa," V ? 1 n * • *• 3tH^. K" ' " '? ■ « .-, t > «' OBEETINQ TO AlUESIOA. "< ' ■ VOMM ST mATABO tatlob— iicuo AT juuus fnraoigi|( * loBacT with a ftaU heart the Land of the WmL Whoa* Ilaaner of Btara o'er a world u aiiroUad ; >, - '<.. Whoa* empire o'erahadows Atlantic's wide braaat, ^^ . And opena to aonaet ita gateway of gold I ,v The land of the mountain, the land oAl And rivera that roll in magnificent tide , ' ,. . Where the Bonht of the mighty lW>m alomber awak^' •: And hallow the BoU for wboae freedom they dtodT , ' " . ' Hiou Cradle pf empire I thongh wide be the roaB^ '■ ' ' ^9 That aerera the land of my 1kther« and thee, ■ 7' X hear, from thy bosom, the welcome of home, '.V - : ' - * ' ' For song has a home m the hearta of the Free I '. And long as thy watera shall gleam in the son,. '• . ^ And 16nR as thy heroes remember their'scara, « « Be the hands of thy children united as one, , < " And Peace ahed her light on thy Banner of Stan I <-» " ■ ' \ . j . ■■ ■ , ' ■ " ' This kwiard, although It gave general aatlafaoUon, yet waia m«f with diafavor hy several (Usappolnted poets, who, notwithstanding the decision of the com- mittee, peaisted in believing au^ declaring their own productions to' be the beat This state ot fe^l'ing was doubtless, in part, the cause which led to the publication, atout this time*.«f a, witty pamphlet entitled "Barnum's Parnassus; being Oon- fldeutlal Disclosures of the Prize Committee on the Jenny Lind Song." It gave some capitd3 hits in which the committee, the enthusiastic public, tti« Nighftingale, alid myself, were roundly ridiculed. Thte following is t^ U^ apeci- men irom the uprk in question i ertookGw Mas* A sndaen tf ory oik hlai^tbiihiy throwsf ^Va, not thsi setting sun, whose drooping Ud Closed on the weary world at half-paat six; *Tia not the rising moon, whose rays are hid %>hlnd the dtrt sombre pHes of briclok Ills Ut#^^nwnond Ll|^t. that from the top or Bttrnnm's masshr* pile, sky-mingll^ l»si%« Dirts ltsquicli;,«leam o'er every shadowed shop. ' And gilds Broadway with nnaoeustomed ghu*. There o'er the sordid gloom, whoa* deep'ning ibulm » Furrow the dtar's br«w, the front of Hges, ' >^ Thy k»Alar Ught dnsowds on oaba and h ' ^3X0 tw» ioSmWkt lit Mnea of ' |>^ W O twfflght Snn, wtth fhf tu darting riy, ThoB art a type of him whose tireless hand* ; Buf tlMe on Mgh to guide the stoangwr's waft ' :.. ^H P^ la ttifride, his vast llasaoA staadST j V*, .:, t w » <70 I V # THE NIQHTIKOALE IN NEW TOBK. And the dark chamber of the c^tral glob*, nejtronn the reedy shores of- fabled Nile ") • Aud munjM, Hkin of' many » famois Hon. IhouHhalt behold, and forasTngriirter. . There m.my a varied foim the siRht beguiles • Or for thy gayer hours, the oranK-outan^ Ml- \ i he varied beauties ol' the universe. . And last, not least, the marvelous Ethlooe ChuuKingbis H!cin>bypretern"tunil W ' ., ^r*""™ ^^■^7«ettlnK sun's diuriiaalo^^^^ Leaven Whiter than the laat. and wXning BtUL Nor w this all-for triumpL more 'ifee w uocu oy in y golden harmon es, have (lpifrno)P Captive to /ofn the heterogeneous throng" "^ Sustained by an unfaltering trust in coin MvLV*?*^? '''**'"'"•»""'• come to join ' Jlys^lf the innumei;ablo caravan. vaiious curiositiee in the Museum anH r!!^? T^ ^ IX)et speaks of th\ , 3^ *,-, Al'I'""!f'.r°"'*','j'*'"«' y««'" l"«t the crd for me ,*L_. , ■ - - ; t ".... nvi i;iwit.|r;7« 1111(1 rfW*iri ^ l l!lOurUYaiut4A v Wt>^;Wpqd,^ Dotn the nil )<< full' > ul,(.....,i •^ ^^wt», l^^^gWthe publiTl^^aSS " " «w, my iwnM un t BarQuiii, nor your name Jenny Uad f* ^It ^ ■# 1 ■&: Tt"« IBB nOHTtNaALB IH NEW YORK. 171 / 3- rv ' Amoogthemanyoomplimraituy poems sent in, was tbe following, by Mia L. H. Siooosianr, which that distinguished writer enclosed in a letter to me, witili the request tfaht I should hand it to Mies Lind: THB SWEDISH SOI^QSTRESS AND HBR OBABrndBlL ' BT ms. L H. sraouBmr. / ■*- - ■■ ■ ■ '■^' ^ ' / ■ ' . "-.'■'/'■ Blbst most their vocation be '/ ■ ' Who, with tones of melody, ' ... ; Charm the discord and the strlA " ' -f' And the railroad rush of life, , _ *:> < And with Orphean magic move I ; 4 — Sools inert to life and fove>3 - ! -*-- • Bat there'a one who doth Inherit * "f . Angel gift and angel spirit, , > - Bidding tides of gladness flow Through the realms of want &nd woe: *Mid lone age and misery's lot, > Kindling pleasures long forgot, • - Seeking minds oppressed with night. And on darkness shedding light, , She the seraph's speech doth know, ' She hath done their deeds below; So, when o'er thin misty strand « 1 Shei.hallclasp their waiting hand. ' They will fold her to their breast/ More a sister than a gaest . ^! Jenny LInd's flrsfc cimoert was fixed to come off at Castle Garden, on Wednet* day evening, September 11th, and most of the tickets were sold at'auction on the Saturday and Monday previous to the concert John N. Geuin, the hat^laid - ihe foundation of his fortune by purchasfaig th^^rst tidcet at $235. It ui^iieen tfrtensively reported that Mr. Qenin and I are brothers-in-law, but our only tioiis are those of business and friendship. The proprietor of the Oarden »». lit to make the usual chai^ of one shilling to all persons who entered the premtoej yet thiee tiiousand people were present at the auction. One thousand tickeia wei-e sold at auction on the first morning for an aggregate sum of $10,141. On the Tuesday after her arrival, I hif ormed Miss Lind thati wished to make ft slight alteration in our agreement. " What is it? " she asked in surprisa ••I am convinced," I replied, "that our enterprise will be much more success- fol than either of us anticipated. ^ wish, therefore, to stipulate that you ■iyfH receive not only $1,000 for each concert, besides all the expenses, as heretoforo •greed on, but after taking $5,500 per night for expenses and my services, the % balance 6hall be equally divided l)etween us. V- i Jenny looked at me with astonishmentw She ooold not oonipr«hend mm BlUon. After I had' repeated it, and she fully understood its import, sheiboTOJany grasped me by the hand, and exclaimed, " Mr. Bamum, you are a gentk^^ian ot honor; you are generous; it is just as Mr. Bates told me; I will sing tgr you tm i^CJng as you please; I will sing for yon fa America— in Emx^w— anywhere! " On Tuesday, Sepromber 10th, I faf ormed Miss Lind thai, judging by preaenfe ^^^Hipearances, her potion of the proceeds of the first concert would amoimt to •10,000. Shijjbnediately reisolved to devote every dollar of it to charity; and, piUillii| i fiHi||MPir;^"^'*f—n nhrnji^rfl jinr1nrHi«nn>^ mx Nvto iiP fftl iMTtfng thn Sons among which 'She wishe«l the aimount to be distributed. .3.. ■411?' . My arrangements of the concert-i-oom were very compete. The great ^ ^^ parterre and gallery of CasUe Ghirden were divided by ima^nary lines into - — fouroomp^tments, each of which was deRignated by a lamp of A\ different orfoi TIm ttdtewrere printed in ocfloin correspw^ing with the loa^^ wlik4i tba ^tv «•• *^i ^ r 172 THB ^lOHTIVOALI UT IflW TOBK. bis or bor neat wjtbout the . bered in color to co; . giving up an eni wandfi, and even the the different de porticuiar was also bolden wpf to oocagy, and om hundrcd luhen. with itMettM and liMXh. ^d. ripped witi^ribBbn. Of the .evend hn^TSdS^^^^^nSd iity. Jfivery seat was of coarse nmn> whidi eadi person retained after fhua, tickets, checkB, lamps, rosettes^ • all in the appropriate colors to designate i arrangemmitB were duly advertised, and every fin/.™ »»^ J ri ,^F°^ **^ ****^ ^ ^^'^^ *<» prevent confusidn, the doors were open^at five o'clock, whilethe concert did not commence untiTeS- The consequence was. that althoughabout flvethous^ persons were piJS at ^er wunes^ in the assembling of acoi^SSSSclu ' ^'^^^ ^u^'^f.^ *" *^ "^""^ «^*^*" thixwHJhout the ftountoy under ^^J^^S ^1^ '2j|?«^««*®''^Wchalwaysprevailedwaa,the subject of number ^'^°^g *™°» ^^ P"*'^" "»d the press. • ""^R^ w^^rJ^^fe* **' J«iny Lind on her first appearance, in potot of oxthuafaam. STirX'^''*"'.^'^" ^"^^ ^ ^- ^^«^«^ ^ ^ towards theS. £^^!fc2^f^ audience rose to their feet and welcomed her with three cheenL - "ccomifiid 'by the waving of thousands of hats and handkerchiefe. This wu * pel uu.,^« largest audipnce to which Jenny Und had ever sung. SteTwaa r^^n ^r * T^',i"* ^^ °"'*^««''* commenced, and beforedie had sZ J^Z ^ ^'^1'^' ""^ *° ^^«' ^«' self-possession, Td^ before the scena waTconcluded, she was as cajm as if she waTtaW own draw log-room Toward^ the last portion of thXm^;beeri formed, and her triumph was complete At tb. condus^m of the conceilf^femiy Lind was loudly call^ for, .^SL^bl^ to . ^r three times before the audience could be satisfied. Then they^ ^^^IJ!*K^'^ "^ I^uctal^y responded to their demand. ^ On this &^ night, Mr. Julius Bene#ietl|mly eetablisto^ yith the American people his European reputation, as a most RecoBip!ishedl»iductor and muslcid composer: while Signer B^k^ i««ld aa ad«fcution which grew warme^S deeper in the minds of the |i|c, tSiKe end of iJs care^ The Rubicon was passed. The scccessful issue of tiie J«my ' JJnd en'terorise was established. I think there were a bundmi men to New York, the day after lftrfii^<^ncerti. who would h||®|llihgly paid |»|^ I reoeive^^peated offers for i^ejghth, a tpnth, d^siitewthTVivSto^^ price. But mhie had been, the risk, and I ^ ^1— %a^ T* ^ J^'" ""^ triumph. The iunount of money receiredifov ticlij^ikto. As this iQade Miss Lind's portdon too an announced as devoted to charity, I p. ^weeds «^ the^lrst two oonc^rti, and ^ .^ . ««»u a. au m our ragolar -^ent :* Accordingly, the second oon*rt was given September 18th. and «"*-, amounting to $lia03.08, were, like tbom> of the first conoert;.^JaUy — njine atOOi be |£e .—V # ■ tlret^oiicert was fW.SrtLOBi tl^e #10,000 which had been tvide equally-with her the them at all in oar regular Our third oonoart," WM ^ '*i % fe. S m^ "SSt bMHag dto find led after rosettai^ ledgnate id every gioD, ths fcileigliu.- "Bsentat t as was cautions adixiin- lumber- .» _- he foot- cheers, his was Ife was id sung id long idraw- Wwas ightto rilljant' 4ttbe gedto erican tusic^ jrand >rprihi after ct I 4oe^ been r tiM Sular , aud sally ■'/'f s ^r CHAPTER XIX L SUOOESSPUL MANAGEMENT, first cmat assembly at Oastle Garden was not gathered by Jenny Ua*-. •UBloal gealas and powers alone. She lis. and the ste, s adopted by KTrni^m ttre^r«T?nS H^BBmt appearance. The i-rooeedliigi of yeftertlay, conHlK^fTheslR h« '^^Mer of the tickets, and the astonishing, the wonderful sMLHonnr^f.^H*'! !!^r.-w?r^firnd^'LU7h^x^^^^^^^^ exaSrerated. not an lota. Three years iito.moncr%£^ZJ^r^lr,^^^^ ^^^ occasions, wlienshemade the first greatSsASuoa to S^rowto^.^^^^ notee^flbi£^«Srfr«hfh;;:'1.'L'^*'*'l*$.'"^ existence, when she pours out the thiTmm iw!^ rft^.„ thi.'^f her sstonlNhlng powers-her wonderful pecullHritles, SgyThuSSSSTbrtrlr •wth-more ofa roics lh>m etemtty. tlmfrom the the S{32*-S£S'i27;JS'"?'^~2?*'"''' ■"»' <»'>Wlc expeotstloB has nm very Ugn lor hu ffi^«"^t^KlV****a: *»"»" P«^<^ «' •?"' PMtmaalcal ann^ But hifias » •urpeas Bdatake Jenny JUod Is a wonds^ t(,4 a prodigy i£ song-^ i» i!?i?2±."ffi!w~ "^^ *^**»*^ t«»-an>r. L. 0. Stewart, andS inMbL^ «• 4* WfM* *ailh, my ptw»al laboir #M» ^a«t«rl»U^ lt ',Uv 174 WOOBSSF0L MAlfAQEJilE2Jl. w^- v^ entirely fre^ froS^J^ °°"^ ^ ^* "°* '""''^ * ^•>tt« moniiBt th.* consequences fomjSlf: MirSr<^S ^^^Tor'^/'^** ^^°^^ ^^' unpamUeled enthusiasm that would ^t 2r ^.u I *"** ""^ one else, of the Castle Oarden^mewhatTni^hr I ri;^'**^^^ tamiense aseembly at ^ould seem thafthe tormsoTS^^'eo^t"^ "^« ^ "^ '^^'^ « «nd sufficiently haamlous to m^l^TlX^J^ ^ sufficiently llbena to her orable treatment; butcerteSS^^ t£^^^ e^5)ectatIon of perfecUy ho». "Do younot see. ifi«3 Li^r^r£'^^^"''^^^'''^^^e;^nUf. gpnius? " said they; of couii ^b ^ iVT^u ** ~^»^ ™oney out of your - «.d spumed the^'vi*™X S^Lnk^"l* 1^'-^'*^ Swede desjlsed me at all ha^rds, and take the^SS^ toto L 0-^*"%*° ^^ «'°*^* ^* into theire. I, however, suffemi much fr^m Jj ^ hands-possibly to put it lawyer, Mr. John Jay/ Xn^UcT^d^ltTTfT^l'^^^'^^'^^^'^' her afterwords expressed to mVLT^^ttS^i.^'^ ^^ "*«°' "^ ^^°^y . -e-atiousexactionsof Wl^^^SI^l^ "^^'"'^^'^r "«*«-^^<> the To show the difflciUties with which I had to «w.fa« j *v prise, teopy-oTeffer whicA I wrotT a litttemo^T *^"* ^^^ *° mycnter. oonunenced her engagement S^^ t^y ttei^^^^ "' p"f"' *^ ^^^ Baring, Brothers & Go , London: '"y "end Mr. Joshua Batea^ of iSemn. **J^ Bates, Esq. : X^ I'"^ Tobk, <3«. 8^1860 rapid accumulation of wealth alwnva «?f.Jfl* '"*«'■ country yon are aw«r«tS? 5?? ;?^ Ti»«iT,V5.r • ""^' '•'•na. and otlieni, will tell dignity In my m!.ii,;Kement of these Mnc«rt«'Tw»'l' '"""wno cna hu8 far acted 0,1 this knowledae ~ifvBVlf'^i»^'""iV ?P°° "* "^cure pubflo IkvM^iBH f'i,:"! he,r comfort, .hey have u„ 1^8 m 5ld ul knf w ?h2? i?»"*J''""» "t^K «Sf 'plScare IbJ ".»« wuiiui t, ,ncy nave, and lam elad to knSw m,.* ."i*"""' "la attention can procara fhr I fear is, that these continual backbiMr« tr n'^ *''*i ^i^*! *" satisfied on thXieo« ah »J»^l««?i» Of n'yprW^nd'lb'fil^nh"^**^';^^^^^^^^^^ ^'^A'- *W« as a bird, arid bei^^"raKrof mrprffi"^d''Ibili!lnh"«**^*^^^^ /W« as a bird .ri* !.-.„ — : " niiuumr 10 Mr. Jay on t his mihinot t/t «_ 11 **'"*' ■ ""• or adi "«cei«lir.»# aXKSOVaAVVL MAKAOAitiUii:. 175 KBWWioeB In which she gave gums of money to aimliamts. yarvin* in auouut fr^iao, $60, $500. to $1,000. and in one inLu^Z g»y5 ^Sol* S^to -The night after Jenny's arrival in Boston, a display of finworks yns given in her honor, in front of the Bevere House, after which followed a benatif^ torch, 'igfat procession by the Germans of that city. • "twiaim U)na». rS^J^"'^.^°' ®°**°" ^ ^^^ ^^^'^ J®°"y' »»«*• companion, and Messn Benedict and BeUetti, stopped at tanistan, my residence in Bridgeport, where they remaineduntUthefoUowingday. The morning after her arrival, she tlx)k my arm nndpropowd a promenade thrcugh the grounds. She seemed much pleased, and iiaid, I am-astonished that you should have left such a beautiful place for th« fake of traveling through the country with me." ^^. . , Th^same day she told me in a playful mood, that she hau fed a most extra, ordmary report;. "I have heard that you and I are about to be married," said Bhe , now how could such an absurd report ever have originated? " "Prol»bly from the fact thiit we are 'engaged,' " I replied. She eirioyed m joke, and laughed heartily. ^-j^j'ou • "Do you know, Mr. Bamum," said she. " that if yqu had not built Iranistan. t «ihould never have come to America for you?" , I expremed my surprise, and asked her to explain. ... w ^.i^'"'** *^*^' applications to visit the United States," she continued. . but I did not much like tiie appearance of tixe applicants, nor did I relish the " Wea of CTOffling 3,000 miles of ocean; so I d^lined tiiem aU. But the first letter -rWch Mr. Wilton, your agent, addressed me, was written upon a sheet headed 'inthabeautifulengravingof Ii-anistan. Jt attracted my attientibn. I said to »nyself, a gentieman who has been so successful in his business as to be able to build imd reside in such a palace cannot be a mere 'adventurer ' 80 1 wrote to your agent, and consented to an interview, which I should have declined, if I had not •«en the picture of IranistanI" »««" not "That, then, fuUy pays me for buUdhig it," I repUod. Jenny Lind always desired to reach a place in which she was to sing, without ^lavmg tiie time of her arrival known, tiius avoidmg tiie excitXent of promiscu- /|us crowds. As a manager, however, I knew that tiie interestTof the enterprise depended in a great degree upon these excitements. On reaching Philadelphia, a large concourse of persons awaited the apprdich of the steamer which conveyed her. With difficulty We pressed through the crowd. Knd were foUowed by many thousands to Jones's Hotel. The street in front of the buildmg was densely packed by tiie pcipulace, and poor Jenny, who was suf. fermg from a wvene headache, reitired to her apartments. I tried to induce the crowd to disperse, but they declared tljey would not do so until Jenny Lind should -appear on tiie balcony. I. m^ not disturb her, and, knowing that tixe tumult' ~ rnigjit prove an annoyaiy^^(^ I placedher bonnet And shawl upon her com- panion, Mias Ahmansen, fcidlWlier out on the balcony She bowed gracefuUv to the multitude, ^o gavVii^ tihree hearty cheere and quietly dispersed. Mia Ltod was so uttxa-l^tmirse to anytijinft like deception, tiiat we never ventured to teU her tiu» parti which her boMiet an d shawl had played in the abeencv> nt ,^i. "^ f' My el4M* daughter, CaroIJaerali har frh-^ tx t ««W)mp«niedmeonthetoui:ftx«i Ne^^^ ^^^°^ "^ Bridgeport, ifew Orleans and the Mfari«iH^ ^ew York to Havaiu^ aad a.|nce hoiJTS joined in the gfagimr A ni2^'>^^^^ *°°'' a seat with her in ttieSrImd Wit* me «»e daTS^ ^v^^Tl!^^'^ "^ ^ W^S «nder W^ aame mist^ 3 ft "S^^ ^^uti^^.u^'^ we,^T«t laboring Jenny Lind^wui in t^^T Thl?,^ whispered through the church that •When my daughter rose ^t^ of^e mSS^ T^*' ^ '"^ """^ ^^^ tocatchtheflretno^^ofhervoiSSiTS^rT =^*«7earwa,on theal^ P^ thn>ugh the ««embl7 ^r^I?te«tl"T' ^'"^°' "^tisfa^f •"tracted, continued to siiig^ ^^JTT'""^^ °' "»« attention she aeearsoftheattentiveS^^;^*^."^^^;^ J^^ , wundsl" "IneverheardtftolS" JT^^**'^**''^ "HeaveSfy. through the church. «« ^ikel and similar expressions were whispS w^yrthT^'^or^r^^rt-andh^^ view Of the "S^lKSiX* ^ti^^^ discovemi that mfdaughter^Lv «^^ ^ ^***^ 1« that we hare never ' Our orchertw ^Z^Y^i!^^IJ^'^'^ «^-^ « a vocal^ . *^ , mflsicians we could select, and tolW OrW ^'^'^'^H' tw®!^ of the b^^ We hu.™^ '^num^rrtWrt^^^ o^*^ 'o«^ tosixt^ ^al« of musicians raiding Xre ttT^^^^if^'^ the case, mlght^;/? l^YorkfromHavaaa,!^eXL?J^;S!^^''^ Onour.«t^t« ' T^moming aft^r^ arJi^f^!^S?Si:r ' """"^ Perform«« left hi. cam. Jenny being oZ W^^^^^^P^ ^^^ ^«d^ and attention, sl,e was in soJethlL of a fl^^"^"** "^jTt **' <«'^" »>' »»- on the President immediat^^' ^^ '*'^ -""S " Wj miisfc dui • ^ " Why w PI inquired. ' "Because he has oaUed on me, and of omim. «.-♦ i / , . . fo^lPe togo to hlshpvse," "^ ^^ **' «"«* *hat IseqniraWnt to^oc^ttftuuul f^furedBerthat8heinigl,tmakeh«.m<~i-* ^- -. A.^ ' movemente of strangenTmd that rfT^Mr ""^ ''«>'» "command" the' call the nextday. ^^t^ZZtt^^^^^S^' "^ ** ''^-^^ ^ dict,BeUetti'andmyself,and,^3ivh ^'*'^°^''^y'^«*^B«ne- ' of the P™ddent'sSy^^''"^'^"P«°t^ the private cirAle V a^^TT^rTftLrSnrJT^ ^ Oar, Benton. Foote. Cs. irS:Li ffi;^rr* "^ "^^^^"^ g^- 0»«VfoUowlngmonilnglL^S*^ l2'*'''^^»**»'^..-. r*7^ # uptobisfuUhelghVmdmtfinE / • fpr««' ■i ' . ti#^ ■'< y^ ^'^^^•^^^^■^s^^^=^'^^r- - — T-r— 1 ^—^a— ^-a... S-^-ar-- ■.-V <#« ' ;- ^.# r •"sV ■■l-^/wS ..-I i^' ;.*■,-• j-j: .^' ■t. ;«► « * )^ i>^ 4^ ■•.i i%- .^'i: i-ji- .i*'^ ■1,, ' -* i # It- II - ;^ ... / » .^ . V r * ft * ^ - i* • • , -^••,,^ . * ■ % !• "'' . i ", » » 1 ^ ■ ■ Cii.- --■- --'-':- - „.-'.4-:-. • — , • • '„ . ■ ;. ., ;__. .,- - ■" *f ■V : • . r ft ;i m ' "''^/-^ ■• ; -' ■ • . "''**. ., " *• /. , , 1-. •■•».- f -J , .1 ' . ■ ■* 1» % HH iii ^^.1^,^, ■ Htai^H ^AilH " " i' St^CCEHSFUI/ MAHAOEMEirr. > '79 ^ * i .<» il% f. * ,,•»'•* J'. ■ ■ -, '■■'$ t-i__ X -v. •«,»■ , Fjims, in Boston abe was greatiy impreBsed wit|i his mannen and ocntor^UiiflK^ 4iid after liis departure, walked up 4ifd down the room in great wtfMasa^iealt, ^claimhigr "Alii Mr. fiamum, that is a man, I have never bef oi^ aceu attdii a- 'maul", -v. -r ' ■ - ■•■•■,'■. W^ visited th6 Oapitol while both Houses were in seasioiL Mfas Idhd iook the arm of Hoa C. P. Cleveland, representative from Connecticut, and was \x$ him csoorted lnto-vari«$us parts of the Capitol and the grounds, with aU of whidt dia was much pleased. ' . Duiing^^icy^eek I was invited with Miss Lind and her iWrnifli^int ft friends, t(> visit Moiiit Vernon, with Colonel Washington, the then proprietcn-, and Mr. fleatpn, ^x-Ma^9f »' Washington, and editor of the hUeUigencer. Colonel ■ Washiugtolh chmered a steamboat for the purpose. We were landed a shori ■ distance from the tomb, which we first visited. Proceeding to lihe house, we w«e Introduced to*Mr8. Washington, and several other ladiegi Much interest waa ^mnifes^.byMisB Und in exaniiTJ i ^ g the mementMs of tbe great man whose home it had been. A beautiful collation was spread out and amm;ed in fine toste. Before leav^, Mrs. Washington presented Jenny with a book from the ^ UtM-^,- with the n^e of Washington written by his own hand . She ^vas much overcome at jfeoeiving this pi*eeent, called me aside, and expressed her desire •to, . give something in return. " I have nothing with me," she said, '• excepting this V^tch and diain, andj will give that If you think it wUl be acceptable." I knew ; ' y w rtaft was very valuable, and told her that so costly a present would not be iipiSted, nor would it be proper. "The expense is iratiUng, compared to the value of that book," Ae rejrtied, with deep emoticm, "bat a8>tihe watch waaa |reaettt from a near friend, perhaps I should not give it away," Jeony Lind,y These gif|»were«QaMsed in paper with WHtten on «Mich. AftB* spending a l>llili>»il flm wm m ..-.■^*% -"■■■.'•" \ , TT ilMMMlBBtfiliSMii I80 ^trcCBSSFUt MAVAOBMBNT* '!\. reduced to a «ir« .mailer than hS. hZl 7„?T ^^^^**'*P^''*'^ •xpaied to View a pjei oT^v^t^^rSror' **' "^ ^ «'^«'°P« ^^nmwi in a d «^. otherwise, and was a« mli^c^lc^t ^f Z'"','**^" '*^ '""'• ^^ «' of the house, and hereThew^w ^ We had a large courtr-yard in the nwf ittopUybaUwlthmel" ' ^°" "!* '^ "* ■«* *~ »«y. 7oa ottmot^rtWKr :A.M^ :"%. •» e ) m i',£. ■ •_'"- ^. '"'Uk^^ *, .o^*"; CPAPTEB XX. UffCIDEIirra 0^ THE TOUB. »• V. Soon aftar nrlTinK in .Havana, J diiKovered that a rtrang prejrsdioe ezktoi HKainst our mwiHill eoterpriae I migift rather say that the Habaneros, not • -customed to the hii^ figim which tickets had coinmanded in the States, .v«.ere determined en to Jenay Liad In tkaX. houae it Hkmald tot oe inceo^estkbly eiimed, the -moat aolemn ' lice pnavatted. 1 have heard ttie -i » |Dn, her syee flaabed dsllMce. ead, heeoo^ing imhwvable aa a aUtuou ahe atood th«re perfectly catn and beautilal. She waa aatieSad tnaiaha. nowliad an ordeal to pttM and a victory |p gate worthy of her p ft we ra . In a moment her eye scanned the tanmenne andienee, the itiiMie bef(an and Mm* MIowed— beW ean ] daeerlbe tt'f— aocb heavenly atraiuH as I verily bslieve qiortal ae««r breathed expept Jenny UaiL and mortal aevl^.heard except from herhpa Some of tit* oldeat Ga^Maaa kept a ttv^ upon their hroW lutd a corlhig mmt upon Uielr Itpa ; their itMliaN, however, and moat of the avdlenoe began to.look aainitruMa. The goahinc ei^ody ftowed oir, tocrenrtng in beauty »nd glory,' nieaHMOirat, the «rnortH and MHoriim tt«g*n to lOdk at aaeh other^ nearly all. however, kept their , teeth cleAched. sad theu- 1^ deaed. evldea^ ibt^niaed tereslai^ to ihebMt The torrent flowed demier and (aater, the lark flew Ulber and higher, the metody grew S Cher and nander; atlli every lip' wmi cumpresaed. i^aiid by, as the rich notes cyme whing in riveni anon oar enraptured ears, one pobr critic iiiVolna^ily whispered s 'brava.' Thi« outbunitng of the aoal was itistnntly huMM downi The atceam 9! harmony ndled oa ^. at ibe cloeet it made a daaii ' sweep of every obrtweie, and earrted Ul heron H- Not a • VSMlge of oppmHlo^ reasalned, but suck a t r ssst n aoas sbel^ mX applause as weat ap I ■ever before neifird. " The triumph was inost complete. Aafi how was Jenny UM affeetedf fhe w!ho stood a lhw,mo»ents prevtoas Ilka adamant, now tretohlea like' a reed in the wind h*fo<«th« skiha of enthuatasm which her own simple notes had prodoesd Trerabltngly, slowhr, sad fiBost bowins bor-fiice to tht groend, she withdrew: .llhe roar sad mu/M* of v^ory eressed. 'TBneof«f admr^J tttoore!' came fh>m eversrUp. flto enm appeared, and eottrtisytal low, ftm wMidre# ; hit aedn, agilir asd spn dnrHBraatl her otitimd at every ajmasranoe the thniiders of applause rang loader and loqdir TIms f^ (' ituif ta4 oeUfd out to rseMve their naanlBoos |Bd daelhulag pw^dlla ^ ./ J ''^^ tOrtSt. Poprlenoyl I dMfly qrmpiAted w^fth Imt w^sn I tasai4 tlni IM Mil ^ I iadtA ofaeerveil tl» rswilofee bewinc whiG|i ihe mmmi* ^ ' . . ' . iff . t , ,T . r m ^ ^^ £ «' *n. . (. ♦« "A, • M- [fia^iMi; tSk nropjtHis bi'iHE loini. i,« tnat evfping, "« . *** "" oeaucmu in my eyes as on e.^?^lotXr'?L"S^^ Sr* '^"-^^ continued ,,,«. conoerte in Havana; but y^heTthTLT^^J^' Ju '"^'^^ ^^« *^«1-* " devoted to choritr that no «,!^^ *® ^'^'^** concert, which was » Borne of the lea^^^^ rnr"^"^ ''"* ^ Pei^mptorUy declined: il*«mtae UB ^M^forSe^Zl M '^.^^'^^^ ^^^^^e-. then offered to ssiojt^e's^of Sr^^:^ j^CoLrtoT'^r"'^^'"^^"^-^ S^LlkeptaRL^S^J^ wSchTr! J '"^'''" *^ "^ ^ livelihoodSlhoua. curiow tiJcka orrf as i w^tT^ ." «P>nning-wheel and perfbnnedsoSe -mte^Bt in his case, and S^hSr^lo'^l^bett'T^, A ^^rt'"^ ^ '•jhich she was about to trive for vh„r%T-^ ^^ apart for him m the benefit ««, JCLlnd approp.7a£d ^5^2^^^^ ^" i^5~'-dingly, when the benefit cam. for hi, retum.t;*rSi i^L^ ""^ ^ ' "^ *^« "^^--T amngemenU « Mween two hoepifels a^^a ^J^St. ""' '^'^'^' *^^ "^~ ^'"ute 1 «^tr:r':S"r;r::rdrra?dr„^r'"^--^^ oeatly dn«ed and bearing bonnei^ttenH ? h . ""^^ procession of chUdren, in then, rich and flowing r^C^12^^^^2''^ " "^ *''"'^'' ^-^^^^ ^"^^^l theyhad comotosee^i^LTod t^^Ztlt^'^^r'^''^^^'"^^^^ ^«ok th.ir message, and info mti M^TLSTha" S^eTLr '^«'-.^"«-»-««- ' ^ent had come in great state to see L X^L^ '!^, ^"^ ^1*^" ^° " repLe^ J a Y. ^^^ '^°°" «^' »' « "« "^o'^' not see them." I reta^^itZ^r and th! fT' 'i'"^ ^^^ '^'^ ' -"' went away in disappointment ' ^'^l^""^ «' tbe grand pn>ce88lo„ f^^tir:et^ul^^;tu"nhr r rS' '^^ ^ »-^«^. o' the most h.soiou. gmtoful. Miss LindCg^ne o't fir" rl^" "" "'^ ""^^^ '"'* '^'^"^^ She is such a gOMtl l«iy I w2 ^w f ^^ "'*' **^ '^ ^^'^ '««- her/ H«d f K^f .^ ,,.f,,,,;7r ;°y "'^ _^"f ' tfaat he was quite welcome to t.h« , — »ri mill til tjUli UIU PI lUBUI riTUII Mtiiarin:3^^irii:.X 7 "T - , — ' no noy. a»ver jPBoeivttd thanloi for favori. FcooMi«aitl t&«t nKualug, beomae iIm Sfe^ >- i-^ 4^4 ,■ I I I i..»,.TO ._.,„ nfe=«=i— s \ -<■- lA'ClDEXTS Of THB MK laughingly told her that Ytvakla J When J6U117 oaue ia I gpiTB her the frnit, wished to diow tor ha^LMa performing dgg^etouid turn a spinning-wheel * Poor man, poor dfBplo let him commit is aU the good creature can do for me," exclaimed Jennj^^od the trned thick and fast down her cheeks. " I 'do let the poor creature come and bring 'God like that, I lil» that," she cxmUm his dog. It will make him so I confess it made me hafm^^and I exclaimed, for my heart was full, hlesB you, it will make hi^^^ry for joy; he shall come to-morrow." I saw Vivalla the iwb6 evening, and delighted him with the intelUgemM t^-jt Jenny would see hto^ perform the next day, at four o'clock precisely.* " ^ • "I T(v411 be pupeeual," said Vivalla, in a voice trembling with emofcian; brt I «ias sure she Would like to see my dog perfonxL" / Fw fu^Ihalf an hour before the time appointed did Jenny Lind sit in her wto*' dow^ the second floor and watch for Vivalla and his dog. A few minutes Jjefbre the appointed hour, she saw him coming. " Ah, here he contest here he /- oomesl" she exclaimed in delight, as she ran down staira and opened the door to admit him. A negro boy was bringing the smaU spinning-wheel, while Vivalla led the dog. Handing the boy a sU ver coin, she motioned him away, and taking the wheel in her arms, she said, "This is very kind of you to coxiie with yxmr€ dog. Follow me. I will carr^ the wheel upstairs." Hw servant offered to take ttie wheel, but no, she would let no one carry it but herself. She caUe4 us all m> to her pdrlor, and for one full hour did she devote herself to the hiqjpy Italian. She went down on her knees to pet the dog and to ask Vivalla aHsorta of qnestioof •bout his performances, his former course of life, his frieiris in Italy, Titsd his present hopes and determinations. Then she sang and played for hlin, gave Lim •ome refreshments, flnaUy insUted on carrying his wheel to the door, and her ■ervant accompanied Vivalla to his boarding-house^ Poor Vivallal He was probably never so happy before, but his enjoyment did not exceed that of Miss Lind. That scene alone would have paid me for all my , labors during the entire musical campaign, ffllkfew months later, however the Havana corresptmdent of the New York fli»m^ounced the death of ViValla and stated that the poor Italian's last words wen about Jenny Lind and Mr Bantum. q In Qa partyvwhidi accompanied me to Havana,s was Mr. Henry Bennett, trho formerly kept Peale's ^useum in New York, afterwards managing the sama establishment for me when I purchased it, and he was now with me in tha ■I capacity of a ticket-taker. He wasas honest a man as ever Uved, anda good deal of a wag. I remember his going through the market once and running across a decayed actor who was reduced to tending a market stand; Bennett hailed him with "HaUol what are you doing hero; what are you keeniiw th^ . old turkey for? " -T^ TfrT^ "01 for a profit," repiliedth* actor. - " Freshet, pn^het f" exclaimed Bennett, ■" J^riaroh, you mean ! " ' / With all hi*"wag|^ry he was subject at times to moOds of the deepest despond^ enoy, borderibg on insanity. Madness ran hi his ftunUy His brother, in a fit of - f"»°'y' M ^^ his jOTUns ont . H ^ ry h lm iw l f hsd twlconttempted h i s o w n life while in my employ in New York. Sor 3 nM i^r our present journey tS Havana, I sent him to Lwiuion. iUreoted. writing up his aoi^ouat wi inducted my btksiness precisely ap t > Via iknpjr T*-— Vnrilng It •w ^^""■^^^="°"°°'~^~^^^^^ --^■^^ ^ I to ^e It to me whra I vrited ia LoodBn Um I IqdgingB and committed 6Uicifle^ ^P™ **" . , .^ WOIDENTS OF THE TOITB.. to^ mutual friend Iblldwing week, he hile w« w2<. «^ tT' *" "TV^^B"*" ana committed bUici others I5ien we left Havank for S^n . T^ do some damage to himself or . .Mr.JameeQordor^r^ftorSTh?ir^v\^'^^ had turned around, as uaLl^h^ !h„IS t t^°! ^ ^ P**^' ^»°«t* rua Iwaaalwayn'^UulCt^^ti^^'C^^eJr^^^^-^^^^^ tisements to my Museum. ""^ *" '^^y^'^ed an inexpensive adver- , witb . ^^, ^^^"^^^'"'^^•'"^ ^»"« came up to ni bi^°" rtl^P "^ ^"^ '"""^ ^■"■^ "" "« -^'■— •> 1 "n g„tog to U^ Wo were an aartled, tori™ knew the num and he seemed terrfki ■ I swear I urjlflHUn^* *"*'6- of our party Sm/m "^^"^ '^^^^' ^ ^^P^**^* -^ ^^h him. arid wv, "Nobody will iito a favor." ^%"' """"""^ ""^ '^^^'^ '" «^d I shall be doing the world Illations existing SwC t ^^ Td m^seT /tS^^ir ^ / "^" ' accused of his murder. I imolored him JC f . • ! l« the flrst to bi> that he wm carefully watched that iight, and InZj f 2 „. '°?*,P^ "» "" hecame calm again. He ivasl la™, tSul, ^^ ""^ ''"'^ ™ <»' «dd »nco, what I mUy Mevertet^e tL r '^^ f^ "'»°' ""O >«« ^ '-'^^^--dthaLighth^l^ioTllXp'rBS^.^""'''""'""" ^ ^ B^^ I am »u„ I can never get through that cn,wd.- »ud .he. to here'",r?.°!.'° '°'- ""-"^ '■'^°' '"■ "^ '^'^ .ad the.^ .haU^ noe^.. ' # «w»canKMre before leavijuc the ship. * Prosaea around. Ihadbeckouwl r"-^^cr tv-,. fc we were, limself or 'JWoon," 'tfe, Vera , Bennett attacked i^e adver- -^ IHOIDBSrrS OF THB TOUB. i8;^ "That's Baraum, I know Wm," called oat Mveral peraonsat tha top of tbab ▼oioes. V "^ /•Open the way, if you pleaae, for Mr. Barnum and Miss Lind I » cried Le Gnmd Smith over the railhig of the ship, the deck of which he had just reached from the wluirf. • Dont crowd her, if you please, gentlemen," I exclaimed, and by duit of push- fag, squeezing and coaxing, we reached the carriage, and drove for the Montalba buildings, where Miss Lind's apartments had been prepared, and the whole crowd came following at our heels. In a few minutes afterwards, Jenny and her com- |)anion came quietly in a carriage, and were in the house before the ruse waa discovered. In answer to iooessant calls, she appeared a moment upon tha ^''''^'*'*''^ *"" handkercWef, received J|| hearty cheera, and the crowd , A fuimy incident occurred at New OrleolFour concerts were given in the St. Charles Theater, then managed by my good friend, the late SoL Smith. 16 the open lots near the theater were exhibiUons of mammoth hogs, five-footed horses, grizzly bears, and other animals. A gentleman had a son about twelve years.old, who had a wonderful ear for music. He could whistle or sing any tune after hearing it once. His father did not know nor care for a smgle note, bulkso anxious waa he to please his son, thai he paid thu-ty dollars for two tickets t6 thejsqpcert. . . " I liked the music better than I expected," said he to me the next day " but my son was in raptures. He was so perfectly enchanted that he scaroely spoke the whote evening, and I would pn no account disturb his delightful reveriea. When the con6ert was finished we 6ame out of the theater. Not a word waa spoken I knew that my musical prodigy was happy among the clouds, and I ^Ir^^J^" *^S 1°' ^^"^ ^"""^^ ^"^ ^ ^°^« °' '"'^c. «»d considered my tmrtiy dollars as nothh^, compared to the bliss which it secured to him. Indeei I was senously thfaking of taWng him to the nfext concert, when he spokeTw^ '!!'^i!f u^""^.*?® nmnerous sho/ws upU th^ v^ca^t lots. One of the signs attracted him^ and he said, 'Father;ilet Wgo in and see the big hogi' The little acampl I could have horsewhipped himl" said the father, who, loving a joke, could not help laughing at the ludicrous incident • Some months afterwards, I waa relating this story at my own table to several guests, amang whom was a very matter^f-fact man who had not the faintest , conception of humor. After the whole party had laughed beerttly at the anecdote, my matter-of-fact friend gravely asked: "«~u««^ "And was it i very large hog, Mr. Barnum f » of ^ZS!iT^T°** ^^^ *^^ *^P*^ °' *^« "P^«°<*id steamer " MagnoUa.- MemSi^r^ Btipulating for suflident delay in Natehez, Mississippi, and S . JI«I^^I T*' v*^''***^''*^^««*P^- It waTnoimusuS tiling foJ " me to charter a steamboat or a special tmin of care for our party. With^^ enterprise aa that, time and comfort weropanmiomit to mo^ W^*^«°<*«» ~ V«l^* -l^T** *?' «^«rwa8 whiled away In reading, viewing tiie scenery or tne MiasisBinni. nnH nihav hi^o...:;^ r»«« ^— _ ^TTi -^ ""°«~«Mi«jr One day we had a pleasant" mutd nwl f cstiTalifr tbajadietf f i tUg im ;;.untee.duising^tHoutce^^-^SS2^S^ be/ore J alno did my l>est to amuse my follow passengers with^^oteH^ the exhibition of lAndry legerdemain tricks which IkJ been obZTtoL^ a»d Ma. to the Somii yea« bdfox^ aad und«# fiir diffei^^S^S^tS f; *Mi '•4'^ (. ^v- f ''*'v^ 1 lilijHi ■■■ ■1 m ■mm ■1 HHn rtl I p i F' " ■!" ■ ' " '"■'^ i^ 1 « p r^ i. ' 1 'l^rf ; <»•' ■ ^ ^ - . '. '■■ i ■* ■,',■:» ' r ■1 y ' 1 '-'«' '■-? ", » '^ ■' T ' ' ■ ..>. V • \ - - - -> * ^^^^^ ^jja^jj^^aj^Aj * . « ■ ■' -.V„,V;. ^ X .. , ,. _ f » I - y., ''' iT,jr>"-iw'v»"r"-r''jJn]ipJ(iiim7"' 'T "*v ^ *v IMAGE EVALUATION TE§T TARGET (MT-3) k A // 46 '-FA \*% X' '* 1.0 I.I m u m |Z2 , IL25 i 1.4 M 1.6 Photographic ^Sciences Gorporatiori ^ £^ 33 WIST MAM STMIT «mSTm,N.Y.ll4SM (n*)i7Mio» 4p> ^^rd,tfaat tlM EW.wtththe ItheooloMd mum, but I 1 to see 1m* yon oaado fiefors th* IhKvUM UsbgK«ii>, IntlM baiv ot Iluk^ r.bd£t'a« •s.*- ^ J-' ■■*...-.■*■■ OHAPtEB XXt lEKKT LIKD, :-,f ■„i >.. rformliM d; I will N % iwhaitto inatioD. ;-^*,- AaMIBMiQ to agrMiueul, ilw " Magnolia " waited for ite vHlbitefaH aad Viil% aad we g»ye pn^tabto ccmorartB at both places. The oonoert at Memiriito I was the riztieCh in the Ust ilnoe MIm Und^ arrival fai America, and the fln* eoocert in St I/mis would be the aixty-firBt When we rrached that city, on the| " w ra i n g of the day wlieo our first ocmoert was to be given. Miss Lind's secratarf ? " -'iWf'* *° "•• «»»nii"faHi«d, he said, by her, wid announced that as sixty oonoert* Bid already talun piaoe, i^ proposed to avaU herself of one of the conditions '^ ''DoesMiHLindaatlunrittyoutogiTeineidiiisiiotioet'' :j.l 4^:**! ■» understand it,** was the reply. I immed ia tel y reflected that If our contra^ Wis tlras saddhnly canceled, MkH lind was bound to repay to me all I had paid her over the stipuUted $1,000 tat sadi oonoert, and a little calculatlcm showed that ^ sum thus to be paid back was 977.000, sinoe die had ahwdy received from me 1137,000 for sixty oonoerta : InlUs view, I ooold not but tUnk that this was a n;se of some <»J*»d to him about U>e wheels within wheeh" which moved this great mudcal ' Miterprise, and asked and gladly accepted his advfoe, which mahily i^ BflMt d »rith my own views of the situation. I tlian went back to the secTdS'i : ^niatly told him thai I was ready to siMila with Miss UuSi and t&Sm engagements "But," saU b^ manifestly "takon abMk," "ytm hava aliWMfar ( •onoarts in Louisville and andnnatl, I beUeva.* ^<^ ••Yes," 1 re|>lied; " but you may lake my OQBlracta for halls and prlntinff otf lay hands at cost" If^utheraaid tiMi he waa welcome to thaasdataneeof my 5 •««* "wi»h«ln>«l» these arraagaBMots, and, moreover, that I would dtoerfuDy . Si^niyme «77nnft 7^ 'or tJje amomre one iim connections at onca" * '**' •"** ^* ^' «»<« oax iR^nesa "But why not make arnew^arraneement'' tiAnri-f^ *i c..jts^mo^,,.,,^--^-^^^^^ W .^roSJrS^'fSt^ "andhe«„«,l gives me. I have volma^y^ 'Tj^^i^^^^ originaUy contou^ted to ppy ^he^or „ sht^i^S f^ ''^'^ " ">»»<* as I enga^withme. Now.Tsho L ioT^t^ST^ w"^^"" '^^^ «»»« A^ finaliy. If you do not bkig me her deSSliiw k^*'"" ^^^^'^ «»d morrow morning." aecision to^y, I shaU go to her forlt ter secretary to cancel our agreement or to I>nring our stay at St Louis. I deliver.>«l „ . , , Md. at the close, among dther ^m^Jtlhl mJ "^ '**™' ^ "^« *^^, Sol Smith. ^ "Uncle £l" al ^^one ^^llf"' "^'*™y ^'end and adviser fci-tlma HewasanexceUent^2eZ/t^l,^''"*''^°'"«»'a«»°terii^ In 1854, he published u. autobio^;SS ZLp^ JTT^ '"'* " '*^«'-- I venture to copy: . *^ ™^^ P*"***^®** by a dedication which #' "Orso* /wiprewaWo; Whilst you wem #.T,m.«^ i I^WT You may remember that in tliis citv (fit r^niJ^ t _. ^ your • legal adYimn-,' an.i. as mxcbTu^L^lJlT^' 1 acted in one ln,tan<» «. • V^ti^am of your contr;ct StSrT^ji 8^^r^<"»;"^ '"''' ^ «>• the Various modification, cWmed by th^n^tebTelSl ^f T'^ " "«'' " you after her arrival 'n this com4: which mXaS tongrr be a secret) secured to her-be^des the oHo^V f « ^ ""^^^ '' need no . doUar. for every concert, attenda^.^^^t:'^^^"^^.'^^ ""' ^« '•^'>"«°'' ' r^"^?^ ^«^:.-:;»"-^«^^ and a pompou. Lhatf ^^h a profit* afe^^aP ' ^.'■^^^MttJ^, A ' lOQtre one ms our bosineai r, "tor fifty '■ 1^000 per ndbecansel tbo contract I inUch as I eo she Brst rtantly and er tor it tty n if he had 't, and that latl^ould « he called ^ent oily as •rogramme ™», nor at at she had meat or to theater, d adviser, "•acter in % lawyer. ioQ which ui news- Answer: Bamiun, At all to make ian<« as «U ths well as '' 1 to by leed no lousnnfl )nipous you on iiniiist an tbs jrn m % 'X / II ' -. ,-' ^ >-.N,- ,^ N ♦* >;:ii m ,t% .J» : 1 ■ « ' i- ■ ^-'-■-_ 1. 4 ir \ ^ -'.>!»- ' ' ' * - ' - t ^^ « '-.* • ■-■*-■ ■ • -"' ■ ' p*5r •- * « - ■ - * 1 ^- JUTJri LUTD. 193 > mpim aim to-kvsll Hmmmt «( on* of t^ attiNUMloas la ««r •«» ttM^ tD, break off«t the end et » hnndxed al^ts, aad eVM biMicht out eeren t that Iknadnd— eappoelnc that ehe ooodd go on «Ubout your aid ae yf^ as with It And yon oaonot but remembw, iow. like a tocket-stlpk she dropped, when j^nr b wiln e— oonn^oUon with her ended, and how she 'flaied. ont' the Mmatnder ot her concert nights In thla part of, the woidd. and eoon atterwaidi Wtired to her domeatto bllMltude m Sweden. , "Ton know, Mr. Bamum. If you would only tell, which of the two It waa that {^aa 'for-getttng,' and which 'forgiving;* and you also know who aotnaUy gave the larger poison of thoae snmswUcii yon heralded to the world as the sole gUta of the 'dlTlne Jenny.' -. ''Of aU your speeolatlons— from the negro centenarlna, who' dliliiH nurse Qm- .inl WaAlngtoa, down to the Bearded Wonum of Oenoa— theie was not oae Whi«h required the exercise of so much humbuggeiry as the Jenny t4M eoncsKtoi •nd X Terlly beUoTe there Is no man living, other than youzaeU, who oouM, 0^ would, have risked the enormous expandlturo of money necessary to carzy then tlurongh euooessfuUy-travellng with sixty artists, four tkousand miles, and giving ninety-three concerts, at an actual cost of torty-flve hundred dollars each, is irtiat no other man would have undwtaken— yon aooompllshed tk\ls. . , * pointed by the opwaUon but Uttlelesff than two hundred thousand d^Uan t Hr, Aamua, yon are yourself, alonel N c «i iionor you, ohl Great ImpresBarlo,^as the most successful manager la kmerfoa or any other country. Democrat, as you are, you can give a praottcal lesson «> tha aristocrats of Xurope how to Uve.^ At your beautiful an^ whenever opportunity offers, upon the monster Intemperance. Your labors In his great eanse alone should enUtte yod to the thanks of all good men, women ud ohUdrsn in the land. ICr. Bamum, you deserve all your good fortune, and I hope you may long live to enjoy your wealth and honor. ' 'As a smaU Installment towards the debt, I; as one of the community, owe fott, and with the hope of affording yoti an hour's amusement (If you can spare that amottm I&^3^; "^ ■^ ^^ OLOSB^dip THB OAMPAIOir. M-» «««t totlu, editor. wiU*^^n!^ ous mwmer. to obtata a lot of hu«w ?' "^® mtaohlef. He manamd. In aomVmvSSJ the offlcee In this clty^ Snd ttie5'tS^t^*«™£*''« despatches and eS^lo^ ft^^^'^: fence ' for mo« of tfie pSniM^m^iSJ^hA illS* »?">«««rt««Hl •asto^uidl^iSSSM totheoompanyWelTeda tei««»«iKfi5* . f ^''^^ ^^^ swJte. Almost oTerf tw^^L ■urn received soma extraOTSliai •on™*! J^^Jolced or «' th^h- hitention " panonalnews. "■^•••*''""P'«»*w»«ft»eomattaia fall K«M •..t-.t.i • . 1*9 . > Mid woaid watt l«Bo^^ « >CTMj.fJ7?^ ;-.v/ H If i 196 OLOSl OF THl OAMPAIQN. Oinctaaui^ iirfnonbowdtt»ilMrt«un«."B«ft«jato-h^ « rtteoq.^ to reiH^fc the New Orle«» ruae with ,^?^^ k7?^ "^***8*^ her to have no fean for Ihadhlt upon S exD^teat wMJ would «ve her from «moyanoa We then deecendedTe JLTJfl asifheh«lbe«oneofthe passengerB, "That's no go, Mr. Bamum- voao^ pa» four daughter off for Jenny Lind this time." • «»™um, you oan-^ ^^H^r^^^^"^^ You may fool the New OrieaiSwE but J^2f ^S,**I^ *** 'Buckeyea' We intend to stay be«3Ctafa« «*J«ny IJtadI" They readily aUowed me to pass with the h^ wC^ J^jjed to be noy dai^hter, and in five minutes afterwani. the SSSs^ oompUmenttag Ifc Col«nan upon the beautiful and ^mmodioTZS^ which were devoted to her In the Burnett HousA "« ■iwonente fcpassInguptherivertoPittBbuiK, theboat wwted fourhouMtoenaUeusto give a oonoM-t at Wheeling. »"«" w wiaoie uito At Pitteburg we gave one concert 2^ imd Metropolitan HaU. The last of these made tiw^nlnety^dV^ Mj^imder our engagement. Jenny IJnd had now «galnrS»iZ^S«! Jb«^lu,r legal and otiHor " adviseiB. « and I soon dis^^ taflu«oe^ I, however, cared little what course they advised herto^S. iZ Je«^^«rtshed they would prevaUupon hertodose ^thherhui^ had bj«ome weary with conrtant exdtement and m»^tSSJ^r^ ZS? t::'^^Uir ^^^^^ «>»<-«« on herTTa^'f r.ai « £ orwiit her adviser*' assmranoe that I had not managed the entintli^ folly fs It might have been done. -^wi^w »» enterprtw •» «poos» lar^ and terminate the concerto with the one hundredth. •'^;^ "*"»«» «>»- -inlfvCtK"" ^"!!?**^*'' ''^^^ ^ had^advertised the nlnely^hird and amety-foprth concerts. Not caring enough for the profits of the remalni^ •even conoeji« to continue the engagement, at the risk o?^uS S^S £2.ST^in!lli^«' ^^i °"^"*^ ^ '"^'^ ^ «i«agemeSrif^, taaforfiiture fw dodng the engagement at the one hundredth concertTmta ^ •fferAe accepted, and our engagement terminated "concert, inig -Hwl ^ ST.IEZlr?'^ r**^ ^"** ""«*«• and then retired to - ^]^!;f^,^J^!^^ While sojour^ ISJl*' tatter pl.<». die virited Boston and w«i manied to Mh^^. ^ ^ • ^rwT SI"H imoffaniiv* gnUMiMa, and X ^ oiMi Of m oAXFAXcnr. ^ 197 te wfWil tiniM after oar «ngi«Miieiit tanniiMtod. Slwwualwan ^ C-.U "^.°°?**<*^«'''"^ !*•■»»« tt»«>««hBridgpp^ b«l been >KUyharM»d in giving her oonoertat " I^ple chert me and ■windla JIM yeiy much,'' add ihe, "Mul Pitod It very aniK^ying to g^^ w' ^-i'*'^ ropplied with oomidimentBiy tioketB when ijhe gawooiujerci fa HwrYont, and on the occasion of her last ^ipearanoe in Ainericasl\iiited bar mh» room bade of the stage, and bade her and her hurtand adiep, with my bS '"*•■• ^•"•'PWi'ed the same fueling to me in return.^ She told me AethonW wnreridngmaoh, if any more, in i^Wic; bat I reminded her that a good Vtavt OMoe had endowed her with a voiee which enabled her to oontribato in an emi Mat degree to the enjoyment of har feUow beingi, and if ahe no longer needei !r?,l?2!,'"™" **' ™°°*5' ^*^** *^y ^"^ ""^^^^ to pay for tWa eleTatbuc ^A d•lljJt^^l entertainment, the kneW by experience what a genntoe pleaeme *• wooW reodva by devothig the mofey to the alleviation of the wanta and eorrowa 'w those who needed itk 1 ' \ ;• Ahl Mr. Bamnm," she replied " that is very erne; and it would be minato^ fd In me to not continue to use, for the benefit of the poor and lowly, ^dft ijiiioh our kind Heavenly Frthei^ has so gnidously bestowed upon ai YeTl frtU oontfnuatosing so long as m^ voice lasts, bat it will be mostly for charitable ^I^^*™**'"'*'^ *° say^ I have all the money which I shallever ^ JT^^ *° *^ resolatidn, the larger portion of tile ooncerta which thi^nol^ lady has given shioe h^ rotam to Barope have been for objeotao< venov^denoei ^^^ If she consents to stag for a charitable object In Londoo, lbrfastwlo^ tiia i^^ Moot advertised at all, bat the tickets are readily disposed of ta a private odafc •my, at a guinea and half a guinea each. ■^''^ After so many months JBIinfl^ Utrp .CONOBRTS. TOTAi. BioiirTs, ixoanuia N*w Tork , M M M .«17,884. •••••<••....... 14,S08«0B lt,Sl».W 14.866.09 a 174.74 .on.w 19.479.S0 11818.08 8,689.98 10,I69.S6 6,686.54 10,BM.87 mil M .'V.** •••••••••••• 7.B86.00 PlilMelphto 9.^.86 ifin.OO ' 1J6- 4.009.70 5,969.00 8,007.10 «,884.i» 9,489. la •,918.17 u ProTldeniM Boaton ... M U W « •eoe ••••••••••• .•••e*««>*««a*«« •*•••■•• ••••••■•■ IMOSBTS DarOTSn T< < iUIIITT;^ 0.81. NeW.York M. " 8B. •' 81 " 87. 89. " iU PhiladetoUa. as. " ^^. 88. •' 84. • ' •• • • • • M.Bdttinflie ..::::::::;:::::: r u N ••.%••••••«••. 88. " ... 59. WMWagtoaoitr.. ..'.'!;.*::. ii. Alohmond 48. Oh^rletton .ii.'.'.i.'.".''!*!' 48. " ......I.!..!!!. 44. Hav»u« ,. ,'.,.,.'.*.''.'*' i«6. Hsvaiui , 4T. treworifaiw .., 4.998 BO 8,870 18 9,840 88 7.097 15 8,968 80 10<9I0 96 10.646 46 8,480 75 8.788 85 t.709.88 4315.48 7,117 00 8J57 06 8^'406BO 8,18188 8.878 56 85i6rflr 18,885 81 6^775 00 8,n8 76 4,mi7 M87.9« ini 88 19^ OMBl Of TSl ptiXPAiciy. 81. 84. 8S. M. or. k . . 8,181.15 • ••• •••••;..., 6,010,85 <•••••..•••.... 5,644.00 •• vfi^h't. 0,780.80' • 7,546.50 ^••••f ••••«••»• 1^058.50 ••••••••••••••*« 4,860.96 •!•••■•., 4«4&6.85 f, .••••'V*** 6,680.85 ^.*.L.i_ •.•••••• .'. 4,746.101 W. Mmphk...: 4,569.86 M. BtLonit.. .7,811.85 • ••• ••••*•.. 7,061.M ••*•••••••••'•«...,. 7,706.70 ~ iiii~ ^ •*••••*•••••••••••• 4^066.60 S' w<.v-nt. ••••» 8,044*. 70 » ««|hvlll» , .^. "7,786.80 «, l4)iitoYUto...^ 7,888.90 25^ f. •••••••••••.••.... 6.6S|5«60 **• - ...6,000.00 «1. M . Mk M M Mr «. cE«ti::::::.::::;::::«SjiB« ■S' .> 11,001.80 St It '••••••••«•••«. 8^446.80 ™- „ •.,•••..,....;.. 8i954.18 H- filiSJ^ ^000.00 79. N^wYork ,... 6,808.48 80. 81. .•••••••■•.,,.,, 6,458.00 I,. • 6,4n.70 '^ •••"•••••••••.. 7,878.80' „ ••*»•••«......., 7,179.47 ' ^ ••••.•...•,^.,.. 6,641 00 ^ •••'•••••-•••.••. 6,917,18 ^ • 6.648.04 1^ ••.•<•••.•• .... 8,788.78 u .'*•• ......4,^B,8i u ^ ••••••»• * fSKSS „ •••«'..., J6,7tl7.00 08. pwtad6iphto::::::::::::::igS:S 84. 86. 86. 87. 88. 80. 9a 91. 99. ■niBB fni'kh«ii«.-JL-^I„n_"J.'!.^^"™"*i, "w xprk and.Pmladalphla, and donatad lana v T^Tf^ZTiJuty"' ™"^««»i ««w urieani '■ tti' ' >» ••^^ I , , BBOAPmiLATIOII. noLAnauaiA ....... . a '* Bowow.... ....... J....;;.... 7 w BALTIlI»«a 4 Waioinstoii..... i fiwwrarD ..I, .;; 1 Niwoauuw .ji fl*™"" 1 ^*?'"**' •••«.•• •«••.. 1 af.lMVU ,,, 5 VAManuM...,, „. g /w^" * OnromvATi ,„ 5 WaMMUKQ n ..*".! 'nnumM..... •, i M it . " 48,884.111 •♦ 70,888,16 *• 8.888.B4 •• 88,101.88 •* 16,886.60 •* • ,19,886.81 •* 10,488.75 . * 10,486.04 •* - 87,646.18 " 80,618.67 . •* 19,084.80 ^ 19.489.60 " 8,698.96 " 44,94fc.U« * 6,000.00 7,810.68 M M atmaw, «8,m.e8 6,110.66 .10^065.48o 18,885.91 8,914.87 8,478.68 7,808.84 8.476.60 8,898.96 8.000.00 7jn0.66 *J*^ «BCoirowM. BnoBFM, 1718,181.84 ATni«a, •7.408.41^ ' r .M / 7 JBNNt Ii^*8 RE0BIPT8. ^ ^e«t th« tMtt BiMffpta of Nlnatf-flve Oonoerta ft7,067.uB n^„J*«fi^**'P*iKpo?«*^'«>»No. Ito No.98....;... •ssq.oim m. '^hU*SL&^'«S.«.« ^•^^'*'' -•* °V « Atoodaduot 16,600 A«rarif-tt.iWiiktai^66 Coi.: »^"«'«"» •^™^*"" •• •'•^ .-... 867,600.00 480,811,16 LMTlnftka total ....... ....a.,... I- " '^w'Ji^ "*'■ •••''> 0' »»• w» uoncerta , nim-bair tha rwMtpta of the flnt two Ooncartg ....k 4 ^pjUd Msr Si;0O9 ttW.8M,ll »«»»'«Nw>^«-' « »'lm », irt 08,0W 00 ia,o».5( |IQai«7».88 r.?sCii* -*. y. aAwoMirsrQM rMtipit,lft73liiiw iiJiiiii':::;:::;:;::::: •:;;:; flJ854 . ^^Bamniamoimm^ u'^ZZZZ^ USSLh \' • ^ r < ^ ' ' ''' ' ' • . ^ > - ,v , •" ■ .' ' . ' * . . ♦• . " ' ' ^ ' ' • . \ ' , ^ • • . --, - " \\ . .■= ^ .- . V, ■;•■■ ■/•->, .' .^ ".-\-' ■. ■ - , . .-■.... . J>- - . * ■■■•■'- ■ ■ "a • 1 ',"'■■ "*^ '' ' , ■■■ .. . . •■ -» ' • . V " . ■'■- '■'■''. ' ' i- ■ . - . ' .'• ■■;;,:>,■ ^ .... -■ ■ ■ ; -■■' V #v».. .; - . '. ;.'' . J ' , ■> -- . -. ■ :'.;"' • ■'--■■...',' « • . , . - ^ ;-• . ■ ■ '.'^ .■...».■■. .^ :■ ... - "• y ■ I %^ ^ i^ . >.. .. ^^ ■,■ . .■ ■■ _ ^-^ . ^^ ■• f^ ..' ■■"","- .i ....''-■■•■ '-T ;:.;'■■■;■,-.. ,.'3fc.=»;' i' .„.--,..' t-. .„"v_:.!:, ■ " "• *•'" t. -_ ■ ..,,■■■■ ^ •>.;;:^ -'.- ; ^/ :-..-...•;.>.■_......,.■ .. .. ._, ' • .^*d- ! OHAPT&K XJtllL . U * OTHEB BISTTEEPBISES. •iMttaJ'topMtiierBliip.UMintewrtheiiigJnthlrihL iranu., wm rto . • JM1-. Their nihd> < adverttae- irlng m.T lOrient*! layclos* eper was be busilf he eutij'4 )f people upon nis encieti^ thei K. i'p*r-r, . I .\ ' » ■'t*v ?#t. » ' ■ . 1. : ' 1< ^^;^ .f^"" -,r:^f:W >*.4i? tit » >)warIlMd pot JBopenrtilonan nqrflurm. ; lifled, but Ite "goMnl nm" of tiMin wen ■ft"»««»*«y lilw th» fbUowtagt L " b tha dflphaat a proBtebto agrioalkinl aaima^r*^ & "Etewmodica^aaeleiihaBtplowlnadigry'* r & "HowmoohoMihe drawt" feryinqportant om^ ^^ ^ . 8. **Wm«lfl|ihaotiiiiidwtlMmnlTngnenai7iM«Ciilona & 'fWhatlstheprloeaCanekqjluuitf . 7. "Wb«reaanelsphantibe puiduMedt** . Thanwoold ftdkwr > loore of other InqiririMr ■nA a^ wJuAi^ iJ* l*B » rt ff ^riit «adfy managed; if tii^ would quarrel wtth cattle; If it ma pOHilda to fenei liwm; liow old calf elefiMiiti mart be before th^jTwoold earn their own ttvlMt and io on indeAohely. I becen to be alarmed leet aoma osm dioaU bv^M elephant, and eo afaare th» fli$e of the man who draw one in a lottery, and did not know what to do with him. I aooor^ini^y had a genetnl letter piinted, .which I mailed to aU my anxiooainqairara It waa headed "ataiotlyeoafldan* lial," and I then atated, begging m7oorreai)andaata"nottooMntlonlt,''tliat to Bte tiie dephant waa a valnable agriooltana animal, becanae he wm an asoelleut •d^ir^ament to my Vnaanm; bat that to other farmeta he would prova y«rj aqaradtaUe for many reaaooa. Inthaflratplaoe, audi an animal woaldooat&«iB •8,000^to 910,000; in oold weattMr he oonld not work at all; in any weatlMr ha oould not earn eyenhalf hiaUving; he would eat iq> the vafaia of hia own haa^ ' pnmk, and body enry yaar; and I begged my oorraapoodeniB not to do ao fool- Irii a tiling aa to mtdertaka elafdiant farming. Newqpaper rqportera oame from Car and near, and wrote |^lowii« aeooaila of ttMetephaBliaeperformanoeak Pkstaraa of Barmunli plowii« ekfihanfe ^lieand fai iUnatrated papera at homa and abroad The aiz aoraa were plowed oirer at leaft alzty tfanea biidn I thoDght die ad««r» Uaemeot nflksieBtlyolroalated, and I then aold the elephant to Van AfflboigMi Menagerie. In 1861 I beoame a part owner of Idie ateauMh^ "Korth ^dbnerfoa.** Ow Intention in baying it waa to ran it to Ireland ae a paaaenger and fro^lit **ffk The project waa, however, abandtMied, and Oommodore ComeUna VanderUlft bought ona4ialf of the ateamar, while the other half waa owned bj thiae penooik «( whomlw^aqiM, Hie iteamer waa aent around Oapa Horn to San FkaaolnoL and waa pat into the VanderUlt Una. After die had made aeveral trlpa I callad upon Mr. VandartOt, aft hli oAoa M« fcilpxluoed myaalf, aa thia waa tiie Ibrat time wa had mai ^ "la it poarible yon are Barnum f eynlaimad the Commod(»a, in aurprlMw "why, I expeotad to aaa a mooater, part lion, part elephant, and a mlztniv of Ainooaroaandtigarl IaitpoaBihla,"ha oontinued, "that ToaarathaahownMi jlrtio haa made ao mndi n<^e in the wMUt" I laughingly rapUad that I waa, and added tiiat if I too had bean gowned III my antidpatioB of hie peraooal ^ipaaranoe hjthaCaina ha had aohierad la hto llaa,Iahooldh *T aaiiiaetadtohavabaana»lnftadby>at>mwfcfaM%aMt »ia^ that'a going. " "Inatead of which," replied Mr. Vanderbilt. 3Mi *l» «irik W to tlH Ctaflitaf* OTHBB BOTBBPBISBS. ' .a.e «.ce^ for thepubllc^ SSnt n^?Z^ *^. *°^ ^°^ inZSyJ autonwton writer. ^ rnTyo her o^? T^*^ °' ^^ Houdii, Vta^ioS at aa expense of iaoT^ ^*"^ cAiriodties for the Museim, t^STT Pv;a»r ^7^- •*^w*, a panoramic dioramn «/ ♦!. Z ««weuin. t ordered, 5 f^ event of that grand paeeanTLT^ u "^ obsequies of Napoleon. Hel«ja, to ite entcMubSTt at^^^Sot^Td^ wTJ"'**^^ *>' "» bod/^fSi P«ade ever witnessed in v^Zl Invahdes, amid the most JLr^^ •fter having had iX^2rSeri^T''^""^'^P^^ ^nSK! profitably exhibited eli^^' ^H^waslT T ^'^^ "^ ^-teiSrely «d «;2^ a company of ''CampaU^o?^^,*^'^ t>erfonningin Ireland, to make WaSL^ Lancashire Bell Ringer*,'' th^u Parfonners, and by means SZ^n^^rb^;. ^J '^ "««?^Snl«S elderly a.a ingenious Oe.-ml.XZlTJ'"''^- ' •^•''^ »^ber. «, WM Of lire.«ize. ana when worked wUhv **""""*^»«'' «° automaton speaker ^ ^tloulate. words ana sen.enerwir ,^^211 " f ^^ «' * Pi-o^r^au" ."tor sever*! months in %yp«an Hall/S«i i^T"''*' ^"^ '^°* «»^WteJ w« a marvelous piece or mochanlBm.Sjt Z '° "^^ ^'^^''^««- ^^»- It did not prove a success. The Duke of WelSll ""^ "naooountable r«uK,n « first he thought that the "volci" fcr^^L!"'^ " "•^«'*» times, anj -umed to te a skillful ventrlloqu,?t ^T^Z^T '*'' "'•'"^'' '"'o™^ own fingers, and. after some InsiructL ,!T *° ***""'■ -*•• ^•^ with his u> make the machine speak, n^^nlyt LnshTf"^. "' "^""'"' »"« ^" •"« language the Duke seemed famH^ Si^r J'"* '"° *" ««™*''' ^t*- which «hlblu>r'. autograph book, and^nmed 211^ .'. .^' •°'««^'^'- name on tS "C m:d7''~'"°"°''^' "'^'^-"-^^^^^^^^^ "'° "^"" ^ "> I^ndon. Plsla^d^LT^^iMblf '*'n!l '" *^" ^"^ IV^lytechnlc InstltuUen te ••D-lvln. Views... the^olri. .Lrirp:^?^""'*' = •'-o dup..cat::Tti: ~n «ene, painted expressly to mnCr.f^'r'*' '"''*"''°« »«/ Amerl- tter had jH^n exhibited In my Mu^^m' tJev^!!'^** '^^ °' •'•«». After . -^»..f .em we. anerwa.. . ShSo^ r-Sou^ ^lIl^T^S In Jun» *-" ' - IjfM, I * dwmen. United out of >t two ' THB INDIAN RHINOCEROS* (106) -r-V- € i^-lf i -^x .-,r A % , , „ •• ■■ ^ ' ■ r ■■^^,7T^ ■ "1 k~ Pm"^ ■- r.-% ■ . - ^ ■■- .1 • iv ' . ^■ * -■. . ) - - m » «". r ♦ y - \ ■ .-;r. .* » ■ * ■■ ;, • ' ^'k i '"'As-' " .4 .;«.,<•. ,_ .<;^' ... • onriBB BirrEBPBiBBs. 207 lj»*"ltaB*i %*lioBi i Mat to Auudoa were aob the pvateik of «7 oariorttte : ^MiQi^ the dwarfb might have been this leaat Hie " Sootdi Bots" iv«» faitep> eiWng, not k modh on amount of their wei^^t, aa for the myrterimis method by wWoh one of them, though Uindfol.led, answered queetioDs pot by the other Wfl[jecting objects preeented by peiwos wh^ attended the muprising exhiUitioao I The myatory, which was merely the result of patient practioe, onuUied ^rtudlj in the maaiur in which the question was propounded; in ikct^ the qwwMoit invariably carried it»own answer; for instanoe: " ^— ™«-^ "WbatisOiisI'' meaiMigold; ''Now what is this? " sOvvr; "IhiywluitiitiiW* copper; "TeU me what thiirisf" iron; "What istheshapef» long; "Nowwfaaft ■hapef " round; "Say what shape," square; "Please say what this is," a watc&s M akey; "Comenow, what is this?" money; "How. much! »» a penny "Now horwmuohf'' sixpence; "Say howmuch,''.a quarter of adoUar; "Whatooloris *hisf»bla«5k; "Now what color is this?" red; "Say what cokn-,'' green; and so ai^i^nUum. To such perfection was this brought that it was almost impaa- •^ to prsKsit any object that could not be quite dosdy da«»llted by the Wirf. foUedboy. This is the key to all exhibitiIra]iistan and were present at the marriage of my eldest daughter, Oaroline^ to Mr^ David W.ThoniTifion. The weddfaig was to tahe plaoe fa ^eevwdng, and in the afternoon I was getting shaved in a barbershop hi Bnatmart, y0m Mr. Iho ipmii drove tq> to the doo>* Hi gnat haito aad I "Ifr. iBaninm, banJabaakiln flamesi* ' I rtt oath|Uf4ihaved, with the latiier on my «»^ l!?*J^f*^^*^ 7**** ■"■»***• Iwas greatly alarmed, for thehcwiawa. Tr who had come from a distance to alOmd the ^ Iding, and aO Mha •eetty present^ dresses, refreshments, rnd everything prepared tar a marriaaa •alstarstion to wnich nearly a thousand guests had been i^ivlted, wareabea«rhi «qr house. Mr. Itompaoo told me that he had seen the l^niei boreting ftWW '^•00*, and it seemed tone that thero was little hope (tfsavtDg the bnildli^ My mta d was itiati issii, not so mucfaat the great pecuniary k)ks which the da. Mro^tfon of Iranii*anwouM Involve, as at the possibility that some of my tataOw crvlrttora wnwUlia kUlsd or swiondy Injured in ■ifiiiiMi^ ^ mt^ r wMlhliia UtttHpiW OK mrn^ dlsaivtaClSiiiltt^^^Sr oanse tottejwag couple, aa weU as to those who were iBilt^ i anrlMl Mr. flM«iM»lQakid IV*'* r-^ --■*'''---■ -~— » &m € '■;»;'" ^^»»,_ iiki > 5 n X- \ OXHEtt ENTBBPBI8B8 buckets of ^ter to pour upcTSe ^ S^,« ? .*" *^ ^'"^ ^^"^ Pamdhi; J-gaged during ti^ed^y in re^tSLf^f^^^V^^^ "«° **2^ fcouse. By these mean^ and ^Tae^^^i'Jr^'*""''"^'^ grounds, water ,.as passed very rapSr^S I^"""'' ^^'^^^^ "P<>" "^/ out serous damage. ITie inmati of T^ni?^ ^^ "^ *^" ^*^"«d witi*. O^therne H^r^doth:r?^le^rS2Z\.**^':;'':f^^ out o. the lawn; and the house c^^Hs^^dlSr •"^^<*«°» ««^«I •scape. ^^^^^ destruction as it well oouM, and' Jarmmg ground. The landfor this ceme^^Ti A? ^'°**°' *^ i-^ bought by me, y«ar. before. tror^Z^^^^^j T^^^^J"^ ^ »>*« ground while hunting a vea^ or ^o H/ **^«"' ' had often shot over tha capabilities for the^^T ^^,^^™' '^^ ^ ^"^ '^ ^^ BdmirM^ thep.^pertywen,Srt^ff-^fo!?^y,'^«^*^ After deeds f^ citizens several lots^JBrTsuL^^ f a cemetery, and at a meeting of ^t^e puh^base monT ^^^ S^^'Z^^t^'^, ^^^^ «^-^ which is now beautiftiy laid ouTLrS^rn^' J^"^ Gro,^ Cemeter,," monuments.* Among Wiese ai^ my o^^^^"^?.,*""^ «»<»«*«y family monuments of Harral Bishoo a,h^uT S^*^ monument, the Hyde, and others, and (wS'Tom SnS 1?^^°^^*^ ^'^""^ Wonil^ I. HurmountJS^a m^S^^^t'^t"^^^^ <»« -arhle durft S ground in the whole comitry; yet wLTZ^Lw *^ """^ '**'"*°^ »»«*•>• preferred an intennural ^nX tolL ^^tlT" '"^'^"^ »>any perio*. friends; though now aU co?^^ ^iSt'S^P^ 'or their depart^! ;^to Bridgepo. befo™ .e -d^S ^e'S^Ll^^^::;^^ £;:':>ht:tC;:Ce:i:^fS?r^^^ ^Hd^. era. returned with niefi^ En Jwi ? Bridgeport. When the General Bridgeport ChariLS:S^St^£;tmK l^TnT^^ benefit of iS •rtth Commodore Nutt and Wn^W^Vt ^' L^"^^ and his wlfl, benefit of the Bridgeport Li3J. th^S^ H^ ?^ entertainment tor tbi tlon; and on one oaaSon. I l«rtT^ f^ ^T? ^'^'^ *** *** '^ds of that instita- \ ■■* :'PJi.' . ...5^6 >■_.' » ♦ ."^TfJ * '- ^ ' : '\ a to "hunyup umesof amoba e were paasiq^' men bbd been ere a^iajnst the >yed upon my subdued witli> ly frightened; them carried ell oooId,and' >noerfe ilar th* were ^voted atmcdof that es, had bMo Bhot over tile ts admirable W deeds for I meeting qf ttie HnaooBrt Cemetery," J andoosOy lament* tlis »i8,Wordl», abaft which ningboriea- anyperwxta >irdepart<>d uijuQct wao ed to othtv Brid^poit^^ I may add ^umb, and he(3eneral leflt of thn idhiawifb. mtfor tbi iurdi,aiMl idy « Ufc f' * ^ • ^ 4 4. «. - • ' • V. , 1 i'_ ■ . -h ' «*/ • " ■ i • ■■■" '^ ^* % 4P ',4^ ' ' . " % r / . . \< . t . .j^- .•c^ ^- V- - • ' ** ■f^ OBULPTBR ixiV. woiCk aud plat. In tiii iammor, I thiok, jof II Alfred Bonn, ths great ez-: Mifived in Boston. I knew Mr. Bi gerial caitiep, but from the fact ____ _ _ ^JL*^^ in London, this engagement, how^« MajeBty'g Theater, Induced her to bi^ak, he standing a' •nd payhlg heavy damagea I had never met> Mr Bi granted that I had «»^ him, for one day after his arrival he made the' first >« aawit announoed in Ihe newsp^ien thatlfr. ^ of Drury Lane Titeater, in London, had " by reputiridon, njit (miyfrom h%> mwna- a theatrical attitude, addngsed me^ y ««Baniuni, do you remember me* » ?.^ V I waa qrafldent I had never seen the man beforei but It a no Jta^llB^man I ever heard of would be likely to exhibit aammirtdon aian theex^manager of Drury Lane, and I jumi "Is not this Mr. Buxm?" e<^'>»u»^>it wIth'Venny Mr. Lumley, of Hec/ iwsuit with Mr. Bunn, I, but he took itAfor ^^iflfeuntry, a burly '^£^^^^'^^^:^'^ :meat once tliafe presumptlan or ttheoonhhisicn; ^J^^ tiiriM^'" be exdaiwed, alap^i:;ir&^Biy on the ba<±. "I .«^«^^^ would ,«nember me. Well. Bamum. SHX y«*Se^ I rejdted in a^manner that would humor his Impnwkni thids w -«L «ii ssTT^iJor^^ "^Jt^^^ «-t I coold'^blyl^e S:;^^J".P«>^Wy „™ ^'^tboutbavingmadethepersonalaoquaintanceofsoj I met Mf. Bum again In 1858, to Lotadoo. a* a dinner Ifr. J*vy, proprietor of the London DaUy^TdegrapKOt jroregreatchmns and very oldandintlmateacquaintanoea At\ I met several Uterary and dramatic genUemrai/ t\ v . In 1861, 1862. and 1853, i spent much of m> time at my beantifnl h«m^i;>. - "«P<^«<»«»w always present, at these country fali^>»Mm^r^^^^ ion two or 'three i a lion as Alfred imutnlill Bunn tienmei -^vwridteUfdii 912 \ «I*I iKD PLAT. without extra !?!?*■ "° dMBwnee ^^bet!^^Zm^^?r!\»^^ WB«peech. But it "«iJp«)plewingotoseeBamu,r^ *^ *^ «>«^" ««ti««aed tte tld»t*ai«. Well, I«w»hei8 uptoall th6dodgea«^^ '^•»Joyou«nowBlml»'Iaflked. *' the poor ttdtefc^adltt^ kj- ft__ . "~r7™"^®^ «mee during the day. Im« ^OP^ ySwElif W^*4heheroof the joke in thab!^ ■'»'?U>„'v, 'varioiM t3me& "^" Hf f^fl^fcflm < » k? — ~** *»*» wouma m ,«^/*^ **^ '^ch haTeooomwdti i»l7_i wa»on boanl the steamboa* ; -ii... WOBX AJfD PLA .V. T w« engaged In palnUx^g «.«« ,or -ieral montT^S^li^l^ to^^" , ^9n another oooaslon I w«nt t« i*<^.> ^ "»»«u«>u uu toe noat. beft>r,rnrl«,.i,rou;d\«r^^Vtiea^^^^^ ^^ • Md. giving the driver the check f or m v ^ ^ ' taimedlately engag«j it, the Bevere House, a. I wL^^t iZ-^*^"' *°"' ''*°' *" *^* "'^ ^^^^ *^ wtohee. but «K>n •tterwarTapieL^J^f ®* ^'°'°'*^ oompllanoe with my - ehUdren. whom he ^"^^ ll'T^ 1' 5^^"^^:** "*"-• '«-'^-«^ •n the baggage r«k. started bk TtZ^^Cfj'"''^'^''''^ ""* *^°^ oon«,led myself with the '*fle;tlon Z th^^''" 1° ""^ '" ««"»»>!»»* "« Ce d,:ove up. one .«eet and dXh an^er L^^T "°"- ^ «<>• ^ *wv. ««e..Wt I wa. wedged in J:LTZ; I oo^' nT!::^ ^"* "Z"^ '"* fr taking. oouid nor see what rooti h« wm V After half «x hour-, drive he halted, and I found we ^te at tiii.T^««ii ..« ▼ay depot. Here my fellow^paewmger. allahted^i TT »*I«*rtl Balk .4rtv^ deuvered their t-^ageTt^eThrfarT'an'ta.^^a'; cZ "^T ***• n«ge door preparatory to starting a«aln r l^Ti. !! °''**^ ***• *»»• -uun^ul manner In w^lch he haTtrX me tT I " ^^k^e^"' ^^ *". "^ .1 «PPo. U you Mud^'T'S.e Bev^no^LZ'T'ui w.^ IT^ISr" • , much a« I have a rleht to expect." ^ ^' " will b« « "I beg your pardon." he wpUed. "but that was Bamum aud hi. f^«« «. wa. very ahxious to get here m Um, for the tot tnT^^ .tal^^i "T jum I'll oarry you to the B*vere House tn»."' ^ •»««* Mm tor «. wtf " What Bamum Is It r" I asked. ^ IS^e MUMum and Jenny Und man," he i^IUd ^ * The oompUment and the .have botM Having bMn IntaBdad fn> «. w — _ ,.?Tf^ 'r"^"°*«"»"<*.*'^<»oJe"daU«>rt.of.potofle.. he ""rf :ir *•"*•"- ^•^^ *^'*» ^e th.t l had lir.^rm on board " «^ . he. "and I really supposed he meant the other man. When l «»mTJv»^' I PMroatve my mistake, bat l hop. you wUI fo^v. »I v k ^ ~"«» »«»' ^«.^ b.to«. and X l^pe yoi^wS^girm?*:^ ^ :'^ ;;^^^^ Borton.- I nevwwlU maka noh a mistake again " ^^ Tou a»» i« to th e .prlag of iMi. the Oonnectlcut laglslataga "i>n'*tntt l t h e »■->-->-> ^ !I4 M<. ^ capital was wbs5& cta.?he ^^ • ^P^onem «no% several huSd aLiZ^l"*^^ ^ distributed by the oocnm-ed which induced me to ^^^Sibf n!S^ Circumstanoee unexpectedly With the unanimous vote otX^^L^TZu *^" ^"^ ^ co^m^ «any avocations, devote the LtTtT^^I^f* *^* ^ «^<» »«*. '"ST^ cfflce, C. a Hubbell, Esq., then S^r^ BrH^***"*^°" ^ ^^'^^ ^'^««' 0' tli' ^^P«idenfepf^St,S^^^ '**'*^^ J^bH:l?*^-^°ti:^^ month! after the publication of tf^T^T? " *^®"™*^ partnera, Within a waa i««rf on the Lt Sy^la^l^iir'^ ^ ^ ^«^»^ ^^ws, 2^ Kventyttousand. Nuni^^ a^^;i^ ^'^ ^««"y «i«^tion hadi^ii^ / In the business, oontinu^^^^^Z^"^"'^'^^^ difficulties, for noviri* at^he end of tTSSt TX^^Sl IJT w„'^°'" ^ '^d ,^ •Old to Oleasan'sPtctar^, in Balr^H *? *°°**"^ "^« engravings^Ui, In February, iSTn^eroS^kr?^ ~°**™ "^ '^^^ withouTST^ aancy ofZcr^ S^ or^t ^ "P^"!? ^ °>« *<> accept a»e^. Bxhlbifcion of the^ust^ .S^'NatioJT T^i" ^'^" Aasociation fo? ttl - fP^m as I felt ooStZ^Z^Zl L^^^'''^ """^^ <«-S ' r^'*;*^vive public intereTLZSaSr^ "^^ *"*^' ^ j;^i^si^u'^Ti,n?t^r^^^^ '^-^^ «- to t*^ and at last .jpnaented, much .^ZTrnv^^^ repeatedly objected elected on« of the diMjtoiTl was bv^^^S^?*^"*^*"'- Having been < he office conditionaUv l^-ti^^uV^ ^^ ****«» president. I aweoted . Kati<^ t^t the,:"::L^'r:ss^*LftTti: ts^/ ^ ^^"^^^ ^^-^^ founts said to exist against thiLsSatiol 1 *^^''°- ^^ «amlnlng the by those who I «ippoeed^w ST^ rth^!^''T.r°°^'*** IndeSble nxahu* the oonceniwore not exWbi^wh«^ ^ 1^^ ^**™ '^«"» «i««ng theirrexistence unta after I a^te^e^l /^ J5"' "^'^ ^ ""^'^ noS^ It only because no suitable nS^uldL^^^r^'^""*- ^ A^aUyaoo^ • entire time and service, to £ »te^^^?^- V" ""^ *° ^^^ directors and stockholdem to tX h^i^f ttf ,^"*J T '^"^^^^ «TS«d by f«r^f»«it wa.weUsetUedtlTtoe^woSdir'^' °' """^^y**^ inApri^iaHifldidnottakethehetoT^ ****™"^ . The» considorations moved met «nH T <>»^ ^ y tigor which I could feommaS 7o^ve ir^^T^ Tt!^^ duties W^ aU the -am. of money for the p^t It^Z L^L r'"^'^^' ^ "^^^ >«»» «i*t««n excitement and 'bLg it totlifT b f^^ «^«^ ^^S^^^^nate mc«nsS «e-<" *>^ ^oMe the fliai - ^Wlthhi Us Mo^iitared htlkTl Bnre heart, dtoar heed, ead irnqr hmL „^ "«d thoee atetelr weUeT ^^ Beto hianrdener spake, and said IntoBe3fqnietfle*!-*^^^ '' iiF*"* ■ hondred flne tinnaneie Oust aiake theia. JohilrS???- T*toqiisatlonwhe«hehSnir^ / "• iMfd opoa his master, / » „AP4'«?"»'we«lnotaword. lii '-V ad ttonght, igte Bsfu-** What the a Ofaftjr.orofoaef'f^ «"«•■ ^K'i??"^ *>*«k the thoo^t. he ssld. ■n It would leaTe nur ]a£*s f u verjr n^nted pU^t**^ ** Wal^ Joha, thr vMetablepeli well hahre the nonber onoe M^e twea^re fbrme. Aad haik ye, Joha, when they are •O?"}' ■?««•« me know : ^d ru i)re thee a list of those Te whom tha iawan moat foL*- The Mtr^re honqoels waia aaJi^ • ladronadtheTflSfeaeat: ^^ And to whom thfaikertthoa, mr Mm Not to the rich and lar-^^ Wha. Dtvea-llke. at Uzw7% t^ AvMMled amy dv* Saw thoee Mr preaohen Stan* ft^Mlh??.^': ^ WJere PoTertjr beaToV TJn Qheered the loneir w»«j M^ioiud the bed wh«i% ildcnaa Iw. rim hrsathad HealU's hash »!iS^ *'i4**^^^" ore^- WOBir AlTD fSLAv. r»s»'4Js «»liUndJyi,eart«„d .fc ^ OHAPTBB XXV. TBL JBBOME CLOCK COMPAIH' BlSn^jfOL^^^amT, fcopetow financial ruin; and VBtn^v^^ri!! ^^ P^^""** threatened me with ^igwlnmyaction, wa;S J^JZ^r-f*"*'"''^*^ ^ '"y^eins.lJ^ Hjebanustor. '" '^^ °*^ *°" *»"«* elementB of mimllnttB in to 1851, 1 purchased from Mr. William tTnx* ^ - t, •^»» enure property in regular ««^^ and iS Tem ^^^*^ '^^ ^^ °«* «» "air wlu"^ or el«ht acre.. wS weld^'l?, *^ «*«^^ * beautt- "k. We then commenced «Uiug alter^teVoTiri^"''^^ ^*« » Public •helandcort u. by the.c«^id3^^^i^^^ «ame price whid, »torB. or manufactory shm?d be e^^^l^ri^ * •^'^"'' d'-eIli„g-hou«^ . J^^purchase: that every builcC^STl^^ T"**" "^ ^ '^^^^ •he street, in astyleof arddtectureann^^ from J^Oojed With acceptable fen^^d K ^^J^^ '»>^t «^« ^"""i- Bhould S ^jrooM render the locamy a dXbTeTn«T "*''' '^"' °**'«'- "'"dltio.^ . 12^^^ the mutual .^eato^aU^^X-3-^^^^ riority of the rituation. It is a w^nL-TiT!^. ^''^ Con«i,lering the auDe- 'or a long time IVerident of TaU ru^lTV^i. ® '"*^*' ^'■- Timothy DwlirhlL »n ^jw' mj.'tflll^"^^^^ bormufh of Bridgeport. ♦Wi..«.dti.rtr ^"O^ builton iKrthsldesof Pu^hquomiudr ■^1 diiti! \i.SJ-Ji"S*iiA&it^ - -^ 21& THl >5!BDlfi8 CLOCK OOIIFAJSTT BKTANQLBMEirT; i^-.sf-i ffjquonnock) river, a beautlftil mUl-rtream. forming at it» mouth the harh»r «( ^"S. The situation of thi. vlllag. iB^^^6^rar^Z^m S?f oM i^»" u'^J*" ^^' which stretcher between the Pug^^^^ " th^ sSi r «ri the proBpectB prated by the harbors^t^ZS" or these rtreaou, the Sound, and the mirrounding country are. in a fln« ---^ gay and brilliant, perhap. without a parallel " ^ ^'^ tt^had only been kept from market by the want of means of acoesa A mTST ^'tZ^t ^r^ this place With U^ cit^^<^ 1 Tp^S fcoU-bridge which belonged to us, was thrown open to the public frecT W«S«! o^iUned from the State Legislature a charter fo^e«c^ atu-bSe ^w^ - iw7^.J^«i w^«? •i^^' '^*'*'* *^ ^« °^® free to the puhllo for . T^^**f* ^* *"*"*"^l««ed to a union company of youwrcoaSmak^^ !^-^ f^ ^"? '^^^ ^*° operation on the first of Januifl^ 1868^ a ^I^n!^.*"^!!?""* ''*^'* ^ ^^^ **"' <» purchase™ to obtain their lobi .b a merely nominal price, we advanced one4ialf, two-thirds, «d frequS^ S^^ ^ °TT?T,^ *^*^^ ^""^^^ permitting ttemr^p^rta^.^^ ■maUM five dollars, all Uieir own convenience. S an^igeTeS e^J^y n^eobtatoed. We looked, for our profits solely to the rise In ttie value of the ^e^lote. which wewereconfldentmustensue. lUese extn«S5^iS JS^ mutated many perBons to build in the new dty, and It ^mtoT^^ ^Kvrill^beseenthat,lnl^^^^ the expresrive phrase of theday, I "had East Bridgeport onttThnSL-^Sl^ wUch I beoamu a stockholder to the amount of six or seventhouMnddSL* ^d my duties as a^-ctor to the company called me o^^Xu^LS and made me «,mewhat acquatot«i with the clock bud^aTrKg ofS2 Litchfield clock concern could be transferred to my pr(«)ectlv»n<«ni^ ll would necessarily bring many families, thus incmiSi^W^" T^n JI S^j::^°'^.rr^- ^^^-tiations^rsfo^s^i'td^ *-rjd tnmrfsj. of the budne. was a»e n*ult. A new stock co^SJ^w!^ formed under the name of the "T«mr *■ «..«.,» m— #^^3 "^^^'V ''^ «dInl«8af^ryw..buU?L^A^ M«,uf»ctoring Comply -«^^nm.p«„y, a,,,! lepuiM to Tie a vmlffiy concern, should be removed to RriH«»wJ» 1-^ uIlLT^T "~Miy concern, sbould be remo\od to Brklgeiwrt, and shortly aftw^rard, I WM Tlrt«J rt I«ai^ ?^f?{T?^'^^iBig^ t *^9 XRB JEROMB OlMK OOJIPAlfT BIlTAirOLBmt. proposition from the aRBnt of Ike company, who al«> held power of «tt«Jrfti tbs^denj ttjrt I liiouW lend my nanie^a. .Mnirity^^ to my beloved Eart Bridgeport. It wa. ju«t the belt for ttTSh; I^^ attomMon ; yet I murt do my Judgment the jUBtloe to say that I oaS f or^ISr^ enterprise th«it mightaafely be trusted, •-ui-nMiHai ^^oordlogly, I wasjhownan offldal report of the direoton of the oomnuiv. iSSSl!^ "jore, was on account of a duU seawn, *nd the market gluttol . !i55lf^'^ Immediate money demands wWch mutt bemet l4»2« J^-»d ^th tte patlH^ tele tiuu> the company wia^^^yl^S pouMwro^o purpose of keeping the workmen employed, even in the doS Mason. The company was reputed to be rich; the FrMktont Mr Ch.»»^ .T«^ had built a chureh in New Haven, at a ixTof^^^nTpi^Z^ weae things showed that he, at least thought he was wMif !.«- nn./\ZZ^ laia to take out the "movemente." and um Om <«»..>». um * *'««'■'«»» ""^ Mrrespondent was the cashier, was almost the larwl tf ^TVjI Ungest, oreditorof the dock company ^^ ^^"^ « not the ^S^^'i^lTSTT "^^-^r^ »>y «- ~«,tored representetion. r:^L-r-^^.Tt-r^^ " b. would be<»iii. p«B^ ,,,pOTdl*i ,<, a^ ,,^~' "r ^j"^^ • -• iwwM » «MP • «MWMidam of the semil •mounte orf tU noteT 220 THE J^aOM* ^W»(;A COJIVAFT BlTTAirOLBiraHT. /■• ^jSS^.wu^'"^ ^^*Z'""«'^ *^*^ •'^^^ Compwiy should «rdmii» to, -to^ with tje Terry & Bamum rtockholden «,nhein. . to pay teveiy claim against me at my bank, aU my sSeimddiop debta^^ theamount of $40,000. which banks in my noighborhooTwlJS 3"^^ ««jnntegtity, had di^unted for the clock compauy.^d thS?-&2Ed7 "^ Wbat a dupe had I beeni Here was a great com^ny p^tendingTbe worth JSW.OOO. asking temporary assistance t« the amomit of $110.00roomCZm 2S .rt-* n JT" f "^r i'elping hand'was removed, and ;iwe;piC^e do^ to S^i ^: ?i"T '^'" '^^"^'^ my tortmie. It pafdbuVw tw^^ toSS^^"^°l J« obligations, while, to cap the cUmi^rit never n^IJ to Uprt Bridgeport at all. notwithstanding this was the on^dltlon whSh ™ prompted me to advance one dollar to the rotten concern I ^ J!i1*^ **™^ ""^ ^'^'^ ^^ ''^ "^^^ ^y "»e 'e*r «»t after my retiremeut - tcoam^^J^jUnd enterprise the world would forget me.^ ^^3^^' ^^^ me; I had notice enough to satisfy the i^ inonZte ^^or *' notoriety. AU over the country, and even across the ocean. " Bamum ^ «.« . J«ome Clock Bubble," was tJ.e great newspaper themrjtas STto^ie^ «naly«d^ put togeth«- again, kicked "pitehed into." tumbled abou^ l^S to, preached about, and made to serv^ every purp >ne to which a senHatloVn^ J«M««M put me. WeU, I W«i nowS^Sug. in a nt^^^^^^^^^ iMunlngne^ and strange lessons. #.3!L"^ "^^ ^T""^ conveyed the old, old story. There^re thnm who had fawned upon me in my prosperity, who now jeered at my adveX r^ iminv wmeiL-wfien rhaiTifie mo«nH trt tn«ir« 14-. .» »K4>^ #__ s.c:z . .* """""**^_» ET^^J^J^ *'/^J*T'^* m^„H t<.mahe it an object for them to iTonS !Sr.^ ';iL*Z2*S:^'f "'" "•''' adulationrnow attempted to overwhetame with abase; and thn the immeosv ^^01401 of moralising ..v- «k* .. UurtabUlty™ •f [BITP. iild exchange iti ii oom p anyand onth, before the km to "mmp ite ipanl^ a refer- potuible tor the ^ the agent, who unless IshouM inoe he assureiL e were brought ynja receiving so established, fomifllMd Mw [Isootnifeiitg my er, I Wondered » had not been notes had been ther inyestiga> ompany toths otes had been tlier oredttorB. Ithfihei y TO! JUnolfB-OtOOK COMPAKT ENTAKOLEMBIfT. 2a 1 found : debts, notes ta upon my par- -fUledl g to be worth coming down ping me down it from twelve ever removed on which ever ly retirement flair qieedily ^ 1 oravliig for mom and the cen to pieces, >ut, preadied i«atlon-lovinj( ool, and wim lose who had ^l^y; people po- obllged to decline, 'houg^thfjo^'m^^^ in mv" T 7 " '*'°*'*** "*''°'' ^ '•'» •how the olaas of m^ who svm,^th7^^ .1 ^ '*^°'' ****»'^^ '°«^*»«* «»•• To .round Which I uTk In toe m^t^r 7 ""^ '° "' mlirfortnne.. and alBo the Which appeared 1^1^; ^0^^^^ "1" ~f ""' '^"^^ --e^oden. KB. P. T. BabNDX: NBW TOBK, .Amw 3, 18M. pu^cS;«nTty* "TheauideMw S"etorfJSH**«^ energy and enterprlaels a yourwlf. the accumulated w^ith of ^S fSVofTi''" Iffi "i^'y- '«>™ » man like To better manifest our sincere rasnem fS^i^vJ? ..w • Y* "^*°*' "*« Public sympathy as exhibit our honest adm?Su^K>ur f^mud^^'n"*'"'"® 1° P«>sperlty?M weU propose to give that sympaSyTtaM^We iTf^^1«A"'*®'..**71'"*^«*™''»«f revelwjs. ^e serlea of benefits for yoir family toe mSuU^-S.5?: *'»<'"lng your acceptance of a wife and children a future home or a! SLt r.S.«.yi*V? ""*/ P«»l»>ly secura for your consequences of your misfortune ^""® "'®™ '™™ "»» "ow Immediate fteeman Hunt, E. K. Oolllns. Isaac v Vnmi^.. t -. «^ . F. B. Gutting. James W. Oer^ Mm^n nSTif 5' i,?™®» I^^alen. Oomellus VanderbUt Carman, a^'. W. SanfiS^^IiTi'H^rt S^idV^^??? ^''"i^'*^' I^^ OodwlSrE f! Brooklyn Ins. Co. ; Oeorge 8. DouSiry S^eSd^nt^^^-.a?- .^ = ^^- J">8Worth. Preildini jSobert Stuyvesant, E. L LlvlnmSn R. bS-?^ w '"iP'^i""- Co.; Ohas. T. Cromwell. 5eo. F. Nesbltt. Osborne. BoaSdm^' Kwn^A ^- ?' ^^"'•Id.e. «• N. Haughwout SI?, i'^,*^''^''' Solomon A Hart, B. Youn* m'S^'tv^h-.m" f".!"'"!";,*- * "• ^*®rrlen. Hotel. John Wheoler. Union Square Hotlf 8 iil*n?TJj^®";/f**''' ?. ^^ «»• Nloholai ni .:• i." nucmer, union Square HotiTH Tj»i»nrt iTX^ ;» r T. ^^•» "*• «MJ40ias Olark, Brevoon House. H. Droiapp EVM;itt bS!^ j*k°"vu'*?*™P**"'^ Hotel. Albert Sydney Hopman. Smithsonian Eim!!!?",?'?' ''*^° Taylor. IntemaUon«a Hotel man. Florence's Hotel KlMslev * * nif^?' ^^monloo. Delmonloo'*. Geo^ Sher- Hotel. Howard * Biwn ffiS^.^Jj^n'*v5.°^'^ Ho»«». I-'bby & Whltn^Lowloy^i lornde. Pacific Hote,7 J^SoT/oSLVfru,?£in*;^rW£S^^^^^^^ ^^^ To tols gratifying communloatloni repltod aa foUows : -So^AVS,pularsy'iS5.;'2 r^e^rr!^?^ "f '~r-^-^^^^ P~Po- thy seems In my oa«» to^wtond from «v .m^'^'7'**'"? t?^" «°'<»' ""O »»»•» •rmpa^ _ Profters of pfK^unlarv aaalaiAnnA havo ..— „i._j - • Mr. _, ffeneroi OLOrDS A-Sn 8UN8HIU-B. 223 |J&Wh?fP'"^K ?'»"•«/ hte attractive-lectures- Mr J«.- «.. , at -"*« au«T, jfc K. OoLum, and othen. .. debt saspended f;eneroa8 conalderi' tated byasenaeof P.T.fiABm7» ; trial: ^''^'°'^^^'^^'i^'»^dlKaieteu^rinii^timi^ tJi\^** >*»• BAianjK- I nnder.t.n-1 ''®'""'?o*«^ PHn^DBLPHiA, JTay la. ISBOL "thumb") In thatDte* t .™*k "'5''*^ c«>w'**»* worth, olit^Uov. And tfiongh vou thonght our minds wwe grmL, We never IhouRht your heart wm imS»/^ We know you iib.iral, generous, wwro^ AnS"*''ll" ""^i*" " faliing brother ' ' A» min. *"."'* ''i'"'"'"'' ^hat'8 thi harm ~ All memories of your faulto to smottawr ^^.^^^ °°* ^^^^ "•« peerless LInd. But for your spirit enterprising, ' You were the man to miae the wind. Vm.v» ''H® * ^tP «onfe8sed wnrprlsln*. You re reckoned In your native town^^ A friend In need, ft friend In dfinger. ^ Youever keep the latchstring down ^ And greet with open band Xhe ithi'nger. ***gj»n your upper Up. You know Who are your friends and who your foes now We ray for knowledge as we go ; ^ ^V^J^^^r^°. '5^' "?•"« •"•"•dy blows now. You V6 a fair fleld-no favors crave- ^* In V??»f i^;^ '"'*'1 »"'*''«'* w*" find you braveiw in Tlf tue'a cause long may you wave """""^ . And on the rlght^alde, new wwer. "^ •reeks before the date ot hla letter , ^ lostJ^seum. only a few \ **r IN. S?m -fff'*!/"''*/' '^"«''o I have been all wlnte? w[m, riL^V ' ^^1'',^^^ ^^^^ new trouble [ ito^ .tt«.ding dimculty aa your geniu^JMia^ttS^^^^^^^ B, p. Hurt T. 4 nil •»7 o«» Into oonsMaJi ^ Bridfwort, the preWous eyentog. to tO. rssr^po^X^^to'^iS^rT^™^^^!::^ rairfortunee." It wm the 1^p^^?kh 1^ "^T *" ™'«^oe to his flnandal been held In Bri^^S. ^Sv^^^^n"^"^ "^ *^ *^ *^«' ^ «-«*• I..M. . X *^ oeveraj pronunent citizens nuulA -jj ^_ j t««on. wan, ado^ declaring '.jMt respect and gCC^S^.'gf p"?' expf«ring uMtatoS!^L*^i!f ?f^^^^^^**^^ P"t>lic spirit,"* «Ild Ww^nSTwS^ J? ^^'^Srity. •^'J'ni'-atlon'^for the -fortitude ^«iww»wilih which he^na,t reverse, intowjdeh bo has bemdmww ■Ji,'>i' -■** ai¥. -, ^ ~\ ^ A > ' t wrote to Mi» the public as • , 1 It win be seen um, only a few l/irtf96,1868. Hlace Thaxte*-, V. \JHr Cl»pn. aew trouble. !,i ready a releaM umstanoes. BBOLAmaa, [eport, where „ fybig of ali, ) vreve mout aynelghbota port I could TitMs, April ill repeat ot iag, to tak« I byseveraJ » poipoeeo/ TasBments, his Anatrcia) le, had evei- B.and reeo- m to P. T, 1 iblic spirit," " foi^itudo OIWTM Aim StrJraHINIB. 2Z$ and h„ptag tt«t he would V* '^tam <» that wealth whl^Z ha. »^ ^r_-« ■ " " u«»uoa oy un /uqnor tlw Mayer. S!fP'' ?• ^f" »« by many men who byfiani ^K Y^/yi^ comforts which years cf diligent "at I knew nothing of. this movement unUI .*!» ?r* «>5«o"n« Md predons than anj<> offering of myftUow-cltiaens, thouehk: > ^!^*"'*"'- vet imparts to me renewed •♦^^'^Pi"*^ for raising up to my sight the sordid atmosphere of " dirty dgUuL** Sm^"**"!* by-most of yoor prominent £^'«?i5 W t come, nor was my letto ais^^Sf • '^ "i «^^ the PWladelphia bankeni who W^^iZnr^; ^ " * "'^ '•fllJngtopay. x "" ''^™« '^<« ^ had tanounoed myself aMe and Bwiydonar which I honestly owed on my own aoooont I h-H u^. had saaafiiotorily arranged. PorS liSn^S^-^v"'~**'3ri»i4 deception which hadinv^S^lZ^t^f^ ^""""^ ^^ <*« <*««»>• "ly -fa-«, when sold. w^I^^y r^:^*r:r<»«l« . s^»Uik%«xrt).^'l'^j«i&>iatf^'.'«^| deof tiM •0* only diaoovotod ilated or expecte^ lyfrom temporary ' to tt)e redemption Jhow the extoit f that fivBs induced t $80,000 to idem, tne Company after wmade tooover t the existence of eU^^swindWana it ttom twelve to Haven toadEfori bstonoe for me af itiatedwithyoar ' particularly by « the concern, that 'ead of thesame^ )ns solely, I was j to the extemt^ff '"Own verdan<7, otal of $160,000^ lan and let him s found thatthw tpt a settlement y to liquidation )refore at onoa and I removeil Jlmyrealaal bnnecticut^ nglfiOOincasA dp. The vegjr i it was a trick liat banks and tstaaediK> com- > as I ezpecte(^ natural cooa^ Br for a higher yaelf able and I already paid bytbedelib- i aaltbaaglat 'om her «ws OLOtTDS ^SHIKB. 22; boarded Witt us. Ix^^otT^J'^^'''^^^^^ ««ndaome fortune. I w« !^ forty-«ix, after the acquisition and the loss^a •«Sy. experienos^ i»eiUUi«2^ipJ^ ^^ disheartening but I ImmI ::> A :/ ■ .4 fH&if«»i*W^4fL •^;>* -^,:. ! I y OHAPTEE A^trix . ' • ■ # ^ ^ KE8T, BUT ir^ RUST. i«r. They paid me douhtetbeZ^tSl ^'^'^ '^'^^••' '^^ ^«^ ^ Bu^ P««nfae. from my wiCw^^eTZll^ * ""^"^ '"°'^«^' *°d hirj S by the agreement of Lw^ S^n^lf^'T^ P^P^'^y ^«««. and on whioJ! coun^ tumrf over |« tJie New y^Ta^^^t^r^T^ And now there came to n.. - « "^^K^ee with i^ie other property. »>««, had Induced thTgLw^teUrfTKvT ''"° '"'' '*«-<»»«• - a aho^ «^cmiito«who£^„5t^_*^jy„^^^^ . '.ertaia •ntiwly on speculat^onTmade^D 7w ml,^ t a tremendous di«.uimt, and T^y therefore took what WTrmed "Sn^ ^f'^P*'^^ ''^ '*'«'*«'«n«» «a«^ them to haul me anr4™foi^ a^uZ^?'^ P~**^ «i.S:^":r^SLS'" m^^^^ ^^'n^'aTrep^:;. of U. daO. ftarwauMhaulmeSjri^Mia^S^;^^^^^^ yet«u,y^^ M already b«m «,.wered and S^ Sf^Z?!"^ '»"«"^ ^'^ *«ndunneoe«aiyanno3^uux^creatS^or^^ **^*^^ This penrirtent •ot only expreid by K H^v^^n . '" '^P**^ *»" '»«• ^S^ but the public pre«, y^^^^J^ ^^ ^'^"' ^'^°«* Part» of the counfa3 Jiidgi.. before whom^ ap^^r'^d^Cr'^P"**"' ««>k my part, and ev^^ «« a»y -ncerely Pitied^^^^^f^^^"^^ »« o««don, that « law. After a while, howerVthrju^r^JT*T^"'^»^ WWoHB propounded to me by an a^^^y ^fuT^ ' T^ °^ •^«'' -"y flo-tkm to gome other attorney in T^L' """^^^ answered the iam« ««niinlng attorney: "' ^^ ^ °°* ******- "aW Pretty tHarply to an *'^^^^'^^>^^^^%^ permeation. Mr. Bamun. ha« many d-btrf InformationTaJJ^^kT^r T^'^ be put to him, to 11^7^ him to no* «»w«. o^eTtim^ Jl?! "t ?P '^*** ^««ntatlona I adv toT j^^^^, ''''™*''^ ''"''»'»'«»»- replied to under an^ ^.-^ _fiiA»',^ WW* ITO VOf BUST. i^a^ •«Ml in a toadvSoTSl with n^,^ I«»w«^Wm;«,hton«tqp«don,gtv«iaak>ad»«Ml«^ ** WlMft ii jQor bwiiMMf " anatikii'i^,*:^^ *^ •'^'^ *o a«rt tht you peddl. rum .D day. tion to a ^j,^""™"™'^''' »ny Urterrogator, and be soon brougfat his examina- •t Wi.th.mp«on on Long Wand ^ 2^f?^*T °' "*'• Ch«-l«" How«U. n^ghborhood ^ ,„ the hTt of "Si^^r tST "^TJ"' "" had beooma a favorite roBort Mr How«M'. ft^ f bowier., and the plM» *«o«ngand fine road« for driving made toa w^^^ ^' "■""* .«Vlte from «rtive life ««i lram3taT«™i^^ "™* «>• '^•▼wy great benefit to ma ^^^ """"^"^ "«» "V toMdal trouble OnemonilngwedlnpovHr»dthfttthewavMli^ifc««— ^ »J«*,wbal, «m». tw«,ve feet lo^. It^dSS trZ^ an, I bougbt it for a few doUn^m^^T^^TibSt^t^'^^ "^ ^tfatoocetothe Museum. wb«. it wJ Ti.lSL^ ^^'^"*^ I fnw.i.» ^^'^— ""^"^"""^^U nalmtaTerifi i ■ •twiwa, "^ wpaymewBre Doaitj hUi vf 7fftmilvfortha ■•«•- ^j(»u «.4 ■'\ t \ --"tffj, _-;^-_^^?^ '-"^■'' .^' 23^. ', BUT NOT Bust. deS^^?2?LI'I^t:S t ""^r ^« ''^ J««*'««t "Wen, I uowara,^ aaia IM, tbat beats aU; youare the luckieBt man I ever h«.«« «* w «nd pay your whote biU with it" - ««ia you laire that whale S^UQgo to say, my new city, which had been my ruin waa to Ii« mT^ ^^ The now gigantic Wheeler & Wilson SewingX^eZmp^J^'^^'^ • epseof oommonicatiion with Naw Vnrir »„^ «*i, . "'""^"^' '^'^® situation, the 1-«1 bSStom'^tT^ aod the co^eq^nt ta«»6 of the yiUo. of a. b^onging to my wife, was devoted to these purpoeea. "»™ oouars more Though the new plan promised relief, and actuaUv did micnMrl «,-« k- ^ «rouldneoe-arily be very slow. In fact, two ^Xr^s it^ ^"^ Uttte progreart But loonduded to leTthenrrreZr^L^t^T;: -oM go^ as weU without my penK,nal p««noe alTaZ^:; ^^^ ^J?° "^ "^ :*^ "°"««^ to add to the amount, I mal up my nlTto rt.il^;;;r^;:;*:f ^i'^ anxlou-for * change of scene and for S ^ly. trouMaa which no effort on my part could then remove. WhUemv SZ^^ w^«.* out ttiemaelv^ hi their own way and in the ^^^^^^^7 mlghtbe doing something for myself and for my famSy^ *^^ * S!g?h '^.^^^^«^g»^^ "^d her v^t^ Thi. young-girl S thTTJ^.^S^"!!!^'""*'" '""^ '•^ '"■**^° P««onation of "LitUe Era,"ta ' Ml .- ... , , u J- 1 -»i'aLBi ""f ■» mill watn waat u l uo I might ♦o r^lt 1».e .^me to my wife', frienda. for the purpoJeTiJ^Z^nL ^ '"h "* *■ 'J, I'i MuHiiii >,-■!" ''>^.''?t -c* " ►"^JT'j «reT.^.^,'^,^';';^^f!;«»«;'''*' OHAPTBB Xl^TllL ABBOAD iOAIlf. '^w****! I'Mid**, I touiMi Mr. Albert Smith, who, ^rtMn I flirt «ii»w Uim, WM a dentist, a literary hack, a contributor to f\tncft, and a writer for tba tn agmn ne a, now traoaformed to a flrBt-claas showman in the full tide of moob^ to my own old exhibition quarters to Egyptian Hall, Picoadilly. He waseS Itmg a panorama of his ascent of Mont Blanc. His lecture was full of amtuto. and toteresting incidents. iUustrative of his remariEable enerienoes to aooo^ - pushing tile difficult feat ~*wi«uu«i m aooom- Calling upon Albert Smith, I found him the same kind, cordial friend as ev«. and he at onoe put me on tiie free list at his entertiainment, and insisted upon iB^ almng frequently with him at his favorite dub, the Garrick. -t~--w The first time I witnessed his exhibition, he gave me a sly wink from the staM at tiiemc^nt of his descrihtag ascene to tiie golden chamber of St UnoM church to Cologne, where tiie old sexton was narrating tiie story of the ashes and bones of tiie eleven tiiousand innocent vii^ins, who, according to tradition. w«n wcnfioed on a certain occasion. One of tiie character, whom he mitendad to ' i^*''*™^ "™* on his taip to Mont Blanc, was a Yankat whom ha i^iSSs^^^r^^'^'^'^^'* ^ "OUfeUow, what will yoatdke for thafchnn lot o< bonsai I want them te ■oy Museum to Americal" ^ -m* m«i ■» When tiia question had bMnlntenwted to the old GsnuML ha aidataiailfci yxnar, aooordtog to Albert Smith: T^ —rwn m "MlneOottlitisimpossiblel We wiUnevw-selltha Vlndi^lionasl» "Nev«r mtod.'Teplied Phtoea. Cutocraft, "FU .md SSerlotof bees to w»y Museum, wraar mine are the real bone, of thk Virgliis o« Ootooi^ and buirt op your showl" *^ vAJimn^ aoa mum IWs always exdtrf the heartiest laughter; but Mr. Smitiiknew vwywrilthi* Ij»oald at oiK» PBoognise it as a pharaphrase of tiie scene whereto he 4i fl«i^ wittme, to 18H at tiie porter's lodge of Warwick Castia In ti»ooai«iTE enterWmnant, I found he had wov«, to nmnerx^i. anec^ ti«t time, and many todd^nt. of our excursion wen also tmvestted and mMlaZ •ontribute to tiie interest of his description of tiH. ascent of Mont Blana When we went to tiie Garrick dub tiiat day, Albert Smitii totrodnoed ma t» •«wal of his acquaintances as his "teacher to tiie show bodnM." ▲.w.nJT quietiydtotog together, La remarked tiiat I oiust have reodgnl«dC^™ ^^-^«^^ entailment v.::^:::^^^:^ onl«r«oto|M|>^ w»n«Ht Hiap up and k)oaliseaU tiie good tiling, whksh wa oomjj«ro«.« Jftoeogrmftu^. hi. various experiences Jp^t^^ -mtertainmeirt, Albert Smith «i.^,eeded in serving up a Mlnuynrndi »es rd Wwl H lU w ly wyml «mi i^ HK<«gni-hBd niitm .? N. -ir Hl'i 51 2$2 ABBOiD UaHT. ow mutual friend. Albert S.^'^ :;*t!! *^ **' *^ Paipowof asking adyloeln wJm tfth^T^ « hour with me, mainly for the on "The English Humorista^e SgtSoLT' ? ^ «^ o' lectaiS J^ver. as he did afterwanls. with y^^t^^Uj"^!^ '''' P'^'I»«d •« Union. I gave him the best advice IflST-fT^ ^ *** pnndpal dtie. of the y^t to Visit, for Which he CvS^ Sf^lJT^"*'' "^ *^ <**»^ wasinNewYork. I also saw hS^C^^ *?""* °° "^ ^^*«««^ »»« ■Bcond time with hJsadmirahle leZJ^JTS JST^ "^ ^ ^^°«JH I "Mr. JBammn, I admire vnn Jr»I Zu "^"'^J oy the hand and said: be sorry for you no more." ®^*^®*P®<* to be worth; IghaU d^ him to ask me was. wS^f^^^^-^t j^^l the flrrt ttdng hi. wife a^ough I was managing to live in an eS„3 , ^ '««»^ him that I was not, •oon come over to «sidte In London ^eTn .^JT*^' *"^ ""^ f'«»il/ would den, saying that living was verv ch««n tt "^ *"* '^ **^« 'hem to Dree- J^y look up a P^rm^rt:;^te^; r"' f* T"*' ""'^ ^^'^^ I-Jj«d kind„e«, a« Dn«den w« tTL awj; f^l mv ^^'^^ ""^^ ^ Jfy old ftiends, Julius Benedict and QZy^B^lT^ "^.T** ■^^very pleasant dimiem together ^^^^^Tj.'^^ °° "« •"^ ^« had tmrds (n America. Among SSm^^i. ^^"^ °'''"' *"«*'*«''*« «' their •Nte frequently at dhuJC^^JdT ^ ''"''**" ^""lon. «>«»« of them Mr. Ho;:^ ^y^e^T'jJZf^S^t^T'^ ^ ""' Edmund^^ Mr. George Paabodj. Mr. J yLMnrH, ^T ^^' n*»ce'y countrymen Brothe«& Ox. Mr. QxShi 5.^212! JS^ ^'- ««^ «' I^ri,^ *^ /««»». «r. Ovomy WlUlanw, who hiu) - I'V^^'^fi'i » United Statea itrodnotion iktuu I, mainly for tb« ^one of leotarai *» proposed to [paldtieioft^ Dd the dliiee he aowfaeaeTer he o America the rhich, it will be WWW, before he ;reat noreligt, I Ued upon him, said: uiooanti in the 'Q'te; and the • worthy of all Ml manifest, if (^ .
^rth, I shall one occasion )r the advice ( Tint to the in London. lag hig wife it I Was not, Jnil/ would ©nitoDree- 7 wife win leolined hi» uid we had ts of their me of them i»nd yat«v '» Theater, nmtrynmo >f Baring, IT tJaflBS^—" ' Atlantic, i^whohwl .« liafc* ♦■»-'if(k Wl^ ■•"•% Jt ABROAD AQAnr. " ' -■- ''-■■'■'■, not then acted In l^i^aod, pNpoMMl, in Oie Idndflrtm^^ . forato^^tlm>^lj^G^eatBritl^n,andtogiveme08Blble, to save some portion of my real estate. Of course, it was not generally known that I had any interest whatever in either of these exhibitions; if it had beenj ixwsibly some of the clock cpeditors would have annoyed me; but I busM uiyself in these and in other ways, working industriously and mairit^ n^wh luoMj, wliiob I oonstuiyy nmitted to my tnisty ^pBut V. iM. k&iki^iKUL^ , ) % CHAPTER XXIX 11^ QEBMANT. ' ^ -d from «»iee to 8tri^°^t^^^S' *°"* '^°" '"""^ *" '''^ 1 dreaded co pass the custofii-houae At ir«i,i^^ i the first town 6n the GeiCtX^ tS^r''? S'^^k ^'T^*"'"^' ^^ gage which was rightfiiUv sublect^ ZtT ^u. ^ '^^^ ""'' ^ ^^ ^° bag- clothing, and the iLkageT^^^ ^\Z ^ °«?^ ^"* "^^ ^««^ ^ •xhibitions. As tSTSiaJ wV^^ "S^^^t ^"«*«**^« ^^^ cSS that I had nothing subject to dutTZ^l^^ ^^ ^ "^^^ ^ ^ P«°ch, led every articled my lT4^"'^He ^n J^h "^ "^'^ "^'^ delibemtely hand! show-bilL. I asked hLil^^nch ^TA "^^^ *^ *^« ^^ P««tages of pve a grunt, which was the oSrau^lf ^Id I^^^ *""* ^^«- ^^ laid my show-bills andhthograpioTwi^^^r^?'*^"^''"***' ^' «"d then JMy iinghah fnend didxas I reauested- hnf ,♦ „„ * into i^a^Ltot^Sp^t^^^^^^^^ «' -^ --ion response. Tom Thumb, meakwlule iufZd liT. ^ . ^ctaonary, was the on] v was fairly delighted at myTo:^y ir^^.^"* ^^^, ""'^ -"^ey, for he found EngUsh friend: "Be good enouXt^S^i. ^ ^' ^ "^^ *° '"yn^^ i«?:j^h':SD":^s;x^rthfetr"°r^^^^^^^^^ ^e. it CO a clerlcTho copi^"?; Z^ZTZT^ "'f' "^'^'^ ^ ^^^ ^-ded ' cWk. who copied it on still another ^k T^^Tl.^"^ " ^^^'^ '^ '^o*»^«'- on to a printed bill, the sizeTf a h^^L «S? f^V*"^" ^'^ **' «"^ ^P^^ ** ink with several iial dev^^ By S timT^ "^ ""^ ^"'^ ^°P^ ^ "^ and, as the document passed from S to c erk I f^?t^ "' f^^"^ P^-^iratlon; / ;^; k w '■^ ff ^ -^^rf.-" mmtm J nandlnths on to Paris,, sbourg, and ba*l uo bag. y necessary* 16 General'g in French, »tely hand- packages of Tiage. He 1, and then was much ' act as my tot articlev tora-houH» assertion 5 the only jy, for he my new bills if he ible. He • I, handed > another copied it ed in red piratlon; ttronbl* lutyaud ey were '^e dupli- ' utics on bill to a )d mors leld my Mi- i 'ik x; ^: .^- \ % V nr QiRMAmr. «39 Joomnei^Ignif»W 111. •m^t of money I should be f on^ to pay to the GernWgov^^^ ODuldhavemyi^perty. I would not touch it; but resolved I would rea^STve my packages „n^ I could commumcate with one of our consuls in cJ^y ^ ^t^"^ t^ ^^ g«^tlenum whohad kindly interpreted for ^ Me took the hill, and, examining it, burst into a loud laugh. "Why.it Is but fifteen kreutzersl" he said. -^^ ."S^""""!^,^*^.'" ^ "*^ feeling for the^dden «>ver«ign. In my pockeH. "Snpencel" wasthereply, '"6«» «» mj' iiuw^ ^I wasastcmidiedand delighted, and. as I handed out the money, I begged him •o tell the officials that the custom-house chaise would not pay^e oS^^ paper on which it was written.^ But this WTvery fair l^ZT^^ wd-tape dealings in other countries as weU as in Germany '™™°°" "^ "»»«»7 ^f9^dBaden a delightful me to^ dean^ and nea^ than any c^ men our preliminary arrangements were ooiLleted, the General'* attendanta. «*ni.ge, ponies and liveried coachmen and footESvednX-S^T^ Z^toT"^^*^"*^^ The excitement was intense a^l^^ZTf^ Jy today. Several crowned heads, princes, lords and ladies, whTwevTs^ iug the seamm at Baden-Baden, with a va^umber of weaWby^tea^^ei T^^ crowded the saloon in which ««.GeneraI exMb^^^'S hLwS^l^^ir^"!,^"^^ Thechai^eeforadmisZwere^uch lugar thanjad been demanded in any other city. Mw5 TT"^^''* ''^* *° "^^^ celebrated German Spaai i^stadimr tojs, Hombm^ and Weisbaden. These were aU fashionable gambUng ^^^ ^^^t^ andduring our visite they were Crowded wSTS„tZ iS parts of Ehuope. Our exhibitions were attended by thousands wJi^Tthe jame high prices that were chai^ for admission atBaden^Ba^^^^w^ Jaden^oiy^nmny distinguished persons, the King of Hollandoame to s«e tt^ ttttle General. These exhibitions were a#iong the most profltaMeTIi ilTe^ tS«?J?!: "°? ^^ «*te to remit thousands of doUara tomyagento inth. 11^?^ ?^ ^ "•* mr^purchasing my real estate, aiul to assist intSiB«™ StSoSrSfTI^^!::^''*''^*' AshortbutveryremuneratiV?^ at FrankfortK>n-the-Maine, the home and starting-place of the ereat h«i«»!rf«J we ^Uted at Mayence, and several other places in the vidnltv nanina VA^ harvests everywhere, and then went downL Bhine to cS[' ^^ weothercariositleB and works of art, and then pushed on to " " • V ' 1 -is 1 \ 1 1 X V . 4''^ *-m CHAPTER XXX IN HOLLAND AND^ELSEWHERE. Whole surface^the C^^^^l^t'e ^""T '^l "^ ^^<^ oi^ dykee, which are monm.ZsT^Vd^T^''i *^S ^^^ "»« vronderful beavers, Holland seeins to me the 100^^?^^ °^ ''^^^^^ ge^aUom of human the world The people. C ^th S!- °"^ ^ ^"" «« interesting ocmr^^ - cleanlineaa, their tSiTin^trTL C"-'lT" ,'*'^««' ^^^ eS^oSnJ unlvei^ testimony oaUtiS^JeW^5'-^T^"^«^«'^ >""<*• I^K mojfc economical people loS^fciot ^^'"^f ","^ ^'^^ '^^-^ '^ Holland it is evidently U next to Zt f^«i, J^"* cleanliness^ concerned, in ton.^taragged.dirtyXS^k^^^'^^^'ff^ It is mr^ iiSed. economical in their laabits; and eveS ™f^ People are very tempemteaS of wealth in the comitry-Uve witl^J Z^ "^f"-^^ ^^^^ i« a vast amount ^ell. ^ ^^**'»^*'"'8«^*y. though aU of the people ii^ ^^^^f^SX:Zi"^^rZTJ7 \^^ ^* - only dive,^ by f^^ to pmnping3 f^i thTir^roft^f .'^l' ? ^°^'^' ^^ «^<«2 I exhibited the General only h. Ster2,^nJ f ^^ *<> the sea again. ^ profit in either city, we soent rn^T.-^ Amsterdam, and to no great was tobeseen. InZ^^l^^^J^^V^ T^^ '^^"^ *« «-^ twice and whitewashed o^ceTvli^Xl^? t"* '^^ ^^'^^^^ «^bbed ^werealmostpainfuUyp^'^d^^^^*i^;3^,«^<«P*i»^ Sunday. Some were not aUowed to go t^ugh Zll^Z^^A^^"'^''^ ^°"^ '"^'^ '^^ Aeir boots or shoes in the housL Si^Ti! a^"° T^ 7^ V'^rvm^ to wear brooms, pails, floor-brushes and mops rover ^SS "1 .'°"^' "^««^^ °' ^r5^^Lir?is^^tTe^f r c^^^ jnausemente, but ti^eyaad their hSLTw^S^r"'' ""^ "°»«'^'°' •hat we were quite willing thev should^™ *^^"*«* "« «> n»uch amusement. «heygenei:aJJydid. We 4- J. A^^ S ^ ^"*®''**^™* the"goby" «; -"mual fair which is heirto S IT^'^"' ^* *^" ^''^ <^ "Kre4,"ortS iescriptionsareopen at prittr ISo^ *""^ '^^ -^«^ ^ oJ 5 -dareattendedryiearirt^wl^lf^prLr^^^^ «- P«-i«^ one great holiday seems aU-sufflcientCJh^^?* , ^^""^ ^*»« P^^Pl^generaUy, tS of booths, whe,^ <^osities^7mo^i^JofiT^ '^'^'^"^'^-^^ w^ able to make some purcha^rH^r ^, ^^ '^^ exhibited. ,ind Among these, was the AlbWTa^v cS^'''*'?" ^^ "^^"^ ^im who were by far the most inteiSg .nd^^ti ' ""^ '^^ "^'•^' '^^ ^^ had ever seen. ^-^-ung and attractive specimens of flieir das. I ';^^^^;' "•cr^r^ *-' iT« IN HOLLAND AND ELSEWHEEE. ^^ 241 U«» UiiSS 8t« ^ "«nnaid^ of aU aorta ^uTL^^ ^^^^^ w"'lliri!r" ^ whence the J^jeemermaid jriginatei " * easUy dlvinedflwn Aiter a truly delightful Tijit in Holland, we wmt ^«fc««uw. , . oeeding to Manchester, opened our e3fc^^ to ffiigland; and, pt^ crowded to overfowing«t«S^^rf^^f^™^^y» the haU wa. wegave everyday. ByZb^nr^^ ^1^1^''''^'*^'^ over to London, .^d fhS^^SZl^^t^^T^if^*^^^^^^ live within the -WctTltarS^^^^r?^:^ retumforafewweetotoAmeriaiT^ '-"^ naoeMury now for me *• mentdfthedockdS«er^^^»^"*"^?l'°'™»^»«^ ^ ^dcompetent agenteto cSryttTS^S^STT^J^^** -^mo« towards iKnne ««l t^ we-, and STaSZr^^ aged to have more or hJtl^TZU^?^' '^^^ ^^"^ md 1 eiw^^ auu^ Duringt^epresenttH^fra^ir^t^ . 2^numl.rof mockt^whichafloi^^^ ■elected, jurymen drawn, prisoners arnOnied. c«in«.i JlifZ! ^J*«»'«» 'fonnalitiee of a court established. I^Sto iZ^^^f^ '^ *" *• • fortane had directed me to^ ^^P^IT^ **f* ^ "^^^ lawyer, tor I hav. always had r^aS^Sii^fr^f*^'*."*^^ a vwy IWr -«^xamin«.onofwiSZ,^SSS^;^^«^^ -^ afaon under 8upplementarvnro^in.«^«r^^ ^' ^"raumm eixaniin. bad iKHaght a^ „r:ji'r:S^t2;;^ *n»d thM coUeolwl waa »iv« to - n„,!r«^^ IN HDLLAin) AND ELSEWHEIU. Humbugs, and euuin^tS^iSZi5Sl*^.^f^ "^ «■« ^'•^- «< •r«um«iMlridlculouJd^^r^W^^'t^^^ ^ •n«.giiigrtds„»ightypro«LSL wtn«IZ.M *^^ ^y^^^ devoted to «aa been brought intom^isition, and Lt my ^ t^l*^' *^ "l^ ^«^* wan any that had preceded it I askedfor^Lf !^"*o ^ more elaborate aefence, which was granted, isl^^ . "*" ^^''^ **> P™P«* to' my «»- court and ^.^S^d^^^S "^*" -«'^,'^™«ed to aocc^oda^ upper deck, ^^h^ ^^a"^ ^^ Z"" fT^ '''' «"« "^^^^ «>• . CHmodty wa8ontip-to«,to?r^evitrtW S** ^ '^^ **^* tnuuqrfred. «d laughable triairlS the LT Sfa^^t? t^iuXw^ "^ i'^^^ Jniy had taken their Dlaoes- tha «r.>„«^ •'^^ ^" ™» **»« l»nch, the cation, Winn^i^tLX^^C^dTpTS^^'"'^^ '°'-^«- •v«7thing seemed «aky. I^««JbrouZ^i^E^AC^°°' ^«™ ***«*' «»<» meat re^i, and I was aied to p^^ty or not Ztf T'^'''^ ^^'"^^ Kdemn manner statnd t».«f t J.,^ «^'y. or not guilty. I rose, and in a' mort n«tana and unnaturaL vTTie aueSte„f«„T^^^°' •"•* by othef- curiosities . toeiM. «Jcn,«op.Idi.eo^^r:;»rii^^ Byu-tag^^y ';^* IN HOLLAND AND ELSEWHEBE. Of ixmrae this fllldted mnoh mirth, 'n^"—^ _ ^^. ; naliiou was this: »«»iiurw. An»aw qp«|ttq»paliafttb»Ta«»«xai^ "Areyouanataraljst.BlrtM ' « Tto quMtlon WM rupatted with some omphMtai TIat ,111 do, ^; you may g<^.. Mia I ; ilil ,t U„ tin., Mmu™ to Ik. Oollara. The next year the witness visited Inmistan, the ooimtrvLifc^J^« Ji The whole oourt-epectatora, and even the " nriaoner » himo»i# ^ -ririSt:?!?"^ ™copU«dn.^«™.^a«t tan hl-b.^ «^ "Are you a naturalist, airf»' "i*, J'J'*'},."^" ""P"^ ''^ P'*"*®^. wIthflmwnphartL atmoflh « m— - •in't catch me as you Aid the other witness. "^^ ■" °"*°^ •" *» ■•T. !«• "OhI you are a naturalist, are voul Than air T mmL , you not imow it to be a fact in naS hM^lLi :^ S:r^T*T^ ** won as he sees another? ««wry, Mat one jackass always brays m ^mytaal argument I riftad the t.«tim«ny. an^T^^^SSf^ learned oounml. dto^xmoerted the witnesses. flatt«r«< fhT*.^ w«rtn«s, ruffled ths tks jtidi* iMd d||tT««d ^.^ZH^Tf' °*"*'^ <*• J"'J«« ""> jury, und whM -- juu,. OM awT«« Ws chai^Vth* jury acquitted ma wittMiut to»rli^ ttafc v^ ; '.♦, 'V'Afl hMMMMi i^y^iia^ ^ mmmmr n 5 ' W HOttAND AND ELRKWHEEB. ' verymuchintewitodinsonietlZS^Sr^ buHm«B, or they would b. know you now; and. what fa m«i to tir«»l!J myself ;" my butterfly Wend., I ment of broken clo3c-wheeuTZ?n!5^r V «^ I get out of this bewOder. - *««^ooncen,forgi,5^„;^^2Sr^ I»t>ved valuable to ma *^ **' ""P^^^"*** ^ Bridgeport, and they •oon after my art val, that therf W^w^lZl ,^! °' "*^ "'"^ ^Id me, Preeen^ and that I^t as ^^eZ^yZ^\tr^ "* '"""^ -^ in August, and my fiunlly f oUowed Z SL«T^^ . ^^ ''°"*- ^ »»^ «»Tlved •PPeared.ortmitw«sfo«edtoauctioirtob^ ^ wert ofTeiied. Tbe worUen who wereemrf^iil?^ notes whenever the v jructed not to «nok» the«. l^^^SZlt^ ^'^'^ «PedaUy to. »hat»omeofaH.menwerefartheLbn^^,*;?",^ di««,v«„^ •at their dlnne« which they^^ht^ JI?^ *!'°*^'°"''"»^d«ne^ •while after dim.er to «nSe ^.r^^^^S iSt;>,S^„t^' "^^ "*«^ «««^ Jpe- was left on the cushldn whlcJ '^verS ^i^^^"^' °°* "^ *^"» "»»>*«« *ntte*the tow with which the c^cTI^^lf'T"'" ""^ *" '»«» dome and «pweeb before this s„,o„ldeH„, tTw^t:^^^^^^ I was staying at the Astor House in N«» v^, T^ l)eoemberl8,1857,IreceivXLtete^V^ 1 r^^ '^''*'"' °° *»» ^onitog of morning. The alam was riven It «?ll^^u^" ''"™^ *" *^« K™"nd that •^«« bm^ «ii-^^t,j:tz^;':s^th": ;ir's: ix',^ ^ tan »»• rwi . Tl* WM Boi onlv, ~ri™,.lL . "» 'f™- "7 beMtlftil Innli '^^^!4^^tt ' ^^!^.i .'^» donkey's braytog, rot tbecroa»4ra Bst of the voyage* 8 passed to me, in tionallyfanijsbed down Broadway, where near them, > street, or (q)poi^' )r they would be ''ay, or on top of I a new seuaatian itterfly friends, I of ttobewUder^ lily thanked the bat most needful Seport, and they o bad written to affairs, told me, ? of Iranlstan at ■ I had arrived «r, and October her elder sister, more than two 'Diib. Johnson ^as best to keep srfortheestato ^ whenever tile V PB spedaUyiij. tly dlsoovererl e main dome k^ ^ "tayed th ground that the 17th, and utiful InniB >>ad probably nity. Itwaa itnA i uriitan. Tlia t some of the IN HOLLAND AND ELSEWHlEl. «♦? Ifc^wpinsoraBoeonaie property. Moitaf titetaniitiinandplotaniiNniaTiM' VBOeraily in a damaged st^te. 4«te Elias Howe, ^., the celebrated Inventor of the needle for MwingHnachinesi The property brought $50,000, which, with the 188,000 iaaonmoe, wept into mv assets to satistyclocK creditors. It was Mr. Howe's intentton to erect a snleodid mansion on the estate, but his untimely and lamented dMHi BNVVited ttw fnlflU. AMft of the plaik *»««■. BttDBttw the neoe«ity of making mow moo^y to aasw m ^SoHortlii* ma f«^ my financial difficulties, and leaving my affiurein the ha^TS^JaawTD John«on-my wife and youngest daughter, Riuline, boarding with my eklesl dajighter. Mrs. Thompeoi^ in Bridgepo.t-early in IS^T^^bacMo^^ «id took Tom Thmnb to all the prindpal places in ax,tland aSL^aTS !^i^ J"" ^""^ """^ ""'^ "^y ^'^^ ^ "^i**^ •■ berotofSMo my agents and assignees in America "^^w. *^Ti ^^°" "^ **°***^ *^ "^^^^ ^»»°"y to agents who conti^^ti^ I ^^^^"^ ^'^^^ ""^ »y ««°«^ -di" ^Instruction. I too? ^^S^I^rr^i*^^"^ ^ At the suggestion of .^veiJ'iiJS^^. jmUemen, resident in Londoo, I preparod a leoturo ott"The Art of Mon^ Oe^." I told^fcjtis that, considering my ck>cto(unpUca^fSo^^^ I^^*""™fc"'*^~ ""^ Art of Money I«lng;''buttteyenoOTr ousiy ponessed IVKEdty of making it. They further tmand me ttiat my name having be« intimately assodat*iwifh the Jenny ^Undooooertaaiid otb^ . treat money-makfag enterprises, the iaot ewould \»m^>«^^L^S^ vuiprofltahla i- — . «* «» „Bwouia besure to prove attraotivt TheoW clocks ticked in my ear fi>e ,,«mmuu- that I should ii^inrove ererv Wortmdty to "turn an honest pemiy." and my lecture wTZy^SJ^SS ^^^T^J^"*^ ^ ^"^ neglected-nmd, at the appointed tlma^ehaU ;^t;^J^^,^^^r^^ P«^-. -» complet»ly'SZl. atXi^tE^^ and ^ shillfa^p| jeventy-flve and fifty cents), per ««t, aoconiing to loca^^ ^•r^"'^***^*^"*'*** I<»uld8eelnmyaudSall^Zei. c« ft^ who had soggesi^d this effort; all my thea Jcal and't^^^'! I^L^ Zirf^.*^"T" "'^'^ i knew to be comiectod wlTth; le^T^ london p^Mrs, I felt sure that my success or faUuro would be duly chronicled ^xtmomtag. Therow«. moreover, agenemlaudience.thatseem^eC to ZtZ. .^TS L°^ '?**" they had heart! so mMch, and to catch ftTlS J^sthe^'art" which, in times past, had contributed so laigely to his suooe. hi Ufb. 8timulat«ll^tt«»Urfng,.ito^«Itodomyb..t..n3iT2^ Al the end of Uils Tolnme will be found the leotur* subsUntUlIy m It iras d*. llT.r«J. ttv>ucta It was intenpeiewl with manjr anecdotes and mu.tt»UoBs which •re neosssarilj omitted j and I should »d.!. that the .ubJoln«d oopy beln. adaot^ to the meridian In which it ha. b^n r*pe«tedly dellrare.!. contains numewu, lo«a allusions to men and matters in the United States, i^hich of ooune di4 aot appaair^ttee ritlnal dr a ft >r s par »l T OT a rm n l '^'^ ai Kl l w oss. ' .^- "1 1^^ i^msm \. .."■^ IN HOLLAND AND ELSliWHEElil. NeMtr •▼wy paper In Ikiiwlcm hiwl Bomethliig to say about approved. Indeeci, the pi^fu,ion of ppafae quite overwhelmed me. TheL^J 3T|m«J J^ber 80, 1888. concluded a half-column critictam with the^i^wSj ' ■ ^^^^^m -i.Iu^K*".'' "" '.'5!»lr.bly Clear deilvery comp^tlhb qu^ffllTnrM^u ta^^^^^^ 1- whTk W«clty h* In no 'hninbug.' either Irf » higher or lowerMMe of the word " * *"*' If^io&^ttie JV««., tho Gfofee, the Siin, and otner lesser journals of the same date, ■u contained leriRthy and favprable notices and criticising of my lecture Mr cwn lavish RdvortJsements were a», nothing to the notoriety which the London rewi^pers voluntarily and editoriaUy gaye to my new enterprise. The weekly jnd literary papers followed in the train; »nd even PwncA, which had already JSS! ~ TlSi'^P Tom Thumb before the public, gave me a half-page notice. V«th an Uhurtratlon; and thereafter favonxi me with frBquent paragS. Thi city Thus prepared the provfncee to give me a cordial reception. During the year laW, I delivered this lecture nearly one hundred times in pmlse which had fTowS m1^ lec^ everywhere, and I felt too. In the comfa^"^ encomiter. that I mL^g^^ quite as much as I was oompeUed to take. •*• * uugos giv» I commenced at Cambridge, and, as I expected, to an overflowimr housa. largely composed of undergraduates. Soon afteM l«gan t^^J^T^e^ young men caU«l out: "Whe™ is Jolce Heth r • to wSTl verT^^Uy ^iSt '.«.. "1 **T tT* f*^ "^ "**"^° y°"'*»' ^ th» conclusion otSi tectoTB^ when I shaU take great deUght in affortUiMc you, or any oZ^ of h« pojj-ity, all the information I po«.«, cnoomin^ yd dlaseJ^iTT" ^ Thkrep^y turned the laugh againnt the youthf,,! and anxious inqufa^r and had ' TO unqualifiedly «. The Loudon h the following rUininK lectar«n he Hupeitranco of but h that of the If dry humor that Bflous, A Honor- ecturer, in which Telegraph, the the same date, 7 lecture. My oh the London ». The weekly ih had already ilf-page notice, 'a^Tcipba. The d times indif- Bat it to (reeh ial paper Lad «," and I was oo, nude me • 'riends to my most grateful rom Thumb as I for practical oae two citiea, iverrity boye and as I was •e from ftnan- tdeed I rathef followed my I might giva >wlilg houag^ kk, one-of^th* oolly repllMt luion ot^iha jlheri of hi^ Aive.* lirer and had mr, qutttitions IN HOLLAND AND ELSEWHEBE. 247 Intemjptioo lan one tau^ ^ose oC^M^Inre,, aeveral itudenLts Invited me to a stunptuous supper irbme I ^mej^ Jun^mflSthar under-graduates; a nephew ^t Lord Maoaular, the hirtorlaiir This young gentleman insisted upoh my breakfasting with him, at his rooms next morning, but as I was anziouii to take an early train for Lcmdon,' I only caDed to leave my card, and after hla "gyp" hadgiVen me astrdng tmp of coffee^ Ihaa- tened away, leaving the young Macaulay, whom I did not wiahto divfearbL tad ..aaleep in bed. i ' * 7 At Oxford thcl large haU was fmed half an hour beffBce Is.cJlosed. 1 propose to proceed with my lecture now, and not keep you waiting till Uie advertised hour." • ) "Good for you, old Bamum," said 009; "Time is money," «dd anothsR '"Nothing like economy," came from a third, and other remarks and exolam*> tionit followed, which excited much laughter In the audience. Holding up my (•and as a signal that I was anxious to say something so soon as silence should btt restored, I thus addressed my audience: ' , "Young gentiemen, I have a word or two to say, hi order that we may,1iae for some fifteen minute^ when a voice called oat: • , " "Coifle, old dwpryou must be tired bf tM" timej hoU, up now till we diW 'Yankee Doodle, ' " whereupon they all joined in that ple^tfhig air Mth a vigat> which showed t]pat they had thoroughly prepared thems^ves for the Axadm, and meanwhile I took a diair and sat. down to shpw them ^thiat I was quite sattt-' fled with their manner of passing the time. When tfo sohg was concluded, tte leader of the oarty aaicT: " Now, Jilr. Bamum, you may go ahead agabL" I looked at my watch and ouietly remail^ed, "OhI tbare is time for h>ti of fun yet; We have nearly forty ndnutesof the tf^aar remahiing," and J proceeded wltl^ my lecture, or rather a lecture, for I b^an to adapt my remarks to the aulieoM and' the o(A)adon« At intervals of ten minute«,«fr §0^ came -Interruptiods which I, as my audience sa!w, fully enjoyed as much as the house did. When thte misoellaneous entertainment woe concluded,, and I stopped short at the end ot th» hour, crowds of the young men pressed forward to ahc^ hands with me, declar- ing that they had had a "Jolly good time," while the leader said: " Stay vAth m a week, Bamum, and ife will dine you, wine you, and give you full hoaiMeVlN^ night." But I was announced tp leottire^in London the next evening; and I opaikl not accept the pressing invitation, though I would ghuBy^iaye sta3red t^rooi^tlM, week. Tbey aMked me all sorts of questions abott America, the yttoeum, my v ai ' fawiB a liuwi i mud ■mt thi Jiopf t; ooiiiioiAof :Bi^ fllook troipblea all right At iMMt a MoorB of them prsstw d me to breakftut with then n«kt morning, Wt I welbwA. Hiixm* youi^ gentliMiiaa put It on this vi'ot^ panoml ipmncb ^j-^ ;♦.■«-. 245 IN HOLLANirtim BLSEWHEBB. C^- vyitn tbt, you mart iv^kMb^ -J*i.*_ ..''.• ttoM I met Urn and half» do^Tn^Ki!^^ argttatlble^ and at the appo^tod i»ve you «^y your ftm afld^TftSS ^^' ^^*" ^ '^ «lol'» inoUned » to--i«i upon BooUi* wUl. wTSfT^S?^^ wfcixiboyfc ^^^"•"**^'«'*n«^«wHi-iiatu»dfnawtthtfit AftwMeUfertat my i^ture many iitt« ,h -.-,_' ' - I dt«Un«I, not ttu* t thought Jl^Siw r;rL "** '*»'^^»- ^«- offer 1WUW be detrimental to the 4,«b,io'dei^ i?^,'^!/^"'**"'*** *»»«P»Wio.uon T«T oonaldereble emolument to me b^J? .' *'*"'*• '«*»*• •ouree of j™. the rodempuon of toy pooTnC^JL '!""'* '^»-'. *"'* weJ /- ' I jS^ t Bt 197 throiit i»' i the appointed . ideqaa0}lyl luite imdined m * ^r^ioigbk hatot% *»beouMtlMy i uie eatartain* ■Ml-: rxxmda if F»rt8dwlthin« DJtloketHMlkr "OBila^l pub. ^ '»• This Offer t>«oauw Z had h* pubUcjaUon * a aburoe ^t wblofc went IflOtON MmU CHAPTER XXXU ; • ^ AK BNTBBPBISINO ENGLISHMAN. ^ Tta nyt day . g^tleOBu. nim^i j„ta m tent hi. S^J^^TZ, , gMitlMnan in a " ootton-mUl " In Bury near Mannh JfT '?«X^^T^,?r''* another added, "onlva few ^««n« _ "'""^'"^^'^hester, 'although," he modestly Sw^Sk ^it r ? "^^ ' wai. working au a jounieyinan, and probably ^o^Mhave been at this thne. had it not been for your ix,^o1^rZ^ ^uipri»at this announoem^t, he continued: v«wrving ajy "Tha fact is, Mr. Barnum, upon reading ybur autobioCTaohv r rtir«»hfe • P«rortved you v a'TTvoKio^^^ «,. ..i.i i_ . «««.wj»uww —__„_, . „• J iu*uvci'tM^, oua 1 am giaa u i nave bet in any manner, through mj experiences, to ai-our ganioi woold h— - * No, Indeed4t ^uld not," he replied, in an earnest tone; " I am sure I should nave worked as a miU-hand all my life if it had not been for you. 6h, Ih^e made no secret, of it," he continued; " the \»mmerciaJ men with whom I deaJ K310W all about it ; indeed, they caU me ' Barhmn ' on 'change here in Manchester " On one occasion, when Q^uei-al Tom Thumb exhibited in Bury, Mr. Fish cloaU hismm,ai«i^yeeachofhisemployeesatickettotiieexhibitZ out of re^ ^w? "^ ;», i^."^ 9^ " ^'^•'^^l"""* occasion, When the little GenemllTted E^and the 1^ time, Mr. Fish invited him, his wife. Commodore Nutt, Se at Us house, ifrtrioh the distinguished little party enjoyed exceedingly ' whfl'^r.i^ expressed himself extremely anxious to do any ser^ce for me which might at any tune be in his power. Soon after I arrived in Ameri^ -^ an account of a French giant, then exhibiting in Paris, and said to be ^er eight ^eet m height. As this was a considerably greater altitude than any sned- Tk . . f ^^"^ '"^ "^^^ ""y knowledge had attained, I wrote to my fri^d ish to take a tnp to, Paris for me, secm^ an interview with this modem Anat r ad by actual measurement obtam for me his exact h%ht. t enclosed an^ bis height should actuaUy prove to b^ommencing at eight f^et, and dLend^ . t^t'^'Tt r ' ^"^ ^ '^ "" °°' ^^^ '^ '^ latter flgm^lXtj Mr. FishLplacing an English two-foot rule m his pocke( startied for Paris- and. after much^fflculty and sevei-al days' delay in ti?Sg t^^Ji £^^ who was closely watched by his exhibitor, succeeded X appSngan h^lS at the g^t's lodgmga And now came a t^uble Which r^^-ed £l the pl^Z and diplomacy which my agent could command. • Mr. Fi^ arriving at toe i^ .f, r^d^ous. told the giant who he w«s, and the object of CS L W^ K^iowed hun my letter, and read the ten»5.ting offei^ whibh I ^u«ie for his s^ir provided he measured eight feet, or evZcame within six inc^of SST Oh, I measure over eight feet in height," said the giant "Very lilffilv" ^phed my faithful agent, " but you see my orders an» to .Measure you. '- TW's aH J'^^f^f '"•JP"*'^ knack which giants and dwarfs exercise when tiiey desire to extend or diminish their apparent stature. ^ rae««, and lie thought he aaws movement uround the "under^mrlii.™"*!^. Ifr.Fish, butIteUyou,if lamnotpermittedtomeasm^yom- height I «haU not engage you." My offer had been very liberal; in fact, p^v^ded Twas e1^ feet higli, it was more than four times the amount the .rilt wHT '^^.®*'*' m»«9l« for it, look at that door; you see my head Is more than two feet above h eight of t ha t do or ." J ty gm sl iA Mend jriataly law tfatfli; ^^^ -vsiKpt'M'frr '■■-■ ■ _.-.l...- .n-' are I should Oh, I have bom I deal Manchester." Fish closed of respect, eral visited utt, Minnie lous dinner dee for me America, I to be over anyspeci- my friend lem Anak, id an offer ig to what lescending I, I did not 'aris; and, the giant, interview e patience ' the place n fact., he 3 services, ■■ height r likely," " There's aches, by 'hentjiey t accord- lat dont jver Mr. . feet and g8"that ell," said b, I shall i^as eight iceiving; ently he n't take )t above ;"Just !f is., , l*# X' ■^\' ■ \ f V i^^^it"' .•S^-?^!^l^fc^a?^fc^lU^^ivMtf.\r- ■ ^^■■■'f •,.-,, - / '/^ AN EiTTBaFRISINO BNGHSHHAir. S5h**I^«**l^"°' "*°^"P ^^^ "»"*=• »»d he lan^iedkti this lagb rum. The giant knew he could not hold himaelf up inany second, to the few «fr* tojee he had imparted to his extended muscles; but hisT^k hiS dX^ Fuh's attention to his feet, and from the feet to the boXandhfS^^ a^r^.l^ ""'''t^''' y*'" ^^'^^ ^ ^^''^'^ "^de«tand this ^S^ around the solee of your boots, but it seems to me you have irot a«fc^ s™5^ ■ S^tT^n^ materially aids your altitude a few" ^^^^^^^^ ^^'iiSf .^°Sr'*'""°*°^: '' ' engageyouatall, youmu^^^ your boote, and lie flat upon your back in the middle of the floor Thrall £»^««t^ talked about his word being douSfa^ ^^r^r^^T^"^"^ ** ^'^ i>eslowly tookoflhis^t^^;.^ • ally got down on the floor. Stretched upon his bai he madesev^^SwL SJitdS^tio^S'TT^^* causinghimmuch a^nishme^S ttl^ SfJlSf^^^^*^*'"®"*'''^«'°«*^y««^«»»'e«to°e4ndon^ So he w«8 not engaged, and my agent returned to England £ Wme rZ^ •-^letter giving tiie particulars of the giganStex^T ...«S«^*'T^^?,*'! *^®^**^*'' *"«^«°«^e i"»^«»m,SMr. Fish pronoaed •eoondh^i^to his enlarged mill, and named this, after myW "Sy" Ashort timerinoe, I w«rte informing him that Idesired toWvesome^S« foregoing fiw^s in my book, and asked him to givemTSs<»nS^3 X> to ■ouled friend that I cannot forbear making the following extiactB from it: wonfd bo considered alS^tet s for une)Tferf rHh^nM h-'^Mf ^'H*" ^^^""^ *" *•»** «»nn^ •''^^V" ^S" "•"""J? "'^ »' BllVdrw7t mlldlj, If y"ou please ^ *'* '" y°«' P-W? «* »J of the cylinder, which hSofte" cautf^m«4r m^t^Jr** '*tT '"■'""' P'^^^" «» •"»»" "nd stances Co visitors. I started and chrl9^n^d"Oh,.r»v »«*"»•? °?ve e^P'^ined tbe clrcnm- and she has saved me £WMr mdnth in S ^^r *^ ""m?® f«o«-teenth of January last, Urat to "Oharlty " (she Is hfeh DrMRnr«^^nH " r "^ ^''"^. ^l"^ *'^'"" '''•'*"» 'he boile?goeB done with It. fie iTto work aUow nm^^^^^^^ **»« steam after she^hai «Tlng. Barnum waV ext™vaKant Xn K'o^w^^^tf ^^^^ the result Is a fcetwfxt him and the boiler?he^an onlv^et wh»fH.hi i^^^^^ ^rli.'.**"'^ I fl'^«d Charity •tote in your " Life " you wulrt alwav/m«lrml ^ ^\^ •*'•"•. ?''*'' reminds me that you •llyftMiamOKtoof the rebelBontatt. United Stataa A. m^^^ r ■'^i^iBfeK-.s^i'; V 254 .J!^. Air SMTERPRISIiro SHrOLTSRXAir. teowkl not have a patriot's inter^ in the progtWi of' that terrtWe rtroflate, Xi^t":::^^^:^^^^^^ ^ ^p-^'^- -« ^^^^^^ M^^^^^ *he SaxUtory Comnd5w<^ held in I,ew York doMn^ the war ^^Tji^^ °**** intererting chapters In American history JSSe of iZl ^^^"^ '^r*" '*""««*^ ^ <^« multiplicity of offeriSV^tl^ toto tte toe«ury of th^ commission, two moiister ^es, w2^ m sS ,^^JJ#tagi™manEngl^ gertShnnel cake which sUxxi beside it in the fair, «^ sent to Z^^S^^ S;!^^ i* "^f ^ permission, I took much plea&e in oontrilSritth Wi own offeriflg, for the benefit (^«u.»uffarii,g«oldien. "°"'"°"™« *^ ^"^ *> ^Uk' -:«•■■■ ' -'4$'- ?f^' -y <• ■ •*.', ■inigglet ien,iba the war, of thosfr b moiie3> iBtnugb One of armies, visitors ike aoc his fair, •lysoaa I second lally by it»wi#> t I «*>. \ Y^*v f 1 '& £ / ^- V t • .OHAPTBB'XI^ZH. ^ ^ BIOHAED'8 HIMSELP AGAIF. :;»'«* ^.,/ iHlOBIrBtoMiedtothetJhited Statea D#b« my last vWt «1*«,-^ t k-^ ■ecuped many noveltdes for the Museum. in^^ZS^a^^M^, •ngaged at Amsterdam, '>at''mod^mJSa^^^J^!'t^2. - f "*^Pt<>'^t«^^TZ^ itoermore stated that ti.e Museum would be dosed. Ma«h aJSTtor one ^kfo^ Zr«Z nr'"? T""^^""' ^ *« "-penSTMand. 81st.^Z ^^ B^ and propnetorrfup of its original owner. Itwasalso amiomiced ttT^ thenight of dosmg, I would address the audience from the staga "™" "**'' *'° The^Americaa Miuemh, decorated on that occasion as on holidays, witi, a SS^n^""^/' ?f „!? ^""""^ was filled to ite utmost capaSy.^! «perienced profound delight at »eing hundreds of old friends of K^Th, toeaadlenoe. Uadtedbutfourmontiiaof being fifty years of age- but Ifo^^i 1«.™ o/t^^^^i^^S ^ T ~"^**""* t^ thTvaSLoTexperienc^ T^ ■o^e^f^ wouM be valuable to me in my ««id effort to seem, „ « V H' ^' \ i BI ABD>8 HIMSELP AOAOr. bought of arfs mS^To^SS w!ri- ?^ ^ tbe j««ption,iK:::i^3ei^:t^^^ '- avau myself '^Jle^^Crtor^tt,'''^'?*"^'''^ to^y worldly prosperi^S^^J^y ^5J? *>: N«^ «"! ^ '«^ •'««>n«er- ,^,>eplyembami«8ed^rSt<^T^^JS^ "nu^ month, later I was «,r Put&ith In a certain clock i^S^nl^^**"'^*'*'^^^ to paper. wUch ultlmSSy^S^TST'^S''' "^ ' *^ "^^ ■•"fflStoto keepmy^^dX^tZ flZi;^*^^^ *^* y«»« of Imnl to-night, I am LpL toiu^TSS J ^^ *^?«» *«««» at last, and h«« erf which I have ^y CS ^ L^^^' "^^"^"^ ^^^ ^^ <«* the exdtementeof busing h^TT^J "*"* feel no desire to i^^ngage in §*• caw fa theMu^ as oT^r T"*'' <» be embalmed and pat tol heJeapttogetinton^Khler^^vL Tlu^^ b a n^ty of^t^ "'^°'«' •«''* since boirine. acttT^* tho* with ^ n,;;^^^,^!^,^'* T'*' *" ">« ^"«^ ««» «»>oS dent of a conilal weZ^e^lli^f ^ "* PleasaatlyJdentifled. I am^oS^ ^y -lude to the Z:^ oTL"?^. S °^ *^:ir *"'*"^«««» "'*«*' Newiliay, InUwflrenSoTJ^f J?'^ daliveranoe from utter fluandal nrfa. ft^d.. whose v^unSnTl.^i??' 5?^' »« to .p«^ of ^ynlpathiri^ n^'^&w. Thi.done^eltWn5r?^f**'°™^''^'^»*I<^^«fap6««id -».i«Hl towa^iif^"^^^:^^ «;:- up jUl of my p^pe^TSS trustees ««l «oeive.TfrS^ Zeflt^ tS^« / jT^ "»"«»« hand. of foroedsaleofmyComiecticutmr^flSL^^^"^ Butatthe tomore than douhlelSfoS w^^-^^^f" ^r* '"'' f."*'*"^ ^ ^^ ' G««wood and Butter. ''^J^^l^Z^^^^T^^'''^ *** ^"^^ hM nweived more thali el^th.pa8( • -V £^ SfUiiS^.' il*^i.~ "'■"""'** "^^ A«-dh, ««M«TmTtambiii.rh,mirttai«l «or«Mii>I» I luXriTn^lIt^ fiStJr?5i^K?£^*''¥?^ "**>• ^ M«»^ •▼-y dolte «t .^>. . ••WTMUdbooM rsniMjuti Uka mia9, and not a fsw 1mt« d«dar«L ijrasafooL' I can only reply that I n«T«r mada % pawnbrotar, and I hop. I Shan aarar soentlialy kKf bseo dalodad tnio ^. fa«^ meiar, tha* ■> / ^ T" nounanmg aty. «> that the same oonoem which uroBfewd^H »— STJi^J^iS^:;^ n6vBl«e.otherwlBe huux^r^tto^TST SqSSSL r^ °««°5 «'«»« «°^ and hope to meet many^my^ PwmM 1 MTBTO-Moured the servtoeB of one of thrlate ikwirtetom -^T^fK^ •oMyemwager of tWi Museum. Mr. John Oi^wood^ ^Jf!!!^ .^ *toJ«*om^ I bid ^^ till U» ■,«p«d,,a . J^ «i««m with rapid ohan^ and noreltlai D*v«r tirUt "^ W«HrtloM to gftitf mioo. to,the new ^U> of .JdiT^ ""^^^.T^^^'^^^Ifry' .'^^ «^ -f- -^- ding op a«. ftzurewlon u eoooorage ragblgooU ot my Old be glad to inland the u a modest that he ia mientB, the^- But,moi^ devotion, I iwood win Sutier, baa Iftir JQW At nearly promiwtd heamooal' OWBtiUM dgire my ord. The togmd^ ' «»em eaid to me in weredeludedintoit; itisS^r^.Xjld'^^^,^^ nopelessly ^o^^^ take it, andpayme^ n^^Tv ^"^ ''''®' ^o" <» keep y«, iM^posfflbleforyoutomV" But L!^r'^'*°'^«««''^dert^^ ' *hou]d never have got Tmy fl 1^ T/"^ "^ oo»Hide^7S!l lettered fortune. nS^a ^w^^^fS^^^Tofl^Tr ""° '^'**^ ^ My old friend, the Boston li/^Jr^T^.^**®****""^ eheetipg poeticJlin^S^tS^^H?'"'"^ ''^'^ '^'^ P^^^ • Cm tte f oltowing from^ irj^ *^ ^P« -^- I -« down, "^ '•Won at my rise •gain™^^^^*"' conveying glowing wwdi 0^, "^ "* M«f¥,ii4i - vt. ANOTHBR WORD W)?t slbum* ■^roj. your handt The gfrMrie oVr lli ■ ««»*»'. .'i#¥ / leslt ud tbkm .f.,^.Vr.T!?* "•Bwdlw* of the rabWa't i^»^S7 tSI tte'Si.::''^ therWr^w6re Yo?« .J^Sfte,^™^'" '!'«'«'? knew, iJ^oWmSS'^-^^-^V. n^-Il. ' "" ""'" •na true, Honeii M nap, «fc fri«i4,«' neighbor. P»«. a*! oopW Iqr many jouraals of the day J ^^^ ^ ^ ^^''"^ '^ A HIALTH TO BAWrUM. OntTAinoNii fll! yonr -■—- * m».^ Aijd drtak . hj?h to*5Sr ~"^ To do u he hM.d5ne ; ^ • m1E*i£^1* '**'^"'» «»' hlhiMit Who terja the Swedish NlghtlMrti •Sk-'^'*.'?"" *"'' happy n»d» The Uft» of little Thmnbf ^^ Oi rirj<* .ncera ^Hov^ever, Id man ) hacietoter iv>wnig*« A*i5;f^''--f !»y,> 4v looalllint upoh me was -ids; I ^lad pi( «* ii his Oaliforn^ menagerie, from from Calif ornia„|UMi who claimed to] ■tow. Adams declared that ^ man •Mdnot possess the right to 8eU& of thi^ eoncera ^HoWer 1 ^.leforhalf ofthe."CalSforaia Men2erie,"^<^SiWllr .,3^^ (to accept me asil».equal pilfer intbe^StirA^S^^^ doth,i^u^u»gin«part.a^hewon,r»S^.u^*« s ^ 1 obtuxbed ti (pavas pree^tta J«.x^o„ .. ...™», ^^. ^^"^.^f^^-y^^MW-^ml ' •n>«Wil^gWi.« -^.toty^A -:?t w5S-^®» ^^ad*ng the liiio, with t^^aS^^SS gmdy>ar8, two o( v^c^o*,jM1 , r«ie largest gfizzly, VhJoH frtiSdaa- ^er whatever. This was tiie bear .* , -^^ad he beodme,. that Adams said he cooking and hunting appaa^throuA ridden him Ivjindreda of ^es. But tbat Wlbid ntt^K^IiTr*^'"' xT^ animals, there was not ohe {£g>ng them •™iw» onerea,. iMpe^ -old^^dams was but a wreck of hi« fn™^Z^i» ^^ *^*l^<*^i^^*»'« truth when he said^ ""'""'"' ^^ fomie^^lf, and ' Jf^,fj™«ni| ^innot the, „^, j ^aa five years ago. Then I felfcihl-tn EZl.* ? '^'"'^ *™^ '^"^ Ji"b, and neariy chawed unlL^t «R«»*|reac!herous grizzly bears. How«^«r t "^''^''^^^ "P a«W spit J^^E^ that time I hZ sTSll ^^ 'AT *^ '°' * 'e^^lonths nnmfrnWl • /«- r i. u ^ *^ ***" enohgb to, make my old woman ««J^lllj.forIhaTebeenah«entf,-omher8ome.yeaiu» ^ *»''» ^o°«» HWwlfeKtame fromMassaohupdfta *« Wfl™-«r i . 4«««1 Wf.woundsevery^Stt o,dvl>^^^^^ nursed him. Dr. John. Urt a-unMl, hi. friends, that pXX a ver^lw.^''"^'* never recorer, ^ But Adams ^^^irmT^^tLT ^^"f ^^-^^ ^^ ^"^ in his tbe Soosands who saw hi^ vJS,^ ad«Mant anf as resolute as a lion. Among the seemin, vSrsSb ::hi^^rp^l^^^^^ rjKl whipping them -into aotMLv^L JSl I^ J '^^^^ monsters, beating Old AOanu UtM to astonish others, as ha nitm^ AtA ^4.L •.. ^ ^*% batno<««^d.st«nishhim;he^::i%*:^^ ■«uu pi«euU,a lU»lf. (4„e day, yjj^^^i; ^/^^^^^^ I (Mxv^nf. approached tfiej^^^^ i^ with marked Teutonic feati ^ i wotUd 'ite^obuqrAiMUraC (^i^-" r healed;, birt re I left Cal> However, 1 ooU: JycQlUated HfedfooMd led hoiuivas SSL (rm io»hi as tbe bear Afus said he bustWougk ailes. ' But ppwng them ii* * good it, and rell||bleta teri^giagU l»avp been P ai^ spit »w moQtbs Id woman Dr. Johns r recover, im in hie , Among witattMd, I. beating Y not on* aptwared >tem,atiil .•» »)..• » •k f f • \ \ >»''- . * / » 1 i p m ' r"t -^'^ jW- IM In to ■-V ^'; r u * ■ r*'i UMAoma ufo mnsin nmoSAiroi. 365 •-^mtaA H.,00. after o!** ■>»«1«» pigeons" '""^"™°™'»"»>™W«r^aiidT0BiBi«to«l wit to m. to th. MM«m.» ^ ^^ "*• "^ "* l*™ ''1" • do«B pidM t •t« i^^ a^^^ VOpi iM ^mf AOBRiB AHD inrsBmc ifiMoia.in>A. - _■} -!^ «SSC»t:„n:^SlS^^^^ <^ed," to wit.e»the mixed look of weeka, the doctor In&ted tbat^H^BK T^?"^ had been open dx ■ettle up his worldly ^fr^im BB^K Stl 3'*"!' ^.«b^in the animAla and •verrdav and hio alt^ki^nS^ ii»p, jiiuijurea mm tuat he waa growing weaker and add- "W«ii \ri^ »»->.. t ^^ ° ™*"^ »"» he turned to m« week an,l t«.«^HUAk ^t** «uui. penormances. He ofltered to go for f «0 pci- '"eek and travi enga^^himas go tc his houte rirerj day, ""Waat ipa] cannot stand it more than a fortnight" ^^ RvehundwddoW" I replied with a laugh. . -re^L^'^rnfc'iLritt^lSet^"^ - "^—^ *<> *^- weak io -tfend to bSsSe^ S- fST ^^ H>™y ^®' '«' I may be too «1 win. a taugk; 'nyMl jwi may ,, 5S I is a imnnr » , " 1?? "^^ "Yei," he _-_, ^ .««iau wiui a lai •oo, for your $500 is a goner." ^ But! sat^W his pale faoeand othar-inST w> «lo, than, that he could not lire a week, for itter<_ ^»t ta w^ jipldly failing. 3fc***"*'** ^' Memed ^Pte glassy a^iliis hands 4^ - r^ ^^ l>robaW7. a BMDUlor two longer" ^ iJ ,,«^* MOM, and Museum. edhMkof iama. Xutx and g weaker e a good md thebj'- ed to m»^ price for >^ezhibit inhectioii le season r $00 per d gJttdlyC iiess and : weaker ery day f to that '^ be too h tiim, or [ . ^ J,. ^^H "for I desi«, " ■* 1 umph- '* ir r- f4^M rtitat . M . u and "wt » i m SBng. emeU laudfl 1 ■■ M tbalt «^!; !S - 4 \ , ■ ••^ yt > 1 , \ 1 •■/ * / 4* / '/ - / / / / / # «A ?H» '.A >* ^lik -A ■ ^% HMTAOEBIK AKD MUiBUlf MEMOBAKDA. 269 imt he iieniambniMiJ7Lu^M ^ '^ " "* '''°*^ K*^« up and go home uuiBu weec in JSoiton. He had failed considerablr liiifle I inrf- ..» ».i».TL.T^ ^ "^^^-ti-^d to exhibit tt»|«ir..althoughTv2a^wi2^to •lulhechuckW over hiaalmoifc o^teLiphTl w^^ him unm the tenth week waaltalAed, and handed him his $60a ^to^S* 4ti^7S^rS?'f/r.J°'*' ' had paid $150 foranewhunidnr in*l^^ „ '^f *^ "Imilarto the one which Adams had worn. Thtet S^^S^A?^ Driesbach, .ti» animal-tamer, who Ce^ b^ ,^ '»™«»DVWd. I did so. and now when I handed him his tSdO, he remain oean to^noirow; besides, you have no possible usa^or it" ^^^ wJ?r;jSl^ "^ *•"* ^""'^ '^ **« '^^ "y<>« ^"t g*ve tt to m^ WMt 46 wear It home to my native viliage," a »»«•««» m^Mr* _^when I bave done^ lt.-he «plied,wlU, « «viSrSX tf ^A^M-evMeBflystmokhto, to, wtth«hrigl«teofagloc*of .tisfi^ ' *lii2l'^^* fewdays^ at longest, he would be "done*' Jkth tiik w»U ■IJW^, airf^ to gratity him. I cheerfuUy drew and slg^^ «ttb* broad gijn, as hi| took the paper. ««iwimm .Ad^nn Iani]ed,aod8aid: ^^ ^-iifu^dayX^sir^rrp^^s^ luxxuioemGnt In perfect «Mtimtifi m , turning -f 270 WWAOBBM Am> MTOBtnc MBMOlUirDA. On the tUrteeAth of OctoJr iZ .., ,^.^*^ •** '^ ^"* « Chicaga J« to Boston, hvpenii* to be in Lt dty Ti«^?„"?*Tf^ Howe, and WM ooSy iwdvS.^J!Z«Lu™^**^*^ *^ <»*<*• Bev^ »« him when he v^^li^b^ of *h ** J^"° ' ™°^**«* "m thati^ '\ fc^I^withQene^om^Cnb ^^-r'"^^^*» £««d wiarhis m«»t inspection of^M,2Sr^^,r "»**»« ^ »»»<*" ■ft their autographs in the est-hUBK J^ *^^^ "*** that he and his suite had ^ M««»whUeXCZlo^^Sr'Sr"^'°~ °' "^ ^^ ^ ., fcoI« in the mortgages whS^e^"^;^^^' -pdl began to makel««, toCoimecticut 8m, there Zs^^llT^'^ '^^'^^^'^^^f^ •'^o^theburdim /w ^^ ^ •**'*°°*y' ^»»<»T and diUgwoe \^ > .. ^1 ■-■*■ :1 '{,'■ ". ♦# $■ •V ><. 4(^ .i>5 r!< * f. >'» » ■ .i' 1 »< . y&e^^ k, ^t^^^ ^.^ «|i.-'«'^- # t?* I - • 1 1 K r"^" ^ ' ' 'ii ^BHftiU-m -f? y:k^" * c .<(»'* V •*.• i ->■ rm- .'* . :■■■■ 'L- ,f r '■ » l>V' .*•■* ; - ^- '-I ^.. ^ j«# -/* d . 4* ^ , ". . * rt .4 IH '•,, ' .. tt tail I 1 tht •r •DC thr Wl •tfl J| s fi f. ^ ''^^^■; ' \ » \i >^ ^M CHAPTBR XXXlV. JUST BBIDGBPOBT. .f j«^ M- *' •f :#■ '4 ^lte« aMrty •▼* jBin my ftunfly had been Imocked aboBt, the «K)rt of adfr^ « ' SlT.'^**^ M^f?^ ^T^- **'"«'^«' '^^ »«»«»«». and at other time. w« BTBd^asmoU hirpdhoo^woof mydaughtwBwerema^ daughto-, raulme, wa^i^ at boarilag-whooL The health of my itterra* much impaired, and jhe espedaUy needed a fixed nUdenoe which the could coll homft" •; Acoordin«ly, in 1860, I boUt a pleaaant houa6 adjoining that at * » my^ughter Carolin^ in Bridgeport, one hundred roda weat of the grounds of IranlHtan. * e ««— u» " ^*'^''^*! ™^ P^ °**^' ^^^ Bridgeport, wae pipgnaaing with giant itridaa TlMJ Wheeler'and Wihon Sowing Machine manufactory hS^been quadrupled ia liMe, and employed about* thojsand workmen. Numerous other Uirge faotcriM hii« been buUt, and mxokt of flntrcUw hooMe were erected, besides many neaft ^^tsm^er and , cheaper houses *or hOxniers and medianica. That pieoe oi froperty, which. But eight years beiore, had been farm land, with scarce]; cix helisesupon the whole tract, was now a beanttful new dty, teeming with faiMr Mfe^andloofc^pgasneataranewpln. J^. -^ouiig ua mmr <^ loopy from the flies of the Bridgeport AwMKmi, an a«hr wUoh T ^ iHf nirt ..liM editorial comment thereon. This oltor was for the sake of helph* those who wen willing to help themset^es, and, at th« same time, contriboto tomybaooi- ^ ••**• ^^ •• tMr own, by forwawUng tbe growth o« ths new dty, "MBW Bomis m BAST wbid^hIpobt. * STBBT UAM TO OWW TBS UOVmK MM UVfS Oil ^ ■▼■■» MAM TO OWW TBS BOirSV MM U bI*'?^!??***^*'''*'*' ** ^^* prsMnt momsnt for twu hoBdred mar* &wdB»mAum^mm tm MrchMe of .. Iioum snd lot, th« pmon m dwtIm wiUlnVfewiS«Xikth« hoSTh- u^ teHr'wi."oZV".-sftd"ra*^r?oJ22^'^^^^ ^"'^ «.5^"»4.* or ; maUrt nblHOa, » Jolii Is crwrttiiK « n«»l Wock of hoatwi wtth TmudM In fk^t. the kvar^ (i.^iJ^I^LSi'^ fiouH.. lot. fliince., .to.. g« oompioto, wTlf tji or olKht fHoida prater w«iiMuvB .ii™ uwviiinp. piiiauM nnd ni Sr il.SOO or ll.StIO, for houxe, lot, foncM, isaU* iioaM 3»t wosid'orartl^m'toltlSboSrriil^ •'fSknuuv My MM,** fU editor of the Stamk trd printed ti» MOnwing I^H**. ilMusivil. ^M A^li-'T^'y"" 0>»iP.~Wt tsw i«sd wttk iNat i|ipial. StaUdS?^SSL.J'''!i'''^°-,?*'J5'''?" ?" *•»" advantages and none of the objections o» fifth ni?ft«fWfSiT-, Any Indiyldoal who can furnish In oiah, labor, or material, on* '^rAli^&Tn"^ requiaiteforthe erection ofu dwelllng-houae. can receiv« the other SSv r;,?^.^l"? ^'- ^/"««»' rent hl8 house and by merely paying what may be consLlere.! oa 2S^« inrh^'./i"" ",.'*** r*"'?"** himself lit last the owne* and all further paymVata oeaaj. Inthe mean time, he can be making such Inexpensive improvements in his property fhJ^" .^iK'^'".",*"''!?! '«««;•'«» value, and besidw have the advantage ..f my Hhc n i?U . A „"„n wiw""'''- . .". '" "°* °'^f" *'»"* "«<* a generous offer is made to working men tin n wh^.*^ ^m'^ih", "^V"'** •** generally considered inadequate seourlty, at six per cent., at a ir",« mV'h„"±™''"°'' ""V"^ >noney cm be made by an;r cipitalist! It is tl.erefore gen- Barnum may make money by the operation.* ._ vil be by making others richer, not poorer : by helOlag » rn»l,ir«vllni?.**?.lH^.'.*?r"' .".?'' *? ?" °?'y ?^'^" 'h^t every rlcB nran woufd "foUoW^ich h«T:« ^f'*i,n?K'i">™ •""}' make money by the operatio'n. Very wSi/w^Vpa he wuV.y.ui be does, li, will be by making others richer, not poorer ; by hef^i,^ 4l|J«e who need .isslst- tl",!? ^'i^l^P}''- "nd.thus, without iiUury to themsolvos, givg a helpliig hand to" those who Wo hope that llfty,^neii ■*- " ■'■■■- JX'Lrh nf wh„'." 'i!f fn'ej-prlse Wo hope that llfty,^nei. ^ill be'fouiuT before' the Vwlf «nd^ each of whom desires in such a manner to obtain>^ roof which he can call hia owa." Quite a number of men at once avaUed themselves of my offer, and eveatiiAMy ■uooeeded In paying for their homes without much effort. I am sorry to add, ttat rent is still paid, month after month, by many men .who would long a«o bmve owned neat homesteads, free f rom aU incumbrances, if they had accepted my proposals, and had signed and kept the temperance pledge, and given op the ^ IIB9 of tobacco. The money they have tfnce ejqjended for whisky and tobooco would have given them a house of their own, if the money had been devotee^ to ' ttwt object, and their positions, sociaUy knd morally, would have been far bet. v Iban they are to^lay. How many infaWted men there are in all parts of tue oountry, who could nc^w be independent] and even owners of their own carriagea ' but for their slavery to these miserable habits I Theland in East Bridfi^eport was origl^aUy purchased by me at from $50 to fT/fc •nd £rom those sums to $300 per acre; i^id the average cost of all I bought on ' ^ . **' '*" ^""^ '^ *^ P®"* ««^- Some portions of this land are now J»»ed in the ftidgeport tax-list at fro^ $8,000 to HOOO per a<5re. At the time V S^^^' "* *^ enterprise, thfe site we purchased was not a part of th« -5*w ?5****P°'^ ^* ^ no^. howeveh a most important section of the city. " Sr* ^^ connecting the twb banks of the river, and originaUy chiuv •ered as toU-bndges, have been boui;ht by the city and thrown open as free Wghways to the public. A horse railroad, in wliich I took one-tenth part of the •took, owmecte the two portions of the city, extending westerly b^ond Iranjstan^ •Bdlindencroft, while a bnujch ijoad runs to the beautiful 'VSea-side Park" on tse ooond shorei jOflOwsJ Noble, In laying out the first pbrtjion of our new city, named sevenU JW<^^ftel-m«mbe™ of his own family, and also of mine. Hence, we have a ^ J^[^S;;;f°** f "°"* •*^* it is; * " Bamum " street; wUle other stilts SLn^ w"^' '~™ "^ ''°^'«' "ParrieV the Christian name o?^ « P-^» ^""^ the mkiden name o " my wif«; aid " Caroline," " HWen," aiid P^"t^nijm«.%f my ttiree daughter ITiere is atao the • 'BarnuL ^hool DtoWct and scJiot>l-hou8e; so that it seems as if, fora few scopes of yearn a* Z^^^S T^t ^"''' '^^'^ "^^"^ ^ ''*"°'*«"' o' the new, flburjshing and ^^oMM dty. Wfl h»ve yet another enduring and ever-growihg monument in tee maay thousMid. of trees which.we set out, and whiah now Une and gratefully *mie the streets of B««t Bridgeport • tJ^Jiff^K.^J!!?'?^^^^ Bpi«oopal an d Congregational, front on tb» United Ontetartloortrt to tb»wrtr city. l£ ««H»a«. »■ « ^ .a;^.?,;:;'*.....JA|l^ .':.■» •<-< v# Iflff^'"^"' ijectlons o» iterlat, on* '« ilie other n8i "oUow (*uch those who B th« week 1 hi» own." venDotily •y to add, long ago accepted en op the tobacco, ' jvotei' to' 'ar betf v rtsof tue xuriagei^ M)to|7fi( 3ught on ore now the time rtof thi the city, ilycbaa^- I as free rtof the .nuiJBtan'gfc •ark "on J"* f ^-■■'- . vi "SkS ■•-fj' :l' .-,- , (/■' .*•; ^J i ^ .(-, t : /' , ■ ... \ . .."HT. 4, ',■ -■■'V ^' ' 'V; \ ' WI^SX lin BKIDOBPOBT. 277 1jti««iiti» dty of Bridgeport Is advMdnj to pmml^^ «*Wity tar b^7«id that of aiiT otb^Jd^rbTfC^^^!!^ ^ Pro^pwlty with • /■ /. *■ ^ , ) • * ' 1 * " i . ,- ^f r '■ ,v v\ . ' ^' ■ " t ■" •■ - » • *. - * » " 1 •- * » ■ ' - * i ■ - a. '■ 1 , /v.. J #H .-/,.-. ■' • 1 -: * P ^ « II * < 4. -■■ '^ fe " ^' - . -.--V. \ : "'<: ■- -' -VV,, ^..■' :.'■' :'"'" ■ - *„■ ■■•'^-/•./^■■'■' a :' , V r " , ". jr " 'h!^ ■^ -► f;' .;' V ^■ CHAPTER XXXV. MOBE ABOUT THE MUSEUM. ix 1861, 1 learned that some fishermen at the mouth of the St. Lawrence had ■oooBeded m ^ptming a living.white whale, and I was also informed that a whale •f this km(^ If placed in a box lined wjth se^-weed and partiaUy filled with salt water, could be transported by land to a considerable distance, and be kept aUve. ' 7" !!!?P ^ neoessai-y that an attendant, suppUed with a barreLof salt water moist °^ ^^^ *^^ ™°"^ "^^ blow-hole of the whale oongtantly Having made up my mind to capture and transport to my Museum at least two Bvmg whales, I prepared in the basement of the buildmg a brick and cement tonk, forty feet long, and eighteen feet wide, for their reception. Thii ddne. I Bt«^ upon n.y whaling expedition. Going by rail to Quebec, and ttience by aearand 1 nu.k RaUroad, mnety miles, to Wells river, I chartered a sloop to Ebow islau. a«le au Coudres), In tl^e St. Lawrence river, populated by Canadian mnch people. I contracted with a party of twenty four fishermen, to capture n^ '^^l unharmed, a couple of white whales, scores of which co3d at alltoneB be discovered by their " spoutmg " within sight of the island The ptan decided upon was to plant in th^river a " kfaal," composed of stakes driven down m the form of a y, leaving the broad end open for the whiZto 2^' .!^,T u""^ ^ * "^^"^ P^' ^*^ *^« P«^* o' the kraal towanis shore, and if by chance one or mote whales should enter the trap at high water my fldiermen were to occupy the entrance with th^ir boa^ and keep up a tre^ ^ous splashmg and noise tiU the tide receded, when the frightened whale, wou^d find themselves nearly "high and dry," or with too little water to enable ^!^^ r^ *""* then- capture would be next thing in ofder. This was tobe ^wted by seoinng a slip-noose of stout rope over their tails, and towing them to tiie sea-weed hned boxes in which they were to be transported to NewYort It was aggravating to sed the whales glide so near the trap without going hito ^and. our patience was sorely tried. One day a whale ox^tiuilly wenfinto th6 kraal -id the fishermen proposed to capture it; but I wanted another, and whZ wewaitedfornumbertwo to go in number one went out. After several davTl jrM,awakened at daylight by a great noise, ai*l amid the clam^or of many voiT«r exhibited m New York. i* ^'^°*y*'^^'»»^ expedition a great success; butldidnot knowhov |[l» feed or to take care of the monsters^ and, moreovw, they were in frash wateii ^and this, with the bad air in the basement, may have hi^stened their death, wfaicb occurred a feiir days after their arrival, but not before thousands of people ha* Been them. Not at all discouraged, I i-esolved to tryagain. Myphmnowwas to connect the water of New York bay with the basement of the Museom by means of iron pipes under the street, and a steam engine on the dock to pump the water. This I actually did at a cost of several thousand dollars, with aa extra thousand to the aldehnanio "ring" for the privilege, and I oonstruqtod anotiier tank in the second floor of the building. This tank was buUt of slate and French glass plates six feet Jong, five feet broad, and one inch thick, imported expressly for the purpose, and the tank, when completed, was twenty-four feet ■- eyuare, and cost W,000. It was kept constantly supplied with what would b» called, Hibemically, "fresh" salt water, and inside of it I soon had two whifc» whales, d^ught, as the first had been, hundreds of miles below Quebec, to whidi dty they were carried by a sailing, vessel, and from thedce were faroo^t tv ndlway to N^w York. ^ Of this whole enterprise, I confess I was very proud fliat I had originated U and Iffought it to such successful conclusion. It was a very great sensation, and* it added thousands of dollars to my treasury. The whales, however, soon died- ttieir sudden and immense popularity was too much for them-and I then despatched agents to the coast of Labrador, and not many weeks thereafter I bad two more Uve whales disportfaig themselves in my monst^ aquarium. Certain wivious people started the report that my vyhales w^ only porpoises, but tilis petty malice was turned to good account, for Frofraiilp^aaBis, of Harvard Uni- versity, came to see them, and gave me a certdflcate titot^ey were genuine whit* ' whales, and this endorsement I published far and wide. The tank which I had built Inthe basement served for a yet more interastinff tehibitloa On the twelfth of August, 1861, 1 began jto exhibit the flkt andonly genuineAlppopotamusthat had ever been seen in America, imd for several wecdH the Huseum was throngol by the curious who came to see the mdbster. ladvww Used him extensively and ingeniously, as " the great ^hemoth qf th^ Scripture«,»» givmg a full description of the animal and his habits, and thousands gf cultivated people, bibUcal students, and others, were attracted to this novel exhibition. There was quite as much excitement in the ciiy over this wonder in the anin^I creation as there was in London when the first hippopotamus was placed in tha cypiogicaloolleotion in Regents PartE;:>e^ . ^ Having a stream of salt .water at my oommand aTevery hi^ tide, I was enabled t6 make splendid additionB to the beautiful aquarium, which I was tha ^t^trW^lntoodunemto tliJH wuutryr TliiaimY iprowirtJ TTvlw^ ^ rur rtrf lML wa horses, apd mwiy rare fidb from the sea in the vicinity of New Tork, bat In the mimmer of I8«l, and for Several summers in sucpession, 1 dfespatohfl*! a flshina , smokoadorawtotbe t*i>i.h^ ^ lumn^A^ l-^MtL-rrichWhond/Ti limit, luT fr Pv >> • ' 280^ V MOB! ABOUT THI MUSIUKU P out the Aqparial Ci^^^i^J^Si ^ ""iT^ y^""-' ^ ^'^»'^ Mu«|toi. ^ l3?3^ remove tte coUection tQthe formed, and wa« very ^^rTtTin ^o^ * "^^"^ '^^ ^'^ P«^«^y foot treasure. His mun^^TD^^^ ««l»"f.,tor a "snowman," he was a per^ Hampshire. I was^t lonnrHi^?^^ ^^'"^^ '^^«'*' «' *^"c»»^^^ y«« we^ so la^ that^fr^-chS^^ •onferringupon him the title of Comnw^Zl a ' ""' ^' "' ^^^ moontime, doi^Nutt," attheS^,^ iSjCST^?''^*^"^"^"'^'*' •ComW' lami ponies, miniatuw c^hnL^r,Slfl*t^™»"^°- " P*^"""' ^^^^^ ^ imd an elegant Uttle carriage whldL wh^^^SiJf ^' gold-mounted haniee.^ walnut. Ti.eUmeS^:;^'^^Zt^:SZ^^.'''^'''''^^ For some yeSJ he Sd noJISe^Sb^ t^^^^^^ ^ *^^ ^"*'' '^'^ ^'««t. he had incroaL oonSS,ly^ ^^ L 7/^'*' "^^ ^"^"^ '*»««« >«"^ appearance. It wasTSSr^^^tS^^^t^p^*'-"^^^.^^^^ OooseJquentiy, very i^any of mv nataU™. ™^ooked luUf-a-dozon years Ufore. '^ch h«lelapsed since tt^£d £fZ ^e (S^ f 7*"^ '°^ *^« *^« ««>8uchpen»nas "(>,miJKu1?"Tt^,?r^ '^tS^ "^ ^^^'^ -« Tom Thumb under a nevME^' •"*'^ ^ '^ «WWting my old friend Commodore Nutt en3tfi^Hh ini»> »„ •. ^ S. t>r'*lSy^S:inrt£.Twn^^^^^ ■«ne platform. I therefore induced T^mThmSf^'K^^ ^T^ '**'^ °" "»« mentstoa close, and to appTfTfou^ w^iLS;n^'''°!ii! T*«^ «°8»«^ to my' Museuni. AmioxSZente hLir!^Th^?^?Tr^. "^"^ "' l^**- Smallest Men, «n.l f f ,mtest Cmdodti^^^n^ « t ^'^""os." and " Two , *o «e ttem, and n^ny 2^e^^^v to^-?. ,'T"^' ^^ large crowds fBouineness of the " N^ IhK'i t« ^ ^^ J?"^*" "^"^ "«^ *° "»« i-Wniff a. it may seem, the doubi o^T^fT^*^!;^'^ nonplussed, for aston . -•axi, people whTw'ere ,S^li^L*l'^^ The declared that Ck,mmodore Nutt^ oI^Lf t ^JT**"***^ '"y'^^^'" ««" feUow whom I was trying tf«LT,^rVJ^°°K^'^^' '^^ ''^' ^- "''"«' eral th«. he was llkeSeW»K m" I It^"^ ^ °" "'"'^ "^^ ^'^^ »«"' mV Uttle fri£^^^.^^^^^ . ;>, ^in. hin^with th. oc:s.^'^':r.L't^i^-si^ ous other on tqUie ifek eat little Jerfectly M apw- )n Nutt, «r, New Iter, and Mgor tof 'ortlu*ee~ ontime, iacards, >f Shet- laraessr binglish iidly in I West. e yeai's i^eneiu] almost liefore. 9 time re wag friend B half ortioQ cash, >u tlie 1868, •Two owds o the ston The Htiil .'ittle . Oen- iople 1 j'. K 1 "tj. 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J * -^ IS \ » « |iT« * ' 1 won] *t A , • renu * - 9 -^ 1 . • of he • * \ 1 fore dtooo On ' 4' -. - * * t ^■cnri ■'■■ 4 * _-, . ' . ^-^*^W^ w^ r . ^^Br E^.. \ "/ •a' ■" XORB ABOUT THE IClTSBUlf. jB.- M 283 -w • »^J"/r" you are the gentle.^ who fa qpei>dii« m> nmct at Uqdeftun. j;''^"'«;^Gmaoodonmu, "It iilnagood oanse, anyhow, .ndlgM. n wul come out all ri^t" »—»»*ii«^» i«^i'*i ^^^ T**^ °"'*'^ amusement. Mr. Linoohi then bent down tM long, lank body, and taking Nutt by the hand, he Bald- ^^ ^™ r^ **' ^^ ^^ "^ y°" ^** y°''«»« i» d«8«*- of being t£n prisoner. I advise you to wade vahore." ^ ^^ ^^ The CMnn^ore found the l^h was against him, but pladng himself at ti» Jide of the lYeddent, and gradually wising hfa eye. up the whl ^ Lincoln's very long legs, he replied; «««wi«JU-. -5? "I guess, Mr. I>re8ident, you couW do that better tiian I cookL" ComiRodore Nutt and the Nova Scotia giaqteo. Anna Swan, flhistnite tli* Jd proverb sufficiently to itfiow how extremee occaslonany metta r^iSm^ He was the shortest of me» and she was the tl^l«rti of women. I flnth^rfof to. ttrongh a Quaker who came into my office^ day and tS .i S^ M ^1, «venteen yearsof age, who resided near him at Pictou. NovaScotia, Mdwho was probably the tallest girl in ttie World. I asked him to obWnSi exact height^ ontis return home, which he did, and sent it to me, and I at once •mt an agent who in due time came b«± with Anna Swan. She JTan fa^ • ^t and by no means lU-looking girl, and during the Rmg period while she wm in myemptoy she was visited by thousands of p*sona After the bm^iingTf tny second Museum, she went to England where she attracted great att^tiaJ rJr "r y y«" I »««* be«» m th. haWt of engaging nartie. of American fad^from the far west, to exhibit at the Museinn. and Ed sent two or mo„ ^^'^^^^^^"''11^'''''''^"''''^'' ^IPt-tt "curicy. mm. in iWH. ten or twelve chiefi of as many different tribea visited th. money. 1 miooeeded In Indudng the Inteipreter to bring them to New York. aiS to pass some days at my Museum. Qf course, getting these Indian, to danoTor SLlH^^ n^' themselve. than tt,e chief magistrate of our own natdon ^h^done. Their interpreter could not the«fo™jm,mtoe that they wouM f^!^^ , "•""'"'•"y *'"°**'**°«5 "for,"said he. " you am only kwD ^ just so lonip aM they suppose aU your patron, oome to pay them vS << honor If th,y ««ip«Jted that your Museum w«i a place whei; people mM toreo^" h. oontfaued. "you couM not keep thZk mom.nrSter^ Onthsirarri^ ^^- *i-L 1^ 1^ ^ ^ ^ *""*"• ""*• '°^*'™ ^*^ ^hi8 attention from me. Hj^l^^MbMii informed that I wan the proprietor of the gnrnt eetablishment WUotttiMf were lnvlte.1 aiui honomi ^ueMs. My patrons wer« of oourw WMf tfeWQlddbtaO^a. thaykMw ttejwara Ui*"rwii Odi^' •aA . . '■/ \,J MORE ABOUr TQS UV8BI/U. ^ several of thunli were known to the public, either as being friendly or onitl to the whites. After one or two appearances on the stage, I tocA them in carriag^i ojid visited the Mayor of New 5orK in the Governor's rooip at the City Hall Here tlie Mayor made them a speeclr of |velcome, which being interpreted td tlM sa vayes wtvs responded to by a speech irora one of the chiefs, in which be thanked ll)ii great 'Father" ^ -the city for his pleasant words, and for his ]dit4aem iu fwinting out the portraits of his predecessors Aanglng on the wall* of tlie Governor's room. On another occasion, 1 took Ihem by special invitation to visit one of the large public schools up town. The teacners were pleased to see them, and arranged an I exhibition of siiecial exercises by tb« scholare, which they thought would be most likely to gratify their barbaric visitors. At the close of these exercises, one old chief arose, and simply saTd, '* This is all new to us. We are mere unlearned sons of the forest, and oaimot understand what we have seen and heard." On other occasions, I took them to nde In Central Park, and through different portions of the city. At e\ery street comer which we passed, they would express their astonishment to each other, at seeing the long rows of houses nvhlcl] "^.tended both ways on'eicher side of each cross^reet Of course, between each these out-^ide visits I would return with them to the Museum, and secure two or three appearances upon the stage to receive the people who had there congro' gated "to do them honor." - As they regarded me ae thrtr host, they did not hesitate to trespass upon my hospitality. Whenever then- eyes rested upon a ghttering shell among ray speci- mens of condiology, especially If it had sevei^ brilliant colors, one would take off his coat, another his shirt, and insist that I should exchange my shell for their garment When I declmed the exchange, but on the contrary presented them with the coveted article, I soon found I had established a dangerous preoed(int. Immediately, they all commenced to beg lor everything in my vast d^Uection, which thoy hajflje^ed to take a likins; *^. This oo >t me many valuable apecimens, and often ' ' piit me to my trmnp*' ' ' for an excuse to avoid giving «;hera thicks which I could nf)t part with. The chief of one of the tribes one day discovered an ancient shirt of obain^ mail which hung In one of my casw of antique armor. He wa^ delighted witti 11; and declared he mast have it. I tried all sorts of excuses to prevent his getting it, for it had cost me a hundred aouara, itnd was a great curiosity, Bui. the old man's eyes glistened, and he would not take "no" for an answer. "The Uteft* liave kUled my little child," he told me through the Interpreter; and now he mxm have this steel shirt to protect hmisel^; and when he returned to the Ro<*y lloim- ' tains he would have his revengo. I i-eraained inexorable until he flnaJiy brought me a neW buckskin Indian suit, which he bisisted upon exchanging. I fait oom- pelled to accept his proposal; nnd never did I see a man tnore delighted than he seemed to be when he took the mailed shirt hito his hands. He fairly Jumped up and down with Joy. He ran to his loL ^ ^> 1 / ■ ■-/' :,.i ^'f-tpff:^a . , 'X jV ■ '^f; f I ' i f ' « '( * r *-K ■ :k V" •■ UOKi ABOUT THK JCU8S01I 3S^ luxnighliw •'flu> waif Wa ».. i ^ '.■ ■ would think no moroofaorfJto^f^™ J' ^T^^"*"^ Wo9^-iilnty -lyAira wlfo be pretended to be e^CS^a^d h^,^ *^ '^^*^'°'- »»^ >^t«. 'S Awn about me. and although not spS^lo^Tl^r^'*"^'' He would •^JIir^^-vinLnaftr^ - Ian- in exhibiting fliese Indian warrioni nn «.» »*r^ a«wiy. -«««, the names and cCZ^^^e^^f^?*^ »»*ela^a„di. would pat him familiarly upon t^iimri^^^^f ^ *^« **> Yellow Bear I > me with a pleaaant sr^ef^hS^ht^T'^^S!?"*^ «ati«d him to look up J«>d in the most loving makW&xrZ^.^^f**^'^"^^"™^'*** »»i«rigtj I««d. Ip^tended^ZX.en^lS^L^**:^'*"^'"^^^^ ^ -aylng wmething like the folto^. ^ '*'* *"*V"'**' '^^^ I iw really ' «d he, suppoBfag I wasso^af^inThia^^ w^^ *^"^ ^"^ "^^ ^ *<«>to my ann. wMe I continued^ "ifS^^'Z^^ "^^' '*^ "P0° "»e, and whatl wassaying, he wouiTm me in . mol^'^^ u"'""*^ "^ *»«*ttn« him, I can safely 8tXS!w?r' '»* «» »»« tl^^to I am oompll ^men, mmtlered their h^i, bSnM th1l??T', *^ t^"*" ^'' unprotecS • glmUy do the «une to you^tTn^T^^ ,h kI^u"* ""** ^^^^ 9?^ he woultl ^ fa but a faint deLpSL Of le^^A^^r'^l^P**'^^ Mm «iother pafat,nizing pTon theZT^e^tl "^ ^^" ^^ ^ 8»^ tte audience, as much asto say t^ri^. ^T"' "^«' ^'^'^ «« S^edme.e^mu<^for«.4^«LSS^h;:;^^^^^ to ttie Otter cWefi, and fheani S^neS^'^f^^^^ "WB opened, and no power could Soettl^^ disoontent Thelp^ye, ■,.? ilsSw.f •=jrr^.^ ' ?„ ,^ UtiAPTEB XXXVI. y ^"^^ ^NI) MRS. GENERAL TOM THUMB. \ fcooeeded^in maJdng an engagement with L«r for several yearg, during which she France, and other foreign lan°^^-' -" "-- '^-^ %^/ ?t was by no means an unnatural circumstance thati should besOsneeteil' J wSL^1*r'^r^^*'°"''^°^'^n^ of Tom-Cb^SJt^ WW Had I done tUs, I should at this "day have felt no regret^ for 1^21' |>roved, in an eminent degree, one of the '• happy marriages." I^y Zr wSJ m^"Z*" *"/. «^«^,i™-«iiate friends. thS^from flTtp 1^^^ t^t^imaSairot the hearts caw of "loveat flretsight-'-^SirtSe^SS^ wmt was mutual, and that it only grows with the lapj of tl^ ft^T^ Bdther pMtm,r lot In Instigating or in occasioning the m^^ SSTto a*iS:?K^':.'"'"",*'^ F-blic'7ravT?rocmrS:^ns^%'"J S • to^Jf d«Jn^; .t "'^S' ^""*^ "^'^ ™P*^ Of coun« I sh6uM noJ erted. In thfa they consent <« pay the penalty of dirtdnctlon. AndifS^i^ ^'^^ '^"^^ "'"^ ^ ^''*' ^^»»^ "«* *be courtehipand marriaJof J^ •ndMra Tom Thumb t The story i« an Interesting oneTandSXtd ^S^ vie wi Kb •a Y« I ^oneraw me from the suspicion hoined, and to amuse those-and they oounthv |i »o n y ^^»iM,asaBdr^ > .l M > » , l a toirt ea 1h t te WjHi^Pg^l^^^Si ^ rii^^.i ^^ti' -;v*& ■ 1*\'i ' * f . ' •" ",*■•■ ""V" ■/ ««• AKD ms. WHTBRAX TOM ^H1 «• ttMMtenm of 1801^ whan Uyialik W«mk w*k «« ^u,u,^ •^-MJ* the ttaMi irt iJI; h. wTS^T^'^S.^^ ttelfDwnm. He hapiwoed to be In the dtyiiSr2«ISf!Lr!?^ *"**«*»■• he oiOtod, qidte imexiwjtedir to HML Sh^T,^ ^h^ • dH»t interriewwith ^liS^SW^T***^"*^^ o«oe«nd deiiml to see me aloM^^ iw!L r H^«°« <«wctly to my prfTrti •«-i«ctk« of . P^cuii^m^^^^,^^ i^Z^^^ ga^TS "Ife Banmm. thrtiittemoefechMttfag l4le hdvl«v«r— a t v.- 7 -wmy. be« , WendS^^j^jT^ J^'" heoonttoued, "you hat. I have got plenty of mouT^I^E I«|j%f.ela.lf Imu.t.^thity^^ «t*le do>ni In lift, «h| TheUttteQeneimlwaehigUyeJtTLvTJ; ^ , •'liiyinia 1. engagedSri^' 7^ "* '°'*^ "^ *^ ''Tbwhom-Oommodon Nuttf/aAed Tom Thnmtf -wu •«d«me«hibl«onof the -grJJ^J^Z^'^ '^ ««* •«■-■*«% **No^ General, to me^" I repSe* "*«»» "HeTer mind." nid the n«n^i i- ti you; and mon. thanttat S W^JlTr •.!i*^'°'*™°*^'^ »>• i««to««t ?l»e Oenenl thanked maimd;^^^ * ^"^ ""* •ffecMona" c«ne«ddenlyoTSiKBr^'';^S^ ^hISJ^IT^ Aehangenow v«ry fond of hlg country home fa^Sl!L^^_»?' ^ **" <"*»<* *» W« cwdltt ww» hi. horn.. ««, eSdST^tt ^2S ri":; ^ r** *^ ^*^ «• great parton. Bw^ 1.^-1^1!!^ V*T ^ '<»^ Yofk, and hi. Tidt. to her multiSS±^^!r^ -«ihi.«i.terl" Hi.mother?;^!^'i;'C;:ii~^^ 5^nr«* befo.,d„.^«,;,:^SSS.^JSSrl^^ '^^ ^*«*- dty life. nromeriy affection, nor eo much fondnaM ft» ''b-^theGenemla^J^'SJ^^rT*^ * *^*^ ««-» • fHendlyecuffleintheA^S^i^dSTi&iir**^*^ - #- im ?»nm i M doubl e mU^ZT ^1^ <^°^ gd^ threw the Qenffl i l •-... ""-"•« 4u««"TOnB. TTO Commodore ii lithe, wlrv. and quick *l«bly h«»vier than the^^o.^^ r' !"** •^'^^ ^« ^«»' «•"*« him in a p«wni JZ2?°^** ■«* '°°n*» «»* heoould not^aM ^ • pmonu wooortMr Morwrir, tiw Conaodon to — ^ ',#■ *'^~='<^i , > -v.^^^'W^^I^'^l 290 mi '■i^^ti XB8. OIHWUL ^OM THUMB. 2?^/2fS^ •'J '^^ ^"""^^ •»• bw^about hii knowledM of "the imiu* 1^ J^tj Laviala, whUe the Commodore wm performing on theXro or y,Z otherwiie engaged; and, to a wmtohf „1 dl«»mor, It mm evident he ^^ ZkZ Z'^^JSS^l^'^V^!:'^ Heal^^mani'^ml'LtS tot h^fZiS^Tl^** ovenlnOT, without the knowledge of the Oommodore; fcut he Mwred me he had not yet dared to miggert matrtoJny. ^^^ ««K5S'^Ir^^f?S^*~1' *"•* »"**"'*'*'y ^««^ *hat on the foUowtog - ^!^I \^1 S?® ^"^"^ up to my hou«, and alHO Invite him. Om^JZ k! ^^i^'^r""" '"^"^ "»**' «""*«» whenever the Idea of hJ« m^s. 2?5«^i ^i.S!*'***^" ^'^"Wdouolemithanacoedetohlspropowl^d^n iJ^t^llS!'^' ^'"' ^^ «««1 the Oommodo.-e weiS^S TtS; iJiirSISl S^'^n «° "P *» ^'^P'"* ^*^ »»• ««-«om.w morning, «»d n«S^fT^^"^"*' "itwIUbequifan^ef togetlnt«theoo«ntey,a mc^odore tomibdiately pricked up hta eari, ai^ aal^ ^^^^tto«emylitUeponie.; I have not teen them tor sevfata month%''ha ^SlSilj::::^^ ^-^•--^^^'•"-Ki-twellbe.pa,^ "vlSiJSXJ'Srjf. *^"^ *^ *''°^~*' ■^'* «»^ J'^P °° to the eight IWvZd It I^.h«f\ \f^^-*** '^ ^"^^^ wpedaUy aa Lavinla a]K> w2!i Ik- / r^ ^ I ~"''* **'^ '•^t*'™" that little woman', heart and^ •nl^ T!^J^^ *^® Commodore's visit in order to stir up the Oeneral'ft ««Ior, or whether, aa aeemed to me the more likely, she was seeldL to mS^^ •oprevent a denouenwnt which she was not Inclined to fX^SSJS^ ,m 71 •l»OQgh I was the General's confidant, and knewall hl^itL^ . ^ ' ''' ***•• no pemm had diaoovered th^ m^ZTIa .1 his dedree upon the subject^ ^nrfrhenoe he wm ^ourSt W^„f^' ^TiT* ^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^'^ ^ir li^ fi» (t- ''A6)aV«^* ■Il' m «d after ««ti.?j2SrwiV£Lr^^^ • few mora«jiii« at his mother'i hZT^ ' v "* ^®'' °"* *° ^d* He ttopix^ ' port, aud undoubt«ily t^c^n^Z T*^! Th«, he took Iw to B«rt Bridal which he owned, tor hTdZTi^ ^o point out to grert detidl aU ge country ?" Mked th» Th«t would be very nice," .aid Uvink tired of 1«v^"r?ll^r;^^.'ir ^^ur^ '^'^'^ '^ ^ eoniBrof her^ Tl ^1 miwhtevoai look ftom "Thrt d«pendi upon my oompSy whqo toAut»««M^ «-« / X wou ld b a gl tu d ^ ri» | | . j ^ ^ " ^ . "^ ■ •) X « tt ft) im 'ke i ^ P-Ni. Mr. «««, «rt* «^ i^ ll"r-'— »H- iHi #S?-" -^ M oontdiraed, wre, you will , intarMimay tookamortr < ^w»y, you ;>]aoeii^,aa B cantiniied, «« security, noeiveciny il-tf ooongt been thflm atrie8i^T«i7 inia; "fbi >aUi T will Empraaot rtidf anj w new to >crr>wneA atnlation. MikEedtlM ATinla'c' bebiridtt Qeneral. and was X m Ml. AlfD MBS. WUniRAI. wW^WtJHB. t ^ , ' fcW Wb aim aroqnd ber waist biit I.!m^«L?^ 1^ ar^ and I wiUgetMr. BwnmTl^TJSi^"^' **°3y "»*wmM 1 think I love you well e^jdrii to -«n«rt,fr .K..* . u . ' -yermairrwithoutinynioSertoo^^^- ^ '»^«»'^y"Md | wMld . Yes. CharlaL vtn »••«> _.i .. ^^ ' ■V /^lu , ^ —^j •«)Biu AjHvuua say: * — • ■ "> • !!: '^^^'toia said. "Now, ^^narjei ■eep our own secrets for the present" - - -» — ^ . All right"sBid the General 'I will ^ir ««*i.«- »_^ ' ' •tort to »e four mother.^^^^ ^ '^ "•J' no<*Nrvl>at im* lt»«a^ 1 ,1^ «4 ^ rs rT^^r '^^^^ "»» ^- ">« door, ^nimJSiij^K^^^ :i #s-~ faf,m; pome, w«2f^„ii;?^*^ •*«*>to to,to^;«d^,^,,,,^ '•l«P«|^ooJd."«^tt^OonunodoS»; "w^ »> i>i >«B. AX© 1IB8..OTKBBAL TOM THUMB, ■^1 > *•«• fcM^ loni to ^^, pnpw« t^e Oommodore-a equanimity and Lra te. „* wi'e LT' '"* "'^' '°°™*'*- ">» ,*inad6 a call of half an hour Sunday eveX *n. "^ ""''°"^- ^'^^ ^•'»~*1 Witt LavljOa. The next morning 'he Z^lp^f ""r*"^ ^° *^*^« " '°terr,ew > good apirlte. I remaining inBr'Sgeport *'''' *^""'°*^«" "t"™^^ to New Y^rk The General called on me Monday howev«r hrt„ . he had written to Lavinla'a mother He JT T * ' * ^''"^ "''^ '•»»•' "Woh tn«ty fr^^nd. Mr. Oeorge 1 ClI i^^ T l""^ "^ "^^ "''- ''"^^ "y hi. ^--nMr. Welle; who h^ ^Jn^ '^T »: MMSfet^'""? ""* ^^ »>«» i-t "following day. and urge the Oene^i-aaurif^t^ho.^M^""*'''^^^^ "*• '^"'^ »>»• The General #ent to New York « » "'^^ *** necessary. .W11....m..iron Wednlari :n^'lreT' 'r "^ ^'^ ^ ^^^ "- jh| Mr. Bamum. I want somebody to tell the Cc^^JT^ .u Wrou am afraid there wlli'^bea^lXhrhTh^^o^ .nd l are Do It yourself. General." i replied. , ,'«01i," aatd the General, almost ehndderln. .1 wnnM - . .; might knock me down." ""onnf. I would not dare to do It. he . "I win do It," said LatJnla- and it .» .» Oommodore and I»Tlnl£ Co Jl .«L ? . arranged that i should oall tti Wttan the Oommod ore lolnml u^. and th^ Tfrnr 1 :rr?.ri^— "^^;:^ _i •"'■ V i- .*- f-- 4.», ,i^i.i% u,^^ 'v >»B 4oM Xr. f«i^ to tbelr )i* hm fouad Oofflmodore,' to stop oT«r tbougbt he went t6 bed, iad just letter the await Mr. klked Into tnd I are do It, be a oaU the tell hUn. THE FAIBY yVUdJUiiiG GivuUi ^ \ X <. ' H \ :i r t y. I •: . -I ^ . v t-r-- m. AlTD KBI. (11 lOM TEUmiL «?/ -' 29; •^-1 .,-;-,■ ^ - -»«..-. '.:'. ■, •'v ;'";', ,X v 'u . A 'y!^'-' '-*■'- '• ' . -'•'■■;"^ ' 1 J7.. . ■ . " . ':•• ,.*#..- , -i oofie joa may be happy,** ^^* xn^ to pretty haixl,'' I laid to LaTlnia. ^Mr. Baranm, dp yon tlOnk tt wouW be right for Mia W^Z^T CfcMiv 8ti»ttoii If bar motterthoold objects »* Wamn to nmrrj - i5rSJ!^i?*^;f^*^'«"*"^»»°l»toh««oB,amlI««^ -7 -2JN™toed,itw<]!iiMnotberighfc» — * *~. -on x «io. J^O^^orrt ey* ga*«Bad WW, pl^^ ^Bijpeei, you and ii», Mr. Baratm^ I don't beUev. .he wffl gir^ Bat the next day dinlpated hia hooM. Vr w-ji- -JT^ j *^ "'oooMot." ■!«% moAK^i -*. ^t-./Tr^r; . '«*?"•• «>*• Welb returned, aavinff lliat IavI- I?-L"^ ■* ^^ objected, tor the fiMved ft waea oontaWoeto«I tSl Aft»r the Oonunodorehad beard the new., I «dd to Mm: atnm mind, Ckamnodore, Minnie Warm fa m. iMiiM. n..«»i. .^ / ri* rqiiled tiie Cotnmodow^ wnphat^nenr '*I ' l^I.*edv«ialWwwl««g„,yoareftw«l,''lMd4 »WM not your bi«ine« to Mk me," replied thvCbnuaodora. i»nmn«d. 'W)mi tlw proper !!«»«, inrttwl me 1 •oo^" Wh^^ Pompoo^. 298 « f^ttr , r ■* g^i-^t • v|{»Tfi-<.f wsip- ;^ir"- Among tiem wm as culd not be p^^^^nf C^„^e^ ^'^^^^^t^ J-J^^ -d juch of tho« given their cards. Memberaof Con^^C^ "^il 'l^'"*^ **» T**™" ^^^ ^ and many other prominent ^x,hZnZ^^ ^ ^ *"* generals of the army, wealthy Ld disS^S S^^nTfor ti IT^T"" «PP"catlonH were made from Bold; and Tom Thumr^d L^i^ W^ w ^°"- ^^ ""* * "«'*«* ^« iefore wltnessea '^^'^ pronounced "man and wife" «*mou«weddh« InothM^n«Sn.r^7». '^*"*^^ '^^ *»<>*» wJtno« of th« umg^ xn other particularg the con-ebpond'coe gpeafa /or itialf ^>: -. V ■;■ « ) !■• f i h£>uti^ tA ^'^A'A^ i^^ r' / ^PK, = ♦ * ■*%^"«&>i-„S -Ax / »R- MTD HB8. OINIRAI. TOM TMU^. . whenever tha Uie troable to M^*« S»«*, »•'«»*«'*». N»FYoii«,Mie.l8|i htt.. f'h^",; •5:?^'^C "iftSJSA'^ir^ ""«-"> •>«-• ^*fn «»• the p«,o« wdcoiuemrUbleM "«mifTl««in?5Jfi r u'*^^''"'''7<>«« complain be so ntt»l^in5JJS5?^ m-diiectedf fforts to "Scnri. tick2?of^S?«i?A'i^''li "r^l^ '»«''• made sach itrJnaSM hSf of reason aud phUosophy do von «hii ?SSi* 5w • .i*"** ^^y, permit me to wk fa tff-'JSS! toifnatton. Yoa hai^ never o^i ^,M?*«iP"'" «*"" "f coniplitat eitotaSSvl^^; to a oharch to propeSy on^ f nTMi^^TSvi^iy*" Pai-don me tor K,y£,7tt27.^2S .£•;<*. °r else ^m^^^\i:^:^^AJl^^7,'5f^ /jW»» to be obliged to add thLThJ^Sii^i"'^,""'?*"* ^ ^Knomlnfeiwlr tf«Sd nSSS^ "■Wjr tnd never to the dlatorbanM A/S,!...'.!? '?°' P*?"^.' y®" roi^t, however dain »»i7 ta?JrSi"«'^'*i^« J*™«" ■•^oald be protect^. ffcJ^J^*- .:?*?• •» todealmbtoSt ^A^ioM-d dtatnr^ce of a crowflC tb^ti^tSnd K'f f't^JS' ^^Sl nthin the doora «f f K. -.. — v"_^" '■''•'' ' « »«• dty, I beg that M one may be admitted iHthin ih.^^l ^S *"" *"»•«« «nd lanet; < f the dt»~i i proper. ttemarrtouaer^^r W;S{.Tyr.rtbafw.^'5!i"«'^\*"''^^^^^^ the"btehop mVy^rftlS ^^ T mpnatoi. nor abS^oSj; It' to^roVwra^iutTk"? **••*■• •«> niouJfiSSS ^> -yiuwiu regara lo decorum. W( wnn snoh persona as msy in other va^a Mto.,eayftirther. thilaa we i^ldm^^;J^l;^^^^ Pr*nclpl« t*-t people they can lltenmy " look up to, ' ' thTiH d^erTf ^'^ ^ '"•^ P*^ • taU partnar. ' ' " ®'**^ ^' *^«m inanle.»t all It will be SotM after the weddto ^ of Own. ^^™^ "**■ "d i'^miMi" Md wquertad »• III ^'^Ut^t\ '.•k »*\ (•tlonal indradf it is BO urely it Jar oar hiunb ^ the ' pro bem nged x)me veled imo- K «?• _ ^ m. lOT) mw. OBKEIUL TOlf THirifB.r ^p^j.^^^ ^ u^iuu^ TO aevote any porttoii of my valuable tins to Hi «S2:?:^ r."^;:.-*^ » -^ '^ 7^ »<»»»„. a«. «^Mu«um,^^^yjSrrhunZd'^^XS^ ?^°"?^ about meorabom Irtole tt« oonm,union«rvioe,^t£°3^ anytiangetoeyouohooseto^Str^?^.!.?^' from Grace Chuix?h aSr, or me^d thenoometomelTl^^^^Jotriy^S:,^?.*^ ■ervioee to me ai an advertWM^aS^^^^,!!^^** <*« money value of yo^ - a,p,rtii ™"« "IBBaL Good morning, maitam.''^-^;^; ■* '8. • -./■■ m , i ';l OHAPTEB XXXVII. i': '■'yr'-^P^''^,:^^ ; POLITIOAL AN B PBBSOSAli. t mLa^ "^ P"""*** life M a DemocMt, and mviummwm^ «- .# ,^ . hJood In nu» that w^^TdeSoS^^T^Sl^"/ nria Wh«i. however, seo«Z^^a^i^4^iJ^^ J^-'^-od.aoo^ Witt ttSr^^;^^ tod in i««,l3r every dty. town and vSS SZ^lT^ Bridgeport from New York at five oSTrnTST^ r ^ Arrivinfr at witneTSsilhSdrJS^X^H^* ? Lindencroft in the^4rfn« to IKF. Mr. T..ir!r:S^'Sr^.^^i^ MynearS^j;^ Usaervantetostay in ^hI^n3S* !^ t>«o«>hecame -^o my house, he ordewd My neighbor, Mr. James D. Johnson. wasalMi a iv»»«v»«<. i-,* t ^ jot spofl a good Joke for the sakeT^^I^^^S^ Won of Mr. and Mi^ T., and to l^^^^^t^^^^,,^^,^ . tt« approaching procession, the St of wh«i faJS^S!^ Bridgeport and *he distance, white anoUM? DemSttoftteS £^!^ over and illuminated Mr. T.'s ho^r^lT^difwi^iSL Wells, and I. «« o«rwpri.flvemim.<«befo«.theproc«2«;i^vi t^^"^ Into my grounds and saw that the house ofMrT »L.;?f,S^ Wide-A wakes turned concluded flurt he had beoomeTsuSS^^^'^LlS?"*'^ "»'«°*°*»< ^^^ rouiringcheeniforhim. He«i^^^r^^^^'^''^«^^*^*^ ' oaase, he happened to turn «S^wT^u ***^ to attic a^Sttering aXSlZii^. ^,''^" ?" "***«* ^P trom bLem^ notable, hoJZ!^^irS^St:^trtt^^^^^ H*'^ ,w B Ij P « b n oc ■U eo n de 001 Ptt «lii gn «n Jrli 8W foa «po eft =fati also *1 IHj'. to be held in difltanot imh» nf *!!- S^J^v7 ' **"' P««» meetfaM" bcnuB *>May a white ai.g.t«S«^':^p^1^-^^ ^ -«nhl^ On tte morning of tuTlyXt^^;^:^ ~*^ oSiJwT •;»fa»r the addre«» wew didoyal or Mt ^ ■"▼WW gentlemen to whom T nnn.n..».t^rT "^™' cwnage. On the way I mii •nd. - S^ Howe S-Sn^^n^JS^***^ •**»^ •«*m«, ready to start f^Stem^TTJrL!^'^** *** i*n*«vou8 with ttefrtf^' «y other inteitlonTiS^^ iS^"''*^ that not ooe^ J^T «^^ to create dIrtnrl«Mr<^ SSK^^ **^ ^'^^ «* «^«*««^ttwoaMbebeiittorL,^^ «^ **» ««Wton. «ui .A th.» ...JSL^SSf^^;^^*^^*^^ 4pwe tmned into Z^^^T^^l^^^^J^l^ «ghlOTcarriagBioutnmaMni.«nd«^rrti«a Ow P««oe flagnianpoTer tS^to^,S^iJ^^ .wbil.themee^wJcSSi^ttSr^Jl''^'^^ ^ ladJeewereon the««i.TSrf thJlii^ •l»«k«" of the meetlmc T^rZiMlSr^!^;!^^'^*^ necttcut, during the War «t wi-ooL-tivw A f!«n*«>l!fl# am othe.^ waxing be' W^i^^^i;^^^^ ^^ ■Ponthepole,andwildlycheered. P T^Lm.^!!^!^^**" '^^^^^ iHTiniKiHn, ip^ped with ^eTnnaor dTffie n<^^a^ o.- ^il » 7 ^"' •ca n i B a f^ «[» said a few words to the point. * ♦- •^TTJL SS^-'Si^^- 1>«°^ "•«• tofeator «f ••wlo« niachUM umi^ —— — — •i. >« ■f" .■lplll ^1 .^ J06 JwlTiAix ^D WiMoir4ii^ :...... ^^" the go^"m^^^j;:2^,«S,«;»*«^*«d «•«. and «.eir aS^^ P«»«*iin«, telling ttiemthSLSTiJJ^ ^!^ *° '^'™^ *™™ «"<* * '^otoua •f ^^en^ ^S^^l^^^'^^^^ ^^°« «>«y «»»°"ld refmin from acte , «!<«««(« their retunTf^m Steers Sft^f" "^k^I^** "'^ reception of tn« ftMJte to the New York M^r5HS^wS^^^P^^*^«*o'«»*<>'t^ upon U« i^,^ offl^ SlL^t^',^"^ "" "^ ^««^ *»' *" «"«* ■• wmeoe-iMT^ IwC^^uT^nlh^- *^*^^«~ OPP^^ to«,ch action wodv^lmdthn^teL.f # *?^ "^^^^ ^^''^ <*« ^'idiers had been they rush^SS ^^^W o^tZbS^T^^^ "^^ ^* <^ ^^«- ^or^ the pre«ea I did not ^^^ S t,^ *^ ^^ *^" ^^<^ '^ »>«*« Offered the propi^iett,™ 7^^JZ^^^, ^Sf '" '' S^ ^^' «"'» renew the publication of the Farm^ «"«oriptaon to assist in enabling, them to oth'Tmi^^orr^.^^,!:^-^^^^ Bridgeport were frequentlyttr^^ed^iTS^ ^^ '*>"»«* in *«PeciaUy rife that iLdenioft^o^^^T -T^T^ ^<*^«°°?L%<* ""»<>" were ^ fjeml occasions, so^e™ ^S^^^^^^ "^»» mobbec^desi«>yed. On bpbse, •sometimeB for several SS1« flff^ ^^ '^^ *"<* «<»y«^ «t my rockete, so that in casTIf ^ ^^n^T^?"* '"'* ' ^"^ '^ P^^^d ^<^ . cit3.. and especiaU^I^ ^^gS^.^^^^'S?'' ^'*o "^ ^^-'to ^ «» rockets at .Lindencroft and ive tho^W 'l*^,,*"?^. ^^o would see my needed, but the rockete camet pily ^^.^^^ ^«°^ ''^^ ^^ • My house was provided^«i«rtL«5^r*^ In linother way. ful beU 3ounded!^7j^i:l;^;^*',^^J^7^ "^* riight «,« iiilU. . ran aiid rung the laige hsS^J w ^fS ""^ ^«^oning my servante, on. 'X)achman from the SuKofhlT^^ ** served in the day-time to c3 my tte Window, and I Ct^tl^fof"«.^;r ^f^'^- «nnoat"? The Whole ,^on nmnd about ^^ay ^^.^^^^^^^ dressed, but armed, flocked over toWZ!^J^*' ^*^ *»»*^eighbQre hi^lf- «nd I was by no means sLriZ # ^ grounds, every time tJ^^dtet went im day.^d in the X^X^Sid cSS"^^' «*« whole-place was a, light^ burglars, one runS^^'^t 2^.7 **'*'^* ^^* °' '^^^ "^^^ legs could canyS; r>^o 1^ Zt^ "^''\'^ "^"^^ fastaTS derers stopped running till th2i»i^!I w J^®, 'P«'»i<>**ricken would-be plun- In the springTlSs I^E^S. I °^^ to the CkMmectiout iegislatuwSSi^LJ^LSS*"*^ ^"^ * nominatioii r felt that -it would be an hov^m^^^jS^T^^ and I did this because froni the land. rstatea,j oUsh slavery foravw > is'^llaw^ Jr., the speakers. After giving their duty to lite flag trail- at Bridgeport s tliey paased ant upon the ich a riotous Eiin from acta '. a mob. -So eption of too !00unt of thw of an attack > 'Such action BTB had been ^ugh their New York, i and broke paper, and Qg them to myself and formed in imors were ^>yed. On yed at my videdwith ends in the lid see my ^re xttivee< ithefsitik, vants, on* to call my nm out of drocfceta. borsh^- went up^ 3 light aft . ^treating, bas Oieir -be plon- mination I because propoKd EIT*c HOWE. Jr., THE INVENTOR AND FRIEND OF BARNUlt ■■"^P' }i» \ - >TrUv«V'-i l^.w. ^sxSiti>^i ^^.A^ESfS^lk;!^ '' ^? T' \' f. ^ K ' > C^ 8 II * b b o( m ^ V - «■ , ■.\ -v an M tl] Of * da ba bi ] Vc m wi •n fri( Ih for 4 • nil 000 •«• par tnu data b Uw A.-'i POtlTWAt kVn PSBSOlf AL. ' ^ I ^elected, and, on aiTivlng at Hartford the nlRht before fclMiM«in«h---- * ' S^l^* ^"***""K the nwvemente doeely. 1 «w that the raih.«d lnttre.to hmi oombmed lu support of one of the candidates, and this natiu^IlyTxcS^ mu^don. I never beUeved in nmking State le^lation a f^^ZerT^^ ^t ^n, ^ ^ enterpri«» have bn,ught upon this cSy and ^ wori± But the vaster the enterprise and its power for good the ™t«r^ opp^ty for ndsddef if iv, power is perverteT The thn^^ wh^whoS ^SS TV^f,"^ the trade of one or two mUway cx»mpanies. «d i^ waJ too tnriJjful to be looked upon as satire to caU New Je«ey the ^Stoi ScamZ and Amboy.- A great ralhxjad company, like fire, is a good «^^tTrt1! b^ m-rter: and when it is oorisidered ttj'sud, aZipanyf^thTti^ nl! b«^men dependent upon it for their daUy b««d, cTZ^Z^^ 8^ offlo«^dteg»Iatu«s,«.^^ Thinking of th«i» things, and seeing in the combination of raihWfaitei^*^ ^ J^f "** P~"^ of good to the community at lu.^ 1 atT^ J ^ »i!^v ^^'^^ ^ """^ ^ ^ "«^"" «»" either of the candidi^eTftr ' the speakerjup, nor had I a single .rfflrii end in view to gratify Sin^^ lZJ"^^»rflJ^-^ btfti fdttiu.t if tiH, now i^^S^^, ««^ttopHbltetoterert,^^^ We «,cceeded; their caSd^ ^JTJ^ nominated, and the ralln)ad men were taken by surprise, ^r ^r^^^'^JT^ ^ '^"^ ^^'^^^ -*°~ the fl«t ralhxilwJIuSd dowi In Connecticut, and to be beaten no* fairly startkjd them ««aowii fJ^!^n '^If^'" "^ ?r^ ' '^^^ ^ «i^b*irful*nomlnee, Hon. E. K. road «x«mnittee. the man who had hdd that office for several miooessive yeart «d who was, in fact, the great r»il,««i tacMom in the StotTISr^Zi w^ myreque^and he«>on found howimportimt it w«i to chec* tC^ ^ f™'^ monopoly; tor, as he said, the "outside pressure" from pers^ 1 bad objected, was terrible. TjHwgh I had not fbreeeen northoughtof su«h a tblnguntil I reached Hart. ford. I soon found that a battie wia» the «lhx)«i oommi«5oa.>r. woul^ i^n^w^ '!!7^^^.^"f, "^ '^^ accordingly. It was soon diac«vered thai • m^jorijr of the raUroad commisrionem were mere tools in the hands of tim «ih>oadoompanie«,M^ '2^ii^i^ "^''7^"'"'^^'*^P"y- ItwasalsophoCnthaUb; chafrmw of the railroad oommmsionom permitted most of the accident. ..hich ooourred on that road to be taken diarge of and reported upon by the paid lobb,r 2J«cofth^«Ur^^ .teer«for with tho company, thati succeeded in «ili.tingthe farmew «h! othf r true men on the side of right; and we defeated tlia (Airman of the ndlm,.i ■ 7 — ■ ^ '" "ft""! ■"« wg Qweatea w CDMrman ot the rallmn,! date in his place. I also carried through a law that no penon who was fn tbt r .^ ^^. V" <'u|(u a utw uuMi no person woo was I •i^ploy of any raihrmt in tiie Btste, should serve as raUroad ccmmissionw J?'lf^*!^T**]"'^'*'*'''*^'^'^"»"'W*'*»»««°tires«»si^ waaupof the subject of railroad M«iuwr oommutattow. Coounodore VandUoi hS j'lS-ri ' \ Sio POtlTlOAL ASl) PBilS01TA4f w^ji V Con,„odo«,^°^*'7^'"^»f»«'"P«'l«>nlrtdtution,.tHkin^ut^o;S^.wLte''f^^^ ^''' «^ quallflcatlons of vote™, wa.^oTrnUv o^t^ .^Th S '^"* ^*^** ^^^^^^^ "»• Import from the nUnority of IT^InC^. V ^'"'^™«^'« '"^"'her.. TT^ «*ve certain ro«»n, for oDDOsJn.Thr !^ . '^*'°"' "'^ '»"'*"°» ^^ ^'>"^ 8PBBCH OP P. T. BARNUH OH THB OONBTITtmONAL AlUElVDiairT. r ■J^ i r'at^ jitr/k^l s^rTJf^fp* bad J^l' par cent 1 ten to fifty le streugth of iheextortioii. i New Haven interest, and ^tiou on the 16 two other this outrage he Assemb^ very lawyer (^"^bat potent besurmked. 1; and white desires, th« . >vho had to itice and tha ays a noted r, day after ^rosB-ezam- •rely more » investig*- lot a 8ton» ;ht upon a irnuin, suo- mouths of s, railroad le ten dajrs ke Mid, till •mmittees, ocupy but evote my ty in both uid ener- f slavery, the State 3fliuedtha ers. Tha referred, reply to fttfo»>- tiK froie at . ^uvWk^t^^ r>. ■- ---v-^- - * ^^^p-^- 1 1 ^Hr^ f 1 • • % • 1 / • (I * I - - » ^^^^'Ti / ' ' k P, - * 4 9 W'"' 1 ' ' • m * i«**£**^j*ii3. I 1^1*.**^ ^"T'OAL AND PMSOiirAXi , ..^.^_ •«»« -ncimt Eg^^^J^^^S r»„^«r to dishonor, aiui ^«^ Md a dmwer or^S^ ^S^?^,!^ "««^ "P'^'^ted as " a hewer of woo.< . We, on theotler hSd/p^ to ITl? **^"°''' ^^^^ "^^^erof wood • fi^cultie. and eh^aS^lS^t^^^J^^^ ^portunity of expanding lii. to bowing to*^e 1^ of ^e^teT S,'"' *^« '^^^ «^«y had exhibitei which had dlKTuptJ^e'C^S ^""^"tJhfr*! W °' *^^-^ oonnwted. Aad on this occasion I wL>«S f ^ I had l*en «, long Ityof my Democmtic ^Tl^^^^^t^^YF^^ ? '^^ -^°™ «d lo,! w.^ a thorough, out and^ De^^T^^l^Sl tor I am and evJv rotad for every Democmtlc D^riSni u^ «"PI»rte«i General J«.k»on, nn\ orived. to the Kiuu« queSo^ ^n^^.^ P™:^ '»»« ~°*«^^ - «~itertnmnber.for^rd^^^Zfr'°''^*«^*^«°«»tot., Ui. wiU of the majority, ft w.^ iSL« *"j°^ '^'^ '*»' * «ibmi«ion fe, tti.p^ demcSSticLt^T^riC^^:,^^ *^« "^^f^ democ«cy cf Andnow.Mr.SpeatoTletnwiSS!?^ \ 8«<^ may dSde wlX?rS^S^ 1^ voters, the white clti«n/ofS. ' -tHW to ^ electivrfSa^m oZSr^"" "^ "'^*^ "^"^ «**" »« •nay be to doubt upon^r«Sect^,2T!i?rn T ^^ ''^^^ ^'^ *«*««. «* Wfgro ilavery, and its legitimate outBrowth«nMl^^ ^ hate cau«Hl this gi^tterebemoT^MM^ ? *°!I*"^ ^^^''^^^ •»'» "PPm. mUlions of treamuB, aSH «! ^JtlTo^f '^ ^ T? ^^^ '^'^ '^'^'"a^ of prtodple. And wjie^was t^is^ ItJ^rS^ ""^ ^"'°*» "^^ ^ defending » DW they «i« the < ' oppo^ty^^'S^^ ~''"^ "^ ^ ''^ "'»»^"' Wftil foe, to break outto inaSrel^ "T' «««to" ^^re engaged with a pow. taMChddl^em tothem^^r^^^T'rrSnl"" T^?"^' »^« My "democmtic" friend, would haveTne if t fff "''• *h«ydidnotdothi* CWnamen, Port^gueee. woZto^J:;;^^^^^ !'««-% P«t the poor blade man is llkTa hS^^ hJTLI "^ ''°"^** haved^^Ht^ :iiyir»T.h_ ~7^ w, ni»ra PC. daring th e w ar, w»». th^ ,, ■,», in r^ b«ri«rin.i w,.,"B ii.u„Hro,w aU through Urn war wnL *!^* ?^ inttaaoe. of •v^^y rauwi a ou^-aol-cry agminrt permitting the nein„» (*#- i.ii^J "S mOAL A»l) HllMOKitt . Whether the«. ^lo^rmT.rT!' ^ ''^^^'«»« *>' <»" '^Cby WlrT' may or ma* ♦.«♦ ^ ' °' ** ^®a»t. were Darti«ii- * ^ *"**' ▼<>*•• •ppwnoced unar they leaYnT ^^•"<^«» *« «mploy Journeymen- ^,, or the. color of th^ -n ^ '?""'»^ ' Why, that a race wh«„K . " *^'**"- And whltew««hers and iL^TT ■**^''' P«mitted to rte« !^! ^' "^ •^«"> whoahu^inro-k.nJ.H . '^'-««Pect which can onifL "'^"'•"on. '^u- «nayUtauirhtfcn,\7 "*°'«^"«'ortheart&'' ir™^!*?^ the negro car; *uibadevBloDed HiT-l. ^^^^ *""*"' then hfa in«nhnnii »,i*u ^ frwB upon thla portion 9t . POLmOAL IND PBR801TAU ' 3J5 Mr gMwat mid-.>jnter. He would find the earth cftv«~H ^*»: . - -ic, ooi^:ealed ahnort to the ooiudrteni^ is cold and barren; no giJ^E L^^Jt^^ ^T^^ ^^^'A and stalk about ahivertag, ft^Sa^pii^ hf!!:,S^ «»^bitaixte are chilled^ But Jhim n-ainSSTor^pl'^^C^ a^d bea„^ the. world, he dkcovem the beautiful crocus lu^^^^t^^^^^^ ^ '"^^'^ »W. •now-drope appear in aU their ch^ehSw]^f the half-frozen ground; th» forth; the iSSu magS^h^J' h^ kI"^ °' *^^ swamp-nrnple shoot •vidanoe of life- the «S^wS2^ ^ f ^^^ blossoms; the sassafras adds ite «d while oT^?^'""^^'^^^' '^^^^T-'^ %»^t "P eve^ with her emerSiXet cJ^t "S>?^r "* astomshment. the earth is covennf tte trees; frag.airfloweT^ ^t^ "^ *"^^* colored>lossou.s adorn more of manhood or wom^nh^wi ii "carceiy perceive that they have any «aiHu«ied brain; the Vacantia oflL^^. ^^"^ ^^ *" «*t^^« «"d up with the flw offateUte^Il ^*»^> ignorance and idleness will light «^on; ^^ ^?t^« r*"!? r^'*'^"' '^**^*y *"'» Christian ci^U- M«nan fh«n Wall^^ w^^t^^^Z •?' '"<^"'««°««. «» honorable gen- *n-ge WW, "oxr^a^.!%E!T„^ to compare beings made in God's r^port^ in i^e pape«7d:Zt ha^t;;^^ ^h^ taken the nature of the colored man rC?. u, ^ 'P®®^^' '^ "^ the young man who wLTa^oaH;^ 3^ honorable gentleman reminds me of Falls was nowhere- a,« wJifTi 7 had seen in foreign Umds. Niagam with ttie beantiiul UwTS^I^JT,,^ ^*J """^ ''"^' ^^^ '^'"'^ Park WM eolioMd hv««rS!r!^^ rivulets of Europe; our New York Central H^TSSf ^^ ^^' ^'"^ "'^ '»>« Champ. E3y»es of Pari., or ^^or itt«ent Pw* of r^Midon, to iv i«rtlrfiig f «tw«.Cain; ""d so canes have been Seto^y 'St ^pS,^ •*tto pollg and even in the United States Senate ChamSr ^^ Is gctoius for the arts and those occupations reouirimt {ti«Aii.w^ -«^ _j^ . -^«*^y e^em^ in adroi«y stnZi ^^^ ^ ooRTing a dh^ectory. as has been done, as the retimi U^ " inventive ftuaitty" of "voting early and often."* ™«»w,JTv",Z?,! "'** ^ hoodf I. it^Su^ry e3.ce o^'^tS"^^^ ^ °^^*<*i«ledaad guided by poHtic.lpasdon.«i7rxrt^ Wrtory prove, is the worst of mobs. Is It evidence of "hi A^rt'Uo^!^ ?^ by hanging him to the nea.^ t^ or lamp^p^T IsT'JSislJ? 2Stm""S ooeofthelostartBrestonHif WeaU know h^J^^ . jJ^T ^™*^* embellish el^on. and to enhance the excltere^poS^ «rj^'^*J" indtdng riotB, and the fi^uency with which Z^^S^^^^J^gT^ J^oS^''^L''T!l?^iu""' ^"^ ^ *** Irishman.' I have tmvded through his native country and have seen how he is oppressed. I have listeildto -^U^Zl^tj:S^° '^l^J^^^ielO 'Conne ll. in Condliatte^S Vh?^ "f^^^?a^«»^«buted to his fund for ameliorating the «3oI ofhhconntrymen. I rejoice to »ee then, n.shing to this land ofliherty ^IX Wfco attmapt to bUnd ud mldead them to vote In the interarti of majptHf ^■^ '^' ' ' VV.-'' ■■;.'■.. :' . . ;■.. ,..,/ V - .-■ :-■ •■■■•'-- ' ■ . y- ■ ■■ ■ .■■- A ■ '^^^Mjau. nmniMipip 318 ^^^^^F ^^ POLITICAL AKD PBB80KAL. tomllles. . "•"'' nec««ry. In order to he^p ttoem support tb«te fori, that 1 must "^rpLJd'L TT"V;'"'""'°''"*^ I terie.^ of great men. and I saw two .mL J J P'««tlng8; there I saw portraits removed. These mi^n^ pl ^ r^toTwr'''" "''' "^''*""» ^ »-^ •moiB ot the state, whose" poS on^nn ', * ^'^*** *>' *70 «-Got. dominant party in tke llrisCt! °^ ^ **' *"^" '^^ obnoxlCu. to th. ' . sentiments o, these /ov^o^ortL ilX ^^^^T '""' "'" «»* "^^^ the pictures, and thus proved as it wlJI^iJ^ T ' ^^ **°'** ^'**«» »<> "«ovo - Uon between politics and a^ " ''°"'^ ^'°' ««» «»•" ^ «» totlmate oonn J I luive repeatedlNraveled In eVery* state m tK a every intelUgent officer and soldier who ht^^,.^" *'"*^' "»•» ^ "-«. what . the Slaves, as a body, are more Int^Cm ran^"*^ *'"" '''" corroborate tb« not been there can conceive to whal a lol^ .!. ^' ''"'^ ^"^ °««» ^ho has ing. clay-eatlng white, ot slTtJnotT f f "'"'* "''' ^' «"''-^- me day Is not far distant when Ihe f^" l ^"^"^ '^"^^ descended. I trust raw through this Egyptiari^i ~°'»°° '«^~>1 " 'J^^^I thrbw Its Ulumlnatlng oLTLr:To. TlZTT.:- ZT. '- ^•^' — «.o^ each>^ • stewards ,or their masters, t^^ve ;g'*:U ""Z Tl "^T*^"' "'''■'' "^"Mn. a. . even to Cincinnati, to dispose of thefrr^t J *° ^^"^ <^'"'«'^"«. Nashville, and Opelousas. St. Martlnsvlirind TuZm^Z'' "^^ "^ -'ored cltl^eii of respectable and Intelligent aT^ „«,, ^*****P" «>"'»try m Louisiana, are aA^^*- French and English Suites edu^LT. T"^"""^ '' ^'''*«"- '''^e^ -Pe^Tth^F •nd they pay their taxes on X^^7^1^"^^~'»»° --'« and "thaart..' ' " , Gentlemen of the ODoosltinn tT^ ^ millions of dollars. ^at «.e loyal blacks at the IZs^Z'^TZerT •*-'"^'' --"-""T Let Oonnecucut, without regard to party set ^« J ^ "''• ^^^ ^°^'^ *"»•* the action at the South.^d pwvem t' ^ew f *" """^'^ ""'* «*«" "^°««0. Which Shall make all our expenJi?u^«nft, 7 "" "*' '''*^«'^ '"^ «lslng th«» But some persons havrthis ^or '"'** *'^""'''' ''""'•«'• H- they say! ' Well a n^rr Tj nZlTZT'' '' "^'^ '°«^ °' -»«-"-. niggers, anyhow." Twenty yea™ a^lT'o^ ."*"*''" '^^"''°« «'^«- I l»at^ ^ P«i«8en6ers was an Irish J JdJ^ wh^lj ^^^ "»« ^"«°"«. »na among our justice. Ho was an e.ceedingfy mtnC ZTZT."^ Newfoundland as^ch," witty. 'Vhe passengers troJV^^fZ^t'^T'' *^°"«'°'"'' •'°<» ex»emely Uot into a discussion on th. subl^ of ,Uvl'®**^""''^** ">«^ ''«'° the Soutn Southemen, were finally wors^fl:' w^en "Serr "^ "^'^ *""" '»'*^-- ^^^ they tell back on the old story br^vir^ ..^. ' •"•«»°>«nts wen, axhaustec' human anyhow; he had nobu^^;«« ^^a^' ^""^ """^^ ' '^'^''' ^» •»-'* »»»» turned to the Irish Judge «d .Sfe^ m« tT'' ^^ **°* *" *» gentlemen then The judge replied ; ^' """^ '^^ ^'^ o^^P" ^ th. merit, of the oontroT«.y "Oentlemen. I have listened wIthVu-.-?^i^ mMf, 1(^1 tundred to >t>oit ttaalt might iM tol% there- I at once ^ portraits had been ex-GoT- u to the suppoeed "-o remove ■ '« oonnec- »rt, what vte, that who haa muff-tak- I trust uinatlag acfi^«H4 LCtlng a4 'He. and ; izens of - are aa^f «ak the.^''^ aarta.' ud otu oesMry AX^bltet. fluenoe r *^bere cation, 1 hate ^ « our chlet ■emely Soutc The OBtet' t halt 1 then re»y. I ana/ Mm MM siiMaii^^^m^ aim^ m r *&'^''0^-.- \t*i ; y;.:'l5-r:f/ ♦*^... ^r /^'i .*v^i'« > ». ■• ^.^- .-■ .'' r=^ N M .">,« . .-:l V i VOUROAX. jUn> V-,; ■■;;^;3 C'^^ N ^^- - iMgra'BiawhMBolNMiiMMtobeaDigiv/AadfMf •Uak hioi am o< aoota^ and tniniib Urn andv foot-nawkja ivovidad, i -9«n,yoapro^lMwMbarabli>«n«,^ft^,^^^ wiallua iitrinralaTBcyeoiiivelyoafeof •orooonlry; the otber to allow mm o( adooatlaa' aadgoodmonldianKstertoTote^nfanllMioCtlieoolorof tMraUna Togtf tm, imina few. »i.^,> *»» |j.«.«^^py^^ p^ ^^ fTiilatlan iimMUiiB fa an Ihe ^wy . l a i Haghlatf rewin^ loan nothing iiiiiatovw for anjaeot or party imdvhMm% aamoh. Ihayenoazea togHnd,nolQgi toroU^DofaTotatoML Allir ii to do TitatkTi^ and proTMit what la wrongs IbaUarainno^'ai , thm la not pndioatad of Jnatioe, ftiKin aU tUn^-politka^ ^aa wall M I elai^I know that "honeaty lathe beat polky." A retiibotiTa FtaridaMe irti unerringly andvaedlljaearob out all wraog-doing; heno^ right la alwajatha beat inthelongran. Oartalnly, In the Ught of the greitt American qMt of UhMty and equal riglte iRlikdi k awaairing OTcr thk oomiixy, and makli« the tiBWMB «f tyranta totter In the Old World, na p«rtyoan affbrd tooanyateTwy.altfawat' body or of mind. KkMNdcoffToaraMnadaaandlatthemangofkaa IMkadMva the bUnda from hto intellect, and M In tba U^ of ednoatlaii and GhvMian col. tuf«. WhenthlalBdoneToahaTadaTraloiiedaman. GirehimtheiaiiiaiMaiill^ of amanand tiiaaalftaqifot of « man, by granting him the right of aiAMa I«t uniraraal ednoatioo, and^ odTaiMl finndiiatN tte and tiia tolling milliona of Vx^nn^ i^m anTwati^v^Toa witii awh fliftfm inteveat, will hall oaaathfliiraaTloiia. Let w k^yal^^^^wty^on tkhMv. lioo, and go for" God sbd oar Country.*' Let no ma^ attaibh to hianameby drattioghiaeyea to the great lemon of tha hoarse, pennitting the people to ezimM their <^>inion on tiiiaia^KXtami^^ 1M\ nMnimooaly grant thia truly deoMoratio boon. Then, when our>W8 of trnm- tahlaeare settled on a jtistbaidB, let future partiea divide when th^h meatfydtlw on State or national queatJona wtiich do not twach upon '* * " ' " - ^as-^ OTAflMrioan . ^^_^„ •J?*:, ^K -^ / ■■■ ■»;,^f. .,.■■ V3 •J**" 'J- '■ 11^^ \m^^ f. ' t I. » - OHAPTEB XXXTm. ^. . ^ .- THB AKBEIOAJff MUSEUM nr BOUra. ^- V- «,« thirteenth dny of July im« r -» rork, 8taun« that the American Muwum w»f ^ ^ ""^ ""**»«>» manager to N^ ' ^«o» wa. oertato. i glanoedTef^hl h ° *»««>«». and that !.» toS M happened. At the o^J^ adjourned, i then handed thHw.n^''^""' ^" "««•<». and^ h^ *tely oomn.unlcated the totel"«n^" T *" °- °^' «' ^">»t«, who tom^i »t once crowdea around mr^d ^^ „'''*'*""'"°'«"- ^arm ^pSZ^ , •trongeatrallroadopponent/pu^hto^o^wJL'^Zi^^^^^^ «' ^-^^^^ Mr. Bamum. I am really very sorr^ Jr^' '**^ "*• »>' «»• h«d. and aalT neither my race nor my mLt^ h.^' °' "^ 'eHow-membere f.ti««. *. tl.» »«•««»•-«". that I ha^icS^L^*"'''^ "•• ""«»''«" l-^fmaTn the! r ** •--^orthisincirtrry^rrc^r^- --'---ToJc: ^ '*"*''« saw only a piu k^t up to pomp ftiH^!r,i. * •'°«*°* '«»". wiMw ™ -. 1 CO I»10pBl the liimMMM^ •-tOK'.pneriof theluuia. r# r f. ' i^WI^: elegrua ww >a«rer In Naw otal dMtruo' >a my deak « oQaoTiuloa tlia Houat » Kew Tork, bb Unmedi. ^PAthtaMn HaT«ti, tnj I said: wny'ina K at hmrlag en I that read Journaifl^ QoiQc that \ iiedestab' upoahla n'r a pUa to New diauter. ^der- i^t was K from ut — on and m mldb* d;tlM inmus tKB^ rXE AITEBIOAK XUBUXJU IV nvWB. ABthaW ^^^ reporter. Mr. Natban Tvmt ^TT'^l'''^' ?« ~"°*^- A facetuS . --rt^-blch appeared in iZt Jo^^y^*. TSS^^^ "'"^^^ '^^^ quoted from and copied by provjicifll»i.jfcnf ^ ^**' ""<* '^ very generaUy •-.ylii^of a»^^ JS;^^*l.P^^^?'- At tbla moment the (^nmn. r^'if-'i"*' ",""' """■■" •'■•> O'MlnKlHre tL •f .^ fc m tSB AMBfilOAK MtrsacTM iw suniib SSff.jttoS?"'^' **"» " MtooBdm ud Jolii«d the mdM b, th* orator af ht »n»ect?SSs»l?h Mr Jum .-"-i^ 9"' 2f ^he mojit wnuslng incident in thl« respecL Wm i fbUoweU, and seized th.UI with both hands HL.„,.mli'"'r'^*\''* "°"**' «^«« •*irlul"8«n..iitrt." who h»r.oi;.n?W«i..^H L- .A '">«'■''«■ *«'" token with the •mallmoik.y. nun. ft^m iKiiJlSUw^ of »bdBotln« him.. IMtbMMM ^TSaybr^ off hi. !>«» tn oMnur^^^t hhn 'll.nX'h Jjwdoor. Atlsufthtb* U.M.onV n.ouu..»„d tho..w.thTli.'^Xi)Mu S-nrtJd^l^ (i«.ior«I WmU- = -i-*^ = u- rJ^-^ ■---■ ontoraTlbt f Mt tr— by hay flew oat. Ix, httmiDlnfr> iiuenteziiUd *• tonflned in t«r the rleiiur iematlc aignt central case- tbed in flght. fllct It wu buae and tha the flat head vard by the ring his prajr the b|irni4K u oauMd by ipect, waa la I wag nitliay a A'iend tba at that time ouru of hto :lnoaiea of on/h>m hla X teeing the sovering hla ly, MrrBen- uen for tha or creator*, me vacancy Md Instlno- sdito^— per- >n regained Uarm. Mr. The book- isieal critic irmed with vith brand* econcertad di of thoee Sraailapea, ftred badly, urred; bit le lookiDf- wn feather the build- liich miKht bio effigiee H, a doaen » of crawl' itiid" was I with the lend at hit iaed. The 1 with the kiid Jamea arm, and ^o mgged leof Oieitf They evl- carioaity> ng him. a uw, mad* 'oogh bta aroadiM 'eel>, und tteoipi at Mtw llie «1 Waih hi* head „ THB AlfimCAlT MU91UM IN RUJITS, 32? •WIT » band of patriotR aa not often come* within one*a experience toee*. 9m««l VvlM wa/pli.yln?a dummy game of poker with Generai Lafiiyetto ; Ooyernor Morrla waa bar- lnK u aet-tS wUh Nuliran Lane, and Jniiie* MadiHon was execntiijK a Dutch pdka With Mmhun Hoiuiid oil one arm and LucretU Borgia on the other. The next moment tha adviiiicinit lltiine* compelled us to retire. . .•... .j.„» „i,i a „„.(!«,»» ».. We belle v.- that all the living curiosities were saved ; but the giant girl, Anna Swon, waa only resale.! with (he utmost dlfflculty. There was notadoor througli which her bulky frame coiil.l oi.luln apassage. It was likewise feared thai the stairs wouTtl '''•o'*"' j^J',^"- •*•" If Mio should n-«ch them. Her best friend, the living skeleUm. stood by t»^r iis long as he dared, but Ihon deserted her, while, as the heat grew In Intensity, the perspiration roUyl from\ier face In little brooks and rlvUTets, which P''"oie"™|"^^^ into Ann atreet, and then made his way Into Nassau, and down that thoroughfltfe lnt>) WiUirwhere bta appearance caused a sensation. Some •"P««""o"« P«"«" ^J^^^^ him tho spirit of a Siparted Ursa Major, and others of his fraternity ^•'''""'tli^HiS^A aa a fcvonible omen. The bear walked quietly along to the Custom Honae, aacended thrt atepa of the bulldlna, and became bewildered, «« muny a biped bear ^^^^X^f^YnM' He (jeemed to lose hla aenae of vision, and no doubt, endeavoriM to «?•«•»»•«' »««{ Salked over thewside of the atepa and broke his neck He •»^'^'>^J^,^^J'^'^ll^3^Jj^ mat him deariy. The appearance of Bruin in the street sensibly afl-ected the stock market, •nd Bharea fell rapidly ; hut wlien he lost his life In the careless manner we have deecribed. iharea advanced again, and the Bulla triumphed once more. ,k. ♦!..«««-•■ aroadWBv and its ciossinga have not witnessed a denser throng for months than aaaarn. blS^7h«^tire'J^ti.day *Barnum'a wiui alwaya popular, but it "•ver drew ao Taatij er^ before. There mnat have been forty thousand nlople on B^""'' way, between IWdwi LSTandChambert atreet, and a great portion aUyed there untl dusk. So great wutfci* ^oouraeof ^ple that It was with dllrfcuUy pedeatrtanapr vehicles could pasa. ^Aft*r the flrVaeveral high-art epicures grouping •'JS^" «ri'.ritTifd h^v reuShed • hniiaa whnln roiistfld kansaroo and ft-lcaased crocodile, which. It is said, iney reuanea , SSSJh ufetkn7wou1dtTfi?Sed"t2 appreciate such rare edli.l.s^ /:r:i^|^lf„H"-:^^„!:?.t eplcnres will declare the only true way to prepare those n»«''i« ';^ -V' ^""^f^'lV '"ji^^^ wrapped In flamea, in the same manner that the Chinese, according to ^n*' '•• *^£' ""» d^vered roast pig In a burning house, and ever afterward aet a Eoua* on Or* with » |l| taaid*. when they wanted that particular food. . AU tin New York Joumab, and many more In othar dtie*, editorkUy uiim iiaiii their sympathy with ray misfortune, aiid their aenae of the loea the commimtty lad ■ustained in the deetruction of the American Muwum. Tha f oUowing ediso^ fc from the New York IVOmne, of July 14, 1866: • The deatruotlon of no bnlldlng In tWa city could have oailaMl ao «J><* .f"!*;"*^"*!* M^ rigret *a that of Bamuin'a Museum. The collection of cnrioa tiee waa jeqr lai», Sdthomfh mwiy of them may not have had much Intrinsic ''^^^^.^/^''^'^•i*^?;^^. Se^rflon wJ certainly of great worth (or any Museum. But aside f^. JJ)"lP1^"«! ivories cinatared about the place, which >«r.«» n'«»yi«'"*''f«^himJw-- ^nJht MttU«n*nt to the common people who cannot otlen slford to treat themaelTaato a idgbt StUMTmSr; axpMaWe theatewTwhlle to the children of the «»t^ •'•'""™ •, h- »*^,'J • f^""; Sin «f daHght, *Tfr ofl^sring new attractiona aa captlvatlnf and aa implicitly baltoradln ■mTiS Anlblan iKll^ »Ut«lnmenU : Theater, ManMerte and Muaaunt, It amua^ Sd SS&^trr^rafre.a WUlToriTRin.*^^^ }t Ta".5'»id«^^««» »' ^^Mr gla^^ and rep«.t their horrid deeds, they «e... « V" -''i;:^''''"! ^22 «^ sS^^SmW^S •uiaMiMir ftaata, aad the Mtaat ot moriai wua>«i. WB«»» mm w«lp* tmmmtM onwi m 'V- •^i '^ T^ AIIBBICAN, J^UiBUJl Ui I i vm,, •f ■olid exoelle»ce * *"""' "' '» """ch 'nnocent pl,2i2^ T^ fiLni!7»'' ""•"• Ptao. " W«eij;^1^':.;L"^^^ the co„.ct.on,.t th. P*"i the insurance oompaniTmor; ^«n th^'^ ? '°.''" *"* P^' -°*' ' had doing an ia,a,en«,ly profitable busi^M^^Br *,"" '"** *''« Mweun, wa. lo-e,, was to reti«, f«,n, actire Hfe^nd *fr„^^ ul ""P"^' *'*•'' ^konlng^ip „. ,«y large real estate interestel^ Brid" o^t * j •'"-'"- ^^'"'Patfon berJJd wSJ compel. I felt that I had stHlTlT/' "^ P'^'P^'^^ '» New York wooW bns7l|fe..tfifty.fi.,,i:Jj*';'j«-^^^^^^ that after. .ofcSv^riJ ^he remainder of my.dav. T 7-71^ retirement, to oowptratiT. r^t fc. for adWoa on the suijeoT ""* '" ""^ ''^^ ''''^^' *»»• -O'torTtl. ^' moved m. to pause: R„t. one hunlr^: «d S^V ?"* *"'* ^ondde^Zl depended upon their exertion, for trrTailvbrf^^ •"PI?*^' mW of whom a season when it would be difficult for iem to '/^ *''"'"' ""* *' '^"'^ irt. Meanwhile, the Mu««nm emDlovM. «.« * j . loii» Mniid lb.l, .„„„„ b, thi!"!!"* '°'"' "" *• talldliig wbm tluT bad m f -UMlrt .„„.h., M.^;;,, i7S^' ta 2 J L'L* °""""""'' ' '■•^ '""'-W ^^' u • stnagM '**at«| t^ • n"^- i *•» to all eovatiy. nnm't Miwi > Maonf M, m4 oBnmn Oonnell. ^•JW "•mil. PMM down the •f» Md BMnnm ' ■ .^.■•'» **«••*> IWtblMwItbt'i* •nown piaoo ^ "»ny •Ummta action, at the !■ «ent,, I bad 'hen the fire tftueam wb* oning up mj bejrond what Vork would t Aotive Md Hre rtit for ••Iff. *» Md luiTt Ml onljmy isfdentioiia J of whom of work at. •'••whert. If and that wordlwiry »ftwda]ri •dtaf of r NrrloAi. tt nothing ' plMd for "7 b«dao ametiaie ooolnded on to my / \ nddrndj mmu WILD ZBBRAS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA. k m .' .' '». 1 N if. ^H^Mi^Hi ^H gj^gg^g igggggiu,^ji^„^^^,^gjim^ % ;*-,<. (. ■•. y/ -m- 'A.-V. '# f. •'l I . T~r «■>«' ■.W' * W" _.Jyv::_i3^i nu AlflBIOAir MVBxiTM or KUlSBi '■s -?*.- ■'A-v^ 329 S^"****^ ^"'^i""* ^f* of tlwpnbUe dnrlnc hi* fengcuMr; he eoald not have tad* bt*^ tw opportOBitgr of doing ic ttwa by Uat«^ to this tdSvu. Brsry word, tboocta deUvmS wiUi iiiqMrat omlMinem, itrabk a key-nolB In the hearts of his listeners. Simple, fordW* and toaehlng, it showed how thoroaghly thU eztraonUnarr man comprehends the duneter 9I Us eoimtrymea, and how easily he can play apon their feellngB. TbOM who took npon Bamnm as a mere charhitan, have rtn^ no knowledge of him. Xt wpold be essy to demonstrato that the^haUUes that have phiced him in his Resent position or notoriety and afllpenoe woold, hi another pnrault, have raised him to hr greater emt- BMK*. to his breadth «f Tlews, his profonnd knoifledge of mankind, his coturage nndw reverses, his Indomitable perseverance, his ready eloquence and his Sdmirable Msineiak taet, we rMognise the elements that are oondnolve to success in most other pursuits. Mbre AmaiittumffZ " ^'^ °'"' ^^'''''*''''^ ""^ ^ "^ ^,^ i^ repteaentative type of tk.e ^ ^ ^^'y ■bom ■eeared by leaae the pnaOma, nnmbera S8S, 537 and'S»'Bro«dw>3., 'mveaOj-An feet front and rear, by two honored feet deep, and known aa the . Chinese Moaeiim baildingB. In lege tiian f our montba, I suooeeded in convertbig ttiia bidkUng into a oommodious Muntun and lectnre-nxnn, and meanwbile I •Mat ag«nti tiu^ooi^ America and Borope to pordiaie curioaitiea. Beridea haif dreda of anall ooUeotiona, I bought up several entire muaenma, and with man^ Uring oorioaltiea and my old company of actors and actrenea, I opened to tiM pobUo, Noveniber 18^ 186S, "Bamnm's New Amninaa Muaaoni,* thai ' • aeiir dMiilir in Q7 cai««r aa ft maoHV and ahowMMk^ V a;"*. ^■<. V .- r 'Li ' '.^^^ ■ ' % i < . f -4, * mr WAK OK THi bailboaW. new frien^iL^^S^i*.^^;;^ w« too hu«e and ponde^u. X^ to CT^JS,"^ ^ "^ "?<««" «f penons could acoompll«h bus^ mor^n^^^' **^' * "^«* »'«»b« ttat the Connecticut L^tv^^Ti^^^^J^^ completely ; and. in ftwst »o get «x,uainted wi- ^^ -»»• going on, He.fha,ra«ls^«ta^w^ «»to a. «, effective one. ^^*** ** " • P«>«y '-Ir Joke, and at i^r The State Houae at Hartford WM »/«-.»- . ^ •atativee was too nnaU there w!L Z*"^ ?" ^^'"^^ a««-ly unfit for «.e^^ to^^^Jt^*^ JT °^ "^'i the^ j^ Haven was very littlVbStTI^^!'^^*^ The State HouaeTl^ new edifice, in bot* oLuT' TtL^^^!^ ^<^ ^ -^ t,e ere^^Z i^U8e«,anddurlngourinve8tlgatioMTJ^!l^?'^.^ on new State ^and MeHden would ^^ ^^t^^t^^ilt ^^'^'^^' "^ tt th*» dty should be selected as tlwMvf ^S?^ A?^ ^**^ »* *<■ own cost •«««ed the jealousy ofE^ort«^rS **''*** ®***«- ThesemovenS ^ • -ittoes to wait Za aa m't^lt ^^^J^^^*^ "°** '*^^^ «cl tl» question was never submitted t^^JnLiT' ^^^ ^^ ^y detmOL H^tford has been n»deU.eonlT^,tSX^- «^ *»«»t Period. ho:S^ -AS tbe seaedon drew near itsclnan ti,*~.i j Introductloo af a biD to anrnd^^'S?^ «>ntroversy culminated by „-. ttterpolatton of the followtog: ^ *** "«^«'» o' wi^ t'^^^ihS^ fo?",'SS*sh!S'!IK:in^k**'.l»'' •"« "•«« « Vtem of u.*. .„.^ A-' / "d* aqm^diiiM ie the seasioi] n*, introduced tbe "Houae" aller nomber and, infwjl^ lot faavetiine- « difBonlttt e perxmally id IflMfiMdli- tlcuiaon r the tinift. >>isjiuttlM red.". Tbb itions ware uded what ■uidat any lof Reprw. lildingwae ueatNew n%cti(ai of ^^ State t. Middle- own ooal^ lovemeuta - * atedoom- rdeftiiflt^ howevMV d bjrn^ •KtiiBttoa »ed toao ^»^ WAR ON THE RAILHOADB. ' JJl . * ■ '^•'^•^*<>**^|lflW'^Hav«»BailroadCtoippaayBeemed determined teiwi»» beaTen and earth to i^ent the passageof this law. The hallsof legislation wtn thronged with railroad lobbyista, who button-hq|j||^earl7 every member. My mdtiTeewere attack^ and l^e most foolish slanderawere circulated. Not only every legal man in tlie^oiise was arrayed against me, but occasionally a " coantiy member " who had j^mlsed to stick by and aid in checking the cupidity of raiV road managen, would drop off, and be found voting on the other side. I devoted many boors, and even days, to explaining the tme state of things tol^memben from the rural rej^ns^ ^liind, although the prospect of carrying this great reform Ipoked rather dar|, I felfc that I had a majority of ^e honest and disinterested members of tfte house with me. Finally, Senator Ballard infoi-med me that he badoanvaMadtb9£|enate, and wasoonvinced that the biUmpany, aa9* •▼cry repreaentative was in his seat, excepting the sick man, who had doctoreii tbe railroads till he needed doctoring himself. 7he debate was led off by sldr- mUbi^ iii my 800- u Beading utinuAd: commateiB in like them nt now, Mr res on their have io my 1 the napro- rning^oae !f ew Yoric York, the (TBtweo^ of ma. I I from the I sitting in iMfore the place vea- le flimilles > action of ding after is way we ay. ft U ind I pro- directoM tion WM inowttr MY yiTAB ON THE RAILBOADS. *-^S33 I to tha m Vbe eztortioiu pmctiaed by railway companies alsewhere li c strong fiidaoraaant to pertiiaaeiil settlers along the lines of Connecticut railways.* In the spring of 4866, I wa^ again elected to represent the town of Fairfield in the Ck)nnecticut Legislature. '^I had not intended to accept a nomination for that office a second, time, but one of the directors of the New York and New Haven Railroad, who was a citizen of Fairfield and had been a zealous lobby member of the preceding legislature, had declared that I should not represent the town again. As the voters of Fairfield seemed to think that the public interests were of more impoitouco than the succ«>ss of railroad conspiracies, combinations, and monopo- lies, I accepted their noniination. Almost the only exciting question before ,.^t legislature was the election of aa United States Senator. President Johnson had begun to show disaffeetivemor Wm. A. Buckingham was also a candi- date. I knew he would make xi excellent Senator, but he had filled the> gubernatorial chair fOT'toight years; and as the present Senator had held his office twelve years, and he was from the same city as Qovemor Buckingham, I urged ^ that Norwich should Qot carry off all the honors; that Fairfield county was iintit^ed to the office, ami both before and at the Republican nominating cauca^ I set forth, so far as I was able, what I considered like merits and peculiar dainu of Mr. Ferry. I suggested that Mr. Buckingham might rest on his laurels for a couple of years and be elected to fill the place of the next retiring Senator in 1868. Mr. Ferry started in the balloliings with a very small vote indeed, and it requireTemoT William A. Buckingham, was elected, two years aften^ards, for the senatorial term oommencing March 4, 1869. I was again chairman of the Conmiittee on Agriculture, and on the whole th« session at New Haven, in 1866, was very agreeable to me , there were many corv genial spirits in the House and our severer labors were lightened by some very delightful episodes. During the summer, Governor Hawley, Hon. David Gbdlup, Speaker of tb« House, Hoa O. S. Ferry, United States Senator, Mr. W. G. Coe, of WinitecS \ *. •♦ <^ ^^m ^^^j ^^ Trr'TTPrfM^' ^Ti'^^l^^j^^ fegijggai ^^Tjy t^., ^■^ »T WA8 Oir TBI lAItlOABi. 134 V--> ^ the fidelity,^ m«ux„e« .ad m«rneJ CnJ h *^' '*"• *•'•"*'"«• •««» *^ ij:::^ '^- ^"-'- -• ---r^ r.T rr r^" Shortly ftfur m. ^ ' "weao ter '"•'^ *»•; ObMTTliur that th« Dii»„w».u ' •• > mr WAR oir thi raxlhoadi. m taRiy, ud MpciotAlly ut thii iiniMrtant oriils Ui our nutlonal exirtMioft In ordtr DhAt the rotm of thla dittrtct nhall tnUy oomprebMid thn vrimltAm by whiob . mchot their oaiigrfl«lonal dai>dtroi«ht from an adjoining State to vote, aa* that In the oflloe of theMoosHfU caiodidate naturolisatlon papers were forged^s to enabled foreigners to vote tqxMi them. But, I reiwat, I took no part nor lot lii the matter, but oonolwlid V^Ulhad \mm MmM by ftmud, mim wm c> '-- — ^y. '^ -W, Si ,#?> f4 r-H^ip^: K. OHAPTBB XL. ^. V ■ ' If , \ y ^ BBKKETT AND THE HERALD. ^ ' ^^ fcwenty-flve vearafmm iskiTT^ ^^ f ™ to run, and renewed that leaae for *u. *. • ^^ ^'^ ^*^ ** *" annual rental of «10 OOO Tf «»- "^"^ww ror that m case the buildinjr was dastro^o^ r^ « or •!",««. It wa« also sapulated A>uldexpendtwen^S-ti!^„3[Z?? by fire the projttietor of the property we, «id what price ioSgh7tor^;3^l1^? ,°' ^'f^ olsevBmldayJheshowime^fl^wMi '^!!?"^P*^y- ^t the end • worth »W6,0d0 As I wSS^x^tT^ ""^ P™"^ tha^ the lease was fully ' wM. to enia^e In JX^ b^cS^Stt'oT'^ Wgl^up town. Fdid ni . OJuseum leaae fo^ sale. A«»X.^i v t * ?^, ?*** "° ^ °^*^"^«* *<> <»ff<^ my «an, with directior^ ofl^^^^r' \^? ^« ^'ta *>' ^ Homer M^ it which It had been^,^ **' *^'*^' '^^^'^ ^ »«0.000 if mw^^d"!?.?'- •''^!f ^^^"^ ^«°"«''' -»»« told ma ffiit he ded«d 1» y.^^ '*^ *°^ *<^ «»« same tln^e to purchase th« f«« ^f X-Zfl.^ ^*''^. *» luymyleas,andatt.e«une^eVp;n;S;"^^^^^^ of apubUcation building for ^WY^m^^i T fitting the a«rowZS,U i^J?IlI?r* ^'^' ' IiduStit*!r:i;^fl;s^^^ ■»um, and Mr. Bennett askedTy^^^ ^^ wooMwr of tbe Ma. le- than its estimatS^vS^ufS^,'?;','^';!?^*^^^ mUM60,000 •*J»-ipHce.*>ySfry^rth*:iZf<:^^ ^n^iSLy ^^ "^H^i^S^SL^ 1? ^** '"^^ ^^ "*» ««« appointed an hw jjiSg^^h^'Xhiy:^^^^ T'^T' ^- "^ wffa fiteoett concluded to^oirt^^^r tT^, J?" **" P™P«^ "^ "V •nd hi. attorney handed m^Vr ^^^ ^^ wife^irigned the kN«e to h^^ t900.000. That L„e Ty I L^UfSSS t~n SL'^cf "^""^"^ »~»^ "^ Ume that B«mett had w^toZ^^K^^"^'?^ I leaned at that g.ih«.i u- ■ . „^ -,::*^ , H^g ?ni MW j ina X B ft^xtf tha nrft tMu.i. » for »SW, ^ — ^^ ^^ ——--■' vMi Iti WIU BO pUTTT lIMn thn fa n of flm Tn -niifml fi ari T.' T7T- I ■ II i ti !M*' ~^-^,Xt «e oi the two ara torun. It ile myseoond that leaaefor dso stipulated the property anewedifloe, I valqe of the trobled since '■•very valu- n Pine street f the cost of i^y> I enjoined WM worth to At the end uewasfuUy n.JP'didnot to ofFor my SomerMor- uitheTala* tededradto n property, Herald. I of tbe Ma- ?U«(I."aDd I>ii|SO,O0p ny already Bztdayhia ed an hoar jr. BenoaM JTtyofiny iMtohiH%^ . Bank for >; and the Md at that '«SW;tt«r 0^000, and hi« piaan ■?i' i «M:i»^k. . T^^'*^°POPtt» property, •b8o^ «te«J» h.ved«laoted tbe •SH^OOO^ which the k«e woaM^^^^Jr I^S;^^?^*"*' '^J*^ ^ **-'~'^'We« that the «,.^ •orapieceof land measoring only flfty^ by one handmi feet w«,m«^^ i^ever before pai^ in «y dty in «« world for. tnu*«f thi^ h^^ 4ffed tiie seiiouBorersigfatwhloli he had made- and th««»«««„/*u ^^^^" Suppodng that bythla stephe had dLAenoir Oiediwierof the liN^^ i»«not long in .^Ing a«t. a. he waanot toown thTl^^^ SS£r^ oonipdledn»tooo3hnotorirty; »d lalway. found bJS! •t«J««neprioe,aiati..fornofeg. i5»pedaUyw..ttp«,fttabtotoiMX?J ^uld be the sobject of ■oowTJai.TSSdlng JSSriT^^^Z^ ^»d^ a tenth part «>mnch attention, ^sonett had triad abasing me, off S S^TtiT^***^**?^ "'"'*« my •dT«tfaen^r5t^t2rS tt«j«» of ab,^ a year; bat I alway. managed to be the gainer byTo^ Now however. wh«in.wdifBcaltie.thi«M«ned,anthelead^Zn4« Yorkw«^ members of the •'Managers' A*ociatloh," ^STwS^S^ ^ titojrbitn«7a«Hl extortionate demands JthTSr^ Bemiett thoSuSh^d buttocr«*hiswUp. inonlertokeepany andaUoT-^thlnthetaST A^ !jl!r?^:°^"?'*""°^ *** following morning. No* dwaming of th^ •he weather, and other trifka, the attorney said: t— ' «»«« aoow ♦ '!??l^T'^**^"~**"y<« to say that Mr. Bennett has ooochidedno* toparoiia«»themuseamlots, and therefora thafe yoa hMl better taka hack <^ I««e,«nd return the taoo^OOOpaklfo^lf -« ««w »» Hack tfca " Are yoa in earnest J" I aaked with mrnrtM "Certainly, «iulte so," he ai«WK«L ••BeaUy^I .aid. smiling. "I «ii soiry I oan't aooommnkte Mr 1 It wlU be better for you to take back the lease," mid the attomer sirioiirtr hjjpjna The laaae was cheap enough, M I have oth» boirfnaM to attHtdtaT and shaU have nothing todo with it" r ~ •«wao ■%. ^Wttorney said very Uttle in reply I bol I ooaM se^ l^ th. ah^ ^ Umt wooM doabUesi lead me into ttia Jaw. of the Insatiahte monster rtnSa «-^tTUn«t morning I obser^ed^ l»«d.1l— -t o*^^ wiifci iyMiMs amOonipaBy atWIitw-qwdmwMliltoiiti ^^ " w mt dbm*ly to t i mwiil iW q«M of Mm J^» WW not In, I said to Mi^ Bata«, «h« MMH^^^ rUssmsBftislsfloalonteAMM; littNn* tltsraH"w«iBr ;l ^«ej *My •1 ■^s^sg ^^si ^^^^BB ^^mmmm 338 MNNITT AND TBI HEKAIiDi. « X? "*"»,"? **•• E«»>P«for,» said Mr. Hadwn, m««Qinoiii.. B«i..M ^-Wheu will th. ^^.pe«,r' be in," I «,„,r^. " NeTLrd":^,.?:::;"^. ' c«ir*S ' S'i^ °'**r'~ ^*'"'" ' "P"*^ • " »»«* I ^i-i* to have thU thin, settled kt ZZ^^' ^"^^ ^ '"''' ^"^ y°" ^^ ««^«y 'or the in«rtion of my mZ«« ^ yoi^ublkhltr '**'**'^°"^J^»**"^''^'«Mii«nt^ '• I wiU not." Mr. Hudson peremptorily repUed. ttroemooa the matter perfectly, and attached no Uame to hhn in thTnr-rnJL > and had reported th« r^.^ ?^ untU a conunlttee had waited upon Bennett oZl cSft'^Mi^T^Tr '"^ "'" ''^^«*^ t« go ^ to the ^S J2:nXt f:r :^e:Sd t :^°t r^!r^-^ - ^ niMiieri told him how lonThTtSTt^^Jr^^ u ""^ '" ° 1»>™'I«I»« upon,advl«Mi oil other foxee to out th^r^rH ^ '™°* ' '^P' "^ *»'~^ ■etthiK forth the hnJol^ of^^l J? '^*"'= '"'* *»« P*>^<«» "»• '•i»le by to«ir quartloa "^w^^S nowever, oooUy iniiatad upon a direct aomar to ■ =^^^ '^ — ■■' ■■ gmHn&^anait »aa(ioB>, WiiyM i th^^-Mir fliit^M ^^ dontly fu ordar to raw tl«. fall »„d i„ rZZ:,^ .TT "'•''"*™i«*^ o»I- U'^i. I a' If *^'- .', ^f-?v ■^?* » an* Bmnttt. iday," WM tb« thing settled at >f my MuMom lusmuent; wdl remarked,'*! 'ou require It; d him th at ] the premJaea lation " to call ere waaafoll Herald affair, Dust any news' 08 simply to 'ere liabla t» ) Asaooiatioo and have no . advised ti^^ f x>n Bennett, ^.ccordingly, > theHerxUA ieot of their patronising ;ted his kte much mont le mana^^em Misted upon ount of any t itself, but rletor; intl \t lead to » lannett had > and there- le fat^e by rengeanoa b answer to t; Idoa«y rew. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, 1 *'-' ■r-r ■4- ■-1 lanimottdy A in. . M Mmiu Wiikok'i nents, erl- e theaton a tu draw • 1 * i # 4 t ",i:,>-- -.**»- , •». • " V ' . * .1 i.^, ■-■- -*=•■ ■■■-■- —-■■.•::-',■' • ■■■. ■ .. ■«■. "-'^rs:3r-_*S'- I • ■ ■N- m>,^ r f « r « ,■ V I ' i i a > « li li 1 b !!■! U tt la fh till tb hi ■M «] Ci ^ - — r :m-.;-'m hi m pu tb an 1 Ml If % V m- ^ AWD THE BB^ALtt. 34) ' Omb Iw^^galil, jaiid ^ to nullify the agreen^t of the Aanolation in regard tc ^ the Herald. Thereupdb, the jnanagen headed^ their advertiaemeate in all the other New York topers with the line, "Thia establiahment doea not adTertlae in the New York Hei-cUd," and for many montha this annoanoement waa kent at the tojiof every^Mtttrioal advertiaemont and on the poatera and playbiU*" The HgfeUd then began to abuse and villify tiie theatrical and opent manager^ ; their artists and their perfonnances, and by way of oontraat profusely praised Tony Pastor's Bowery show, and sundry entertainments of a«ir. receipts were never larger, and their houses never more thronged. The pttWio took sides in the matter with the managers and against the HemUL ' aod t h ousan d s of people went to the theaters merely to show their willingne* lowpport the managers and to spite "Old Bennett." The editor was fWrly . caught in his own trap; other Journals began to estimate the Ion the HnxUd su* teined by. the action of the managers, and it was generally believed that this Iom In advertising and Job printing Vaa not less thaix from $75,000 to 1100,000 a year. The H0rald'a clrcula,tion also soflfered tei-rlbly, since hundreds of people, at tht hotels and elsewhere, who were accustomed to buy the paper solely for th» sak» of seeing what amusements were announced for the evening, now bought other papers. This was the hardest blow of all, and it fully accounted for the aboM .which the Bn-a^d dally poured out upon the theaters. Bennett evidently felt ashamed of the whole transaction; he would nM^ I'ublish tho facts in his columns, though he once stated in an editorial that it-hai beon reported that he had been cheated in. purchasing the Broadway Vx^artT' that tioB case had gone to oourt, and the public would soon know aU the particn^ iM*- Some persons sopposed by this that Bennett hafl sited me; but this w»s far > Irom being the case. The owner of the lots sued Bennett, to compel him to taltt tiie title and pay foi* the property as per* agreement; and that was all the "Urn*- there was about it. He held Junes Gkirdop Bennett's bwid, that b* would pay him half a miUion of dollkrB for tho Und, as foUows: $100,000 oaah,,and a bond and mortgage upon the premises for the remaining $400,000. Tha day before tha' suit was to oome to trial, Bennett came forward, took the deed, and p^id $100,000 OBidi, and gave a bond and mortgage of tbo entire premises for $400,00a Had I really taken back the lease as Bennett desired, he woukl have been ih a. mammarmpe than ever; for having been cospielle^ to take the property, he would ' have betti obliged, as.my landlord, to go ^^and assist in bliikUng a MqMum for me, aocordhig to tha teiTns of my lease, and a Museum 'J ^lould certainly hava ^iHillt on Bennett's ivoperty, even if I had owned a doeen Museums up town. In the autumn of 1868, the associated managers xmme to the oonolusion that tha punishment of Bennett fof two years wan miffldent, and they consented to restore their advertisements to the Herald. I Tvaa then carrying ■ -. ^ CHAPTER XLI. PUBLIC LECTURING, "— ^ tt^l OM Of hit Wuiiaea. Oollen. In^lt 1, » ""' *"' •* **»•» «»• Optim Ho««i ,or tha ,«• tn... *^ v "~"«»^ w JMU ma. | w- ^ really ui. ea«,. i" S^ra. 1^^^:^ t?.;'::^^/ 1^1' "T " "^^ J;,^-^«-a«-«t Old lady «,d: ..Why. .o^.l"';'„'Sn^J°^*J*^f^* W^. read M muoh about you and your Mueeum «d you?ai.iIr".i^r' ^ VUit V were not quite aur« but you had born. «,h -i„ f ^ «»rryln«^«n. :rLr r;rjrr ?.:z.T,r«"s i£xr^ jMMkMilikl. ma. «r to run to Fort Wa^m^ m 1 1 ^fimmw vX ling B«er*tu> K>nde&M ■with MMM In Iil».'> •ad LlMnwy. Til* MbMBi lUlBoii, Wlfc •w tor •T«ir^ r* for ott)w lock ». K., tb* Itoiir rUBtlO L10TURBra» 341 ** II li M tetdBMlMUtj," Mid Mr. AAdrtwi ; " tht dlHuM It Sliitl7.fbnr biUm, Mid no train I^vm h4f till morning. Tht road it mnoh ooonpitd bj frtlght traini , and we nevor run extra traine in thii part of the eonntrj, vnleie the Aeoeeaity ii rmperatiye." I MqnwM I looked- aitoDiriied,aa well a* chagrined. I knew that If X allied lecturing in Fort Wayne that evening, I could not appoint another tiOM for that parpoee^ for •vtrj night was engaged during the next two mbntha I also felt that a krge numbw of pereons in Fort Wayne would be diiappointed, and I grew iiqpenfte. Drawing my wallet from my pocket, I eaid: ^^ "I will give two hundred dolkn, and even mc^ if y^iay eo, to be put intfa SVnrt Wayne before ei^t o'okwk to-night; and, really, I hope you will aocommo-, tateme." ' ^ | Tbe Mperlnteodnit looked me thoroughly over in half a minute, and I fknoied Im had cmne to the conduaion that I wai aburglar, a counterfeiter, or Knnetldnfr wone, ileehig from Justice. My surmise was ocmflrmed, when he stowlf .remaiindT "Tour business nnist be yerypNadng^sir.H £ "It is hideed," I replied; " I am Bamum, the Museum man, aiul am engaged to speakin Fort Wayne to-night" Ha evidently did not catch the whole of my Nsponse, for he inomedlatelj said. "Oh, it is a show, ehf Where is old Bamum himsdlft" ••lam Bamum,';! replied, "and it is a lecture which I am advertised to gU^ > kHDJgfat; and I would not disappoint the peofde for anything." " Is this P. T. Barnumt" said the superintendent, starting fo his feek . "Iamjorr7tosayitis,''IrepUed. *F "Wall, Mr. Bamum," said he, earnestly, "if you can stand it to ride to Fort ' Wayne h> the cabocee of a freight traln« your well-established reputation for funotualityiu keephig yourengagementashall not suffer on account of the Toledo, WahMh and Weatem Baikoad," ' "Pabooae I" said I, with a kugh, " I would ride to Fort Wayne astride of ^ sni^ae, or boxed tp and stowed away in afreight car, if neceasary, in order to meet my engagement" ^v -; ; ^ A freight train was on Che pohit of startittg tor Fort Wayne; a)l theciiiwwa' at onoe ordered to be switched off, exoq;>t two, whidi the superintendent said were nedMary to balance the tndn; the freight tndna on the road were telegraphed to dear the track, and tiw polite superintoident, pointing to tlie^cabooae, invited m* loatapin. Idrewoutmypocket-booktopay, butheainilingly ibocdi hia bead, and said; "You have a through ticket from Cleveland to Fort Wayne; hand If. to the freight agent on your arrival, and nil will be right" The excited state of mhid which I tuui Buffered while under the impression thai . the audience in Fort Wayne must be disappointed, now changed, and 1 fait a* Imppf as a king. In fact I enjoyed a newliensation of imperial superiority, ia that I was "monarch of all I surveyed," emperor of my own train, switching all other trains fronr the main track, and making conductors all along the Una wonder what grand mogul had thus taken oom^jdete possession and control of the mart I ndeijd, — wa qg>Bd past eaA t* -*"^, »*'** stood quietly on a irfde Iraok waiting for us to peas, I o6iUd not help smiling at> tlie glaucM ot exdtifl^ eoriosity which were tibrown into our oar by the agmit and brakemati of the IMin which bad been m peremptorily ordered to (dear the track; and always step- tt ■null, t ,.,. ,mmimmmSUU'^''mi^>*''-'''*^^*'''>mm^^ ill 111' .«BU0 lAOTUBIiro. I now bflgan to reflect chat Oi liv»rf w-«« , ^ ,*« tJ-rt I dU not arrive ^ttot^^ •nlTfc Ithenrfowpwpaiiitt»fou^«f?^ ^"^ announcing my failure te l^fltlllM f II I «■ . » ^*2^2«}2ffJ.«-Xc2S3u^ 5f 1 am to b« dtUvered at Fprt •^ .Aing n,. haw I litod the cnboSTT^ ^^iJssiFiSiHfSS^^ rCaiMr'i triumphal «2,*^ tbar. was no da^HndTtSoa JnTto «."'* "^"i* my mind to tho weoftbooaa. ^^ ^" P®*^**** <» orawlbaok again to ■;8y«°^ <^^«»ecou«»r^;Srii^r*t«,^bleIhadtakentp ftdfl^^ «-««mtBd my day^ adventa^i ~ nnS,^^ .*''" *^ °' "peni^vem»oe.«»' j ««I neoearity demanded. tS Pn^ w!^^ **' *'*'^°"»« <*at qua^^ -««^1.of "Bammn ona^Sx^4i^;^^o;'*'^"^ ^piblL':: •■ I •Iwmy. had an eye to ad^SSTtoerL:^ ^^' ^ * Caboose;" and, . ' wan in town, and citle. wCTTw^^TL^^ r".""* °^^*^ *^ °^ thnaprodnclng thededredelSte. flS^Jfi^^ •^ "^ ^^n* wereoopied- -w«- wiaooiing, anJwS^^h , ^*»™^ «>• pubUc that the "Sow ''ktehhehadnooontPoL'' T ^*™***' '»'»^ preTentod by "drounrtanoe. ovar • mte excluding fh>m cert*lS^^^.^'^P^S«^ P»^ ligfdly en^ *««* A. I do notamoka I aroiS^gZS„f ««°««r° *«vellng without «r«n,^ more select and alwa^^^^SfK?"!"*^ « the ladies' car waa , rSr* axpedientato -nuggie^^TS. M 5 «w* ^ "llJ?'^^ ca«. I tried ' •ton^ I foUowed doeelyXplnff^M to ILT JllJf '**°°* *** «'*«'' *»>• «' '•fco gwerally acta an di^-keewr Sit fh« ^'l''***^'^ *»' «"« bnikeman, --»dodga..and I did noHS^y. ^^«^'-^™ '^ P^tty well „p ^ •wvKaTidertlyjurtmarted.aS^iSSSr' ^»,_f°* *«*■*«». -wing a young J g^^««ttamen are with tUa liy" °**°^*?*P^' "»«> «»fcd out: •^««H».|». Ill, Irtai^^oTS^^SS^ i-^^- » nodoubt, to Pondinovw >y iailure tc shed to them ivered at Pprt niperintend t blgb-wiitflr: a triamphal [>n the loco- nind to tho would be ff ok again to mitteebad olartnUn, fulfill m J ^eranoe,"*! ditywheo published •e;" and, . L tonew» > oopied-" e "flhow im would lOM oyer r enforce without 'car Was 1,1 tried I* the car Etkeman, ipto all. a young Iter the nt: asantlj ty/ki.. -£*»-., .-^' :pl ' (J .f» -0 .% / i :^:L::k^ .- ^'\:. / %« •^:* '",.">■* ■ PUBUO LSCHURIMO. 347 ■if / 'I Mi this lad7*i hulMUMl." *'And I gn«M yon «m im bj fhe NMBbluM bttirMB Om ladf aad myNli;*' Mdd I to Cerbenu, " that I am her fkther." The aitoanded hasbaod add the blathlDg bride were too maeh " taken abaek " to deny their newlj-discovered parent, but the brakeman laid, as he permitlid - the young oouple to pass into the car : " I hope you will not deprive me of the company of my child during the little time we ean remain together," I sald'^ith a demure countenance. The brak»- ^ nan evidently ■ympathised with the fond "parient" whose feelinge were ^ TOfflciently Jaoerated at losing his daughter, through her flndinga husband, and I was permitted to pass. I immediately apologised to the young bride and her husband, and UA^ them who I ihM, and my reasons for the assumed paternity, . and they enjoyed the Joke so heartily that they called me " ikther " during onr entire journey together. Indeed, the husband privately and slyly hinted to ae that the ftrst boy should be christened '< P. T." 'I fulfilled my entire engagement, which covered the lecturing season, «pd returted to New York greatly pleased with my westera tour. Public lecturing wai» by no means a new experience with me ; for, apart flrom my labors in tihat direction in England, and occasional addresses before literary and agrlefaltnn] associations at home;' I had been prominently in the Held for many yean, m » lecturer on temperance. My attentioin was turned to this subject in this way : ^ In the fall of 1847, while exbibitiiig General Tom Thumb at Saratoga Springs, " where the New York State Fair was then being held, I saw so much intozicaliMi among men of wealth and intellect, filling the highest positions in society, tint I began to ask myself the question. What guarantee is there that I may not beoeiM a drunkard ? and I forthwith pledged myself at that time never again 4o part||M V. of any kind of spirituous liquors as a beverage. True, I continued to partak*>of wine, for I had been instructed, in my European tour, that this was one of Hm innocent and charming indispensables of life. I however regarded myself ■• a lood temperance man, and sooiji began to persuade my friends to refhdn iWnn tlM intoxicating cup. Seeing need of reform in Bridgeport, I invited n^ fH«0^ the Reverend Doctor E. H. Chapin, to visit us, for the janrpoee of giving a paHle >^: temperance leeture. I had never heard him on that m|aet, but I knew that on whatever topic he spoke, he was as logical as he was eloqMnt He lectured in the Baptist church in Bridgeport. His sul^ect was presentei la three divisions : The liquor-seller, the moderate ^rinker, and the indiflferent mux. * It happened, therefore, that the second, if not the third clause of the subject, kad • special bearing upon me and my position. The eloquent gentleman overwhdm-^ tugly proved that the so-called respectable liqnor-sellw, in his splendid salooa or ^otel bar, and who sold only to " gentlemen," inflicted much greater iqjW ufo« the community than a doien common groggeries—which he abundaatlfN trated. He then took op the "moderate drinker," and urged that be wae^ 4P>»tnsin in October, and CfrS? ««• rt axdhm>«rti ImB,^^ r^?^""* '«™K:', %/' ■■ ,' :■'-"■'■ a cut quit h k man, to ao »Hf itwaa stop, for be >> and, after VOB bottle^ then called ^ He wasj •esappoeed Id heUttle' moderate' irforni— to/ ligned tJie Mraooeto »ot in the 1861-8 in ids, toth» V > cities oi « states two teni Ididic, ! society,' >ur with In this toinnati, ^o,aiia a, Wis- frienda i) and ^simffmf^- r. « / Hi- '^J « -•• ■ ( i • 9 ^~W* I^J^:!^ -Ife. ■f A FUBLii* iJBOTDBnitt. ss> ■Mi ' . / IlMtr«MMfMlj«vproached me, and, extending his hand, which I readHy accepted, he said, "I was particularly green in rising to-night. Haviijig once stood up, I was determined Dot to be put down, but your last remail '^flxed me I" He then oompUmented jfae very hJ|^y on the reasouableneas of my arguments, and dedared that ever afterwards he would be found on the side of temperance. I have kcAured in Montreal, Ganadn, and many towns and dtiea in the U^iited States, at my own expense. One of the greatest ccmsolations I now enjoy is thiA of believing I have carried h^>piness V> the bosom of many a family. In tha oourae of my life I have written much for newspi^jers, on various subjects, and ' always with earnestness, but in none of theae have I felt so deep an interest-as la ^t of the temperance reform. Were it not for this fact, I stumld be reluotaal tamentioDthat, besideammierousartidea for the daily and weekly press, I wrola s little tract on "The Liquor fioslnsai," which exprsBMs my practical view of t&o use and traA; in intoxicating drlnls. In every one of my ten^ienuioe lao* tures since tiie beginning of the year 1800, 1 have regularly read tha foUowb^ rsport, made by Mr. T. T. Ontis, Overaear of the Fdor in Vlneland, New J«iey t Mtr i»n, t^m hM ooly been pne oMe amoBf what we oaU tke toeUnfpamUatlOB, at tte •■pmM of H.0O. Dnrlnff tha dnUn yMr, thwe has only been bet on* indleimMit, ud UuH » tnfllnc C4IW of UMult and battery. Hmon( our colored popolnUon. So r«w are th« flras In VliMUnd, th»t w« hiivt im> ne«(l ol h (lie depnrtmrnt. .Th«r« hM only hMti one boeae bnmt down In n ye«r. i»nd Iwo oliidit nr»«H, ftl«l<'H w«H««io<>n nul out. We prMtkatty have au deiii, Hud «ur uxe* »r« unly ihk- per rent on »tie ralaaUon. Tha polioa axneeaaa m Vfaalaad aaMwal to |76ilO par jr«er, the eeu peM to aaat «ii ait paw mmimmmn^ Si • ^ • PtJBLIO LBOTDBnro. belonged to thli d^PtJwt^fTf oi forty men eteh, at u BJM^^ari»^Sf^*^ • '••W flnt ji^ # ;i: ■» ' - *. .-.# \ % ^ ti MM r ~- ^ ^kl , ■■f - - - - ■■ — -ii T» .i'...:;y?.4. '* *<>• popate* PwuuMun. I »* fToytwo ■Mnmn. Hi* Bnglud tow« •Id. i m OHAPTEB XLIi; \ ^ , *' THE ITBW MU8BU1L ' , llTiiawMiiMiuiion Broadway was Uberally patronixed £rom tlie rtwt b«M Wttttat itdll mora attractdcnis were neoenaiy in (^ Ittwrofore made airangemento with thto ranowned Van And)iii«b Moiageri* Company to unite their entire ooUection living wild animatawith the Muaeom, Tb» new eompany was Imown as the " Bamum and Van Amburgh Museum ami.' iMMgwIe Company," and as such was chaptered by the Connecticut LegislatoiV ■M New Yorit Legidatore having refused us a charter unlen I would "see" th» ri^" a thousand doUan' worth, which 1 declined. I^^ed forty per cent and tteVan Ambni^ Company held the remaining sixty per oent^jln the new enton. prise, which comprehended a -laige traveling menagerie through the country in tnnuner, and the placing of the wild animals in the Museum in winter. Tlia •apital of the company was oOe ndllion Of dollars, with the privflege of douWir* offer a raritieB as might be collected in,IS3 Z^J"^' "^ «?^bltlon ot mJ^ ■vrnof the American MusemxTameZrial t^^^^' *'"**'' '^'- tb« <»■ ^e.. ^f -r^.-m^ ^y iai S^ ^1 ^^ to nw Muravx. SST «f AHMkMMJ - tCBUdmn ooHlillf inarovtd of aajritta to tte ^waam in N«w Yorit fiat befor* thiiiplaaoouM b* jNibinto«ffaotlT«op«falka,an«^ oooomd .which Ig BOW to Unamtod: The winter of 1807-48 wii om of tho oaldtit tli«l ,lu«l been known for y«an^ and mom thirty wemn now-itoniMkeooamd during «^- seaaon. On Tuaaday m^«w»rked, with a amile, "howoooU you think I ooukl Jok> oniiiuohaBeriouaaubJeot!" " . " ^'piejiaperso^ thefoUoiirlngniorning contained full aocouuta of the fin; ani •ditorial wi-itera, while ^Aanifaating much aympathy for the proprtetora, alao azpreaMd profound regrft that ao magnifloant, a coUaotkn, aapedaUy in th« Boological departm^t, ahouldl^ kMt to the dty. The cold w^ ao intenaa that the water fraae almoat aa aoon aa it left the boab of ' •a flixj enginea; and whan at laat everything waa daatroyed, except the front panite waU of the Muaaum buiWing, that and tbe^ ladder, Bigna, and Uunp-poata ^ front, were covered in a gorgeoua frame-work Xtf tranaparant ipe, whksh made it altogether one of the moat piotureaque aoanaa ded altogether aome 878,000 W building the new lerture-room, and Wbfltting tha aakxma. Tb^curioaitiea wera inyentorlwl by the manager, Mr^ t^guaon, at 8a88,00a I bdught the nad eatate only a Uttle whiW before the |lre, for HOOiOM, and than waa an inaurance on tbV fur 84^000. ,Tbe eauaa of the llnwaa»daAol|«« flat ia tha natMrantlntl^ "SwI Ttaj by toe dMtruotien of Iraniatan and two M OMOai^ .boot a mlllU of «n worth of my property had been deatroyed by Art, and I wa. not uoi» >♦ " tak»tkl|1b« «a a notkia to quit^ and go i " ^ .^ ^:^ ^ h* THB WTSW IfDBBUM. ■'li''"«-'>! i ttort another M^^BUTaSd^SSnU ^ . ?"^"^ ^ '"Mj^^t on every Sde^ ^e««a.7. for that ^Z^ Z^J^T^ "^^'^ <« "^ • »i«ion of^jS ^ • J*lt that I had enou^h^;/on ai?T J*'^.""?^'^^ ^<« «anageme«t ^St? PWJPerty to children. ^' ^**^** *° *^« <^*°««r of living too much ;2ever fresh and ever wold^^ ^^^^ tl^rM^^ /^^'^ »'* -- ' ww.-ee, on every side within a radius nff^ m ^ ^''""' Wadilngton, one ;^ vaUeys here and Xei^reen ^^T"^ ^ P"«^ «» Pe^ w«h . Oe^off Poraand, Maine.^^ ^cSy 4bL*S ''T '^^' *^^l«>tio iP^Wteur, gublimitv and thA ««»<. ~t''"y^^^»™*-«urty uules away, fieaufcr- -«^of a^e ejaculatro'f '^rr::Xir"5'T^"'^ ^"^"^^ ^^^ TtSr^'"'* «pWd4tl^S^""^"'''^'^^'°"= "Lo6kareund «pon a.eir own resources, tZZZ^^'^^i^^"'^ *^"" ^'^'y u^n every new-bomer. NatuJ^enZf^ T w^T T^'* '^^^^ P^H^trated tor their fun, before I had been there hS T T °°°«dered a capital subject taent, to take me ln.^e "21"^^^^^^**^^*"'* ?^' *" ^ ^^ vere to join, and at the word "go^^n^n! "^ ""^ "^ ^"^"""^ ^ '^^^^ to« open space In front of the hoL to rZ ""^ *° "^ ">d run across r f ^"'^ «>« "^ must t^J?h1^ Iwi %'^^^' -^« ««» la^ man ^ •fc all, except the victim. I susp^ted^ ^-.^^ T^' """ '°« *°"«»^«d the ruil to excuse, that I was too oIMoT^r^eTf' TSf "^ "^^^^^ «^« ««*. «i^ un, drink lemonade, if you lite " tL«. 1„<^ uu ^ " «HPulence. here is 8tepLen,T old H^^'*' ^?^° ^'^'^ ««*; «>d «« lor he shaU run with the reetl"^ o^^^ be likely to a^ g^n whom «.ey kept to e;tr:"^wSt7ver ^ ^^i''"'^ ^^^ ^^. ** ^ P^.'^y fo'-m, I at onT^thlttt' T"" «ke myself ; so^ •fnew that, for a stout man, I was nrertf^ iT^ ^'^P''^ ««» ^ would, asl -om "go," I started and rJZ rt^ftt^ti^L"^ '"^ Accordingly ^^ The me orafter ^^ but, before I had aoconSi^h^^SfUe'^r'' "' T^" "«™ ^ •* least, one or two of the crowd had nn/ * T <*^*^ce, I wonrfered whV wa* the only one whom I e^^^ Ct ^^IT'' rL'"""' '° "^ «*?»>«» hendiig the "sell," I decided^ tes^d ^^^^^^ ^"^ «»d «' once oompre. S'th^'lf'v!:' ""^'^ the trick .mdthTtmJtv"S^°^T°' ^« ^^'^ York , . <>fftbeWck»ters,inalet^ft^^t,^*^J^^^^^^^ \ •* BiBiiam threw ui U WM **' ' iM Knt-T - '•. *•»» replied Barn II m i wS?bS!J'"?C'l^Jl^i'^»P'> « *^-ni ■ ■ ■ ■ " . ■ . \ (i^hfer r new- ,' Hiid, ed the y Bar- By Ml* tbna allaaj every Ride t* of doUafrs, it ament; buti ne laid down lug loo much »oer of 1868 7 and scans ^gton, on» peaks, with lie'Atlantio Beauty, e toremind oCkk around met many tor several ^ entirely erpetrated tal subject e arrange* 1 which all itui across man who i the mil ^voting ',1-wtmm ndasfor lred,and likely to |f^ he stool- 8elf;sot uHasI 7 at the were in ed why iltephen lompre. V York lypaid Mfllll I those till! for # ' P'>A w r -. ., ;■■ ^ *H m.' '^• '*'• f «4. •«»- .^ %|-^ •#• !*» ■^■i«k?^: 'y*' ,'%•■ % # ~^F^ -■■ ■■■■*"•• "^ ,-^ >• «#\ '/ '■r. i? .% •■ -f V ; ■ -" **« ' K iti TRB KBW MOraUM. 16) Mlm of Bornuni'a hud m%H Mch iit flnt aoppoMd wu ft tonncutlng * ■liver, 'batwhleli ianicd out to b»* 'broom fpllntftr • ft foot ioii( whloli wft» hlddra up B.'i •Iwva. Morat tiM uBftll poiat wiiteh ftPPMr«l tnm nador the md of U« tkomb, ftppsmtiy protrudSSr from undtr th« •kJn of 61. palm. On* >wwk brothw* Mftrly lUlnCd jTbi wnli^owai Hl^:2!¥*"'t'*"^*^ *"" *">• "' *•»* narvM ftvm B«rnnm*ft ftrm. Mr. O'Brtaii. the wZ ■tnot bftBker, wm the nmt riotlm. When aaked what he thoagh.t upon eeeliiK euuh ft lon«. •aUver ' oomlM from Bttrnpm'ii iinnd, he lolemnly repaed, • I Uioqghllt* wu » dMd muf -¥. 1^ '^^ M. #■ rv.,- _^„ yi '■ ■■% /••x «#'. '/• 'SRwPP' ^ $ 'f (W*. >^^f»«> iiiiiiifa^ ^Ma^^^^^^ Miiiiiiiiiii ^ W . m- V •'Ac ^^"f /, *v ■-N, / ' ^/ / ■/ . / M CHAPTEB XLIIl. •« BOS mnnugr of iSflA a ta<« MOrt innooent manner nn-riKT u *"**y"»a another unluckv" anrii^T . ** i™»<7. "1 ten vo, ,.- .*T^--*'«^^^^^JXrL-;o^ 9 anlnnuittdf into our ana* go on FridMj, asofbdlidiaa '^iom to be so d then, in the remove ona rot tlie< VI totmp$f >okiiowiedg6 onaArldav wiUheapt^ BtitlOB w^ fy vaakB a oe nunneiil I, tbeaeper. bablytbfl^ utod ana BandaylK yatim&M inflOQi ft V of Ike jroutlurt Isdwitb 'ligbtest greatly •ttwwM^ when Ae WM oooB mow iny giMrt, it ag^ n>»Suii4aylnthtemonth,aiidI»Mjardh«paoI«iiiidypr«licttluaitwould,ev^ wooeedlng Sunday in the month, "for," ahe ranarked, " it i» a aign that never Hwla." She had forgotten the (aUure o£ two yean beforo; indeed, the contin- oaiMse and prevalenoe of many popular eupeistltiona is due to the fact tiiat we notice tte"iign'' when it happenato be trifled, and do not obeerre it, or we forget it^when it fails. Many persona are exceedingly superatitious in nganl to the number •♦thirteen." This is particularly the caae, I have noticed, In CathoUe oountrlea I have visited, and I have been told that superstition originiited in the fwrt of a thirteenth apoatle having been chosen, on account of the treachery oi Judas. At any rate, I have known numbera of French peraona who had quite « horror of this tatml number. Onoelknew aFrench lady, who had taken pas. sage in an ocean Ateamer, imd who, on gohig aboani, and Ihiding her »^ gni * state-room tobe "Na 18," insiated upon it that she would not safl in the ahip at aU; she had rather fortbit her paaaage money, though, finally, ahe was penuaded to tato another room. And a great many people, French, English and Amerw lean, will not undertake any important enterprise on the thirteenth day of the month, nor sit at table with a fuU complement of thirteen persona With regaid to thte number, to which so many auperstitiona cling, I have aome interedinc experienoeaandouriouaooinddenoea, which an worth ndatinc. aa a nrt atrn personal history. J •*^^™ Whenlwasfln* tt England with General IWThumb,l^n remember din- tag one Christmas day with my fWends, the Brettells, in St. James'ft Palace, in I-oodoo. Just before the dinner waa llnidied (it ia arwonder it wai not noticed before) it waa dlaooTered that the numb^ at teble waa exactly thirteen. "How very unfortunate," remarked one of the gneata; "I would not Imve dined under such drcumstancea for any oonsiderBtiOT, had I known it I* ^ "Nor I either," seriously remarked another guest **Do you really suppose there ia any truth in the q)d aimeratitiaa on tdbat ■UDjectt" leaked. , / "Truth I "solemnly replied an old lady. "Truth I Why I myself have known three instances, and have heard of scores of others, where thirteen persons have eaten at the same table, and in every caae on6«f the number died beforettbe year waa out I" 7 This aaaertiiin, made with 80 mudi eanwrtawsi, evident^ gueste, who^ nerves were easUy exdted. I can truthfully state, however, that I dined at the Pftlaoe, again tl^i foUowi^ Chriatmaa, and although there wen ■eventeep persona ppesenl^ evwy one of the original thirUJen who dined there the preceding (Jhriatmaa, waa among this number, andaU ingood health; although, of course, it would have been nothing v«ry iwMtable If one had bapiMned to have died during the last twelve m»mb« ■*™jy; I ^eft nQrrjirife ^^k. anH T Ki.»- x ^""^ hundreds of mlfai fw.«.^ 1 mentioned the opinddj/SfrTff «w 1 u, ^ ' «^ed to me to iDr^^,^*"**j° "Soften haying -num^^ ••No"?£L^^-ff-^-.Jf y^^ B.^ •ftBrward. I reoelvH^jansX^Jl """"^ ^"^^"^ °°« <^ ooci,^''^,^^" s^^a'hJ^r '^^^''^^ X^'n^r £Si^ "to a tacky nmnber," and he added: "**'**"» •■ofl-PHTou^ '■f . But my clerioal friead had not lu-«^ » ^ birred to m« .f^-. t u.T "*'^. ^l**"* ^* %, foraoma on throogli the r m-laok, and »t at tb^ depot **^^ard House, ied, and they ' thom that J. tt -for a wash. * and at ono* nm " nombei number thJr Iw from my ler tbirteBQ >> to ack^wl. iwtotakei u* thirteen " i>lm a4 I you q^ui, Widoeee,' Ulutnitei •rthirtMn Bent, ■•ii4 Mrr Wu rOMMof tbe Bible, •MVWM MWfaloi) ivwIUe sf^ ndIor wh^waa boarding at the Atlantic Hot^e in Bridgeiwrt, asking hiir to «gage a rponi °^»^''' ««» «f the "brethren " wrote me that they were sUll six SS/JSL^^f' ***" "^ required, ffhe brother sodn^fterwanis wn>to me Wjgjjobtoined tu« other lialf, and T might fprwarrt Mm my subacrlpfton of j ySMKr^ *^*»*^'' ^"'■^'^ **« "^^ •**»" I attend^! a fair in Fi-anklln nau, DfMpol^ given by • temperance organlaatlon- Two of my tittle Ri-aud- S^rfTf'T'*^ '"•'• ^'^ *^"'"« ^^ to aelect what *rticle?thev desired. ' I paid the bill, twelve dollars and flft^ oenti. Whereupon I Said to the chUdreJ. ilrH^J^uI^^'^ "*** °*^* " "^'•'^ ***>"«^ ""^d l^ expend no mom bere to-night" We sat awhile listening to the music, aijPflnally started for -ST^.'S*^ 2f"^ "^ «"''•«• * ^^y at one of the rtonds^ear the door, calM Si«?^.T!!"^,^"'*^*^*»*<»^'''»***»•^ Pleaaetakeachanoehimy iSZL ^i'^y- ^ ':p"«» «• " "f*^ "»« • ticket. " I paid her the price (fl^ jnt^ and after | arrived hoine. I dlacovered that, In spite of my expmS ^^SSJTL't^Ti'^' ''^"^P*^''"^''^ "thirteen" dluJT^' «1^^ SiJ^^Hv'i?.^ \".!L'T****^' "^ '^' "*™'"''^ of 1868, and, bint MM^ncd tie party should not be thirteen, I hivited fifteen, and they all a™5 and jrandehU.b|en dined with me, and finding, on ''roimt«ff.Zia"\h«t thH W^immby^in^vijahl. «ilrte«», Iexp«aaly .nun;Slb-2C).CJS 11 •1/'; m^> ''•* m %■ :i:\i»-i^ > •^ ■ (t^.^ l"*<*a m itL to Mf* wa >a»_i J « " ! , , T ./■^ '.*►• '• #'i^ ', 4 A% ^ f^ i# rj ■fe^l ■•TfM/»iul wMQfnr, ^ town, and tht H 1 H >M«iirt(Witb l>iV the thiiv ' in Jfii^ftum >* , and afta^' ' »♦ '.*^- f, ,''' ¥ -» •*^ I ■. 'I" *■ ^ . <. ' (WAPTER XLIT, f 'flA-SUW PARK. : ^ J' '^ \J*** a»»*I»» when I flnt settled in Brtdgeport, and tuh^d my att»oBi«i te i> r^^ anji beautityi^ new i..enuea. and doing whatertTy Tr^^ Z ■^ * ^1'^m'^*!!!!.?^ '"*"'™^ ^'^y* ' '^ exceedingly aLio»^3^ - Cr?'?°'^'******WAed,e8peciaUy one where good dririwayam^ imty tor the display o« the nnmy fine eqoipag^ Jbwed, could be fOTorded. Mr. Noble and I b^ the movemJiJTJ^ll?^ ««-« most attraotiye promenade and breathiniM>]aoeu and ». «».«««rr!Z!^ w dty wa. far in advance of Bridgeport proper in Pfovm^riTL^t .. lorihe health and aihuaement of the peqpkT **^ "P™''*'*««*P'*«»«»«««'^ ' * ^'t^f'lT ^f^' ^ '^^ ^' Bridgeport, west of tbepublio wimrvea. «.i .«fM»«i3y the waters o^ Long Island Sound, was inacceKlble to^ZL^ •Jooj^lowms I endeaTortHl to ride ak-g the shore on borwhacH^ ' 'Sr™,M, "JT^ "**^ '^^ «' «» l^-d." i« the hope of flnZ^ tttaLue to Jt a^hUc drive along the water's edge. On one oc^lo.^ WlSs^^t^Zell in fitting my horw around from the foot of Broad stiJTin »!!1: !f^ ^over the FairiieSZ; a few rods we^t T^l^^^J^r^^J^. *reefc which I have iteoe ODened *t mv ^. I ^^^TTf^.*^?""*' • 8**>»t harirtlX!? ,1!"^ J~« «oh an improvement ^ be L late, a«| T^ to mind the failure of the attempt in 1880 to urovide ii 3/ftI «/ P^-ople of Bridgeport, I Immediately began to ~rft«L «« Thl^il*^ Z^ Jonght wooW «^ an eameat and ImnKMiiate inte;^ i„ the e^eraZTTl!!?^ ^Uty OHiy tto«i«iidi of cwltal^ and «.,« «„rioh the dty tr3? that ^OM^;^^ value of real e*W. generaUy, in the dt/; I^Xt^ m^mmml altmitlon lo •tnmgww who«wii» iospeiid the ■QfmM^RT^ - — ■ ^^^^m ^^^ wf , ^\ , .., ''•***','•. '':':^ %. : !■. ,, ■■■. . >■ , < ■■ .^ '368 'Afif^' »»A-8tDl5 PAST l^l-S-r ikA 'Jem began to be StoLJtf.K*^u ^^ ^^^ ^ i^day St. riT "^ "^ 0**7 or town of Bridimnnrf^^^ ^'" for the dty to blmrftll-^*^ ** ^ public pM-ka lf^«S^J^°**'J^y<>o« money to J^^ =alt #ata^ aSTt^?* K • '''" '^^^^ '«' "otSng ^ ^^o^toUnm •^harveTM^ljfof *"^"* *»' *»« »o^\^l^*^ ""'^^ m» -~ *o^ ana aaU or row tiU thev am »i»*i 1 ""*•»» w>ey can tUa hna*. -* ^ ITjtw talked the coiM«rwf!^ *"*^y ■if»«««ed." "*""■*• wwtiat ^h*^ «»e tf the lanri «rt.,w X 1.*^ ™® <^ «.e.^«on.fZ:;rsj,£22^^^ r*** Wood, and n. Ai» "»«™nwi Wheeler, Jamea Loomi. w-T -TV * *"*«l "^yuoe,' was the wtmii Vhik^c* ^"^J"' • part of the land It ».« j^^!^** c«ity taX Ut JfJt."'**' '^ -" ?i .Se^t '^JSl!!*^ 'l^* fmmm ■OomMoMout; atiful dty Uks ibonldaoei^ ithaasaadUb >*> tUl Mm. of clow upoalht ■un Ig a haiii. «* Broadway •'"w*; bntttae r to poroiiagg » only to walk' OHM to fluUf nztoutoM* ^boalaat^ •Ptiyieranif Daawtliatlt ^tojrwaato '^oort.pw). MtMebediha Wed to con- > the water, Mrlacu ao Uw beating lid beobiM fuiderweot .'"iio barw , IttUiatwi re%PVtda. c vlth me irk, llMas dicipirti^ Madraa- -^ntuoh ooldgiTv ••Wf pro* Porpom tnOde to Off to an • ►old giro thediai- m Mik,'f-^y « f» r^J 1 I Ki ...«»■-, ■;»•„, i,v#'S\, j^y» f ,1 Vl' ^ ■^/' ;i' i^ ■■■■ i- '■ (■ ' H.-1' %il fU .r*^ •7' rtf^Sftil"""'^ "* gtoenUly acpoMnt, of prfjio optatoi. ; uul how th.»»»l. / OUB SBA-SIDB PA^tK. [Fkm ^ "Stidffepwi Standard,'* August JW, 188R.J Pflrcha*ed bv prlvatrsubSK^ns li't nS\'ife'S^^L''^'^^ ^''^'» have o%2 Park CommissloneiMind work on theM.-w^ i ,.« i fh„^ """ ^°""*'" «Ppolnted wcellant TT be commenced at oncV'¥esTde8"ser',rrhTal'M;a'.^"l,V*r "J'"'"«'? surrounding the Purk will between New York and CIod. which ffr « UI^^b wW '"'^"°" fp.' a nark to be SoZi State, there la no e»tltaatln/ the Mcun rv anl wC to a park hotel, gea-side cottages, horel ?n?IrZrt hnZh ^Ti" P'." "^f ?"■«. '^^^0^h'^»'' *»» frontage Ijud been permitted to lio soZg mtmDroved Tnitff p't? S «»«»»8»'"^» '•«h*W- 1b awarded the credit of origlnatlnrt hi" beintmo^S.I;, Jf *''^-.^- ^' Ba™"". we believe, tag, constant «nd. persevering pe"SnaeffortHar8w«^ "!'.•* ^l^^P *° h'" """' xatea. Bon. James C. Loomlt w w the flr«^^^^ presaingthe olnn of the «ia-™de puV unon th^ Htt«iH«l'^^^^^ ^"J 1'*'* ^L*'» BarnuB i, ourcltUens themselves to say that with «n^;Jft.^l?. " '^^ our cltlzene, but 't 1. Iuj *.$ voted to appropriate 810 0)0 (Vomti,^nit„ f." „t '™?'^'^'"f 'i^ unanimity, they have not )nt» Mid otherw se Improvln 'T but th«v hlL''!?''"'^^ '** '""'^ "K the (ivennee around the Pa"k , « purch«,lngrcnaTd:alVr„*o't^Xgii^e"n^ ''^»»'*T'** ^'^^^batfo.,' b^7orr^?i,^°°!^'f ^.f ^^ ** '""^^ '»^"«*; »°'h h' '^J^^'^ility of the rite wan mnedled brappmS! Zrt!^^ h";?^ of workmen to begin to gnuie the g^un^T^ ^outtte walk, and drivea. The rocks and boulders over whl^ I 2d^I ^i.Tf.^^?P'^*°"^«'°'y '^y o»'«*«»donhorieback, wwed^tS^t fc«Z!iwK ^^ P»»^''«re opened, 8lia,l^treeB,were planted -nd "#=% tunately there was, to the very center of the ground, a beauWfW ^^i ll^' S^'Tt^tr^^ir --^'^"^^vefeaC^f'tlSn^'^hS'nglp^ Sf J^Sri^ magnificent dnve follows the curves of the -ho^^SSi Srjlff^v ^«*~^««dn>uric-rtand ha.beenemrtedi ai«ion.7LZ ^lr?t *«- 1*^' b«"t • nibrtantlal Soldiem' Monument '^ °" ' ^'^» S^ m wmol, the b«od playi. At «oh time, the aZi«J3 noToZ ^••ri»lith.ony, in»iti«M,(i«o.. u^filKlaif^ookaad St.ff«J3t /'■■ •■A-MDU PAEK. 1 I '■ , ■ /■ 1 f„ \ \ ^^0 / / •^1 ^^^# >«*• ■4/! TBB XLV. #1 WALDEMSKB. •■MnieM to New York? and tbi; fadUtim for daily traiisit to and from tiw metiropQUs were praeent and partial ocoisideratiaiiii only in the genena advantagee tte location seeined to offer. Nowhere, in aU my travels in,4merica and abroad, h»d I seen a dty whoee very position presented so many and varied attractions. Bitnated hk flald, aiMl mntimui ray umi * 'A. '■\.:: ^H ^^ALDEttEBB, it will ^ ^b^guj, but not evary mah isTinJ . *^'*»<»' ^^7 man can^ _ Jlu«b.a«. Jf °' K """•• "Mi the „,^mng o(^„ r P™l»ron» city. •^ directed that she shou;^^!? °' ""^ ^« continuing to decline W «».»; v Linrf.^ ^ - ■ ■ -"'MMI^^ nearer t^.fK^ ..,.. . '^ a««Une. W pl^yrf. ^ summere should be W? ^^^^^^ ^«^ a«d we Resolved Z. ^^"*- however perfect nL ^^e very shore of Loq^ Ts^h « ^' ""^ *"*«« % new streef« «nd Av^esl^lZS^^ ^^ Preparing the ™d. in ^neartheproposedZTtt^'C:*::^'^ I^^ foundation tiU October. I nUnnll ?t' ^^ «'''«*^ '^as not brolcen^ ^ ' convenience with f.h. k^^uIJ™^ » J»0"» which should combL«^h *^* IJest comfort, keeping In mind -i^^?. '**® «^*««* ^-__J^ "° '^*^® ooose was made to *„»i„j- . "°?** "**6r than mere resi- '*-^--niLd°s:hrSev:t^r ^^^^^ *^^* -^ lo^^ieT S P::^^--8H«, nianufaeturL :^?!!g^'- ' ^<^ ^m the city L^tt,:^?. .A ,. —o -v^.uoo«n Datnstoeverv*.».o»«K„ --— ««ut, room for pre mises .-gHs , man.tf actu»>d ^^ ^L'" ^^ ^°» the city thro,.g h»,^t th. /" ssfredtemii. »%. I came bouJlke the «ve ^ ■■• f • i\ i'^ «*• « >> " ^. . f 1 • - ' \ ^^jggssaamgm *v « x's. *"5- »■?%. ima6e evaluation test target (mt-3) .-J "t- .^ 1.0 1.1 g Ki 12:2 III 11.25 i u Ui 12.0 1.6 -"e- 1.A N ^ ,•-■#• ^ rfiotographic _ScMices Corporation 13 WHT MAIN STRUT W|MTM,N.Y. I4»M [^ • •■.. ij 4(0 -r^y ■•^;t- le^^^^'l '^o ^ »».« V k > , J- **| A/ * ;j*. ,->" ■«^f", •■ • m n ^V,.t Ki.{M- ■-, '-'if .*■ * K/:,i:r\- ":J* I . --«*■■- ■te: k I » / , ~ / % . ^i.%- is.^pl^£ife j WALDBMERE. 377 '^r . tur traitt tbe auuuton. vn th« eppoalto ■!f««l lcil» t» <«• Mofwn^het. •V: ""% % r«f - JJ"^ ^W'CiPSeiP^iEr^' '■^^ffl^y" }-J» '".ja^fN'^^ ' f ■ P^iaUar to my nature. Ao /mm m^^-, , *°.^*«"»Pt tochiun downeneMS •^nothing todo," I thoughtT^ Z a^T^' '"' • '«''^t»». H^ P-r^'-^^r^"-^^"^*^--'. ^ you * "ni ACraid that I chuoklad att^n ™k v a» window of m7 o<»jr Ubnu-y, iid ^i^^ri^*^ oMnptacMtly tnm ■""^ to odi UK out hHi«r " 3 „?^ ^ '^ " """ •"• blow then.^ - <_,p..„, wnunf^ MHUiout any Boecuil m.-rw^ — 7 *~«*^^« w pi«a8- •Jool4«y I found e^jMelZX^^l. f "'""" ^ "»« ^^ 2^ my hou» with visitor., and ^^„!^«^°**P'*y-°«»<* I began to Without really perceiWng^^^ ^^^^ ZTh"' ''""^ ^"1^^ rr!wT!!r '^ ''^•'"« gratuitously for rM7cS.l^ "^*^ °" ""^ *««».. *°d I At tti. Juuof.u^ I hailed with deCtr^tt^,^"*'^'*^^ b«n«flt fa« Englidunau of chapter thirty^Ll^H^^i"^ ^^"^ ^^ (S^enterpri* new world, arid found m J^toX hl^r ^ t'^'''^'' "^'^ «^ *» "^^^h* ■owrpmuned my old I ,«in«. ^d tecZT »««*«. guide and exhibitor. I , * a 0,0* m.gh1fl,«nt -0!^^^ l^^^T ? ""•'""^ curiodtiep. companion., and n6 bu«me« dlSiS^r^T^ ««I appreciative traveiJ^ J*loh I had before g,«e.l on u^^Zi PoT TllT"^'''' ^ -^ then New Ortewis, Memr.hia I^mZITt:. T ^* **'''^ **"»« ' ^^ted Cuba. they ^ on the great mtaract of Ni,^a fiJl Z ^ *^* ^'"^ '^hich to work with whipB In tho plantatlonBTJ-^.li ? ^"T °' "^'"^ '"«^'»« JHve„ »>«lidi lady a- «ho ga«d down iZ 1 ' ^^ '*^'''^ «i)«iK« of the ynuuB d%«.-t of my friend SZlTf^d P^^ 'h.nT ''^^^ ^' '»•- Vu.nu,.',?^ --«,.»„ „. „,jr rnena whan he found Hiurtia ri... T "^ "' ""^ ""nuT , the "°«gned. but a toha« » w Jh"?^ "^'^ ^ '■""^«'- "«^« ICreHt fort a.s U.\,.^ h,^^jS^j BISr OITLT fOUHD TK AOTIOir* ratbtid froa town enei^giQa ^e the «nnu< tfaa. Having lean entirely e> in Bridge. « yon cannot ked another i.and ahall Hde in tbe- ad bankera ently from ow, there'K igisplnae- ae of cheap Arties are wiefaotlrc he' truan? began t^ ite alooa ()«,and I 1 benefit. interpri» osee the bitor. I iositiee * raveiiiw n scene* i Cuba, linjrton, i which I driven young r>-i, the ar» old *• ^ ^ i{^^ M &Al)ril we Ruub np A aiMit, eongeoial pwrtjof UuUm mad fidtod California via the Union aad CMitral Fkdflo Bailroada. ^^ We joom^ywl kiBoraly, and I kotored in Coanoil Bhiilli^ Omaha and Satt "T-^M OitJi where amongst my andienoe ware a doaen or ao of Brigham Toung^ wives ^^.r^Kores of his children. By inritation, I asUed with my friends on Fkeiideat Touig at the Bee-Hive. Ha reoaived as very oonliaUy, asked as many qussfeiaa^ and inx>mptly answered oara "Bamum," said h% '« what will yoa giva to exhibit ma in Kew York and the sastem cities l» "Well, Mr. Pk«sident,» I replied, 'TU give you half the rece^tls, which I wiU guarantee BhaU be 180(^000 pw year, for I consider yon the best show in America.'* ** Why did you not secure me f-nne years ago when I was of no ooosequMios t* ^ he continued. / ^' Because you would not have 'drawn ' atthat tltM," I answered. . Brigfaam smiled and said, "I would like right weU to spend a few honra with you, if you could come when I am disengaged." I thanked him. «nd toU him I Sueesed I should enjoy it; but visitors were crowding into his nosption^xMm. and we withdrew. During the week we apent in seeing San Frandsoo and its suburbs, I disoovsnd adwsrf more diminutive thsn General T<»i Thumb was when fint I found him, and so h a n d som e, weU-formed and. captivating that I could not refist the tempta- tion to eng^^faim. I gave him the soubriquet of Admiral Dot, dreassd Um in oomplete Admiral's uniform, and invited the editors o< the San Franatsoo Joqnals to visit hhn in the parlors of the CkMmqpcditan Hotel f v .Immediately there was an hnmense ftmire, and Woodward'* Qaidens, d^M. 'VHot" was exhibited for three weeka bef^ going east, was daUy thronged witti emwds of his carious fellow oitina% under whoss vsry eyas he had lived so ' long undiscovered. ~ Speaking of dwarCi^ U may be mentioned hara^ that^ notwitiistanding my announced retirement from public lif^ I still ratained business connections wttii nqr old frisnd, the well-faiown General Tom ThusUbt In 1800, 1 Joined that cele btated dwarf in a fresh enterprise whidi proposed an exhibition tour of him and a party of twelve, with a oninplsta ootflt, la company want by tiie Union Padlto Railway to San Frandaco, atop[dn| on the way to give exhibitions at Omaha, l>env«>, Salt Lake City, and other! plaoee on tbe route, with great auco After a prolonged and most profitable seriea of exhibitions in San ^ ^ the company visited several leading towns hi Qdlfomia and then started for Australia. On the way they stq^ped at the Sandwich Islands and exhibited hi Honolulu. From there tiiey went to Japan. exhibitiniibTaddo, Yokohama and oUier principal plaoaa, and afterwards at Canton and ebS^sKne in CUna. They next made Uia entire tour of Ai.,tr,». a^^^^ i „ h»«^ .f fr i m, Melbourne a^Tn otiier towns, but they did not go to New Z'wiand. They then pro«»i!ed to the JBas* Indiae, giving exhibitions in tbe larger towns and ottiaa '•c•Ml^^ liiurked attentions fnun Rajaba and oth«- distiufcuidaed peraonagw AftwwpnlilhtrwwIbjtlMwayoCttiaSuaBUmal toflKypt,aBd«ava uieir -S^Sfl. YJ'^^P^^ill^.! / HMT 6JTLT FOmn) UST AC '".^Tf^'- "% % **"*^nMent8 at Cairo anH.fi.^ . V *• '^'rted tor KaiUJ^T! "^ ^f^ °' *«». including V v EnJ-H-h «i-. , »«»''8ing on the open plJI ^ ^ *• •" ^'"^ •'^ rorm a 8ummer4>oiue on hte FUrlill ' ^^"^ '^ i' mounted and ^^ ' During the wintei- of 1871. n^ifi^ , '«. • unlqw, It* but too ■"gnien>>d ftO ^^tbt^^HI^ . -" 'r'.n iJ- '"i * a> with another he weU-known ^Mi, la connao- I the principn] wded. In ail •iwnoed, If not ™*in purpoaa- ; mediaal am} <^Maripoaa ty-ooe iuchfls flj* of June ' fa««ood and *our (Hieste len.-J ,t.(j vjre imaiidaat at • received u» withhoraei^ ■ow. quietly Bitiiig chaae n%bt have * ^* iiowe ▼* ftJT my ^ a Mu- ions as tc r. OntbB Dod, were fehonaundH inaugura. hich tim* t Mcored doomed vvnootk- 96 Ot Um Mi me to ffigantio udon, at 0. Thia lr|oftx] uniqae ■ "^ ''O'^: THE SIAMESE XWINSr-CBLOfa AND ENG, ■r button uentMl .;.i:. V. . , i^ajl^..i^'ir) , ;W.'i k -<■ 2 :i^ ..4, ... ' xi^Jy:*. ^^ ^ I- l^' \^^,>.v-. '■ I I » f « V 1 . _ / '' l» ■» \ « 1 1 i\ * 1 fl_ - / , - 1 f ^f§ \. tlM «lr«i4y liinmnw»M ft ittnMstiaaa, that It wm jhown b^yood dooML ttaliitt could ntot tmTal at s 1m expeoM tbiai five thooauid dollars per daj bi«. uiuiwuAed, I gtm expended thowaiids of <|l6Ua«, and ship after eWii brought ma rare and Talnable animals and worka of art Two beautiful Oiniffea or C>unel> oparda, were diapatohed to me (one died on the AtlanUi^.and a third wai ^TOtained for me at the Zoologioal Gardens, London, wady to be shipped at » knement's notice. Asno giraffe has ever Uved two years in America, all oltter mraagers had given up any atten^it to import them, but this onty made memon •"•ormined to always have one on haqd at iriiatever cost 3ly agents In Alaska procured forme severM immense searUOTia and baikiM. •eals, which waifl^ied a thousand ponnda each» and consumed fhimsiztTto a Inmdred pounds of fldi daily. / ' »*»«.«?.».. taeback, leap through hoops and over banners, alighting on his ftoet on the back of the horse while going «* full speed. I had also many extoiumJinarT nrasioal and other automatons and nw>vingtahleanx, made exprerty for me by e(«n«4 Borepean artists. ' / «*i~r. But perhaps the most striking additions to my show were four wiM Fiji QumI irti^ Mnswned at great cost fnm tiie hands of a royal enemy, into whose hands 411^ bad ftlkn, and by ^rtiom they were about to be killed and perhaps eaten. The foUowlng happy hit is from the pe» of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher as it ywar^d in t hat WTfalfcm t paper of which he was editor, the New York 0»r»«. •Wt"ae ADtliropoph«2, and report ; bnt neve? huTe ntMw^^JSJv^^: have dropped in, In a Wendly wmy, at aomo other periodoifttje d^.»?^^^ FBToelving that my great combination was assuming such propurtions tiiatift would be impoHible to move it by horse power, I negotiated wlfli all tiie'ndlway companies between New York and Omaha, Neb.-vka,4or tiie tnuuvortation bj rail, of my whole show, requiring sixty to seven*^ freight cars, six pasBeoM oan^threeen^ The result is weU remembW The great showvSid S* ^i^ f XZ ^T"^' I>eIaware,Maryland, Pennsylvania, District of Cohua. -t ^?^^^ J"^**"*" Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas. Iowa, Minne. ■Ota, Wisconsin and Michigan, often traveling one hwidred miles in asfaigle niidit to hit good-sized towns every day, arriving in time to give tiuee ^xhiUtioniuud tte usual street pageant at eight o'clock, A. M. By means of cheap e^iidoa teains^ousands of strangers attended daily, coming Hfty, seventy-flve and a limdred mile& Thousands more came in wagons and on hoisebaok. frequently arrf^^intiie^tand "camping out" The tenting season closed at DrtsitX Tf?^.r^'^''^P**"°*^ ^y^ lai^estoonoomw of people evS aamnbled in the State of Michigaa y^i^ '^wiiidflrftil unanimity thap uKiw ■mch more tiian I advertised, and that no combination of exhibitions tiiat ev« traveled had shownatithe of tiie instructiYe and amusing novelties tiiat Ihad gathered together. This univenal commdtidation is, to me, tiie most gntifrinc > of tlM campaign, for, IM4 iMta^ oompeU^ to do buiiaM BiM^y lor S '■1 •^M *ti^^&^^^^,4L/4^'ii -». r^ I 7 ^i^ -topped to iTS! "^^ ^oru^oB Of wild b^* *^^'''««» ''•«"»» ««li- , there; -bo .r^enTr ''l^T? ^^^ ^' ^"^C I ^ Tt ^* -^^ --«> U»em I never sawZ„.ttr '•'*^ *"*^' '» «»• courS ^f * "^'*°«» ^~tu« . ^»««aln* cun.^: ^^ "'7"'^* »« ^^' "0 they i.,'*ti'.?« '»^»»>'t«te came Oolortdo th« «^ * P®""""" "J" And it « "'•^ cannot do it roui- We took the nkrrow «.„,- "««» to m«k^ I ..jr ^usond head of catUe the« ^Lf ?, r**" ^""^ PJeainTTe h "" ***"' 'Odder Of any kind "•*"• ^^wh thrive through thTj. *'*^** sevew; Which p««es fh«u,h a t> J^ '^ ^" ^"« ^- 'L^ t^^l '"*""* ^ o'' -A. the cloae In De'ro^t of";i " """ '~'^»'«- *"" "* ^'^•^. •^•w expedition gaveCL?LrT''*'»">° «' «>» varttn. d.I" *'*'^*«» «" Of the »ena«erle oontllL ! "'^;**''*>'"o» ^ the ra^lZ **;r^«««-. «"i the I ira. awai*. also toaT T "^""^^ «>e variety In ^t """P"***' ««» Henc South. ™>t«ian feelings with »y peonnhuy^ni^ J*^ •°°™««. ' I« Augo^ I p„„,„,,^,^ . ^ '°**^f' «« ««.. them ^•wn as the apJ^S^?'""'*^ "^ »•** on ,y,ar^^ _ 1«»me and Ol«us. S^^?""' f "'''"^ to open a Hus^^*V'^'' ''"^ ^ork. •*^ *o«W otherWbJ"" •* i""^ •mploym.nt for ^^o^' "f""*"**. appQ! '-^^ -«o-t^y"nd^^r' "•• "*"»•'• ^ -r^^iT •' "•' ^Si '^•Ubla oollecuon of al^ "°°- « " Wpense of ^S^?** ««odeied the *• *ao buiMiag. witti al!^ °**'°"* took puw, »» ^ *•' '"'» "^ Hm^ **-*«« '^•'rilghts. the sweet aurtc^a *^** **t* ,.^>. * to nearlr one ■ay Ideal bom* ouaand doli«M. 6y. my Uf»-ioag UBUMin«iit8. ao od, Jolm Fteh, » Btook-r»i8iaif 8 Paolflo Bali- , ^ Mfnetiinea •P«nt sevetni >t»noe lecture ■nwlM, I told wge audleace bltants came do It Tour / :liarmedwlth ^commend as olty of Den- ' wake. I Bay at Culorado ply paid US ' our cattle ave seyeiml out hay or Trinidad, mdstvtnd ' > peroepu. Plete trav., Iffnated as "> and the *' Much "wl hence »lleotlon. Mter In a tnaous, I >nt them »» Tork, > HlppQ. r people •led the In It my If^lidaj WS8T ONi^ir FOUND IN ACTION. . ^tj. If.. -m:. 385 *• wltk ■ientjtlons completing the charm. The papers next morninif con- tamed long and eulogistic editorials. "doming con- at N^iw Hrf'"' *^^ w^m' ^"'^"gVation, I visited my ^uthem^ show at New Orleans.^ While seated at breakfast at the St. Louis Hote^ Ji"tv ^2"? If '" ""Tr' "^ '^' \'"^^"^ ^^ "^y sbow-grounds in tha city, the following telegram was handed me: ' / . ,.■■'• . Tn P m L^ HT ^ , New York, Decemio- 24. '^o.r. 1. Barnum, New Orleans: '«^ ^ -.^^fv-V"* J- "• ^''®, discovered in boiler-room of circus biiildinir ^v^ryth^g destroyed except 2 elephants, 1 camel. ^' S. H. KURD, Treasurer. ^ Tanfr! ^^'^^r^.^^^^'^^'^^n.e was instantly forgotten in the greater. fainT«\ ;j i'^ ,^'^""'' ^ '^''" ""^ *^«^^ «^bled my European *gents«to send duplicates of all animals lost, with positive instruc Z^'' i'L' ^T^'}^^^ shipped in time to reach New York byThe middle of March. I directed them further to procure ^it an/cVst rarrnr;'" T " ^"""^^' ^"^ t.h..ough'sub-agents"o^;u . Darts n?>l iT*^ cunosities-animate and inanimate-from^U fa^ of the globe. I then dispatched the following tb my son-in- To 8, H. mtrd, m^ York .- "^^^ 0\vea^,, December 24. Tell editors I have cabled European agents to expend half million low tht ""'"" -factions; will have new and^more a tt^ac y" •now than ever early :n April. .»^^"vv P. t.'barnum. .alm''\7J'^f.\^"-?^'^- *"' I'r««"^^«d my breakfast, and took a «aJm view of the situation. • Returning to New York,! learnffl^at my loss on building and property amounted to neany S300,Si: to meet which I held fnsur ' fn whfchll- 1 ''^ r ""r '' ^''^'''- ^ equestrian CO W, Zlt^r ^mf ^ P'^^' ^^'^ '«^ '^^ ""til the opening of the summer season. The members lost their entire wardrobes a lo s ltt^:y8t'^rv'Tr''''' by .professionals. The Eque^trhS *Mus1c on thrift^ ^"^'^ ^Y' '^'^ ^ ^''''^' ^' '^' A«-d«"»y of i?o? ^' 1 I afternoon and evening of January 7, 1873. Many s^ars m the Equestrian Dramatic and Musical firmament yolunteered for the occasion, and the two entertainments were largely attended Before the new year dawned, I received tidings tlTat my agS had purchased for me a full collection of animale and curiosiLsfand by the first we ek mMxil^im Z' L^^^ --^i lire-I placed upon the road a combination of curiosities and marvel- 46 «.» «Si4* '^°^' '^^ »n««t later the child and the whole fami y^;J' ^^f^^^^^' and a haff hour of elephatits,. cavils and dromedlir ««;onished to see a drove come to a halt nel the chifefud w The 1^"'^ ''^ ^^^' ^^ ttr-girpe^^^^^^^^^^ Unwieldy e.e^ants,U o/r^^^^t^ "*.>.^..,. .4 . .y^>. I n n^ade with iderfuJly im- ^T3, that its lay, and my sale V me. I tal to go, in ■have never idtjie better ly they ^iH exception to ground that * so closely ow'm f872, est cities in Hampshire, > St. Louis, which was ISODB. Jtter show ell kiown, es in pro- ing in our y. There a favorite n pasiiitig heard the a entered the great '■ child as his great ilways as "Trot'^" " Never we must alT hour a drove ard, and held up them ffo to the .■';,* BB8T ONLY POUND lli^' XcmOlT. ) ^l m«Tnf *^^*^^/" h'our.the matinee terminated, and t^^etaoh- !! - u^fi'^nF^^^''^^" marched back tothe shoW-grounds leavini. the Qhild wil f with delight. Mr. Bamum's love fo?X St e Tef wh^r^f^t 7?"'^^ S^^^" ^^'^' generous invitations he every- . W Jl^. *; ^"^ orphans to attend his exhibitions free of charge- .ctrlcl^rlSc^^^^ ^'"" ^ ^^**••^^^"^ ^^'^^'^^^^ "^-^-^- onfat 'Notwithstanding my frequent visits to the " traveling show " I ^ managed to spend mu^h of the^ummer at my delightful "Walde-' T It 1^^^"' ^^^^' ^' ^ ^^ ^«<^ ^isit^d "lirope suXMm VilT^ "^A *° •?" r' '°^ ''' the> Ipternatienal E^h&ll^t Viennk, and visit other parts of Europe, ;to rest my over-wo?l?d bram, and see wha^ could i,e picked up to instruct and edTfy my amusement patrons. ^"^ , , ^ ^ F«?\hrt'°g **^ Liverpool, I was met by my old friend, John 'Fish, Esq Yhe '' enterprising Englishmaii." Mr, Fish wUs the last friend who shook my hand as I left Liverpool in 1859, and the first to - grasp It as I landed-, in 1873. After .pending a few days at hh house, in Southport, the " Montpelier of Enlland," a delightful watering-place eighteen miles from Liverpool, I proceeded t^Lon don I^met many of my old English Mends here, including; of r„ ' "/Tf 'T^^"^"^ ^"^ ^"^'^^"^^ ^g**' Robert Fillingl^am,- V?La^ whil^l^^^^^^^^^ .?-?-^ - •1 -*, r T,«»n«A*u -.-..,„. H,xio g.cat YYunus jCiXniDition, dndl wit- nessed the ceremonies ;diich terminated what is generally conceded . IrMw ^^''' and best International Exhibition that^ffworfd Vever- saw. I proceeded fiisurely back to. Dresden, " stopping at t^ok time to ^ee aH that was interesting. While at Berlin, I received" ^tters from my Manager, Coup, and Treasurer, Hurd, spying they w^uld be able to secure a short lease of the 'Hailem Railroad pftp. TwUv ?Tj'?'rp^°""*^'^ ^y ^«"**^ ^"^ Madison 'avenues aid JorThrn *"-d Twenty-seventh street^ containing several acres, iZ fliZ"^'%'^ carrying out my bng-oherished plan of exhibit- eSm 5 T Pippodrome, Zoological Institute, Aq\iaria, and Mu- seum of unsurpassable extent and magnificence. I immediately ^& timetw' ••''! f'^ ^T^' ^°'"'*^^" twenV-four hour's T^^tio V ^ ? '- 1", *«'«g^^P^^c communicatieo with seventeen ^^^^P^fT*^^ a^faud^aTnTnoTel enterfnse. y— — — -■-— ^ I visited all the zoological gardens, cifous'iss, and public exhi- J ./^ "J 1. - ti ■■# \ i ^k:- 5S8 BEST ONLY FOUND IN ACTION; elo, etc. ' '""'-""'"g elephants, giraffe,, a dosen <»tri»he8 of Ntvts!t73::„7w:r:tl' f ^r'rv° ''■-'^'-'-"^^^^ previous to startiL for r,T th * '^ '"' ^""'"^ "ro-ind the oitv ' from «.y «o„.i„ t«, M/'J^^''t">°» ">«'«"'!«"> in«,ffeceiveJ thedealh of my »ife ontS^da/pSa'" '"'""°'' -""""-"g < to part with'a bVoved eomSo" ,::ifhrh"''K'T "^ '"■^» "«"«'' ywrs. That anguish mu"t be LTm„ r ^^"1 '"'<> f»rtJ-fouf comes sudden and uneipeetod *^ Rn ^A 'T"" ■"''™ '""'' » -^e'* only unloolced for, br.','^i„ 1 J"*i,''K" ti" '"'»"««"'=» i'' not four thousand mi/es awa} Lm\he bedswf 'r''l?°rT"?,''''''>»''<' in a strange land whsm li. "" ."'"/'odside of his dead wife, alone reflects,thleh"llt»^^ ^/P^^- • -^- "e over the coffin wllere L i^n.l^I ^ P*'^^*" '''"^^«<^ a^-e mourning is breaking to b^tl'Vt e^ onlii^ct "of"L? ^''^^ '"''^^'^ ^-' " truly comprehended. Long acci' orn^d L tl '""f"®'" "^""^^ "^^ God is good, and that ttis wavs arl Til ^•^'f ''^ ^"" ^« ^^«' that eth evil with good, and"rs?eL".^ '' K„r^'L\'^^r"^ ^^^^T' " cloud" seemed so utterly black thlt Jt » I ^T ' ^ *'°"^««« ^^^ have a silver ''linine'-aLrv 5"'"^''' realize it comW '. tempted to say, as.surelv w. Jll ^i! '"T^ '" 'nove when I at- ' to 4 "Not my w fl bul Thinf h'"f ' ""hesitatingly at all times- for severaLdays and on thaf^ f a *^''"'- ^ '["'"'^'"^^ >'" ™y room children and fvLds were a Lo 'n ^^' °u"''"''^ ^ ^«'^ ««"fi ii^^^'^a. -s. oyelties and We wild Ini-- « feel that ov6room- )nfess the !e it could hen lat- flil times my room ident my r beauti- and my r Father death to Iren and ed away ^ht-sec- friends Ion and * >i CHAPTER XLVII. • AMONG MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. y- At length, the continual letters from my manager roused me to action, and I went at it with a will. What I did is shown in the tollowmg extract from the London Era: barnum's next sensation. The greatest showman of the day .is o^ mor6 in Condon, own- pleting preparations for the Opening of tBe immense Hippodrome which he IS erecting in New York. Some idea of the means which are, being taken to create a sensation may b^e derived from the fol- lowing facts : Mr. Barnura has not only sent agents to Spain and Africa ^t^ secure attractions, but has himself visited the Hippodrome in Pans, the Circus Renz at Vienna, Myers' Circus at Dresden, balamonski and Carre's Circus at Cologne, the Zoological Gardens at Hamburg, Amsterdam and other Continental cities, seteoting and purchasing the choicest animals procurable, and engaging the most talented artists. He has secured what may fairly, be called an end- less variety of attractions, ranging from a rape-horse to a Roman chariot. With the Messrs. Sanger alone he has done business to "the tune" of £11,000. He has already shipped to New York elephants, camels, and horses, trained for every species of Circus performance. On the 25th a further " batch " will be dispatched, incluUiiig sixteen ostriches, ten elands, ^ten zebras, a team of rein- itdcer, with Lapland drivers, a troupe of performing ponies, monkeys^ dogs, goats, &c., &c. The armor and costume makers of London are to be set to work imhiediately the pantomimes are oflF their minds and hands, and some portion of the paraphernalia ^hich is to con- tribute to the gigantic whole will be shipped weekly. The Hippo- drome will open in April next, and in the preliminary parade, we liave no doubt, the citizens will find reason to say that their greateit and most popular showman has far outstripped Jill his former efforts. We may add that the New York enterprise will in no way interfer# with the famous tent show everywhere known as •« Barnum's Grea> Museum, Menagerie. Circu s and Tr HVPlii " ' la gerie lini ^ World's J'air. T^n dayslifterwards the London Tmies, whose editor had seen the original contract, published the following article : -< SM ..b^jili'^., 390 A THKATRIOAL OONTRAOT. Ik *■ — "This «r>.. ' *"" oon tract 18 M style used by tlieiu aforesaid Ti ."^' *"^ o*^ the same qualifcv ri,^ •P^pj by |,i,„... ;»«id 1 . 1. B.nmin'; ag„„t,-.„j J,;;' Mej:. .>r;'i,^r.v7orv;;^Irrh''"^?"'' ,"'" ^>».»»» s-a . **iiJ.4,>=4*'l*-. «M. ' just entered )hitheatro, for paraphernali* lis " exhibited contract is a« »ftrjr 2, 1874 city of Loii tes of Anier- "g. the said to the sajd d J. and U. n? the Con- 'ftid Mosars. quality and 3 gorgeous CM for 102 ift drcjSBes, ind Courts and every, phants, ON* 3 the said >11 nations said P. T. Ha id P. T. The said the said ry of the 9 signina; ' of Feb- •t by tlio ivered to id to he 1^0 paid. Anjphi- luni. y » plot of do]. AMONO Mf^flj^Ds AMD NEIGHBOtts! 191 was told'if i7n t'* """/^ •"""^ ^^« Tiohhorne tri*l ope day. I was to d it would.be useless to attempt it, as none Were ndSft^i minster Hall, where a great crowd was waiting unable to tret in Tn reply t« my roquest tolbe admitted, a policemarasklnfri-li Irli'^^E^^^^^^^^^^ ?T -y-T-^n tre':t;tile' er*" ln«i ?' ® **^ y°." ^***' yo" «oum not get in to-dav for flv«Vi, ijr =h4 r„- s£S - •-- "Sa- peraonagos. '' "»»'l"n» "nd other prominent liinnomUr^u Jr'' "•";" "-'"or-l Vtho ,te.n,er Sooti., ^« ?hlir„'™V;:„thSrrt;::^ tftk"^ Ron>«n lllppodromo h«dUn open about a wool .„d „„ I «"" ning of my arrival I ,a, oallod out by the audio„o'» af d i^ A ■'" ' «m carriage around tho immo„,„ are„3 .aw wh^l ZZt'"J" ' JS»pr;rtr„rd''it:^^^^^^^^^^^^ gono.1 ropro-eutation of a ^ConKre™ (if Natio^,. " f . /j '*■ oeaaiort of ,ildod ebariot, and triuVpl a „.;'„, voU ffotlSIT £:^dr:r,rdXrrr:-^^^^^^^^ =»«P^.»»ly o„. ihuu^nd peraon; Ind illverrhan gT Z; 392 fj-infc. 1 nation produc J^/n ^T' ™"«'« «««^n,panyiL r^'?'^^ P^'-^pher- entire pubhc 1^,,'^"^' ^'^ «"«« briCnt a^nd h '"'u "^^ ^^ ^'^^h unani.fSusIr 4al P'"''' ^°^^ secular and r^r- '''""8- ^he thedaysof thrn '' ^^"estionably.truelZV^'^"''- declared P»bli/;elt ^^-^^ '- ^^- bee^n s^Ufan"d^;:>t^,^^^^ FoJIowing this siin*.rK u- X . ""erestinga rani fe '»- fed ^;rrT -T '" ^'"''» o^ succeeded v.riL^/r,"P"^'""' o^Perteof blr ^""P""-'! rid. ' Performancinf ,.?r ?'"'= »"'«'*»in»'el iSir.t ^o these encouraffempntB f? r^ "^n-professionals fnr\ ^ ^^'^^"S ex- bj Prof^Dora dson";f ^f ^^P^'^es, semi teeklv ?".?' '"''''^^^ «« the Donnybrook PaiV j J'''^ ^^^es, and in " Tw.n? ^ • ^®""^"e "fchrownin'^rnvr; -2"*^ I^ancashire racel"' „ f ^.'^^""tes of Although the^H^n^^'f '""' menagerie. -'"^ ^^'^ aJl was tators, for weeks S ^ ''"?' ^^^^^ accommodate ten .», in advance Si, -T'^^'^" a" the bestAeat" "'^'^ «P««- -etho::;nt;u\'S'!i- ^ii- - «;" 7^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - adva„ee, and it is liter^i,; t^ ^"1^^?^^ ^^ -^agel lys ^e turned iway. My patrnnf^ TT^ ^'^^ori" P«'gii, comDelled ™f .^ '" immense buildinir fl ,i ^^ ?PP»""us, lishmmt To BosL r '",""»P°"rily tra„sfe;"f.!°^„ !" """"r earn- •delphia, return n! Z^^"' ""'''' f""« Aug„tt%d T '"" "«*''- 20th """^"'"g and reopening i„ New V„i "l""™™ '» PhH- i Aft" the exciti.,, seeno, .„d • "" ''^'""'^' i-^dMt^' "'T' " W:^"mrt"?;,f "V^ ---< weeW "■ •• * 'V. "■':" rich and varied and parapher- trance of each lidering. The ious;. declared r before since > interesting a all kinds of 'rope and rid- ' ^- To these "e wonderful ■walking ex- awarded as ^ ascensipns 5^ of genuine minutes of ith all was usand spec- gaged days g perform, the Presi, 'd Judges, ^ our land, ntended it s of what plish. In he central Pparatus, nter cam- st Qstab- 5 to Phil- 3pteinber al Weeks 'r had I sd to me to nie a impulse t by no 10 ocoa* e num- "OpOB O fa >V -^MONO l^Y FRIENDS AND NEIGHribBs! 393 tender of a dinner remained inevitable anil th^ ^^.n • spondence ensued • inevitaoie, and the followmg oorre- To Hon. P. T. Barnum • ' ^^^^^^^«^, Junt 6, 1874. Yours, very truly, R. T. Clarke, ii. B. Waller, Grideon Thompson, Francis Ives, John Brooks, J. E. Dunham, Ira Gregory, James C. Loomis, E. b: Goodsell, W. H. Perry, D. F. Hollister, Jacob Kiefer, Treat & Bullock, Lewis W. Booth, F. Hubbell, T, R. Cruttenden, Wm. E. Seeley, T. Hawley & Co., 8. B. Ferguson, W.H. Adams, ^ F. W. Parrott, Saml. B. Sumner. W. H. Noble, F. A. Benham, Shelton & Lyon A. W. Wallace, John D. Candee, G. W. Barker, Wessells Bros., A. R. Lamb, M. H. Wilson, r>. W. Sherwood, David Trubee, T. M. Palmer, Samuel C. Kingman John D. Whitney, J. W. Smith, H. Buckingham, E. Birdsey, 2d, E V. Hawes & Son, Hanford Lyon, Albert Eames, C. Spooner, Robert Hubbard. N. Wheeler, Jarratt Morford, Eli Thompson, Geo. Mallory, R. Tomlinson, Chas. B. Hotchkiss G. H. Hollister, W. R. Higby, Geo. C. Waldo, W. S. EdYk-ards, ' ' John E. Pond. Hubbell, Jones & Co.. W. H. Mallory, Geo. W. Bacon, - *D. M. Read, W. G. Lineburgh. F. G. Fowler, H. S. Sanfori F, Hurd, Alfred Hopkins, Carlos Curtis, J. & G. A. Staples, Knowles & Co., D. N. Morgan, James A. House, H. R. Parrott, E. C.Wilmot, . L. F. Curtis, B. Soules, S. C. Nickerson, '^. Goodsell, Cheater Russell, ' J. H. & J. N. Benham. Willis* Lane, ' Lyon, Curtis & Co., and others. Waldemeke, Bridgeport, Conk. ' '-AJB:';,i!A;.-^^^.i-f,i^tsj,-fa ,j ti(*A »■»!». ♦■'' .> ■ ' "<'.°!. 394 AMONG MVPRiENDS ANB NEIGHBORS. S^^<^^^^ ^^e industries and tow mvrtation is gratefully accepted a!' Vr""*^'* ^"^ therefore *lves, after the s^tee„thiLt:7in1ectYe„tn^^ • Respectfully yours,^" ^^ PT. BARNUM. • !;,„^¥«« energy, thrift, public spirit aL ' • '^' ^""^'^ ^^ ^o^oi^ was given, and to those who had cd' ^ ' ^?"'°^ Philanthropy it ply. The fine dining-haH of the A tf^f-^ 'S^ ^'^"^ed it out so hap long tables, one across the head of tht? n ^T' ^^« ''' ^ith fo?r n^ng at right angles to it and leniht' ""^."".^ '^^ "*^«r 'tree run' were seated the'' presiding office" m!?' V^f '"°"'- ^' the first evening, P. T. Bari^um, Km and hi« fi^"' i^ ^'^'' '^' ^"^^^ ^^ the with ex-Mayors of Br disport 1h '^^^^'^t^ fiends from abroad the men of ill professionf Jnd e^lll '' P'"'"^'"^"^ citizens while «peotability, enterprise and enLv if ?' ^^P'-.^^.^^ting the wea th, re- other tables, in alfto the numbefof ove^r'. "r"^.'°^" occupied'the that any public occasion calls out such a i,? l^^''^' "^^ ^« ««ldoin "■Major E. S. GoodaeH Td jfr 't''tTT'"/"'»"''''y ^ffi™l° „e« "ear J .11 the fromi„entTe^Y^klf'"^\ ^^^P^'^ntatives from f"' «»«". t June 25, est in honor anthropy it out so hap- it with four • three run- A't the first uest of the om abroad, zens, while wealth, re- cupied the ' is seldom smen, and well feel >s present 1 and Eli cials were ives from nals were h beauti- en-house nt vases, Jnhanced mingled The bill the lux- ofusion. irnished Icony in ors, and 7 — "■*• ielected , , AMOHO MY FRIENDS AKD IIEI0HB0B8. - 39J woum contribute to the success of the occasion. At ten o'olnnk Ria The 4oIlow.ng is from Frank Leslie's letter : °""'P""'™»- , otMltolnX°'w:l'^TIT'>' ■•<»P«'" and confidence ^.tio/.!;:kr„!'rfi.^:rt::Jt'^^^^^^^^^^^ Years ago I was much impressed bv the rAsnnnl^Tp ij ^ n answer to a„ inquiry as?o StYind^ZrMr Bar'ntr:"' tho words of his old servant, and s« of the Z'.^'J T ^ '"h" honor, that I have not a good enough nltto" he M:' °°' ''" "" prese^'it '■ '"'' "'"'"* "P°" ««»• '"'illiam H. N,ble t^ SPEECH \)P QEN. NOBLE. ■"''"ffis't'trrbirr' ^"'"'° ™p™--"""'? r^"" . '"" 1 Ills 18 no tribute, then, to mere wealth— your oatftlnmiA nf merits gives no place to stocks, ot bonds, or pri/cely homes^or hi broad acres of our city lots, stretching th ougf rver/*Sof th« 7ZZ. ? ^ W t^^ '^"^^ '^^^ ^^« ^«-^ of ouTetem Why with ?t BV«iH.^?J'\''?^^^^^ implement ta the soul that does sensVof r"' ''' '^'^""^ '' °"^ ^"^^^^^ -^er marked the ier anj — — — . ,1 —^EBteem Jh only dufl to wlMOtE-oTtin^Srwh^n administered as a ' " blessing held in trust, reaching beyond ourselves anTyWdTng ,U II iktjt^'^lt^ii^a^!dil.-ik.ii^t,^miSiilitL'Sii-imk 39<5 AMOKO HV rBi„»„ ^^ l,«oHBO»8. Cb>„. and Japan, and the Sff latdJ'^lt'"''' «' '""o retu™ t •n our friend. > RS. « e measut-em«ni f course, claim MuseUm, store- a taleJdoscope ess throng of race, to swell which circles rs the newer to a congress ay-'- Nor do me return to 3ontribution» ders, he sent at Lilipatiao e ' and • hari- our imperial 8 and shows 8t, and from nents, foun- ne of these »lio and the :st us, has, hared thieir roundings. within hi& Itch-string Jted word* JJa, whos'e •n, a name . Ijcate tl^e >at thing, I to a ter- 3 tracery >se fairy irmission ty acres, ubs, and eve that ^ Res and i , r friend. AMONG MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS; ^7 But he had the aik^e of us in that/return which ever comes to reward a pleasure granted to others. /The coat of our enioTment Irin/f ? l-indencroft, a world too narrow for our friend-a wJdemer^^rrr "^^^'^ .P-^P^^^ing round for his newKeat Waldemere. fhat is a region discoverej by him.self, and traversed by him ana other Livingstones abodt 1865. What a fit namo thi. Waldemere, a child of the woodland and the wave liow Lited to la .spects and surroundings, so fragrant with woodland odoTs so fresh with ocean breath. Here again ^ur friend is but our eteCd anS head gardener, dispensing liberality and elegance in keeS w^th his larger means The atatues,.fountains, lakes, swans, walks Iwns and ribbon wreaths of leaf andSiower, which g rt its zo^e and a^r and Its woodland shades are as",pen to our enjoyment as to his' Yea, by his invitation set down at its gates, that means, ' Come be welcome to breathe the balmy fragrance aid that '' ozone ''which all unconscious how has brought to the threescore years Toni friend, the vigor and the pluck if not the flame of yS.' Had merrrstend"of il^ Leon, voyaging westward, but struck at Walde- mere, instead of Hondas balmy shore and flowery glades he would have had s„,all need to seek in fniitjess quest tLfe ffb ed Jat^ « whose reviving lave were said to bring .to age the vicor and th« .'" rnk^^ '-' ''' --'' '' ^'^ ^'-^^ anyr/treVan! homh?/-?"^" look on such a use of wealth-the making of one's ,Wrn .?. I «V'-''°""ding8 to minister to the pleasure, taste and nst uction of his townsmen and fellows-and tell me that down b the heart and purposes of him who so does and deals out hisTt^re there is not gentle kindness, refinement and grace of thouRht^nd feeling. ^ Verily, if our friend hath sins-and Sho of us ias not?- such doing covers a multitude thereof There is a refinement in flowers, ,n love of art and nature, that follows the footstepsTf tUr llT\nfL "^,7^" '"•"f ^^« thereto fulfills a mission whose sermoriB hrbhHn K I '" r' '"^ '^' '"^'^'^ r^ ''' «°"K« i" breezes and th' ' anS li o7°l % ^f rn'"';". '''''' '' '^' >"^« ^^ A^^^" a^d fronds! »nd tin^e of leaf which God has made and tinted, as to6 frivolous Sbl H«"1^^T'"\''^%'^*"^^"^«« «f ">*">y •^t»>J«te, menu fibre He who derides them knows not thejr meaning; such tastes of our rltr F*^ ''^^T'^Y^i ^^iviner levels reached in the ascen of our race. From behind the flower that blooms and smiles in the ' wintry sunshine of some humble cottage window,4heTe loiks a IT" f J!!!'' >?gl^>^^°^^ ^"«^« «f «f«^ toward'that refinement and B higher c ivilization w hiuh comes with a.fd fbllowB thairolTer^--- Uut, aa yaur mvkation points out, the doings of our friend have :ta. ^ / .- Jp^ • "One of his fit ''"'""^ ""PrpMuento of 1 ones' last w?n 1 °'"" ^"^"^ discovered it, «, 'J'"S hUl, lies ' W.V „f l; '?""".g-P'»<'e, secured its li.u. "' """ss for our Joyed S de^d '"ir ?"■»'» '« 'k^ P" P^'e '„°f''ir^\?''" »'S the x:'^iSrt:.°rt Tsr" ^^ »r-« '"""w^trft :r brouffht thesp Ti, I , "^^ ensured s«ccpr« »r,-!.u "' ^^^^S « i»de, of the JiL° ot "' ""' '"'S^'S'y.^tZ'T H* VFromtKa/t'oT ""' f "" S'gf' """ey, -"d ,„1 dedicated S'Se"^";!""" "»"'' »200 'oottaX'i/t"^''".' works R« „,/"" magnificent ndustrv «n,i v ^"^ good come as. iprpvementi of 'ood.' Out on ' girt? a goodly ^"ing hill, lies «>r our loved that magnetic ication to the it was one of n the countrj, from the pro. r- I here, too, teful adminis- wes 80 much, n with Jenny together in olid founda- Jans for my open-handed venty acres, ' built along neans. He gether was ^ ly doings— * w we could f purchase 'or Bridge- sh things.' ings wer€^ ^ -and j|ne ontinuous churches, \ out and is means, e poured '' him, not ' one can iat East od come kindred ator be- I hardly , ■^ r^wis AMONG MY^P^lENDg AND NEIGHBORS^ * ^ « Throughout our work together, and since, my old associate In ' stuaUoT^Statf '. "7' ^^^^«P^"P ^^ tireless LttirZt A^ ' situation State street^was stasted westward, but blocked bv ofcheriT who wou^d not consent to' thJWension ;h?ch aT^rwards ther craved. Iran,stan averlue was la»wnbytim tCugh a La2 and mud creek, where tides (dyked olft by hiJi) flowedl^^^^^ iTht "''''. "^1 '"^^^ ^""' °" ""^^ bordered with ^s aSd walk? fluA-A^'t!^ and enterprise, this avenue now stretches a mUe of splendid thoroughfare, and is the weStern entrance to our park ^ Side Park Cfi^r'"? '"^"T""' T"""" *"^"^'« ^^^''P^^^ " ««- " - side Jr-ark. its fitness for such use Was, by himself and other LiV mgston^, disco^red about the same tim; Is wJdLefl K^ M llZZ'^y"^ '\' T"^*^^ ^^^ «^ •^^^«^«' Seaside has been made f \ narn^f „nf ^ ^"^ Pleasure ground for our people forever/- >rhe' names and generous donat bna nf thn»a ™v,«c„ i„/j ii-_-..-j iT v-"^.^.> J nom/^o or, J :i--- !--.»« .^xv. g.uuuu lur our people lorever^The pa;.^0f ^the tract have ^ iZ^liZP :T ^T iJ::"! day of unexampled charities and lar|e.handed benevXnce Ina tZ ^^'^r n1\°^ '^?'^^^"'^«' ^^^ ^ilHonsrarr^^^X S Jttot^ '^'^ ^^''" ^" ^'^^^'^°^ vaHou/objects of I^^^^^ whicii ben fits trir^^T' ''r^^' "Shtly of that use of Stan wnicn Denefits the mo>t and reaches most. I do not know that anv one way or purpose sh^^ld be set down for all ; >«ep, tSKdivTnJ ha?a'cl?r' hirr.l'' ^\«"- J^^gjuent. Each 'acts'a'ccordi'-ng to hi» character habits of thought, and life. Let all give for goJd dup poses, as they are wont. He maj rest well satisfied wTthTs work who appeals thereby to the bett^ instincts of the rac^f-^b „stead 6f devoting his Wealth to the waTfs arid ovetburthened of li?; mTes opportunities for self-help, homes and industry for others ;rode norl'wt ''r f ^'^'?.'^ ^"^^ ^" improvement as East;Bri^^^^^ port where tke chance of hom^s and industries, and all the strS tosmr^o\V^'T ^^^.^ g^^^- -o"-^ those homes are mfde possible to every willing toiier. Our townsman, Howe made hia millions out of the profits of his great invention " But ioTconU with 1^ possession and holding as an unproductive fund he devotrd tn^mlor^ -^'^^ ^-- ^^« -me and'gives brlal th^'tMst'^f'tLr."'."''.' '".' friend and guest, have so administered thj trtfst of their talents and means, as to bring prosperity imbrove- g^tg ful r e co j^olt i ofr of dutie s w ^ H-d their fellows id the community in which thev live. Subh^estimonrto merit t, 1 '1 ^30 ■rsfw^ A. '#>IV rBIBI.ns AND NEIQHBOBg.- At- ' •"' " mapirw imih giver af,v? mccivar with « km^i , <• n W^^^'^'^'^y^- ovations to .soldiers • wi.v .w./V ^ «/ na'y fellowsbib. ^Wo rir. - : h.tfc her vicWs her o^'^"'^■■^r^"'>'^«"««« well? Pe^L wcihli. There i« Dowor n Z ' "^""sWring to happines^ and world. T believe fnTJ«a s^'^d'C " j"'^'' '"-^ the busSe^ of 21 who. 8quMi4r fe„,««h *^? and storeys of T T' '^T ^^ ««"^"««C path 8 desolation-but in iar^and t ^''^'j^-^^'^^efwealth, whose organize the industries of thrZld"wh^'—' ^^ «"^''"^ and . ^ -and channels. where flow the bu v'throL"''?^ ^" '^' *^" ^^O"" «well the flood *,nd direct i^s current I), u"?*" ^''''^«^«' ^o who tunnel mountains, unite oceans w/ T *^"*' Pathways ; »ron nerves and arteries of intercourl a^d f'^^' ""^ "^''^°« ^^^h . world with speaking fire '"'^'°''"^«« ^^d commerce j who girt the a- whole, commri'^'^i^: „"thl'n™^"/rn' ^-^^^' ^ow much booking towards tfie ^od nf .1 P^''^^"^ Casars in all works , May tL our guet^anT^rir^d t oTr pL^"f fr^^^ ^^«^"- do among us as in the past but xvH, „», P^*^j?^"J Caesars, live to earnest heip. Long may blbo/o e thtr3ii"l-T^«^ '^"^ »^°re ^ ■ nacl^ at AValdcraere mark.s his^mtnTn ^P^^hichfrom the pin- . note^an absence from•w^tl.tetT;l-l^et';^'""' ^'^" ^--"^ ^o alike tlT'lSji^S'S^^pf.^t^lhS" "' General Nohle received >at down Mr. Barnum ar ' .'i.^ '' W.'' ^"^ ' ^"^ ^^en he such an enthusiastic gre dn<: a v .i'^I^f teinpest ^f cheers and speech was inrerruptcd witl w' n7 ^^, ^^"^^'"-^ ^^« ^^art. Hi* prominent mep, who ha^l el 11 en J^?'""'^ ' .""^ '"« ^""«ons to port^Nathan^WheelV J C C^^^^^ '" ^[^^"g "P Bridge- "^ were greeted #h specia and nrXi t"' ^'^^" and. others- happy hits should ha?e beerftarToT. '^T' ^-^'^^ ^^^^ "'a-- following is an outline of ^^ P^^P^g appreciated - /V , • MR.. BARNUM'S 8PEE(^ * p*, yo:i7'mo^t7r:%^^^ &ffer t^^^ "^™- 'i ^'ff- your esteem; Nq-^^ of mine Lt 1 spontaneous expression of which I owe yonJ^mi; "' '" ^^^'^'' '^' ^^^t of gratitude " Among all the WrsPliilttb^^ ... of an active and oimlm^m^lTl''!t'^'^''^^^^''^ ^^^<^e'>aes ^V, n «!S ^ia^&A ',* V4^«j4iSi. /*■ ell? Peace unjphs, lesr^V. jpiness' and ine^ of that, f conquest, alth, whose gineer and B ten thou- x. workers, to ur mighty pathways ; itions with »o girt the • great his union, in evil. If low much all works liey live. 's, live to md more ' I the pin- iscend to received when he eers and rt. Hifr isions to Bridge- >thers — AMONG MY FRIENDS I offer lion of atitude 3cesse8 %^,i AND NBIQHB0B8. 401 stand odt a rerf letter day on the calendar*bf my hisfoW. It will be Aj!!^yi!rlir?^"y^^T^.^\''^'"®" and any children 'b children witlj. feelings of joy «nd thankfulness. ' / " It is no trifling thing for a man of the world, of actit« temped- ment and positive ideas, to have so lived as to have won tKe- esteem and confidence of the general public ; but it is an honor inestimable to become a<)* exception to the divine maxim, ' A prophet is not with- * out honoiL i^e^n his own country and his own house,' .ind to be l22j|(°""'ti<^u°* I did not exneet to l^ ^ , * autumn, I said to my poor wife and I did noT Indeed I fXh'r"'"' '^'^^^^^ ^^^"^ wLJemerel ful^d heathy J:^t^^^^^^^^^^ ZZl''' ^"- ^^^'•«^- fineand^etLlTirvto^:^^^^^^^^^ ^-" -^^^-^ed for its . has been'during Ihe I^^ ?o "/; ars as therff^ 7T''' ''*^ ^'^^^^^ number of persons livimr hoZ IT' ^ '^ ^^"^^y- *° unusuaF ■ ninety^e and even In A ? }^^^ "^^' "''"g^ ^'"0™ eighty-five tc such are now HvZ here ^ Th r^ •^''^'" "^^ recollection, and many^ "OZONE," whi^scientific exn^n ' "J \S'-^'^\^^g'-ee. attributable to. larger quantity In the ^ oVnT" ^l' demonstrated exists in ' localit/on thil continent .^"^^^P^^^ ^J^"" "> ^^at of any other ; 'reC^e1?icfaSo'n"th'etr 1 1 T"% r ^1?" '^ *^^ -- -^^^ *^ his terrible injurL ^o the hirl K "". "l ^' ^'*''^ his lawyer depict . - -|pt Jho^^^;;^^ ^--^ declared he Ld becaus^^':ruld^\^fe t ^^"^"' ^^^ -^generously stated, it is . Jong residence I could 1 heln 1""^ ',f '" »"^g^P«'-t »« my life- Wty and its' prosperity I fadanl'. •" ?J ^7'' '' »^^ ^ '^s tionaid had no desire loi'^npnH ^ ^^ '", ^^^ P'*°« ^^ "J «elec- I felt a pleasure in lav 1 ^r ^ ""^^'^ elsewhere ; consequently . ing hilf/Xt gVo^and "crories^'^H'^t^-^^^^^^ ''"^ '-- manufacturers to^ome among us '"'^""'"^ ''P'*'^'"^^ '^^ ' -orn'nfof'ttaft^ved^et P«^-« ^he " the cost, But theoinrJ; • ^^"^'^ withdrew his 'suirand paid ing a trial The iul« 1 M t '''"u '° '^"""^ *"^' ^""^^d "Pon £,tf:X '" Nebber minVdff ' ? ^'V^f '"'* '^^ withdrawn. ^ T ' ca,; de p,^rntt' hlLtoTt^rorr ^^^^-"' ' -» ^-^e- ing, or"th: ptmi"ng of 'I fel^ir/^^^;^' ' "^^ f ^^•'«^' » "^ ^""^ .v.-'-' en% roar.' < *4S.»'*'tiiAK-ifi f!3 ating a spirit ic tpirit, that 2, and rented ^ear f I had 3d that most •^ew London, I preferred my opinion* ly poor wife /^aldemere — lost delight- ated for its d that there an unusuaf ghty-fivetc could recall I, and many •ibutable to, id exists in ' any other 5 man who yef depict ' red he had tated, it is is my life- add to its my selec- isequently tnd lower- alists and " before the and paid ipon hjtfT Ide case, 9W- build- g thing g, A.-'*'' ' AMONG MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOKS. ' 40J f2^! ^^r^l""^ *^* Irishman in the scrimmage at Donnybrook Fair was: 'Wherever you see a head, hit it ' j uuk nf"Ju '^'^^ 7^ ^ *"^^^' whenever I see a swamp-hole or a bit- of salt meadow, I want to hit it. "Some persons present will remember that when I built Iranistan a large brook crossed Fairfield avenue betwfeen Iranistan and the homestead of Ira B. Wheeler. Travelers stopped to water their iT^l f lfl°i. ^ «alt-meadow swamp set up close to the south side of Ian-field avenue and boats came up to the street When I bought the swamp, filled it up; and turned the stream into a large stone sewer, CdI. Hall sued, or threatened to sue me, f^ob^ structing navigation! That entire swamp meadow is now solid pJ^'^f '^""^ '*? ^^''t ''^^" ^ ™*''« improvements, I do it with an eye to future profit. I am glad to acknowledge that this is gene^ whih r'^lf ''fi^'"^^ "'^^^ '^""^ expensive improvements, which I felt sure could mv,T repay me, but I am glad to have it Understood that mine is usually a %rofitahle philanthrope^ I have ZtTVl ^l r^'^T^ °^r^ «*■ ^ philanthropist if any othe? sense. If by helping tho^e who try to help themselves, I can do it without ultimate loss, the. inducement |^ all the greater to me ; and If by improving and beautifying our cit^ and adding to the pWe and prosperity of my neigjibors: I can £m at a profit the incentive to good works will be twice asstrong^^'^f it were oth;rwLe ,till s„^t fh T ™""^ '?.^^! ?""^""" ^^^^ t«««b«« persons to sit of nth!r« t'k r"^'" *"*^ \^'^' '^?^^^^ *»^ '«dged by the charity LJ^- Yr^ ^" ^'^'^'"^ P^«PJ« t« be active, indiistrious ^conom^cal and temperate. Above all, I believe in teaching the saTdZt?tis?r'^-M 'r^' ^^ ^^^ ^^'^« Emerson, whfn t a^fh AariV •^''' KK ' ^'' T "*" ^^ '""^ "'^ '"J"'-^ ^«ther without, else ?TJ- '''""' '""^^'l? and injuring himself more th^n anybod^ of nat,L't r* '" ''*'^'"^ f^"' "^^ wrong-doing and all violations of nature s laws cause us to lose our self-respect, our manhood and herZ T' «^ •"^"t'"^' '' '^'' '^ ^« ^°>P«'«ibi« to gain anything n A' ^Z"^ ^^'' ^.*^"'^^y '«' *« ^••'^"'^'in said, the^est ^LltcT^ Ihnl^^t '"/"^ '^T '' "^"'".^ ^h« best nefi ng the community by giving employment to working peopk Budgepurt. When 1 first settled here 1 knew nothing aSmaS new streets, erecting buildings, laying out pleasure-grounds, etc' ^ -7^ ^- \&J,.sbb^M 'A-^-l.i-«^^iif:y^'k^if^\i.« , isiana oi Cuba. I went to a plants, indigo ind coffee te'sl.r^ ^' ^'^ ^""''"^«' I"^'» ^^^^ber over the varioue rare'plant,, wiufwS ttlVounX'.bo ndtd made numerous select ons for Waldemprn n„ Ii • ^?^^^^> »"« . grounds, my neighbors disco'Jed'drtv^lM.r^^'^^^^^ them in my giad'r;nt::t yo:"„or"carfsitT^ '^^-r^ ^^" ^- ^- grateful I am for the^kiidness and delltr"f ^l^«»V««yi"g how shown in deferring on this occL.on to n v''' ,^r^h°"Kht you have talism for thirty years T trZ V ^"5''° advocacy of teeto- u- jolly, and ^^Zt 'oXw^^Xr^t^'^^.ri'a^^'t'T whaU a;ways desire my patrons to ^o-:L!^L:1Z'TJ:± R8. i knowledge of improvements,' I during several enue, and it so een two pieces I might want m, the reputed wished to buy. •n. * Well, I'll yours ,80 as to now which salt y wagon and I away we went, ece of marsh, ow these three lys vexed that e dollars ; the- I went to & India rubber ial knowledge 'S of Iranistan these shrifbs 8, which were made me up e fifty dollars, ad purchased F weeds com- beautify the 1 the Crystal a. I looked abound, and them in my levcral other ell you how saying how It you have icy of teeto- it$ will keep "lage to do orth of AMONG MY FRIENDS AND NEIQHBOBS. 405 J^""- Bamum sat down amid prolonged applause, and wheti that had subsided and the band had played an appropriate air, Ge6rg« Mallory, Esq., chairman of the Dinner Committee, announced the next regular toast, " The Municipal Government of our City ; may Wisdom guide and govern the deliberations and acts of its council, and Ability and Honesty the execution of its laws." ^ MAYOR R. T. Clarke's speech. After responding directly to the toast, Mayor Clarke said : " When I first came to Bridgeport, somethiftg more than twenty years ago, I used to take an occasional walk after bank hours into the country. I enjoyed the fields, the quiet, the almost complete ^ solitude of the uninhabited regions through which I strolled. The scene would be enlivened now and then by the flight, part play and pan fear, of some squirrel bounding along a stone wall. Next there ^•^ifiSlf °^°^® * glimpse of civilization in some cow getting her living' .. ^in^ve-acre lot of daisies and sorrel, bounded by a moss-grown and v^|#n«rable rail fence; and once in a while aboriginal scenes would - T^-^ppear in an encampment of New Milford or Kent Indians, who had strayed for a few weeks away from home. Where did I go for these walks of mine ? Not very far. That was East Bridgeport wjien I first came here. There were the houses of a few old resi- dents on ' the Point.' The rest was mainly fields, and as much country as Tashua is to-day ; and it is a fact that I have more than once seen Indians encamped in the woods which were in those -day-s near the east end of the present railroad bridge. " The change from that time to this is very much like a dream. I need not tell you to whose enterprise it is that we are mainly in- debted for that change. We have him here with us as the guest of the evening. I will not enter into those particulars which have and will be, no doubt, thoroughly discussed by the eloquent speakers to whom wo are to have the privilege of listening. I will but say, , in a word, that no one can compare Bridgeport as it was with Bridge- port as it is, without an impulse of gratitude towards that genius of industry, sagacity and boldness in whose honor this meeting is given, ' o -j^^**^ ^^^^^ *'*" ^® *" ^^® y®**"* ^ °°""^ "° impartial history of Bridgeport written which shall leave out the name of P. T. Barnum." Mayor Clarke was liberally applauded, and " when the tumult dwindled to a calm," he announced the next toast, "The Manufao. turing and Commercial Interests of Bridgeport," and called upon Hon, Nathaniel Wheeler to respond. He was received with a very ?*-f.?."^ ? ""^P^ appla use, and after some pithy and appropriate **K>«lr Wio jrvwA-xrf-the city sod its uiniiiftotliTSi, lld^oonF — r' 1 •^ .^iJi^^^' gl MiiiiittiM i iiiiiii^iii i ^BM i^ ■ 4^ 4o6 AMONG MV PRIEND8 JIND NEIGHBORbT •s*«y mamer, ,„d would Z to tV^ . Tf " >".« =»>-°-- • doing its duty and Bavin.. ?abo,- S tC n P """J^ ^."" ^"^ ^"d it Go to Asia and you wiTl find it «nH ^ ^""^^1'-°^ ^'"^ «°""*'-y- . "I wish to have it un erstood Vhn7 ''^'" '" i^^'"'' '^"^ -^^P*" of all this business, and iTrtlaS to h/r^' ^''^u'^' foundation souna his praise We did Zf In I ^ ''^'^ ^"^ ^°"«'" ^i*" and ful specime'n of hpl^l^^r'lTth^'?"'"^ "'"^ ^^^ some wonderful product of th« L! Tm V"""*"' '^^^^ ^« ^'«w ^aughter.)-we came here to honor~fl^- ^^'-''Tt' *^«''«'« V^^ '"as al- plause.) ^ ^ ^ ^"*" "^r money's worth.' " (Ap- Pre'^sTto'^Sh MrV^c'wa'n ''' ""^ -g"'- -ntiment, « The " We have to n Iht i i 1*^° rcTonded as follows : indo^LbTe':ilUnd'';i Ht'of MTfitn ^"V ^"^^^^' P-everance, success; but one gre^at efement of tW ' ^'^"^[•^"^d to his' mentioned. No one knows betto th.n P T^r' ^'l "^^ •>**■> printer's ink! He values it nnVi '"'*".*^- ^- Barnum the value of to-day Uv. rMll hrrn g 1 ari^ "rj l^*^"^ ""1'^^' '^ ^^ -'g*'^ "_jimi ^uucaa wftft^rttjg^irfrowiirsD, exBibitiDg from t^rn^ ' r ** ■'P'i^W^i'-'''^^*' "^Wf iow to locating and generous sate here, take ng policy that lents. Among chuyler, Hart- ly others, and nd residences, tions as to a ^as thrift, life eatest induce- tr New York, best class of the effect of A, that when- ie here, they nt from our raily on the are stamped Conn.* You ssented in it the skill of > the homes 1 will find it the country, and Japan. ! foundation or him and me wonder- ye to view ' Mermaid !' as honored ind has al- h.'" (Ap. lent, " The rseverance, Md to his not been e value of h e migh t AMONG MY FBIBND8 AND NEIGHBORS. ]I?l^'ln t'^^f '^^ ^'''^ '^^ "^ ^«»d he undoubtedly is of t 1 y u ha?r rZT (^PP^^-«). Mr. Barnum h^ms^'wHI ink I Luld hL«^ *°r' ^°^r"P^^"g' 'Yes, without printer's iHK 1 snould have been no bigger than Tom Thumh f'^ lU,. p . what . tzJZij^^' fiv^Ti i" '''"'»'''■ ^ "■" *=" y»- e«aied irno Tw„*i'„ the SL „\" ^' ."1™"™«'«"' t., been Ihlt^Z m'' ^^''^ *^?^'- S.hakespeare made Mark Antony sav It SlirH ■ ' f"-? ? «- JH them." (Applause ) ^ ""'" ^° ''^'^' ^^" "^°« »f^«r LX "■" °"^ °' •■" "■"P"™' ""i '■O"- the place of hg Mr. Nichols received heirty oppl«u«e. ™ 'sp'undiditK'Tl™' V""" ''y J'"*8° S. B. Sumner. It duoed We .i Jl''"''?' f"^,">«tJ"'lge Sumner has eve? pro oanassn™ them ?K •" ''•'' °'!'°,5" ''i " '"'''»«' »"•• ""J-'rs, a"d jje .5.^' ™e£ a:ii:eTft:v^„t:i;LfoJi'"''k^ri' . ^ -^Z- ' Prom town -.»• /■■ 408 AMONG MY FRIENDS AND NE1GHB0B8. JUDGB S. B. SUMNER'S POEM. ' * * » # * # And now .he »^W>^^ 'Ztl'lf^S^Z'Z "" '"""''• ^ An author and an ecfitor, a student ami a teacher I " Of T ' "'^ evrer-ready fund within his ^rehouse amnl« • •jit^*.j , tj T - -^ ( ' ' tv.i 1 ; I. i wonder. ♦ » * » in; axm, r comb : am. ure, : bigger I known him, rn him ; ut tells V' - AMONG MY i^IENDS ANp NBIOHBOBS. , 409 voting him „ . brick ■ and compliJemill^dinn"" '. Instead of vc TlJlf*"* ""r '''''^- '/ »nd««tood, and thoroughly inferred ^ onaii place his statue, I predict, within the Seaside' Park I ' AaU^L ,y grows apace, an ever crescent fnmo / ^^ As halo, shall surround Lr pristine BeneSrrnlme. An o.,e up Tan™, S^/^S? .rVS:°.S"l,».,^ , An°d^"k.'t'„L"hVoS'°". Ag«n.t.tUe,.noM.wordandl«J,„f„^i;rOri„„, ■ . Pnl ™7t°l"ll''' <'T"«n»« 'ke brink of H«ie.' craler No. ««, U,. ,.e h„ ,a;S; -iir, .nSeL'T™l„'ji:L.H. !,„„ , Hia remarks o'ommanded Irfed .Uo„ti^^;,V'''^"°'■^^."P'"''• hearty applause. " The Vetor.n. J .t Lu ,1 »PP"<>'«''" and «.0»l,td 'J'^ff^J.^-^f'?"^ "'^-y fnend U, .,oid ev.,nhi.: wiQniated to offend the mn„t. , ;„| i„.,,. ilt^T/,.!^,".",'" l '"y'r^S W« young: f At^DlanM^ R„f :. ■ iJ^S^ orTnisleid llioiBinJbr / «. (.Appiau.,.; But It ,s said Barnum.a grand humbug. F /- V<.itti4. ». '^ittHE4> £l»-(id ' ,.<*-. .'i.tnrtmonts of our work, we claim Mr. B. as a faithful /earnest laboi'or. We all know how devoted he has been for years to Jho cajuse of temperance. In all our churches, as well as in public - Iia Is, his manly, persuasive voice has been lifted up against the evil. Ai 1 li *^""^'"f^ ^'ows ho has dealt upon the face of this mod- ern Molo«h, at who.se fiery shrine thousands are yeariy sacrificed Ihe cau*« of temperance is the cause of true religion. In the name \. Jtttf^" V^". I ^.«Jrt.,'^ ._J" L/- ■' *"' : 1 sentimenti gatWalde- U as it does in honor of h and the n to speak, Jev. B. W. ', the Rev. that this as needed hands of „ Bridgeport ,\:. -^.. / 'r ft ^,!% • /' CHAPTER XLVm. 1. HIPPODROMICAL, HVmENIAL AND MUNICIPAL. i.jfl'l/"^^' ^^"^h ^"™f,"8« canvas tents wore made of suffioieiiripal ^ Th«. rr'^-t^X *" "y ^'"'*^ ^°'""" HippodroTho performances.' .IkI- 1 '7 -D^^ """^P^"'^ °*^ removing the whole Hippodrome es abhshment to Boston for a three weeks' exhibition, cost me nearly : fifty thousand dollars. During the three weeks' exhibition in Boa-- ton, the tents were crowded each afternoon and evening with th^ most delighted audiences. Excursion trains on all the railroads leading to Boston brought thousands of visitors to the Hippodrome 711^' ^^^ '!"' ^'''"" ""^ ^^^ ^"g'^"d papers, secula? and religious, without exception, were loud in praise of wJiat all ^okno^- ixrSnlv r T- *' *\^.,^?^^ gorgeous, extensive, instructive and expensive traveling exhibition of which we have any record f. p1T«^ r^°" u® ^"^^'^ Hippodrome was transported by railroad Roftnn "i^KH"^ ''/ * success^as achieved fully equal to that in In' .T^^e .Hippodrome afterwards visited- Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Uncmnati,everyjvhere- drawing immense prowds, and opened again m my great Hippodrome building in New York, in November,' ThlT^r 'T^^ "'''"u^'' '^ *^°'^"^ " ''^''^ "^ the American public oinfiln ?w'^\"'^ be witnessed again in this generation. lam confident that nothing less than my. reputation for forty years as a liberal caterer for public instruction and amusement, would have n.Z?i -/y'"^ r'?°"'' ^ '"y "^«>^«- The great religious com- munity aided mostly in sustaining this hazardous enterprise In the autumn of 1874 I married again. My second wife is the daughter of my old English friend, John Pish, Esq., whom I have embalmed in the thirty-second chapter of this ^ook^ under the tX of 'A« Enterprising Englishman." We were mWied in the Chu ch of the Divine Paternity, Fifth AvMue, New York, by my old and esteemed fnend, the Rev. Dr. Chapin, in the presence o/memb^s lliSl -A^J ^"'^ * ^"'.^^ gathering of gratified friends. After a bnet bndal tour, our wedding receptions were attended at Waldemere. q»nL; I'T^':. ^^?^' ?'' ^^^'^y' ^^""'^ Kalakau, King of the Sandwich Islands, visited New York. I invited the king and his ^ite to attend the Hippo drome, which thev did on ih^ ^ftlr -^oember^ZCTB. i;uri%ltHe entire performance I was seated by the side of the king, who kept up a pleasant conversation with me '^•■ for a couple of hours T ♦^^i - by no m/ans the fiSt tLefCZ'X' 'f^^ ""> ^'^^^ '^^^ -- • rojalty as he would see from inv booW ^?°^r of "entertaining" copy of which he had acceded L^""* hand^^e presentation expressed himself highirdeSe^w^" "^ ^^^"^^"•^^ ^^y^ He . he was always fond of Wses 'd -^""^ ^^^'^^^^inment, and said persons were present, and When thl Tv^i?;*^""^" '^^^"^^ thousand ished they cal^d loudly'^he kL J S ^'^^ ^- His Majesty inquired tL-meanfn "^of thf« T^C^- ^"^"'"S ^« '»«, jesty this vast audience undoubtldlv J- ^Vied: " Your Ma Th.s building is so lafge that thPvl/ f? '^ ^''^ ^^^ an^vadon ty from evefy part, a'rfd ar anxk.Sri.^'''^"''!^ T ^^"^ Majfes-' • ThTkt^^^^^^ ^h^t theyTar^etVu V, «^o^^4 "de around cal^^^^i^: fZS ffe%^^r^^-ee commenced ij'^' '"•<»"«' "lei circle " '^ ""* ""''nago with me - fteppeYi^irjat^i "rir'' ""'?'f T^"""- -"--ring, he ' mriy remarked, .„„„ S:,,'..^ ^^Tl '">', '''^,^'<'e, and he la! The audience rns^ ♦« fU • i- , ^^' actors." • chiefs as the kTnrrode ar-nd tt T' ^"^^^^^^ ^^^-^ ^^andker The excitement L Tnde'd'ttnlu:' "tT^"'^ '''' ^"^ ^--" a 1 the performances were finished and p-^^ ^'i^ '"""^^"'^ ""'^^ pleased with the whole entertainment ^ A '''^ ^"'"''^^ '' ^'^^'^^ paper in speaking of this event S ^ ^'°'"^"^"' ^^^ ^or^ ^pondinr^^tnt^-^ -^- |3<;j;;^yn King Kalakau's re- nding around the Hippodrome rin^ ^Z * V^^ "^^^^^*"d« by or other distinguished American Senfan th^,", '"!f ". ^^•^«^^^"' * have been considered as quite tb! t h n! • !? ' '^^P^n^ed, it would ■ - To Europeans, however' ifwill ll "^ '" %' republican country. ' astonished thai any mai on ^irwoul7b^'\''".\ *^3^ ^i" ^^ to propose making a show ofTltrno- ^ ^^ve had the presumption n»ay not be the m?st extensive in the^worM^'^.' '^^"' '"^ ^'"^Sdom our opinion, the only hufcian hi ^ T^ ^' ^""^ ^^ °o°fess that, in the temerity to sho^ up a kinriL" w' 'T'''^ ""^^ ^^^^^ ^ive . T. Barnum." ^ '"^ '' °"^ worthy countryman, Phinea» I trust that King Kalakau saw no " ^emenf v " :• ^ Mall events, he seemed to enmv M^ r^fZZ^ ? "^^ proposition, they Bay in whist. <' the bono" 7,,7„,7.?P^^"P> ^^^ «o did I, and. » rt this warf ertaining " esentation day, He V and said thousand t half fin- ig to me, S^our Ma^ JoQvadon. ir Majfes- e around HIPPODROMICAL, HYMENIAi:^,.^^l„GIFAi. It is said that « It never rains but it pours ' and iust at thi« f ,™o ^ breakfast with C hZ J^^afZ LrrH:r"Sk°S seemed we l-nltPd'-; "?/" "^"^"""^ ^"°« before, and he He said hi h^TtA regard to our country and its institutions 1 accepted the compliment as cracefnllv a« T ««„u j ,oo„ conversing socirny withouresS laughter . ° ""^ ^^ ^'' ^^^^"^^ '» hearty, unrestrained • .how ' that "untr);^ ''"' "'"'^ '°'^""»" "^ t"^'"? « Peft- In March, 1875, the nomination fof Mayor of the ni.^ „f n -j' ■• > . ^Mi ' ^^^f^NlAL AND MUNICIPAI,. ffKwnr nun.. -'_ _ J. xni;ru8tea as we arA Kn *i, , ^ «are and ^^mgemZoflh^t w"' ^^ ««'• fellow-citizens with th. ^ %bou?d L'^ ^^'. '^'^'" CertainV our^urir'"^"''^ ?*"«^ ^^« personal or parr& t "^ °' P^^^^ resentmen , nort^ e,!'! . ; degree conflic^t ^lhtu\Z7nlZT% ''^' '^'^ ^n 'L'^eLS enjoy a great common ^restp^^^^^^ As pitizeTwe ' - J^^^y ^o'jorate, and no Ser can b^ i'^?'^^ ^ »em\er of the -oppressed without injury to thp .?.• ""^^^^ J favored or unjustlv c^w1?r^'^*°^«^-»>-e' .' Cest'vT?"*^- .^'^ p--" - tor^ with what measure ye mete it «h»n ^ ^^^^'^^ ^'^e best policy ., A large portion of this hrnr»Ki i? L^^ measured to you aenin'' for the first time, and ^0?^.^'^/ T/"^ ««™8oS^ the deteils of its workingsTburwral°'l ^' ^^"^ -«qnai?ted ^th principles of Justice and 'Cfat If w i fr*'"''^ ^^^^ ^he gTeat these ^eternal principles, we £av iL ^i'l ^ ^^^^ according^ tks our year of adminis rition wiJ^ be r^T^^K^'^P^^^^^^ i" »« ani tionjind contempt. ""''' ^^ remembered with disapp^ba ^ ri^"'''^^^^^^ ^"^ --P-'^ensive monious nor extravagant, but Hkl „ . i ^\n^ay be neither parsi- • <*«^^!, «..„«f.cture, and cZjrc ZT,-'; '»?"' 'i P™""" locality makes it also a desimhj! f i , delightful ;md healthv stnye to enhanoe its n.t„r.rh? f " "°.'' ""^ 'esideDoe. We shS P"v,„t, „ faJ a. pi e'^:o'i;S«,'"'' "J""'' " » »- -inty to Ihe last report of our ChLf ^Tx>v P^'^ental spirit. « ful duty, yet Jandor compl'^^^P;^'- -^^ •; " '^- a sa'd and pain- of the causes of all the arrests during thlf ' ' ^'*'.^ "'"^^^ Percent, to the immoderate use of intoxtplf?^ r ^®" *^^ directly traceable poverty and misery It hfs TsedT^^i, :rwh-'r^ ^ «Peak o? the under ou; observation." families which almost daily come m the town of Vinelaad, NT j ^u„ , . *^ d. IV J , ^h ,,, ,^ in to»i o>ting drink, a,t> * 2IPAI,. zens, with tho s to endeavor mes called the our pleasure ts a good and •tial to none. We are not or to extend the remofeest s citizens we ember of the ■ or unjustly person or best policy, you again." ng officially ainted with th the great ccording to in us, and iisapproba- prehensive ther parsi- ever care- it should > promote - 1 healthy ^e should and, with means we r duty to ther, and » ^nd pain- per cent, raoeable t of the Ij come inks are wd thai the entire polCJZ^Tjittt'"'''''' '" '''■ """'h,, . y«.r, the sum paid to him, 3 the doo^ °f-^'=>"'"'J'-«ve dollars pe^ . .trictions on t\"%'a';s ttl'^tTan"! ""'"t ""^^ ^^^ re- iicense to cause mohl riots bIoo7«J T '^^''° 5*^" "S^<^ ""^er such has, or can have, any righf L ^^^^^ l^^^^^^^^" Hence no luan to intoxicated persons, L to^TrS Zml'7v' '" ^^'P^"«« ^i^"°" cation. Our duty is therefpre to see thatZ T'' 'l '^"«« '»^«^i- to the extent of their legal power a fr!ffl ^i? 'f ^'^^" regulating wholly prohibit, spirituous Hquors of th ""^''^ T ^*^« <*<> °of adulterated and doubly poisoned that ft ^"""'l' ^^^ "« «« »^»«h dnves their victims to madTess ^ ,1- ^"'^ ^^' brain and annually expended for i toxica in rirfnt ""^.T'^^''- ^he ni^ey results in Bridgeportor rv oTh'r^A^""^'' ^""^'^^^ «o«t of their evU is licensed, would^ay the entfr« - '"'""/l*^ ^^^''^ Hqaor-sellW not drank), includfng\he pS Xo^ '^ '^' "^^/^f ^^ to every poor person of both sexes .h/' 7 %T^ ''''' '^ «Jothes - family living within its municind h/ 5"' ^^ ^""•' ^ every poor surplus on hand. Our e^ormTuJ e,n? '7' '"u^ ^'''' ^ '^^"dsome ment of criminals, as wel? as for .h'^'"'"' ^°' '^« *"»> and punish- caused by this trkffic. SuTeirthen it^ff'^ '^' P««^' -« «^«i°ly legally, to limit and mitigate its e\il a'"' ^""'^ '' ^" ^" ^« ^'^n, drunkard ^ho did not silceret rlJ^.* i ""1 P'"°" ^^^'^ became a intoxicating drinks, it is a wol oTlrll ^" ^^ ^'^^ ^^«^ ^^^^d matio marshes serve to make our« - 1^ ?."^ '^« absence of mial America. S :.ntific exn™ imeSts m«I . '^' T'' ^''^'^^y ^^^ies in last vear have egtablishKe flThl, ^''''^^"""S the whole of natecT with ozonb, or concentred ox Jl ""f "''"^^P^P'-e is impreg- di-covered on this' continent No^u/r^h "" '"*'"' "°^ ^''^''^ » so extensively known throughout onrnl f^T 'T ^" ^™«"o*> Bridgeport. It should be our Z„-- * """^ '" ^"""^P* " ■drantages wh,>h wo pu,., J,"; ^'^ ^^ ^" .«^^^,"f?thcn al) n.Miral oTwrr^onding exoellenr ^ ^^ mwotaining a government ,1 1* .^\-!lA !tJ \ ^*I,^S^ 418 HIPPODROMXCAL, HVMENIAL AND MnNlCIP^ the Water Work8,.or reS the wJ^r%^ «^°"'<» 0^° and controi ular and reliable supply 8uffici«nf>nt^/L^°"'P''°y ^ ^"""^ a reg- ^ the people. I invite^our ^ serioL .'n7 r •' "'^^ "^^'^^^''^^ "^ tion of « the water question ^ ^ dismterested considera- W^ari^lS^^^^^^^^^ ^y r-e tempts to ' Massachusetts, California »n^ 1 ^* '*^® practice prevailinir in vhi. example will be entitled to approb. [on JJ ''«'''" "ho eeto no drones. ™°°®y P*»<* ^im. We should support .nd^fh« tr'o eSrS '^'Z.t^'^' «°»«"-"j "".ployed, .PO«„edi,, their wron^ d„i„^ ' "'"' '"PP""' ""J ""o «pen.^ As cleanliness is conducive alilro *« i, 1.1. mend that we establish one or moL floatW h M^ "^'''^'^^^ ^ '«<«'"»- night be free, and the rest sublet t'l^« ^f,'^?' » P^''*'**" of which "&/ quite' cover thel.^'ir of r w ole""'' "'"' ^^»** it ^^y^::i':^^t^i:::^^^ {'ot^ ^none, on which a surplus, we shall, as is mlmZT .^^^''- ^^^ "'^y ^^-^asury h,8 where it will draw in" JruttrnYered'''" °^^'"' P'*°^ ^^" "- '^ to Bee^nI"„'/?oun:ir"'X^^^^ P^^'-" of <>- People whose highest aVirSs seertob^f'"''' *^ a^mulkude or at base .ba^, bSliards etj ^' '° ''"''^ '^''' ^i'"^ '" idleness abou^KTndr^eVtr^^^^^^^^ " not over-fastidious heads) waiting for light wort *ni v! ^^ ^^ "^"^ "^^^ l»ands (and a loaf than bfg or tfa Va wLle one'^'M- ^^^ :''°'''^ ^'' ^-'f by, and ready to respond^H^Lrabl« d^r" ""J*^ ^' ''"•^ »«*r a >ulticed pJte earn^r^a whkll ^"- '^*'*" " «J"^fe"»ble t? Micawbers stind witj f^ded hant walr"r"""T- '^""*' "»'> prevailing in f selling these ealer who sets pport. to perform the hould support lly employed, the expenseji lity, I reoom- tion of which which would ney on which treasury h^s this money r our people a "multitude e in idleness Jr-fastidious hands (and )rk for half ilwayg near Jvei* failing «ferable to ne modern to pass, as low him to hen multi- >n teaches ould com* 1 thev can or tobaooo It -i^ that we must rely od our oZ eie«7l T" "''i °°' ''"W '"^r, then will panicsUe" «d 7r„:p ref„t°"^tt" "t"!?-"^ no means unreasonably restriot wL! ■ "'' "" ''■""''i bv member that nimo i« Lrey"that?d^ TT™' ""^ »''°"W «• «nd that the peace prosDeriw .m) U T '',"*' "> ''"»'»"'' habits, in^ligenee, integritrS ^ anVfc ^;"S'r'\''tl!--' »" "■- My^ppodrome in IHYfi io"! ^ ^ . its inhabitants. United States, golig as £ Ist T P^''.?^ }^?" throughout the. Kansas City, M^iasoir " "ted a toS. ''""''' *^^ "^^ ^ notwithstanding the depressed sWte ^^f'^-^^y «"c«es8f«l season, - It.giv^i»je|ai« iorZZTil.T ^"*°°^^ generally. havi|madrhKi?v Wll'teo^L^roT^^^ our Hippodrome grounds arChTro-n I T^""%, Jtrl> 15, from wards. He took with him Mr mS' T "'''.' ^^"^ from 'after- Chicago y.v.«a/, whose body waffoundTrrt' \;'Pi'^^^^^ °^* ^^^ weeks afterwards Pmf n^ n ,'" ^*^« Michigan a few 5je eerrible ,"t^t w^-'il oc-^'Jt^rthttXf'T'^ ''"""« £:- b-utTt isi'ra t^xrb{f r v? -f ^-^^ ' last was his 138th ascension ™P"""' ''^ '" "l-" knew him. HiJ n«m';"d^"^^„nt"^^ch V'''-jm' '"t~ ^*"» -"" m- bt. «.", of Southpot E"g;,rfo n'Ifr iT.K ^^ Hutch?,^ our guest, duLgVheCtr Teav 'nf ':r'fl:/ ","■«•.'">» "»• Wife accompanied me to Akron ok; \ "®"^^ '^^ Niagara, my Pair was to exhibit On tll^n^^l^^^^^ ~ to come, the Mayor of Akro.i waited on ""'^^'^^^'^ ^he show was concert (where, i^ response t^ loud In " I Lv7' Z''' '"^'^^^ ^ * were afterwards serenaded at tZ hotel Th? * '^'^ 'P^"'^>' »"'* escorted to Buchtel ColioKe bv itsnrw \ ^**\"^*' "corning I.was Buchtel. and an old Sd Lt ^ P T " r^ ^"""^^'•' ^1' ^ «• ' would not let me off without a sneech ^/°'" '•"?»■ ^^'' *"^«»'» remarks which I hope ZxvIt.IIT}\ • f*""® *^*'™ » *'«w off-hand Keturning to Buffalo W 'rSd oul'fH I^'^'^r' "^ '^"^'^"• Niagara, and there, too, I mTthe Zn T '' ''^?'" ^« '«^ »' couple of days. Early rthe%S.Jl^°^'"T' T'^^"'^ ^^^^^^ de.pa^hed a special tr2 to" Nu' ^2 wl'^' T"'. ^^^ ^ our Hippodrome company to whn« T ^'f^««'n« hundreds of opportunT^^of seeing^tl^geVca^rLt n'^^'i^^''^ '^' ««•»' S^ w 42c. HIPPODROMICAL, HYMENIAL AND MUNICIPAL, f ' Chicago and St. Louis, being ten days absent from home I *n«..t most of the^summer at Waldemere, looking af^r thelterest? of the city, and enjoying the season heartil? with Z famTv ami fhends Our clam-bakes, picnics, charming%ountry rides ^^^^^ concerts m Seaside Park by our two best city bandsf and nui^rou, tlr.l^J "'"V," '^'^'"°'* ^'^""^'^y '^"^ delightful locality Tre ex ttarlVrhS^"' ^"' ^^"^^^ '"« ^>- ^« V -ch mo^rTp^id^,;: 'n..w'"^ *^^ autumn of 1875, under the^auspices of "The Rod ■ On NovemW 28, and followinR daye, I offered all m, .k„» !J?oric?s Fart"- r-^ r'"'^' -/HippoSe'L"d"a^.t; .J! M u^' consisting of museum, menagerie' and circus nron ' to Lv« J.^^J'"' ""'' ,'." ^^* "^•^*' «" surplus^stock, and henceforl to have but one traveling show, which, as^ver, should be as loo. as "joney and experience could make it.' T(f this end my agent^bii Zr '"p^ r^-1^ *' ^ T^^ "««' ""^ "«^ I «»« properly prepared f^r our Centennial year. My traveling show cons sted of' Museum Menagerie and Crcus of immense proportions, and I introduced natri' ' We took along a battery of cannon, and every morninc we firX fn tt ;[ f'T 'T- ^' '"^^^^"^^^ «-"P« -^ Tei cLumed . Mdess^o/Llrrt^ ^T"'"'"l ^'T'""^ Bupplcmented with th . Woddess of Liberty, a live eagle and some first-class singers, who w th a choru^fl of several hundred voices, sang the « Star^Spangled Banner and other patriotic .songs, accompanied w?th bands of music and also with cannon nlaced" outside Jur tents, and fireS Tn^L"L"^""'-''%. J'J^''^ «"•* P*^"^^'^ deminitration snging "America 'My Country, Tis of Thee"), the entire au- dience rising and jo bing in the chorus. At night we torminaled our performances wth fire-works, in which thrilling revoluTonary scenes were brilliantjy depicted. Our grand street processio, wa. ^ to add Jo 1 ?ff 1''^ iJ'P^" the patriotism of each town we visif^d 4L*4° ^^i^A?« qj; of o'^r National .T n hil,f by ri ng in g o f boU» at niH game ITm». ^Tv ass atant miin«.7Ar- »««: ZTt?-!? :_ i _ L '^m My assistant managers were my son-in-law, Mr. Mr. N . BIPPODBOMICAL, HYMENIAL AND MtJNIOiPAL. 421 etori of the European Menagerie and Circus, which I purchased entire and added to my other attractions. My official term m Mayor expired Apnl 3, 1876. I peremptorily refused a repotninatior ?w".nf IT \-^T''''u^ ^^^J""^ ""''^ my-grand Centenni^ show, and meet face to face. the millions of friends who, during th^ last year, have been my generous and I trust gratified patrons. NcwE.— During the forty years that I have been a manairer of Dublic amuM ments, ehe ntimberof^ny patrons has been almoS^incredibT F?Z a SSXl examination of my account-books for the different exhibitLs whkh Thavl owned and oontrofled I find that more than eighty-two m Hons of tfi^ete in the aggregate, were disponed of, and numeroiw^xiubitions Xch I hav* C a^ various times are not included in tliis statement. ' • The traveling exhibitions which I managed durlnir the ilx vears-nrMtKl lt&ndL'b7*'!^ °' "'" ^*'' ''"'' ^'ican K«.n^ 1^^^^^ '^dl,t;oy;dTyStn^^^ mI ^.H"*"P''lt^ Musruni, 1849. 1850 and'l861, wid : Z V;"";:^ ffiSS My Baltimore Muaeiim sold . -w " *'2SS'X2X L My^teavellng Asiatic Caravan, Museui^ and Mena^rVeTn mi-Mindi; ' ^^wfd"!'!!"'^*"^^^^^^^^^ "'*"'*^ ", aLt^Jlfii?^^Fn^^ 2^'^ « ueneral Tom Thumb han exhibited for me 34 vnars an 1 .->m «r:r''""" Thus, my patrons amount to^he enormous number of.! SiiSiZ} Of course, eighty-two millions of different individuals have not rUif-l «. P.T.B. :«■ N tA ar l£^^.^Ji * ^,'^'^'fw^^' %>: ■'f^tfi^^^X^'^ V ^ ohaptiTr xlix. 's FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC. ; ,^t^?"^^^^^^^ ^Jl^on from Lord ^ud his assurances that he ho^llTnAf f P'^^'"^^ at having met me, J^e, left no roomX eSra "w — ^ '"'""^ °"'^ ■, Our meeting at tho BVevoTrf Hn ^' ^'«g^^>ng« on this occasion • , took me in\is broughaT4 thrN^w V'7pT?'^'- ^^« ^^^^shTp learned that our breakW ™ ^'*®.^®^ York Club, and there I first •nd the chief editor of 1?^''°'^°' ^""« Martin FarquharTui,ner Tupper and ^ys^teLVa'ZTpon^r "^"^ .^^"3^ P^P- m" England, and the authdr of-ProJ^Tf^^n^ P'^7'""« '•« *»'« leaving ■ delighted at the unexpected ^Lh /^t^^rP^^^ " ^"s apparently The -occasion was an Txceedi^T^^^^^^ laughter aids digestL I a„^ ^aT-^'^^^J" «»«' '^P It Was a real boys' bohlc "an^T "i ^^' T- ^^n^^geries are AmeriBa. ' It was DuhH«X«J k 7i' , '^ ^ tion, a cdlumn. It u' sold in iL™ ♦ .• ^ ^7°'*''''*' "ot'«« io * third of ^ Co. ' * ^°^^ ^° -"'y traveling show, as well >^ by Carkt^ Ui . . . t ■ ' ^i^^SfeK^Ti^ r3^^^+j ikii4E^% '' %-r^^i. h^H^^ %>Yf^^'''iy^r^'sr~' Mpi FOREIGN AN©, DOMESTIC. 433 184*"w«£Sr^ °*?f /^^^We additions'to my.traveling show of 1877 were six beautiful and remarkably trained black Trakene StaL ■vZll''"'. T7- ^l ag««t«. Bailey and June, after scouring *-urope in Search of novelties, purchased them at large figures from James Myers, proprietor of the Great American Circus in Paris. . . I hey formed a novel and pleasing feature, and, with other startline thToM876 *° ^^""'^ ^"^ ""^ * '^'" more profitable season than On the lltii of April, 1877, my family were stricken with a heavy sorrow in the s.udden death of my'-daughter, Pauline T. Seelev at the age -of thirty-one years, leaving a husband and three children. Ihi9 blow would have been insupportable to me did I not receive it as coming from our good Father in Heaven, who 'does all things right. In July, 1877 I sailed for England, with my wife, in tlS Cuna;d steamer Russia, both of us arriving home eight weeks later in the Scythm of the same line. At the request of the captains and pas- sengers, I gave a lecture on each steamer for the benefit of the on^^th 'w'Pu" ^"/S^"^^«" i". Liverpool. I also gave my lecture on The World, and How to Live in It," several times in the Royhl Aquanum Theatre, London, in Alexandra Palace, London, Soutt- port Winter Gardens, and in Bolton. I likewise Fectured on Tern- pei-ance in Hawkstone; Hall, London, at which the celebrated Rev. Newman Hall presided ; and I gave a similar* lecture in Hengler's Circus buildmg^ Liverpool. The London EntrWte, the London fc J^^/vf ^^'^'*'/""''' ^"'^ '^^^'•*' ''^^^^ metropolitan papers, published ilfustrations or my appearance in the forum, and numerdug London journals gave favorable notices of my lectures. I was dad ' to meet m&uy of my old friends in England after an absence of eighteen years. I haVe n^riy as many personal friends in London as in the city of New York. In the latter city the boys often hai" me m the streets and ask me questions about the show, and a sim- ilar occurrence took place on this last visit to London. As I wai one day coming out from my hairdresser's, Hear Regent street, where it was known I weqt every day, a bevy of lads called me by name and in(juired if it wa^ true, as they had read in the papers, that I was going .to bfiiig over my Great Show from America. Ihe immense patronage which my own country bestows on^fiy efiorts 18 all that keeps me from taking my big show to Europe, where my name is as well known as in America. irZ i'v **"" (f "«'»»9. ^'"•^'^. a very popular weekly, of which Jl-dmund Yates, the novelist, is editor and proprietor, has a specialty Jn^^itsjssues headed "Celeb rities at Home." In this depart, uiuut havri aopeaTed skeiehes of Lord^^eaconsfield, Gladstone; Ten^^ nyson, Carlyle, John Bright, Spurgeon, etc. General Grant is the ■n • ^ \. a '*?*fi*T**W?'?'*^'5^'!'' FOREIGN AND DOMESTia Sff i)i??:'Xai;!^ t^^^f :^ fbrportraiture beiides mjsSll Englishman, the followZ Tetch wh° uV^"^^,?^^^ Probably an 1877. My neighbors genVany 3^^^^^^^ Ma^rch, of me and my surroundings " at hom! W r ^■''} ^^P^-es^entation ~ n>ade the pictufe too flatfering: ' ^^ ^ ^^^°^ ^^« ^"^^^ ha« .* . CELEBRITIES AT HOME. \* • P- T. BARNUM. ^ ^^i^^^^eiZiX:^ ^^^^P-^ a tW .ated on the shore of W Islands "1<^^-^1'^^ «tu- - .York city, might be surpHsed to find thi:.''; ^^" ''^'^ "^'^'^ ^^ ^^^ . perity to^the business ta^ct and e„erl of /^ """"! "'"'^ '^ ''' P^^«- Phmeas Taylor Barnum Ask I'l^^ f ^-^ '"'^"^ prominent citizen the State 0/ Connecticut who bui?uLtf'''"''S*'^'^ third city of . ^ng an English traveler of those but hT ^^ ^^'t^ge^.remind- manufacturers at home and hfl ^^^^^ "^'^^e philanthropic it that so many operTt L "pots, "L^^^ f"^^^^^ ".^^-«-'' Ho^'" answer, " Barnum* helped ^theT' wL ,'^^ Again the Grove-one of the most beautiYul cel^ -^^""""1 ^^"^ ^°»otain nun. started it, and thus d d away ^TT\? ^T'''''^ ''^^'' ground, that used to be in the St of t>, °^^;,"«^^««ted burying- Seaside Park; who originat d 1 at'? < ^.^Blr ^'^^.^^^r'^-ely gave some of the land, begged and bought -;^a''num, of course; he rested until the park became what itTs^ 1 ' '^"^'"^e^, and never ' blessing of our city." You may L on"; V' ff"'"'' r^"^^"* ^^^ f«»n,and will find ihat this Chowln"T \'^' ''*'°'^'«'^ «^ ^»'*'- . in, and generally prime mover of eve- . M'^'"" " '^^'°"'' ^^^-^er h;s fellow-citizeL. appreciate his effort7ir«° '"'^'l'''^^^'- That him mayor, twice sent him to represent L P''' •'' ^^' '^'^ «^««^«d lature, nominated him for L Unfted st/ 7? '' '^' ^'^'^ ^^«gi«- occasion, within the last few vear 'nn \^ ' Congress, and, on one England, over two bund ed of trmosrsutln'rT ^''"^ ' ^'^'^ *- port gave him a complimenta y dTnner <' ^^^ '^'J'"*" '^ ^^^^'' and energy in private enterprise rn;n. .- ''°°,!' °^ ^^^ Hberality public improvements of BrTdlZortjriT^ '^ '\^"«t"e8 and of their popular fellow-townfman ' ' ^'^"'"' philanthropy" meetlngt^eTon^ted ctTlei: tfeTh?"-^' ^^ ^^P-"- few church bazaars expect to succeed nnln V P^'^'^i^ent speaker ; humorous speech, which seldom fa^rn T' I ^^ ^P""« ^^^^ ^ith a youngest urchin can pit the w^ to SpLTh^p'*? '^"^ /««««• The ^. on a slight emin^. lo^ li^X^^a^ / •f/,'fx^w;^^ Z'3f?'^'^-^^'\} Vfa eiides myaelf. , probably an id in March, epres,entation he writer hag sort, a thriv- itifu]ly Bitu- liles of New of its pros- tient citizen, hird city of ?esj.remind- bilanthropio >» TT • xlOW 18 Again the ' Mountain a ? « Bar. d burying- ^Qur'lovely course; he and never ament and w ad libi- >u«i worker sot. That ey elected ate Legis- id, on one a visit to )f Bridge' liberality itries and nthropj" Mperance speaker ; tn with a B8. The •e, atandr" • ,1 FOBEION jLND DOMESTia m *wrowMt part, to the waters of the -J^nd, over whose stirfaoe •teamers, yacht|^and every variety of^ter craft are continually passing; stands JV;ffldemere, from whose cupqla floats, a silken flag bearing the wePkhown monogram,^. T. B., whenever the king of showmen ia at home. Waldemere— Woods by the Sea— so named by Its owner:g friend, Bayard Taylor, is a naturally bellhiful estate beautified liy art. , Its well-kept lawns, broad and sweeping, are or- - namented, wM fountains of bronze and marble ; statues gleam against a background of grove and thidket ; the house is girdled with a br\)ad hoiyof flowers, and flower-beds of every English device border the. drives from gateway to porch, lie house itself is not easij^ described, being a curipus but pleasant melange of Gothic, Italian and. French architecture and (^ecoration, presenting a front a hundred and sixty feet long to the water, whereby taiost of the rooms command a very charming view. On entering one i^ pleasantly struck by the spaciousness of hall and rooms. One can breathe as freely in-doors as out. Nothing is smatl or contracted. The house IS furnished luxuriously, but not ostentatiously; taste as well as wealth being evident in the arrangement of every room. Pictures of high merit hang on tinted walls, and stand on easels.' Chinese vases of quaint and wonderful design guard the fire-places ; busts and statuettes fill nooks and corners ; capacious bookcases fail to hold the latest works, while mafitels and'etageros hold costly hric-d^ brae in artistic confusion. Many of these ornaments abound in in interesting reminiscences for the "great showman," and for hia friends. On a pedestal in a place of honor stands a marble bust of Je^ny Lmd, whose original contract with P. T. Barnum hangs framed m Tone of the halls, the signatures of Jenny Lind, Sir Jules Benedict Giovanni Belletti and P. T. Barnum compelling us to pause for a monaent before it. A corner bracket in a cozy sitting-room holds a small Parian Bacchus— a Christmas gift from the Swedish Nightin- gale to Mr. Barnum, in good-natured ridicule of his firm temperance principles and practice. In an etagere in this, same pleasant room he dimpled marble models of Tom Thumb's hand and foot taken when his size was smallest and his fame greatest. One cannot spend half an hour inspecting Waldemer* without discovering that Mr. Barnum is a firm believer in cleanliness either for its relation to godliness or for its own merits. The mansion is intersected with a very network of waterpi pes— there being scarcely a room that has not Its bath-room and lavatory attached. Three are rooms bearing the names of distinguished guests who have occupied them. A sptf- oious bed-room, with hangings and furniture of pale green and white 18 known as the "Greeley room," for here Horanft " ... oross it^ GrgeJeyh&d. Two pleasant rooms are associated with the memory of th« siatet 4^ FOREIGN AND DOMESTia .-;*K\V*' J poetesses, Alice an#^ pj, v /> > - "m;!, ^'''° '■•'■"''"«'"« frequent gu™'r^X« "«ppy as when listenine- m !,«« i • • "® never seems nn,-*^ . ^^- -Barnum's library or n« ), n • ^ disHk^t t^ ' ^''^ ^^^'^'^ ^ages If m/L^ ^^''^^P^an who has t>. V' '^Wis*^ - «V^ -TS»»'*. ,1,^^ ' -5 'ffj^fif. I pome time 't at Walde- culture, the 'd tafete dis- s. Barnum, report as a >naTist, and rard her as happiness 'ace beams 's quite so the grand Q church, '6 vicinity m impos- >irch and mother a arge and 'is chair, inicating em ploy 6 or more 'ing rap- 3conom- tMoment ' or vis- ranting I short letters intioug iraself ho has rkiner, elf, t lire to t; he B per- y not te of and isply yery ■■ ■■■■ ^^ PORiEJI ;qn and domestic. IL different from the popular conception of a showman— as indeed hij social standing upsets the) general idea of a showman's natural and proper status. In the spring of 1877 I offered $10,000 for the return of the kid- . napped Charley Ross to his afflicted parents. But thmigh my offer was published far and wide on both sides of the Atlantic, all efforts tor his restoration proved unavailing. In Augus't, 1877, I visited Des Moines, and proceeded west with my show as far as Council Bluffs, Iowa, and thence to my cattle ranch m Colorado. I gave temperance speeches in Denver and (xreeley, and also gave my lecture on " The World, and How to Live in It, in the former city and at Colorado Springs. } In November, 1877, I was elected to represent BHdgeport in the • (xeneral Assembly of Connecticut. My majority wak212, although the political pkrty with which I am identified is usually 700 in the minority. Ilj was a personal sacrifice to me to leave my home to help make our State laws at Hartford, but I did not feel at liberty to refuse the demand upon my services, and I endeavored to fulfill my duty as a citizen of the Commonwealth without undue exertions party-wise The Spencer, Hon. Chas. H. Briscoe, offered me the choice of ,ehairmanshi|J8of half a dozen standing committees, jl told him that on the two^mer occasions when I was in the Legislature 1 was Chairman on Agncuature (having plowed with an elephant), but I should now prefer to be one of the Committee on Temperance «e appointed me chffii^man of that committee. We succeeded in getting- several favorable changes in dur liquo#laws, yet, like Oliver Iwjst, we asked for more. During the winter I gave a number of lectures in the vicinity of Hartford. Among numerous social gatherings which I attended in that city, I remember none more pleasant than a dinner given to half a dozen of \his friends by Gover- nor Hubbard. The Republican partj-^iad a majority in both Houses and of course carried such measures as they desired. There was' however, one exception. At our party cauciis, when it was an' nounced that a nomination Was to be made for a Republican- Super- intendent of the Public School Fund to supersede the Democratic incumbent, who was acknowledged by all parties tb be an honest, intelligent and capable person, I insisted that no change should be " made. I reminded the member^ of the caucus that the position was a responsible and important one; that a large amount of the State's money, held as a sacred trust, was under the control of the present incumbent, Mr. Miles; that mortgages were being foreclosed, and , several complicated lawsuits were before the courts, the details of ■■^'^"Lffl '^^ Milej^thom ^ ^ ^^^ «ot ^now that |;entleman and never saw him, I should insist tiponN. :!,^' ^j4 ^ €1 r 4^ T <>.r^; ""iBr'T > r , ,».• .»nrf jji «>MiaN AND i>0ME81li. fiw re-appointment. But % • appointed. I hi ' '''^^^ service," and Mr ^-.^^"^^ ^epub- - T^^ «how, as usu«I . " proceeded nearly a hundred Sa^r '^^fP'^'-^^d ^hrou.h the advance by mv Mo -^ -^ ^^^« ^^ my own nrJl j 1 ® country on and ^est to7j St\-^'^ ^'^^^ ^^Xt'l T"'^^ "" ^^^^ garden in OctoberCTeye"'w''\" ^^^1 -Cenin^^rr''^'""^' -f frequently visitPr^ /^ i " ^^^'^s to <§)wded h^^ G^Jmore's e'fce 'on thei peetl on ''^ ^"^^"^ ^heTumter tr^" ^' "«»aJ, statement thatTw XT/' ^'^'"-^ ^""^^need wThT'' ?/ P^««- managers insisted That I ^u''' ""^ ^^'^^^^ frC the t''^^^*^""^^ *nd thkt mv rx^ ''"at 1 aJwavs ntoxeA th^ u : ^ arena. Uv attractions X'iTts r '^"'^^ '^^^ '/ o intet th"' ^" *^« ^'^o^' of tJ^e two precedil '' '""'' ^^^ensive and '^'J' .^^^^^Pts- My' proportion, ^rh.v^-^'^'-^' ^"^ n»y profits wpr??''" '^*" *hose ^i*h the pubHc ?h! '"""'''^^^3^ fouid^ tC The Ji^r^'f;" ^''^ ^atne Pain« nor Txp n«e a a^o?/" T "'^ PatroLge hlc^ '^"'^ ^ ^«« everything of 1-^ '"^^^ ^or excludine' fr!r ?i*"i'"«t'-uction public e£at;V™!:^-i-/uJgar tenancy, td'^L^f ^.^^^■^^^-« of the religious nres*^ ^'"^ 1 business secures me tT •'?"" ^« ^e a religious classe' Vhl *"i^ ^^« Patronage oflh! ^ /"^^orsements *«/e,hibiSr' ^'^"«*°^« of -W -ferlili^ anT" e"fr'.^"' 1° the summer of 1878 T ., ^ . - ^'^'"^ f i«7«, I expended some tientv f>. ' . twenty thous and d r^ n ^rf— ardent mem berg ^tion was insisted new nominee was ys mj reasons, ?s to not Jet par.' our State. Of ^te was taken by : twenty Repub- ^jes was again ^?^« day, but I "ner bj his re- r a fortnight at then proceeded le country on a fortnight in .press agents, immense coK ctrotype cuts, ^ach place of and Greatest 'on, could be ecified fn the ngor, Maine, at GiJm ore's • As usual, ■SB, my pres. 'e additional arena. My n the show, 'eipts. My than those n the same •era: I was 'ever spare nstruction. ;xhibition8 ire to be a orsements 'fined and traveling id dolla rg — CHANG, THE CHINESE GIANT. ' •* :vw '^f t'-\ 430 FO^IGN AND DOMESTIC many laboring men in Bridlporwl^^^^^^^^^ The times ^ere hard ment, and although it waTfvfdl, t ? ^^^^^S for want of employ half my expendittesJcouSee that7h^ •'"'' ^' reiinbur J ?o'r great public benefit, aid T^t2Jt\vV'^'^'''^^'^^''^ ^<>"ld be a had so frequently seen ST«. • ? '^^ ^^^^« '» ^oUand which'I -ined, as I told iyT^htots t "1^"' «"^.^^--ation, Tdetr .good mm pro ba^JpylL {t.,f.f\V ^^'''^ by expending a : nelwhiohlet in th? ti^wa^r ^J^'v W' f'^^^*^ ^^''^^^ ^ «h^ ; ^'^f^ose tract of low salt iw^^'^'^r \^^^^^ ««d covered an wide at bottom, and of sufficfentwid.}, ^^M^' ^^^^ ««^«»ty feet street leading from one of ouTc fv «! '° ^^^ I'^P ^° f^^'" « fine I*^d Sound. This gives nearlTaSri,''^?'.^^*^'^ «» W .salt water connectiirg^with Se2ide pli ^ /"^ ^'y ^'°»<^ ^» thf present to the city of this "wS'f^n. i J T^P^'^ *° ^^^e a - wi give them J an extens^n nf I • '' }^^ f""' '" width, which dehgitful additiobal boulevard for n'-' '^^'"^^ ^^^""'^^^ Park'a very edge of Long Island Sofndwherrtr'l'\^- P^*''"^''*^^ ««' ^ie be seen, heard and enjoyed for 111^^! ^^^P^»«bing salt ^aves may site politics from mysein in M ^- ^*>^°'' MorW (of oddo Bridgeport eharactS] " y prrS'^ ''^ ^r^^"^^ C-««" «" «aid, "the Baruum Boulevard ZT'- *' * ^'be>al ofl^er," and addingr„early a mile I t^e p;e"enrnrk d" ''^^? ^'^^'^^ P'^, "»provement of the kind on^ the Itlantic'^T^"'^ ^' '^' ««««* it.' /^ ■2^";,;'*^^^^ ' 'i "l" * - * P Vf. .' ¥■' > »• , 1 • % , ■ "SF^ • 1 ,■■'■ . . '» **' /' « V HHl H^ ^^^^ ^^^„^ >^4l#'.. i' Mfei salt tiarsh ad- •e on the west. orial, annually es fl^ere hard, ant of employ- eilhbursed for nt would be a 'Hand which 'I ation, I deter- r expending a icross a chan- d covered an seventy feet » form a fine ich on Long front on the to make a s^idth, which iful Park, a Jnade on* the '' ^aves riiay ■d (of oppo- Council of offer/' and aside Park, i the finest CHAP'TER L. THE GREAT ALLIANCE. - In 1879 and 1880 the show under the same management was Viry successful. I introduced the firing of Zazel from a cannon. This has since been the principal feature of other shows, as has also the tattooed Greek whom I first introduced to the American public in 1876. While exhibiting in the Rink in 1880, I had a business en- counter .with Henry Bergh, Esq., which created much interest and excitement in the arena and in the newspapers. A New York daily paper gave the following faithful account of the affair : ^ The controversy between P. T. Barnum and Henry Bergh, which* has occupied public attention for a few days, was ended yesterday in favor of the veteran showmair. Ifi^will be remembered that Mjr. Bergh compelled Mr. Barnum to discontinue the act of the fire-horse Salamander, on the grounds of cruelty to the animal and danger to the audience. Mr. Barnum, with an eye to a stupendous adver- tising scheme, and doubtless with a wish to assure his patrons that everything had been done. to secure their safety, challenged Mr. Bergh to meet him in the circus ring on Monday afternoon and to reply to his explanations. Yesterday the vast American Institute Building was unable to acSbmmodato the .crowds who clamored for admission. Shortly after the opening of the show Superintendent Hartfield, of the So*t«ty' for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, entered in command of seven of his officers. ''4*ol ice -Captain Gun- ner, who originally made the report that caused Mr. Bergh's inter- ference, was also on hand with a posse of twenty policemen, who were assigned positions around the ring. At the conclusion of the bareback horsemanship of Orrin Hollis, Mr. Barnum entered the arena amid an outburst of applause. When this Itad subsided, Mr. Barnum began his speech and said : " Ladies and Gbntlembn : I have been catering to the public for, forty-eight years, yet lam here to-day expecting arrest by this I«rge force of police, and imprisonment and trial by a Jury of my oountrymen. The patent fact is just this; Mr. Bergh of I run ibis show. Mr. IToiTCfh has puT)li8hed thatTTiaveendangered tht livei of my audienoes. Long before he was known to sooiety, I .*ji. »■■ ^«iMif. 43* THE GREAT ALLIANCE. who called 'the attenTion of^the Ma^^^^^^ T ^ P^'^*^"" ^' ^«« I for such a society here, and I am in^R.-f ' ."^'^.'^ '^^ "«««««'! I^e. I know more abouraniS« .1, ^''M^^^'^' ^^at Mr. Bergh i ^ and governed only ClZdnZ ThTi"" ^'^'o '^^^^^ ^''^ ^^hl formance has been witnes«pTl ,,^'^l,fi'*e-horse, Salamander's per- ^n Europe, and he. like other Sis beL v1 ^T'""'^' P«*>P^« . demands protection and proper trertm.n. / ^^ "able, self-interest a hair of the horse is singed ^'^^*™'°t. In this performance not I sl^^h^:Xr^^,f :--; '^•; ^r^^ demanded that whe« ,„ h a proceeding ToTld tte' kSlt "T 'V"'5 '"' iwr. Bergh the nature of thp nn,moi / x "• ^ explained to troubled me no further Th S\ '" ''' requirements and he ^ork, Mr. Berffh fStenp^/n ' """^ ""^ ^^^^^nce from New New Jersey tole ffe'etTiT tf ^ T' ^^"^^°^ *^« ^^^es to toads and lizards, althoughTt wL exnla L^f"! -'"P?"^^ ^^'^ ''-« were only attracted by livinl fcZX i^ }''" ^hat, while they • wallowing. On m v Te ,rn ^r ^i' ^^% ''™'^^^ ^"^ killed it before ^. order to%reserve^the1r h>L"*^ '^^" '' ^« '^^ ^'^'^ live frog: da:;;'>lVms7f S;:to''82?T"'"H ' '^ ^^S^^*- ^r- ^ergh,' Which I will read an ext/act ^ B-'^-dway, Dec. 11, 1866," fr^om ^^l^^^^^^^ -r --% thrown Without fear of ooniadictlThat '; n " ^r"*"^^ ' ^ ^^'^'^^ . l::r:[sr*^Vm\y7e' ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^od. .In reply loVA\::rL^^^^^^^^^ I am satisfied that this assertion sTlUt IT'^'^'i "^^^ »«? na;Jiving creature will allow itspf til • l 71 *"^ P''"«tice, for before it-be the aliment dlafofalvr^On fh '""^7 "'^^" ^"^'^ of thia cruel exhibition this societv will ?l i^ "f*' oocurrenco punish the perpetrators of ft. (Lned.) ^^ '"'*'"'"' '" ; _ ^KNBT Bkbqh, President." W l0Dg.r from th.%ubli|: "^ •'"" "''''• " " too rioh lo ' k^4ttii.*i >_y,- Prince ent people jlf-interest mance not nded that swim in, lained to s and he -om New snakes to tvith live hile they it before ive froga Bergh,' S," from thrown [ assert, iniit an in his at dead starve ; wrong • But ice, for h' food irrenco Tea to nt." E, and ioh to 433 ^„ (QAMBRXsas, i^. 28, 1867. Dear Sir : On my return to Cambridge I received your letter of the 15th January. I do not know of any way to induce snakes t^ eat their food otherwise than in their natural manner — that is alive. Your museum is intended to show the public the animals as nearly as possible in their natural state. The society of which you speak is, as I understand, for the prevention ^ of unnecessary cruelty to animals. It is a most praiseworthy object, but I do not think the most active members of the society would object to eating lobster ■alad because the lobster was boiled alive, or refuse roasted oysters because they were cooked alive, or raw oysters because they must fce swallowed alive. I am, dear sir, your obedient servant, ^ ^ L. AgASSIZ. " Oi March 4, 1867, I enclosed Prof Agassiz's letter to Mr. Bergh, from whom I demanded an apology for his abuse, and an acknowledgment of his mistakes as to snakes eating dead food. Three days later M^l^ifh replied, acknowledging the receipt of mine. He then wflHk follows: " Your letter ct^Hp a threat to give my letter to the public unless I write you aietter for publication, stating that since reading Prof. Agassiz's lett«r to you I withdraw my objections, etc. In reply to this I have to say that the hastily written note to which you refer was not intended for publication." . " ' Hastily written; indeed,' commented the great show king, ' call-' ing my acts atrocities and me semi-barbarous in my instincts.' Ho then proceeded with the Ifetter. " I am convinced of the necessity of laboring more assiduously in the cause of protecting the brute creation in order to counteract the unhappy influence which the expressions of that distinguished savant (Prof. Agassiz) are calculated to occasion. I scarcely know which emotion is paramount in mv mind, regret or astonishment, that so eminent a philosopher should have cast the weight of his command- ing authority into the scald where cruelty points the index in its ^•▼or. ji Henry Berqh, President." " He detailed other obstacles which Mr. Bergh had thrown in his way, and intimated, that if he (Bergh) would stick to his own busi- ness, that he (Barnum) would run his own show, and conform to the laws ai^ decided by a jury of his countrymen. In conclusion Mr. Bamum said : ' I noi^ expect to be arrested, but if I should bo, I shall place a hoop of fire around Henry Bergh that will make him i)h«R Q9 has been"' txpwieoM in the future.' aiid^jrubabl y than he e v e r w ill ' g,yfcr5: 434 *HB OBEAT ALUANQE trainer and the fire Cs^t e t\L^' ""J ^^^ri^ce Na^rS'^ - through the blaze; and VheTlS .li ^!;- ?*'""°^ ^^^ Ws ha^d jni^and. TencJo;i.3p^:^.2Tnlber^^^^^^^ the hoops, and then thMorse nL^^J^ff ^?^'''''^"**°tic8 through ,9igus offear and withorsWeCa h«^i''"ig^ ^^'^*^"' showing Z finished the iUusftration howevpr f T ^''' ^'^™*in' had not 71 Hartfield to walk through the ItHl bL^ 'T''"^^ Superin "enden there was neither crueJtv nn/ ^ • *,''*^® '" the matter- that the society had no cau Ve^ C actTof ' A '^^ P-^formance, S that and cheers for the plucT BarnuJ. ^^ ^"^^ ' '''^'^''' excitement crestfallen, withdrew hi^olrs andtt ?"""*'' ^^^king som^wha •«5" ^^'^f V^ugh his triSr^^^^^^^^ Salamander buUt behind a board screen or" astf !Z rTl!^^, Purpbses. It wag Iti purpose was to protect the wo k^^n "." ^'l^^* *'*" '*»« structure an object) to work regard ess of i^.T '"*^^' **'«'» (^'^^e bein» wort being finished, th^screeVwasrln"'"'^-''^ ^"^ ^hen E? S S ^''^^ J"^^-^ «f -4^^^^^^ nighuime and brick with granite and terra cotllnnn' *"*^*°"« bu'^din/f of ' America gazing benignly down rLh^^^'' ""*^ a fi°« «tatuf of i'telt l887n:^-tT^'^"l^^^ -Peotedof hav^: •• ^n with my jusVcXd"!o?eatrSb ^'^ "^J^^ ^^^ -y -mpar- ' managers boasted of owning showMr ""^ *^*''^" <^'^«'- «how- ' of the printers large correVsCS"'",! "" "If ' '^"'^ ^^"'^ Cht marvelous curiosities, although thLwn-"i.^- feprosenting my ' or curiosities of the kinds which f hi ™*"ager8 had no performances * of their shpws was frim tweitv h? ''^r''"^''^' ^he cost^f on! while mine co^t millio^o dol£s tT"*^ '° ^^^ ^^°"«and dolC ^ed to j«ven hundred dollars '^e^ day whi,r£rr" "^".^^^^ ^«»- ' ' ■and dollars per dav Th« H Iv^' '^ ™'"e were three thm. "p^uti.. follows, , ratrri^r;!!- ^ " -' -'. -^ =«F=« #»fcing7 1* :-. ,• fmt- ' ' " ' ^ T«K GREAT AIiLIA.NC«. 435- ^e hone ^agaard, its Ill's hand ;-circJe, hat OS through owing an^ ad, not ^et rin^ndent >ut hesita- rill in her his supe- iter J that and that ccitement louiewhat lamander n." JDce and: U regard Jrinoipal It was ruoture., le being len, the Me, and ding of itue of 1 story, Jf hav- Jmpar- show- •ought \g my lances * 'f ono yihn, hun- } thou- rence mis- biu^f; iey^e^went iotoWnkruptoy each Season, while mine wm »lw?y^ crowded, and each succeeding year showed a larger profit My strongest competitors were the so-called "Great London Uir- •cus, ganger's Royal British Menagerie and Grand International Allied- Shows." Its managers, Cooper, Bailey & Hutchipson, had adopted my manner of dealing with the public, and cqnsequently, their great show grew in popularity. ' , . • .tr- On the tentfi of March, -18,80, while m Philadelphia, one of tlieir large elephants, Hebe, became a mother. This was the first elephattt bom ip^captivity, and the managers so effectively advertised the fa6t that the public, became wild with excitement oyer the " Baby iiile- phant." Naturalists and men of science rushed in numbers td Phil- adelphia, examined the wonderful '» little stranger " and gave glo^ng riports to the papers of this country and of Europe. Illustrated paj^ers and magazines of this and foreign lands described the Baby Elephant with pen" and pencil, a\id before it was two months old I offerea the lucky proprietors one hundred thousand dollars cash for mother and baby. They gleefully, rejected my offer, .pleasantly told me to look to my laurels, and wisely held on to their treasure. , „ j " • ^1 I found that I had at last met foemen " worthy of .my pfceel, and pleased to find coirx)aratively young men with a business taleiit and energy approximating to my own, I met theta in fne|idly ;council, iind after days of negotiation ^ decided to join our two shows in. 'one mammoth combination, and, sink or swim, to exhibitthem for,- at" least, one Season for one price of admission.- The public were, astonished at our audacity, and. old shown^n de9lared that we opuld never take in enough money to.cover our expensps, ^hich .^oUldbe fully forty-five Imndred dollara per day. My new partners, JanSts A Bailey and James K Hutchinson; sagacioa? and, practical naan- aKcrs, agreed with me that, the experiment involved great risk, but, from the time of the Jenny Lind Concerts, the Great Roman ^hip- podrome and other expensive enterprises, I have always found t^6 Kfeat American public appreciative ind rea4y to.respond in propo|, Son to the sums expended for their gratifieAtion and amusement. • This partnership entered into. We conceived the ideu of building a monster emporium or winter quarters to accommodate^ all our wild animals, hor8es,lVriot8, railroad oars, and the immense parapher- nalia of ihe united shows, instead of distributing the same Jn dif-^ ferent localities. We inclosed a t(Mi-acre lot irt Bridgeport adia^ent / to the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Rftjlroad. In this ir closure we erected an elephant house one hurtdred fe6t square, kei heated to the temperature "«^turally.rQqujred by these a n imal "TT^W'.WirtyTe-l^y elx^hitrrty wTcr-lnjttt riouriv how BQ d M^ traln i to perform in a oircus-ring in the centre. V^-^ > ■ ■ ■ mill I ^ 43^ THE GREAT ALLIANCE. ' i:^°'^2' Jarge hiding 4e Knn- * * ' ^ ' Popotami 8en?on' " "^restrained. • The amnhfh^ '?*?.«nd work great enjoyment ?K^.?^'' ."^^^^^ ^he elephante ««^ P^°^ ^^^^^ eight Iini7oT?ick8 tt "^.^""^^"^ three Cndred S'''^^ '^'^ •"connected bvswLT ^^5^ "^''^ ^^e stored dnd.H ^^"^^ ?«^*" . ^ord JlaiJroad. ^ 1^1 «? "^^'^ -'^^ .^^^ ^ork C hI? ''^'^l »'« riders, acrobats %l 9'rcus „„g ^exclusively foT 5*^^" «nd Hart hard-won «Sr^^'P'"*«*'ce '» the wintPr { ''*® Purpose the ■ hugtrretusr and"^^^^""^- ^^« ^'aHrar'arnr ^"^'^- tne heavy wort «/ .iF *^*^ *^"e sw tches an^ i«Ji V , '®° ^'''o inaintainld fTL ^' .^^°^«^ <»uarter8 ' f 1 ^ '^ 5^*^ ^^ »" : properties. Editors p"^ ^?- °*'^'^«' tent-poles a^ ;^ ''"'>««» winter ouarf^r- ^ '^/''t'^ts flocked to LT!i, .Jnnumerable . Periodicari^'^;;l-"-/"ustrated aUlr^VeVed t^f T"« 'Workings of fh,r«;? !. ^^^'^ ^ere anxious anH *^ • '" leading . «»", a/vilt'de" est- '"" r "-'-''""r/en^d'.l '!'° hshment an^i w^. "J o*^" ''"e necessarily sM-in* -^ x- ^ «enied admis- between life and- d^.r *'"°«* ^^^al illness and la^ /''"'"' ^' '^w l^nowledg?of a I ?\"?V'^^'^'-^ ^^on, otherT'Tn fi^'**'^"'««««ge8 ' .progress or relapse to 111 h«-' ?"^. ^""tributerbS'nT/^" «'LaJy^'^«!^...^^Wnd Hart pose th^ . ose>. their d in on« lephants. 8t them, place at IJed into y do all Eirtment " Tn ani- ' 'arness, • ne »r best lerable amous Bading . 3e the idmis- eatab^ I wild spers, - theii ^ild- THE OBBAT AI'LIANOB. 437 / - Mt condition. When strong enough I went to Florida, to recupe- rrate-in that delightful climate, returning in April to take up my ofd avocations with the old zest, and„ little less than the old The Barnum & Loudon Circus opened itK New York March 18, 1881, heralded by a torchlight procession through the city on Sat- ttfclay night, March 16th, which was witnes^ied by more than half a million of people and pronounced the most brilliant display ever seen >iij America. A New York paper thus describes it: The street pjirade Saturday night was the grandest pageant ever witnessed 4n our streets, and fully met the anticipations of the thou- sands of spectators thronging the entire route. The whole equip- ment and display was magnificent, without a single weak feature to mar the general eifect. The gol4en chariots, triumphal and tableau cars were more numerous, more ponderous, more elaborate and gor- geous in finish than any other establishment has brought here ; the cages of wild animals were more numerous than usual, many of them were also op'en, and their trainers rode through the streets in" the cages of lions, tigers, leopards, hyenas and monster serpents. There were cars drawn by tea6is of elephants, paraels, dromedaries, zebras, elk, deer and ponies. And there appeared in the grand cav- ' alcade three hundred and thirty^eight horses, twenty elephants, four' teen camels, jet black dromedaries, a lar^e number of ponies, zebraa trained oxen, etc., alsd three hundred and-seventy men and women. The cavalry of all natiofis was repre8ente4 in the various uniforms Worn, mounted upon superb chargers, and the costumes throughout iere brilliant and beautiful. Music was furnished by four brass" bands (one composed of genuine Indians), a calliope, a fine chime of bells, a steam organ, a squad of Scotch bagpipers, and a company, of genuine plantation negro jubilee singers. ' r. •* Electric and calcium lights illuminated the whole. Windows were sold in New York, along Broadway, for five dollars, eight dollars and ten dollars, from which to view the pageant. So certain were we that this great street pageant and the marvelous combination of novelties to be produced' throughout the season, would totally eclipse any former show ehterprjiso, that on Saturday, March 26th, we brought, in 4rawing-room cars, from Washington, D. C, and Boston, and all the principal cities oh these routes, the editors """', See- retarj firreatpnt in*«-r ♦^'»iiea last season • " Ploo«,i * laotory greatest interference on earth " " ^'"^'''^ «" account of th. :;-" nrir£;r.:e a,- -,-" >«- - ., S'Skwit.. ri GBBAT ALLXAIfOB. 439 obUined »U the redrU t desired. In May, 1881, the dfjSire to ac quire, for my show-season of 1882, attractions which only m^ per- ' ?onal negotiations ooiild secure, J revisited England, sailing in the - "Soythia" After foiir pleasant weeks I returned m the "Gallia, . successful in the object, of my journey and invigorated by that fineit of all tonics, a sea-voyijge. Desiring to^aid in beautifying the vil- • laee of Bethel, it being by , birth-place, from which a busy checkered life has never alienated m^ interest, I presented to my old compan- ions a bronze fountain Wghteen feet high, made in Oermany ; the desien a Triton of heroic size, spouting water from an uplifted horn. It was a gala day for Bkhel, the streets and residences were dec orated with flags and buiitiug, a procession of police, fire companies with their engines, bandk of music, citizens and invited guests m carriages, etc., paraded thrown, and they formed in line "ound the square, newly . |dorned bylhe l-ouniain. All of which was described, Md thi fountain illustrated in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of September 3, 1881. From a grand stand many speeches were made, and as my old friends would not permit -^me to be merely a listener and looker-on, and as reminiscences of the old days pre- Ifented themselves thickly iii my mind, in wide and often amusing contrasts to the customs and conditions of to-day, I addressed them. «,Jlfi/ Friends: Among all thfe varied scenes of an active and €^qM life, crowded with strange incidents of struggle and excite- ment, of joy and sorrow, takingmje ofteu through foreign lands and bringing me face to face with the king in his palace and the peasant in his turf-covered hut, I have invariably cherished with the most 'iiflFectionate remembrance the place of my birth, the old village meet> ing-house, without steeple or \)ell, where in its square f^nAy P«J I Bweltered,in summer and shivdired through my Sunday-school Ifssons in winter, and the old school-hl)U8e where the ferule, the birchen rod and rattan did active duty, and which I deserved and received a lib- eral share. I am surprised to find that I can distinctly remember events which occurred before I was four years old. "I can see as if but yesterdt^y, our hardworking mothers hetchel- • ine their flax, carding their iow and wool, spinning^ reeling and weaving it into fabrics for beddW and clotjiing for all the family of both sexes. The same good mothers did the knitting, darning, mending, washing, ironing, cookUg, soap and candle "•^'^mg' P»°^«; the geese, milked the cows, ma(ie butter and cheese and did many other things for £he support of the family. « We babies of IBIO, when it home, were dressed in tow frocks. and the garments of our elders Sunda y, when they wore their • and Hnsey-woolsey. .a¥ were not much superior, except on 50-to-meeting clothes ' of homespun °"-^""°-'^ mjmAT ALI,IAN0B. about daSt th, n . ''''^' °"' one nLhL*?" ''7.°^' ^'° ««hes ia ;^ith dark towMcks T ^' ^"^ ««ndies were tllf^' 1" ^^"°^ « : , ^ark without iXiL /" 'T'''' »«arJy alf retir^J ?""' ho«»e-made, Home-made soft «! ^ * ^^"^''^ «^cept uoon pv! 1^'' ^««' «' early ^hing else Sf^T^r« "««d for wUL haJrf "^^^ °««««on2 *eir meaJs ;J„ , ''^'^^^'en of families in L- ®' ^^^^^ and everv ^iJy armorers r'^" (wooden7]a"esrrY^^""'«^"-«a^" «nd rose to thIV ■"'' ^^^^avagant street / i^'^«^ o^er our from Norwalk SvBri I '' '" """'■• reason \t "' """'' >«■•■' Caleb Morgan of\v^l-^'"l""'<- h S,h and M, ^""^ "■"« brought -jo^l^of veal.Cb ntif'' ''f''^ """i 7;^; °» J butcher. • 'ban one kind at a ,:LT ,^". "' f'^sb port 111 u ." «ons sted - ??~.- ^Sd t--"-:tSH?-''- ^^'Z-'\:r^J'^Z:::^,^'^ V. be went „„t ' OW CbambS, ';, J'i,"-8''b»rl.ood. I reZS,!"--: '" ''"'^ '» «' °"'y one exeepied f™„i,"" '^''ble i„ this re^t^ ""o, ^«", called bogs from the^»enol7 j '^^ bad a oeonff.- ' „ be »«s the P»™ip«, beets, trrrUr "'"■ "■»"?' Porrtr,"' ""''"S' / 'Je chat for 'old oakep in ashes in sifc aBother borrow a lome-made, St at earlj occasions, nd ^ every. *^oce8 ate older our trenchers )ns. Tin ?ons sup. of boiJed 36, hasty Ider por- ?etabJes, ch were brought Uncle •utcher. nsisted r more 3r than nd one )rove« *»'<■,;■.•- .■• " '•^A - » -. ,*. ■. • PRONZE FOUNTAIN PRESENTED TO MY NATIVE TOWN. 441 442 THE OKEAT ALLIAWOB. ■%■£:■'■. '* Teeth were pulled with a turnkey, and a dreadful instrumpnf it was in looks, and terrible in execution I can remetthpr tW I had a convenient toothache. Like many other bov^I had .r/ sions when school was distasteful to me/and the hunting for^,^^^^^ or bmie^ or going after fish were n^ore if a (k^L^ SJ^S- gle after knowledge. This toothache struck in on Monday mdS^ "i^ple timeto cover the schooUour. I wa^f ^^^^W^ he d on to my jaw with a severe grip. My motLXllllIlhW^ ctiung oone tor it. He gave me a note to Jh. Tvle Tavlor Dr d in water, Q linen bag f*J3ian pud-, ^ and eaten is I like to ler I should lages called er. ■)'^^.'- ay, to have ^e children long stick t a sort of intil it was en I was a horseback, 16 country- i a pillion :• or lover is patients lel, jalap, >al aids in (led every rument it that once had o(£pa- for birch he|^ mdri pain, ipatheitic ther was ool until 9 wanted; arefuJIy. )t but it lid have or. Dr. own the at toothy tvait for lave not TM GRKAT ALLUKOl. A< 44S f bappy gray-haired old es Wor^ white-to'pped ' great will-force, and rEli Judd was marked took twelve dollars to l:^} ''®'5«™^«'^ "eeing n»y Either and our neighbors put teouirh military drill every day by Capt. Noah Ferry il 1814. for the war ,. with Great Britain of 1812-15. ■ , ° V / .hi ^^ '"'''^®^' aaints and others, when I was a child;%fteb spoke about ravages of Indians from which their ancestors had sufficed! b^Vby KiJ'^^^^^ '^"^ ''''''''' ^^^ burning of Dan-' rnow^K'^^°^^^"^"*^'i^^.^P"^^^^ "''^°«' «f Laurens ?. Hickok (now Prof Hickok), m which his sweetheart, Eliza Taylor was also * ««holar One day he threw a ruler at my head. I dodged andl? «ppiy that to some other time when sha might deserve it. He and his wife are still living in Andover,/'" couple of eighty or more. " Eliza's father, Esquire Tom Tai boots,. He was a large, majestic-l6c~ was considered the richest man in Bet 5Z?^;?,^^^ ?*" '''^^'^- Ever/ >^. . .uu. .weive aouars to tlTh "r, J*^'«^ JO, pay the interest on a two hundred dollar note Mt\o.y f P?' Tf. i'"^- ^ ^*'° *°°"^"y «^"i«d four dollars and Mty ceftts to Eh Judd for interest on a seventy-five dollar note which • he held against my father. As these wealthy men quietly turned of mv f!^T,"'* i'?/'''^i" " r^" ^^'^^^^ *^" '^^y found the note ^l !t • !"' t" *^?. ^"*^0"ed the interest thereon, I trembled with awe to think I stood in |he presence of such wonderfully 'rich men. l^ZTS^l^^.;^^'^^ ^' ^'^'^ ^^^^^^'^^"^ -^^^ ^^^\ ■ "Esquire Tom made'^quite a revolution here by one act. He got' two yards of hgured carpet to put down in front of his bed in the winter, because the bare board floor was too cold for his feet, while he was dressing. This was a big event in the social life of thit day. ;4^are prmS.''^^^'^ '^ '^ ^'^"^"^ ^" -"'^ ^"W' ^^ week^^^° ^^*^ ^^^ '^" ^^^^^ old, newspapers came only once a I'J*'® j"!^* ^^^ brought us the week's papers came up from Nor- walk, and drove through this section with newspapers for subscribers and pms and needles for customer^^JIe was called Uncle SiUiman. 1 can remember well his weekly visi through Bethel ^ . — .7 "^Y v..»v,i*g.x ^ci-uci, and his queer Uh coming to a house or villagtf4ie would shout ' News ! News J Lord reigns!' One time he passed our school-house when a snow storm was prevailing. He shouted : ' News ! News ! The Lord cry The " It took two days, and sometimes more, to reach New York from m 0^1 ^ III „ ,^ i^Jfai oei 444 THE GREAT ALLIANOB. ter Ouartew r «lt5 ' * ' .^'?" ''''®"°« '' ^^'ne direct tct^in- jM r '' jtA*>.t , shops, the 3x,cpse was a pint or at he must urners and held a bot- uld cry * a it and the ost of the Joth flour- d at cross- d enlight- ern times nd better, raoter for »resenti^ evidence el for my lage."^ Newport, to.Win- rovember hich the % TezM, K J "^ CJI AFTER LI. g TWQ FA^COUs'elEPHANTO. \ «av?bfrIhT''^'' ''^' "^""'" ^"^^ ^' "y '^'^'^-'^' ^^«P»^"^ S.I \ \ yr^ '"''*' "'^^ "winter-quarters" in Bridgeport. Ihe event had long, been anticipated and thoroughly published tad bfen' f "^^"--^ ,^-ope. Scientists, all over t'he'countr;, it^lZ^ t^""' the period of gestation being known to 1^ ibo^jrw^ty months, a " Baby Elephant " might be expected early afeents of zoological gardens in Europe were on the ?uVt,iW,and when the interesting event was imminent it was telegraphed through th^ associate* press to all parts of the United States, ani about sixty !I!hrK;.T '^l "'" '"^ reporters arrived in time to be present nf k K 1 I ""I "'^'■"'"^ "'°''^*'^'^" «% ««'"«"'« of details of the birth, weight and name of the Baby Elephant appeared in the American papers, and notices cabled to London and Paris appeared n the morning papers. As thts was the second elephant ever bofn . n . , /„rnr. in th, *. »«!• oroirnwl with ..ao.u toull, ui>prw«l.nud Id th> thow biui. « N- "■- '■'-"■■^■■'■^■■'^^ i^B BHi 44^ TWO FAMOUS ELEPHANTi. ■i. .. nes8. Day after day^ and night afUr nigbt, w« turned away multi- tudes for want of room. "Jumbo," the largest elephant ever seen, either wild or in captiv^ ity,'had been for many years one^jof the chief attractions of the Royal Zoological Gardens, London, I had often looked wistfully on Jumbo, but with no hope of ever getting possession of him, as I knew him to be a great favorite of Queen Victoria, whose children and grand children are among the tens of thousands of British juveniles whom Jumbo has carried on his baclk. i did not suppose he would ever be gold. But one of my agents] who made the tour of Europe in the summer and autumn of 1881 in search of novelties for our big show, was so struck with the extrtiordi«9ry size of the majestic Jumbo that he ventured to. ask my fHend, Mr. Bartlett' Superintendent of the Zoological Gardens, if he would selkjumbo. The presumption of my agent startled Mr. Bartlett, and at first he Replied rather sarcastically in the negative, but my agent pushed the question and said, " Mr. Barnum would pay a round price for him." Further -ccmversation led my agent to think' that possibly an offer of $10,000 alight be entertained. He cabled me to that effect, to which I replied ; " I will give ten tliousand dollars for Jumbo, but the Zoo will never sell him." Two days afterwards my agent cabled me that my offer^ of $10,000 for Junfbo was accepted, I to take him«ti the Garden as he stood. The next day I dispatched Mr. Davis by steamer to London, with a bank draft for £2000 sterling, payable to the order of the Treasurer of the Royal Zoological Gardens, London. From that time an excitement' prevailed and increased tlrroughout Great Britain which, for a cause so comparatively trivial, has never had a parallel in any civilized | country. The council and dire«?tor« of the Royal Zoo were donouficelWn strong terms for having sold Jiimbo to the famous^yankeelshowraan, Barnum. The newspapers, from the Londcm Twines down, daily thundered anathemas against the sale, and their columns teamed with coramunidationa from states- men, noblemen and persons cwT distinction advising that the bargain ihould be b1it)kcn at all riskjjtiB^d promising that the money would nrtWlribnt^d hy fhw Britiah h% awarded to BarihUm by tlie courts. It i» aaid that the Queen and ;..A* Ji^r * TWO FAMOUS ELEPHANTi. 447 the Prince ^Wales both asked that this course should be adopted. I received scores of letters from ladies and children beseeching me to let Jumbo remain, and to name what dam,§iges I required and they should be paid. Mr. Laird, the ship-builder, wrote m6 from Birken- head that England was as able to pay " Jumbo claims" as she was to pay the " Alabama claims," and it would be done4f Jt would only desist and name my terms. All Englaqd seemed to run mad aboiPt" Jumbo ; pictures of Jumbo, the life a#c/«yrapA. I I cabled back as follows : r New York, FebrvaryT&, ISSi-^ '^ To iMarge^ Daily Telegraph, London: . - " ■ ,V My compliments to Editor Daify Telegraph jLnd Briti|d^ NatioB ? Fifty-one millions of American citizens anxiously awaiting Jumbo'i '* - ^ arrival. My forty years' invariable practice of exhibiting the beii^ that money could procure, makes Jumbo's presence here imperative* "- Huudr e d t houwud pounds w ould be no induoe u icnt to oanoel pur- ^"^^ ohMe. My largest tent seats 20,000 persons, and ii- filled twioe > ¥ WJT-.'ytf^* 'fKSP^-^^i 448 V. TWO FAMOUS ELEPHANTS. each day. It contains four rings, in three of which three full drcus companies giye different perfbrmances simultaneously. - / In the large outer ring, or racing track, the Roman Hippodrome is exhiDitedl. In twp other immense connectinj^ tents my colosisal Zoblogical collection and museum -are shown. ***** Wishing long life and prosperity to British Nation and Telegraph and Jum. bo, I am the pujjic's obedient servant.^ *^ P. T. BA^NUM. This dispatch was published in the London Daily Telegraph the ; next morning, and was sent by the London Associated press to the principal newspapers throughout Great Britain, which republished it the following day, giving the excitement an immense impetus. Crowds of men, women and children rushed to the "Zoo" to gee • dear old Jumbo for the last time, and the receipts at the gates were augmented nearly two thousand dollars per day. A "fellow" or stockholder of the Roytl Zoo sued out an injunction ic^the Chancery Court against the " counciflors " of the Zoo and myself to quash the sale. After a hearing, which occupied tw"© days, the sale was de- j^ . clared valid, and Jumbo was decided to be my property. The fateful day arrived when Jumbo was to bid farewell to the , Zoo, and then came the tug of war. The unfamiliar street waked in Jumbo's breast tjlbe timidity whidh is so marked a feature of ele- phant character. He trumpeted with alarm, turned to reenter the Gardens, and, finding the gate closed, laid down on the pavement. His cries of fright sounded to the uninitiated like cries of grief, and quickly attracted a crowd of sympathizers. British hearts were touched, B#tish tears flowed for the poor beast who was so unwilling to leave his old home. Persuasion had no effect in inducing him to' rise, force was not permitted, and indeed it would have been a puzzle what force to apply to so huge a creature. My agent, dismayed, cabled me, "Jumbo has laid down in the street and won't get up. What shall we do?" I replied, "Let him lie there a week if he wants to. It is the best advertisp- raent in the world." After twenty-four hours the gates of his para- > dise were reopened and Jumbo allowed to return to his old quarterg, irhUe my agents set to work to secure htm by strategy. A hug« '■^- "■'•'-%; #*S. ; JUMBO. KINQ OF ELEPHANTS 451 hon-bo-^d^g. was constructed with ado<»r»teachendMidiMiated o»^ ^;v.£L^eS^f enormous strength. Thls£^^ ' VZwS'.r.t ^ ^^^^ "P against the door entrance to Jumbo's iien. "^ the wheels «■> , iCMtlS fl^r of the cage was on a level with that of the elephant s^ A ray was thus formed through which Jumbo must pass to reach th* , r A,fter much hesitation, he Was persuaded to. follow ^^J^V^^ 18,Sfl™,6ugh this cage to take his daily airing. For several days tUs rw^ ,3lSated. then, as he entered the cage, ^he door beWnd Wm ir_^ . ' awiftlj^losed. then the door In front of him. and Jumbo wa« rnina. 00 .coonut Of ttto ^aUo,ia. mierest manU«ite«l m -uamDo V wo Pre«am- «|« '^Britt-* Uo^ ' iTfor the time forgotten ; .nd w. th.r««»« BOfg^ the above a. the mo^^pp^rn »t« coat -of -arms for EngJan4.-£on*>n .F^. , ' . Meanwh\le Jumbo came up.in ParliamcnV wWe the President . Ob the morning ofK capture, March 25,4882, the wheels^ of his cage were dug free otthe ground, twenty horses'attached, and in the compara; ^rsil^'c;^ tHfolSwing night. Jumbo was dragg^^'l". ^jA^lf^ l!!! r shipt Assyrian Monarch, where quai bei s h ad > 0P prs pated ^^ ^ J ^ ^ ^ttlnirawavoneofthedeokB. The Society for the Prevention of OruHty ^iSffiTh'iS o^er Jumbo to thel^t, and titled ^^ i-HllU. i ■, ^0IK^-'Ml ...sa-.^tv iJli"" afrit 'i I 1 ' ^ 45« -'W?' ijw-»^,«u»^ , TWO l-AMOUi BUBHAWn. . «?*■ iff^W, After a tough passage he arrived in New York, in good condition Sim day morning. AprU 9th. and next day was pla;ed 0*^^^^ on ik ^e tion that m the next two weeks the receipts in excess cf the u^ J^ SrwellStLT^„f;\*'^r*^"^°'^'^^ achirvemen, anS^ow mg w?ii that there is no fest and recuperative like a sea vovAire I n»led wfZt mL of n' Cityof Rome, for Liverpool, the latte^SofS^^ mllTbriennWrT ^^ '^ '""^ .^"""^ °' "^^ ^^«'« P*^«°^« In LancashiiJ oftd^friendi fw '''': "^'^ u" '"'^* P'^*^* ^y t^« ^^^^^i'^ attention 01 Old friend^ I was present at the dinner given by Mr Henrv InHno- e^et^^ZT" °? *t^^^^ °' "^^ LyceumVeati.' ZeZ "^Z ZlT^ZlVl^'''irZ^'^''''' ^'^''^^^^"^ i^'-d I'ytton. the Lord Jnayor. Sir Julftis Benedict, Dion Boucicault t^o Thn k- J„ * iT,.^a'', °* ?" "■'" °'"°"y»« I ™. I replied, "7?.^ " tT'lt:"^' ""^'f '^"^ "" '» proverbial, ImmrflaWy „id " I ^n jru^aS^pr- "'^'^ "" ■^"•'■'^ " ^-^■^. ' ™ .^. ^ue Agricultural Hall, at which the Prince and Princess of Wni«a tw Duke Of Cambridge,, and other members of the Koy^TUX^ pr^" ent My seat was located within a few feet of the Royal box Duri^Jtr ' Sr:^''"' ""\^"*^ °^ *'^ «*^^ ^^« Guard:.Tonn"d on thdf et black steeds, gave what is called the "Musical Ride." consisSnTS «n ingenious and exciting series of marches, countermarches e^Sfan^ nngs. The large area of the Agricultural Hall gave space toreSLlu^ W^en I was pointed out to the Princeof Wales and the DukTof S' bndge, they rose and gave me a good stare, and then smilingly- conveSld' I fancy that, reihembering'my success in securing " Jnm^^ " thLeTvai personages were wondering whether I contemplated coming dSTnwUha •w6op and carrying the Royal Life Guartfs off to Amurioaf The success of the Great Show during the season of Iftfta i. w-it a .briefly chronicled in the following extract r ^^ 1882 1. well and \ [i5vm Harper's Weekly, MumOm' i, 1888.] Few persons, outside of those immedintplir «b«>«^ i« «* have any idea of the vast amouni^fhS jyi!^ *?i*».«*.»»*««n««t. =1 -vtl =;-;=?^c -'T^^JSV^^^^-^SSs^Tg^F-^-^ iS^gj=3?^iifffi; ooniamptim indltlon, Sim- button in the luch a Miua. fwU ammmt bad cost us. t, and know- Age, I sailed partof.May. 1 Lancashire, al attentions Jnry Irving, 5 th; About >n, the Lord anquet was E»ord Mayor \. Yankee." iid, " I can 7 is that T" I," was the mament at ^ales, the ^ere pres- During tb« •n their Jet iting of an iutioDs and my circtis laboration. J of Cam- jonrersed. lese royal wn with a well and lagement, to ^^nH^ hands of ming his «tsao«, • ■*: #* ■ ^. % ^ if '%* 'i* ►' t0^ m ^^ti !? TWO FAMOOT jsLWHiarrs. ^ dngle Item of expenditme amounted a^ug J^^^.l^t'and ^SSg Sfoi Mimalft W their J^^'J *Xk Last yeSr. said the Teteran Sittew into shape for the f ?"»« ^ a milUo^ doflars. and that during • Showman this cost nearly a quarter oi a m""" . ^ jg the cost of lISI^KnrtadoUarw^^^^^^^^ For wintering ie a mere ' ;fl^J^,^^^er iJJge salaries are Bent around th r:^;^''^^^^" i}t;,e'LSs:feSra=dSe^ori^ , tto purpbse scores of agents under ^[fJ^f/'Jew. regardless ot expense ^ ThS^yw^men have gone on toe ei^ands to far awg^.^.^^ ^^ ^^ show ageixt ever before appeared. To^mee^^. j^ ^^^^^ Brothers S^ aPnts 170.000 were recently d^^^^^ The Jumbo affair. The fig- i^Tk One of the most costly ventures waa t" ^ enormous. frtS wc notg ven. but the round o^^^y. ^« J'^SiS whicrcost $176,000. Wher important item tW^^g ^^^e ?r"os ^e^cieipts of the season ol i^ninatve of newspaper advertising. i"^>°_„ nuarters of dollars. The SS weeks were a million and three^ua^^rs j^ pj^^^giphi.. \ *' K: * % »/ ■ f .? ^ *# '•"■ J * 1. * . . , «» _ ■if -■,■■"" P A*- 1 i -www. • .... .1, ■. ^'^ . 1 -; aj*-. ■f '^ ■ft. ■ • , . - : 75^. " _ - --^ — --^■- _iii_ _ — :_ -- ^ - — — — l,f .'#^ » ' / ^> s *• v^ ET Oir the 9th of Auffiut lAfln ««, •. "t your foot „. Eogiw, »«, L n^y^ZtT *"^ "^ "* ^»" , di-^^towronlTTrouldli™ JltiLT°'°« ""i^'ac, to order to inent represeutative of the Britianot?. * . ^*^. sometime prom With me several agents, on fl^^tnothet "^""^ "^^ ^"*- ' ^' for my Ethnological Congresa The knot^ J ?'""' '" ^"'« ^"ves . Which Sir Charles had acqXd during i^'i"' '*'*"«« ^"b^' a«d races . he not only obligingly imS foSTr^^'^"" ^" fordgn countri^ di^Uon Which we« Of mu'cwL^t^^^^ '^^ ^^"«" «' ^tn,! and placed me under further l^^IteS^X^^^' ^"''^' ^*^' «*«' eign Office in London. Thouirh ourburhnT '°*'°'^"«^°» ^e to the For ing the visits we so faithfully SomLrj ^^'^ J»»y Prevent our exchang- the Pleasantest memory o^L'^TcSl^ ^''' r ?''' '^"^^« -^^'- versations and stories 4h whi^we abb^vl^ ."v?^''^"^^ '^^ *^« ^O^'- Mi«*ey. the California million^J^he^M *? """ ^°^'*««- touching point because of the dd ^^^1 hi' "^ '*^' ^°*' "°°« *>' *»^ »Mackey. he said, was present on on? I ■'*'"'*"" "^^•^ °' "^^^rating. Queen', representative^ "^1^" trp^^'* /'*"x ^^^ ^^«'' - ^« ravery of ermined robes^ due^h' " ^•^"' ^^^1* -^"ch •Peech, he spoke of Te'.TvemZntT^'^ ""^ ceremonies. In his Aften.a.d Mackey said, ^ftir^^ :i^^ou" ^^^r '^^ '^ ^'^• ^TJat is all," replied Sir Charles. ^•"^^^^T*- wen, said the monev Hn«y wUh „ ^ > . \ ■" d to aee you ' voyage yon hich set my » In order to lamxhip, tata •tic, I couht etlme prom V.8ia. I had cure natives •es and races n countries, •8 of intro- India, etc., to the For ar exchang- *^ays retain nd the cOn- Touching lone of its narrating, les, aa the ith much I. In hla ' «60,000. popiexy. .■r^ prosperooB drcumrtanceB. His widow, the charming little LaTlnla, of Qupter XXXVII, bai since married again, and is mow known as the Ckwntess MagrL In NoTember I had the pleasure of entertaining at WaldemeitfV|Ir Matthew Arnold, on the occasion of his lecturing in Bridgeport. The official accounts of the show at the end of the traveling season gave much cause for congratulatioh. The expenses for the season amounted t^ $1,084,000, or more than $6,000 for each of the 176 exhibition days, out oil which six performances were lost. A glance at some of these records oi receipts will show where we get enough to pay $6,000 a day and still have sufficient to make a very satisfying division of profits at the end of the season. Take the six days in Philadelphia : April 80th, $8,416. 75; May 1st, $12,000.15; May 2nd, $18,383il5; May 8rd, $17,187.25; May 4th, $16,064.80; May 5th, $10 058.10— aggregating a grand total of $80,130.20 from that city alone. Out of Chicago, in the ten days, from June 4th to June 14th, both inclusive, the show took $119,172.80. Then take the single day'i receipts into notice:' Detroit, $15,538.10; Cleveland, $14,762.20; Pittsburgh, $14,876.20; Cincinnati, $14,133.65; Toronto, $13,864.80; Hamilton, ' $18,481.50; Toled*, $18,872.26; Baltimore, $13,352.05; Washington, $18,294.90- LouUviUe, $12,937.75; Montreal. $15,896.75; Brooklyn, $18,782.00. I was the recipient of a very novel, compliment at Christmas. Labouchere, M. P. , the publisher of London 2Vu/A, dubbed his Christmaji, number " Barnum in Britishland," and every line was devoted to imagi nary interviews of P. T. Barnum with the most prominent Britishers, begin< ning with a hob-nobbing iite-d-tite with the Prince of Wales. It was a witty hit (done up in rhyme) at the foibles, follies, customs, fashions and . sharp practices supposed to exist in Britishland. The sale reached a third edition, and exceeded by many th!!Kisands that of any previous seasoi. The gratuitous advertisement was highly appreciated by me. « The New York /Sun, about the same time, published the foJloFtog :.. Under the moral influence of a great illuminated— "Whatsoever ye would- * thHt men should do you, do ye even so to them "—in his luxuriously fur nished parlor at Waldemere, his country seat near Bridgeport, the reporter found the venerable showman, |*. T. Barnum. Plump, ruddy, lively and active, the veteran looked as if he had juggled away a score, at least, of his seventy-four years. "But I'm getting pretty well on in years," he said, •' for I was born on July 5, 181(1^<'X " What is your actual present ph5|K!a|r^idition V^ the"^ repoiter asked "I don't positively know, without tSJifng, whether I could turn a somersault or not, but the chances are t^iinXcould, at least, as well as ever. At all events, I never was betrerin mv life. I eat well, flleep well/ and eh^bgr the most perfect health. Perhaps to ma.rnta,& this conditiou 1 8EouTa~ walk more than I do, but I walk sotbe, and go out riding efery day twice. AH the disease I have is old age, and my neighbors say I should not plead that for I'm as young as most men of sixty. The sickness I had in New Tork ihree years ago, when the doctors give me up, was the only one I 8uch?g^*Su^^ '^'^ ""^ *^* P^^P*^ ^Wts that have conduced to to them in the everXn^aulA Z ^^^g'^ooj^ do not come to me I go out th^ theatre butTaS!i«°T«S*'^l«5T^tv^^'««' *°<* occaeionally fV^o . hoGi-s reading a fewTame« o/.rihh ^^^^J^^'' drive. In the evening aS morning. " ^ leunng. i am always up by 7 o'clock in Oif " How long have you maintained such regular habita V whe^I ':i'l K Sifrw^^Lf ^° &^:^,ot^ler. although . iiWdyoudStXr^^t^r^''?'"^ Oriental country seat Irariistan I wi Drtid^f^S«^ J"*^* "l^ ""S^'^^ • prouder of my wine oeJlar than nf n^^M i ^^ 5°"^- ^^^ **"» tiOf- habit of drinkinTdist^l ed lin?^.^ anythmg else I had. I was not in The rled that f Lufd .carc*V«D tL'.-IIS'' ""T '^."i?'" ««*«>"■„* knock tie necks off Lull,' cLnD^^.??„°''';W,'''^ "J' ?M»PM fng free lectures on thVsubJect and e^ t^!ftl^"h"^^^^ deliver- ihe State at my own erS and at CtlSl^^J ^ Wlsco^in, stumped tnceplatform.^' "'P*'"*'' •"^ at leaat helped to cawy it/ on a temp^ " You shut oir on tobacco also r i / ' Uon that every pouS was oSmnS^SS?t i^ ?^^ ^f* ^° '~*^*» * "'^^a ivcrv woplr s Bo^rn "J." "r,°Pr^°^,^° »"«■ *Pd aa j was th«n . * a poyerRJg n'a w/ >r> li n f r j i r tt -t— , • **'"'*^*" • wMi •« \Tt Cigars X le fo' omy'und itOD it "One SundaFl^he^^mSlB 1 a?iii.^t 1 n '"*'^^"C*f'°' '"d continued it up to HO ttauor eadly enoutli, %ut not tobacco, and I a- "gim •uTd^nractlco eeon- ers all davinstead lied me. The nejrt I860. I could fltt ten dlanaStj ■; > •4.** i'. ; -*■ .'^. t 4 t^l WHTTS SOBPHAXrr. ^% "^^^^ *■ ^ One day In 1880- on my t^ray down to the museuia, I felt a strange cbok injr sensation away down in my throat, and then a throbbing or pajpita tiMi of my heart* I had noticed it a little for a year before, but paid n» particular attention to4t until then. Iiisked my manager, Gr^nvOQa. What it was. and he s^d it was heart disease, and the symptoms I described as mine meant death. That scared m^ pretty badly. 1 determmed to giTe up business at once, retire to the country and prepare to die, ,but before doinjf so consulted Dr. Willard Parker. He examined me, and said : ' You maylave a very hard heart, for all I know, but you have as strong a one as Uere is in New- York.. Nicotine is all that is the matter with you. , •Stop smoking. ' I did so at once, 1 \« as so scared, and never smoked a^n. ^ , For a year, however, I used to carry bits ^_ calamus in my pocket to chew ^^ when 1 wanted to sm(A:e." , ^ . v. a J tv^ «^» " So in your unregenerate state you used W drink and smoke, ma you gamble?" v • i-* - " No never. I never eVetrspeculated in sto^kfli but once in mv lite, ""^hat was in the time of the great panic, ten years or more ago. 1 had some money lying idle in bank, and,'«eeing everythfaig tumbled down to ■ thelowest pdint apparently, I thought it would .l)e a good time to bur, and hold on fpr /false. So I took down $100,000 to Hatch & Fpote and told them, to put It in whatever they thought best They invested it, and I thought I was sure of making |25,000 anyway, but oh the whole 1 lost. Some of my atockg Went up eventually, but others went down, and 1 was i a loser "Wfth that exception I have o'wned no railroad stocks or otht-r ^ s^ulafivd securities. I havjB my legitimate business as a rfiowman, and iant no other. In it I never made a miatike, but whenever I stepped out- aide Lwaa pretty sdre to." , j^, ^ 1.1 . '• -Why, when you made your will recently, did you take the trouble to call a concl%vfr oHhysicians to certify to your condition ?'' . •> Bedtttse of whatlhave seen of contests over wills, m the case of Franfc , . .Leslie and a (IpzenothArs. W^y, we haW had on^ right here that ovw the will of Capt. John Brooks, who died iii full poi^esslotf of aU his facul- bot pret^ old. and left most of his tooney io^|j|h9.ilK»itely ever heard of are contesting ties, b rftlRtii'ii 1^1 ^ -«"» — on the^^MJilstan^, and asked me what/,' in my , mental boj^Wi, Ireplied that 1 thought his of any ric'ff™|t M»o hah poor relation*. The I don t suppose that there is anything 4n my will test, biit 1 don't propose to leave any /krouud for the Chvirch, and now ,is will. They had me Inlon, wis Capt. Broota^ jid was as sound as that opped me pretty auickly. that anylK)(ly ylU con- legal trouble over ^t„ I his provide that any legatee who makes A contefl shall, as the penalty of so doSg, forfeit whatever is bequeath^ to hini in tiie wlll,.iugkl have left a fijnd of •100,()00 in reserve in the liknds of the executors Plll thor shHll be buHed or nothing m no cate shall toore than |3 be charged, inflt^du)f the oSiiMnr rate «J^„*^ JL?* *"'^'^°''" ^' '; l^* CJreat Combined Show " during the season ditm. my agents In Africa and in India and other parts of Asia nTr//T. """"' ^*''"' ^- ^ ^•y'^'"*^' ^^'^^ Whlte..and Thomas H .h3 ' '.rTJf ^"'^ '***^^°°' '° thosi'tands. procured a number of of t^ei^ations." These norelties included specimens of the foUowing ftiifc/J^l^ '' ?^''^'*5 r"^**"' ^'''" ^'^'^f'' ^^«»^' Hindus, Todaa iBdfens, tfnd Smging and Dandng Nautch Girls of India. A prellmiuarv ffi!l H^'iT' '!''^ ^^^^ologicMl raritie. was fven to members o( ilL> *'r « ^* ''^'^ *" *^"''''"'» ^1""« <^»«»«°. New York, on the iffi^rnoon of March 15. 1884. which was attended with the customiry sue > 1^ f .l^'^r*"* o? *"' ^^ ■""" ^*y '^^''y ''•'• introduced to thaiubUc I part of the Great Show. -^^uum TVe particular additional feature, howerer by which the m^n of 1884 wai ^e mem(.rable. was the eihibition for the first time in any driilied counter of that rare and beauUfal animal, whiih for ^ hasZn nZ^ Sf'^.L?*™' Burmah. and oEer Buddhist countries as Om "Bbal pt«uiwa by a liuiuiUMiBuhM ii A ,„, ! . ^ii^. vr _« ih.-j^t. . "^ . —--y^ ...mhul lu " 1 1 ■ "'womioiy unique ourldrity was aA^nn. P^iu^Dj .Uu.uie«iureft«l,tand a retinue of ftuddhist pri«ii to full «^^°:l^tn:' '^^ T^ r°*"'* "*'"« •"^'»*»*» by tb- ««ne i ~*»°^ "^ paraphernalia as duri«( th« perf(»i»Moe of nUg. U ■ II Hi Mil ia Ua naliTa oountry. Tfci pl«ii ww aUo suppUwi wttk e. XMl WHiyE KLBPHAJrr. 4^1 i.ctudiiit.. under theiro^W «"«*«»«J^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ bMst and with the royal blU of sale executed by King Theebaw s Marter of Etophants^ and also bea^g the king's seal. ^ ^ -^_ ^^ 4tJBta my agent first vMted Bangkok. Ue capital of Siam. and thee nw ^ kin«'« '' 8«5red White Elephants," I had supposed that they were Uto- rally wWli»it<»d of te T BArnukn and wis f riendsbfcye dispeUed a wide-spread popular Ulu- ^/turion^-^AdSlSd sacred white elephant«.f the tu.gs ^f Smm and , ' Rnrrtih eitiier are. or ever were, literally white. 1 hey say mey navo Kd alSct a specimen of this animal as existe ^anj wbere, ^d they d^S c£m tSt it is '' ^ite " In the strict sense of that word ; Jf.^f rw ««miXrle8 akd exact connterpstft of those white sacred animaTs wor- u- ^ ff?^nSkJ£« hv i^e BuddhMs. Up to this time, no European ' .a^ h'iljer'te^^^ •• a J?cred white elephant/' or even ^SeH toU^Sistian country^ and in that Barnum has succeeded. ^ „ A'rly^ shoWtnan. who Uibored under the "popular" illusion, had a 4bmmon eleiSfcnt p«nteve utterly unattainable. Unfortunatejy. Just M my agenta seenied uu tl»o verge of success, they were doomed ^^ .HimUiieu t. A ,hlto4crhnTit.Ft rrh «W,dbythemlnHi amm>n^Uii Uoit Toung Taloung waa ob^n^. was P^^^^'f** ^^" ,f Ja^r, ^ a^rlure by Ita attwidant priests rather than that it 'JJ**"^"^ ™2l 2 ^^ of ^Um UteWiiMW. FlwUy, ^'*'"^: •^^ ^ jmx^j^ r ' , ■.r " :iJ 4^2 ■ini, wtant WLEfmunt w»3f^'>'* P«tiwrt periiwenoe, and tlw exercise on thu nart «f i..W - ^ ' . ' « the peril of their lives, and the outlay of a quarter of Jt^mnTA^n tbe Suez Can.l, and touchy ^mS^ l! ■ 1.^ ''""'°«*'™* England, on J.,^u.ry M Tw« t1.^^. w .^l** "'"''' " '^'"H""'. 18. 1884. it was shloped in the B^a2rIvTSM TT - ^° ^•'«*' andatthatcltyita^rred'onlhra^^^^^^^^^^^^ '^On^'r «?:' special private exhibition of it was iriven to .pT^^i f \ . ^^ ^^'•' " scientists. Eastern traveler. .oroTarrcad % phy^^^^^^^^^ T^"'^"' editors of Kew York and other Dftm.r« -n^ .i ^^ clergyraon, Bcmtiiy I ^jvite.!. but who no„eT?hem do^^'^^^^^^^^ l^^* what he was described to h« n«m«it aouo^ed that the animal was mah. Many Juflcl'^f'^ColeLC n^ t '' ^'•'''^°'' '"" «"'• glTcn by such eminent authoritCrS;rSIni«l R^r^T^'^"' ™ ister to Slam; Colonel Thomas W KnoTthl onlv l^w '''^''' '*'°'^'"' Kia, of Siam has ever Pr^^^nJ^^Z^Tl^^^^^^ Edward Greey. autl.or of, " Th^ Golden Lotus ^MrDZr^rRl^' correspondent of the I^ew York TVm^ • Fnnk Vlni-n/ t l'"**** ••TheUndof the White.E.ephan,.rdmLTot^^^^^^ ' '' As might have been anticipated, as a consequijnce of th« exhihit.n.w so unique » curiosity, not to speak of the oth«r ^ZJm 1 *"^'''^'"o'» 'i' " Greatest Show on Earth." during he teworof?^^^^ ?" "' **•' cessful as any previous one Th. «h«l ?^i^L . ^' ^'^ *»"**• " """- United Stated rflLLL-Itl^v "^"^ "*' P*"*""**^ «•"- <»^ ^he •Tery claim made In^lil^f «f To^u^tI? '^^^ !L** '""''^ '*'^""^«"' lit ■core of' em IlioB dollus, ad regularly '6611 seen or nnous were only genu- r luooeMfal iirchased^l r the roj«) ih Burmah, ng through Liyerpool, !> where U h Regent's prominent Dd(in Zo5- On March ew York the 81st a aturalfstR, lergyracn, se closest limal was V«m Bur- Ion, were iHtc^ Min. Thorn the laint; Mr. Siamese luthor of )itioniif ir ot the as sue- fl of the i«as Ciiy IB of ih« L'UBslon, iit ed 1 puill/ 9iMies« . {.'■ 0'- r - % r ; ■ -' ' „ » • 1 '»,-. .„ rl •- 1 ^ ■\ " if- \ 'A T«t mamiMrmiiwt; 465 * Mirital— ifhera ciie King uui hli Oeurt rteicUh^is its hum 9t Marah 7tk. 1886, prints the <9llowlng ©dltorlftlt ^ Whitb EuBiikANT. — It is Stated that a White Elephant has t)ee* , obtained at Pratabaung and will be sent to Bangkok as npeedily as possible. There will doubtless be the usual pompous denaonstrations in oonn^Ctioo with bringing it to Bankok, dbnferring on it a title and giving it a home p la the vicinity of the palace. Foreigners naturally are surprised that such ^ eminent honors should be cglnferrea ypon an animal, by no rnearu nhite, chough perhaps a shade or tlfA lighter than the ordinary elephant in>Bome f parCi if the body. The same paper, in Its ifeufj of April 18th, 1885, speaks as follows of tlu , preaentaHon of the elei^antajbove referred te : ,, On the 8«1 instant, Bis Royal Highness Somdetch Ghowfah, Mahamalah ^amrabp Parapako conducted a male elephant into the Palace for presen- iation to Kis Blajesty the King of Slam. His Majesty graciously accepted the animal end nreaentcd a sum of money and sundry articles of clothing to be given to Tepan, t)[ie mother, and her son, Ayaungtoh Karens, the owners of the elephant. The Siamese oflacials who brought the elephant lo Bangkok were honored with an audience of His Majesty and were tha recipients of suitable presents also. „ ^ Ibertainly the King of Biam ought to be accepted as good authority on the subject of "white elephants, and here we have an account of his reioeiT- mg with highest honors and rewards a " White Elephant," which is sacred attributes and required peculiarities of marking would have no comparison with ours. And this is supplemented by more recent proof from Burmah, which in the Autumn of 1886 witk conquered by Great Britain. The correspondent of the London Daily l^cmdard, wha entered Mandelay. the Capital, with General Prendergast's army, says : I saw Kjng Theebaw's Sacred White Elephant close by in a magni^oeft oalace of hfo own. The only white about him if (wo siBaU d^ spota, almost imperceptible. T The Manchester (Eng.) MaU says : Bai nam's Sacred White Elephant, exhibited in London laat jwr, appears to have beeiii whiter than King Theelww's. King Theebaw's White Elephant died soan after his royal raaatcr's orer* ihrow, and the New York (JtmmtircM Ai u rHmr , oeBmeAting am tiwfaot, •■•y ' ( ■ Mr. Bamum's White Elephant waa, aftar all, whiter than him of Mas- , delay. Tl^e tour jjif the Great Show during the tumiaaf * IWH was raaiieed \^' an inciden' whlchls wOTthy^of liotehere. The autboridea of l thrM^ New EngL ud town, at which we were adwtlsea to appear, demand««l an ezceptlonully exorbitant sum aa a llomse fee. l^ough our advanoa agnl demurred to the tmpositioo. 4be authorlttai. thlaklag m d|eiibl tliai m 4^ TEM WKTB ILlPBAHt, 1 ■, . t would submit to it »th«r than pMs by a town whew the wortpto for • dM hMd areraged $W,000, were immovable. They reckoned without their host, however, We at once changed our plane, caneelled the date for their town, and announced instead that we would give the intended exhibition at a gmaller town twelve miles off. The merchants, hotel-keeper. aBd other business men of the large town offered us four times the ambunt of the license-fee demanded if we would adhere to oar original purpoM and exhibit there. We, however, were immovable in our turn, and declined to change our plans a second time. On the day of the exhibition we i«n a large number of excursion trains to the smaller town ; the other town was KTl^f«f '^'^ • ''"** *^* '*'^' ^••eceipts for ti»« exhibition were not $10,000. out $l«,7o0. ( ^Another incident, of a widely different character, by which the year 1884 was marked aa a bright spot in my calendar, was the opening of the' Natural History Museum of Tuffs College, near Boston, of which admir-, able educational institution I was a trustee at its foundation. The want of a natural history museum had long Ijeen felt, and some time ago mv friend, President E. H. Capen, made an dppeal to me to supply the need To this appeal I responded,; and the outcome has been the erection of a larm and handsome stone structure, partially furnished with a fine collection of natural history specimens and other curiosities interesting and useful to students. The building was completed in the spring of 1884, and it was formaUy inaugurated at the Commencement exercises of the college held on the 10th of June the' same year. The name of the founder had' beeo kept a secret, but it was then publicly announced by President Capen i> the course of his address. . ^ Tbe event was described by the Ohrutian Leader of June a«th as foUows ho^/wi*? H^° ^®** ciiriosity in regard to the donor whose jrreat heart • ^^ff^^ V *?^ ^'"''"P °^ I'^iWings on College Hill the elewm^SnicSro ,ln stone, to be known as the Natural History Sfuseum. WhVn as thiS of the President's address eUminated one after another till it was dea? S fnfllTf ^^"'T ^^"^^^ ""^ ^^« "»»"• ^^^ applause becaSirrsho^t wd for what seemed many minutes the throng testified their^atitude fw thJ magnificent gift-K)f a character so exactly accordant wth the rolritS th! donor-m every articulate and muscular^form in which an eSthusteiSj Su^etrnuSrV'"^^'^'.''^iLJ°y- " "»" he?^lerbe Ju? gSl pleasure to put Mr. Barnum into the category of Tufts Packard wilkmr and the Ooddards. It was the feature of t£ day . iS U^Sde't£ dJ^ most memorable in the.history of Tyft's College ^^ ^ President Capen's address on the occasion was as foUows : Mu^y V?m?u„ !.'!lf°£^gr *^g !0"°der gtthg V^tnlTii y fjg " S!f« .-I #' ^,Kpo^ ""'"7 guesses have been ventured, but venrftrr oS U»em. po tuu I know, have come near the mii«h. ,oS'mLJV interest in this coUege from the tUxL His *?«• J« »5 Sf orSwS llBt^f iti trustees with Charles Tuft and SUyanua 1 "^ «J SUrW. and Thomas A. Qoddard He began life m Poverty but by a£ energy and a spirit of enterprise almost jMflualid, even ^J^^""^^ t^r ■ndln the face of difficulties that woulKve appalled most men ^ hSoonquered poverty and secured for himigTa place among the men of o^Srfortunr^ He had no such educational advantages as the young KStWs college enjoy. Even the lads in our primary schoota «?*]»*}« Sling Xn hefeceiied. But by dilligent use of ^is opportumties b^ Sous habits and an active brain he has not only)8tored his mmd with faried and useful knowledge, but. as you shall presently see. has become the master of a vigorous a^ idiomatic style of English which would put manT^ college min to^hame. Through all his life he has been a man of Sladed Srspirit. In the city of his adoption he is. by unanimous consent the foremost citizen, pourmg out his money like water for eVery Secies of pubUc improvement I do^bt if a single New Eegland-city has W8 superior in this respect. He is a man of P^J^e life, who has taught tempeVance by precept and example to young and old a >ke. He is a nwn of positive religious convictions and deep religious life, the friend for ISJ yelra of the venerable Dean of Tuft;8DiVrnity School, the Rev Dr. Sawyer, and the parishioner and life-long friend of the la"»e"t«d Chap n He has been prominently identified witB the Church to w Uich his faith has allied him, and promote^ its enterprise by generous ct)ntribution8. In hiB business he has sought to combine popular amusement with ^pulai education. He has searched all climates, from the frozen polar^ regions t^ Se bM°g tropics, regardless of pecuniary cost that ^e might secure specirSs ?fthe*^rarest of living creitures for exhibition. Years ago he Kt up in the city of New York i museum, which the late Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, characterized as one of the most inipoFtant educational institutions in this country. And now, in the latter eXf his varied and useful life, he has chosen thw co"«g« V" ,^5i«^ *; create an instrumentality in which his name may be Perpetuated. and the work in which his best energies have been devoted may be carried forward on a scientific basis forever. Five years ago I took occasion to call his attention to this subject, and again.8ome fourteen^ months sincM^enew^ the suggestion. The response wa* almost instantaneous. «g^}J« momenluhtU now the work has. been pushed forward veith a»J°«gy JJf* is electric. The sum of $56,000 has beeii set apart for Uus object which is ample for the erection of the building for partiaHy ^"'"^^ng it with sDecimeni leaving a fund for its care and maintenance. I have jeceived JKlowing lettfr. which I am sure you will be glad to hear, and which, in the absfence of our friend, I will venture to read : impossible to attend the Commencement exercises at Tuft s. as promiBed. Often have I wished to be with you on these annual <>?ca«lo°»i « J^'^fJ other reason than to mark bV my presence the deep inteijsst I talw and. have always tJken in an instftutiqp the pi^osperity of which Usjfe watched ^S^^^^Sto^HS^Sm^^^Tlanning with more. than usual foresight (as I had imagined) to be with yo^ijfj;/^'^. ' believing that the time had come wlien I could in person extend my oon- gratulaSons to the faculty and the students. I find I mu^orego even thlj f iSt But U Abwit in & fl«h. I MX with you IB nvmmmm thoiigiht SI '■iii wujiS"" l^AJd^iii 468 Tin irMlTS JEBLSPHAJKT. will, wmder J;o you ia 70Qi'^„£|MQiM#>of oommeBcemeat on the msUoti^ Deprived iu my oTOig^tl^of rare eduaaaonal advantaj , have ImrMdM appreci^e their worth and to lake solid delight in ' evidence of greater e^fflitenment and progress. I never see an i plodding his wily mifWilTingly to scliool but I contrast the meagre faciflties of sixty years ago with the present wealth of instrumentalities within the reach of every American boy and girl. And so, when I hear the common school-bell ring, I bless the day which, np longer sees any valid reason for Ignorance in this country. I have always declared that I took more pleasure in paying my school-taxes than any other; for education often tends to lessen vice and crime, as well as to secure to its recipients reputa- tion, honor and success. * " I may be pardoned, Mr. President, if on this occasion I assert that my interest in the highcr^ducation of the day has ever been constant and profound. Had my earlier advantages been greater I might have achieved • more ; but looking back on a long and eventful career, I confess, in no boasting vein, that I have conscientiously labored to elevate and ennoble public amusements which play no small part among the educational agen- cies of the times. How successful I have been in blenditig healthful and moral instruction with recreation it is not^for me to state, but the satisfac- Tuft's. I believe, froni what I know of the sacrificing spirit and intellec- tual standing of its facility, that tlie possibilities within its reach will be attained, and that it will become an educational centre, fostered and; nourished not only by men of brains, but flilso bV men of fortune. It' augers well for the future of any cause when people of means are ready to give generously in its behalf. The history of most denominations to-day reveals the fact that there is more giving than formerly, and with it corres- ponding prosperity. Whilst feeding the Churches, let us not negrect to ' foster the colleges, but endeavor to give them such prestige and position as shall enable them to exercise the most salutary i^ifluence and do ^ very best work. Hoping that others may do much 'more than I have, and that all wi ll fe el -a pleasure in contributing according to their means. lam. my ^^"^VriM^auKem^^^ ^he entire community ^XS tWreJ^wTd mSy ^ distinguished Wellington, Napoleon, *^'^?„«"f,^^\7^^o^^ been permitted to ^bKnd thu fncul^te tlT^esson qf honesty, perseverence and true Satiiotismsd admirably illustrated in your «^er. r n have the honor to fc« truly your friend ahd admirer bARNUM. ;'w reBideni^ so on afterwards, and was polite ly^ "received by him. his wife, and son. Colonel Frederick Grant ^reived bv him, nis wiie, anu buu. v/vi^"^. — - - i^„-„- . iS Z the beneral. irfter a^v greeting " General, smce joux Journy wound th^world you an the best-known m«n aii the globe. ^ *.^i^^i^jM**4- '^^ t» ■ . l," ■-,' ■^ ( ,? 7 ■ ' ' m ,' . • '. ^ 1 *■ t ^ ft * ■ . / • /- »9 - '.-'■: ;* ! ■ ■ ■ /' ' .la' 'f! 1 • ■ ^ ■ t " : ;i ■ ■.; — i ?' . * ♦ V ^ *t f , /. .* « ;r' ■%■*• 7: /;•. IMAGE EVALUATION TE$;T TARGET (MT-3) V \* 1.0 I.I ltl|Z8 |25 ■** liii 122 IL25 i 1.4 2.0 1.6 . HiolDgraphic ^Scpices Corporation .^. {■ ^cr /. '^ ^ * > n WKT MAM STRUT' WMSTM.N.V. I45M> ^ i > «) rv^Q A k fo« f * .*■ * -'^ , * \ » -. , ■* _ ■ ■ 1 ■ •*No. rfr," npUed ttM Oenenj. "your luune ii famOlat 40 multitadM WHO nerer hebd of me. WhewTcr I. went, unong the most diitaat MtioDs. the fact that I wu -an American ted to constant inquiries whether IknewBamum." Proceeding to the businessmen which I had caUed, the General inforaied me that the trophies were no longer under his control, as Mr. Vanderbllt, aftw refusing to talbe ^Jiem, out of respect to the General, had finally aocepted.them on conditio;! that after General Grant's decease they should be lodged in some public place in Washington, where all could sei them "After all, Mr. Bamum,''8ald General Grant, "under the preswi arrangements, everybody who visits Washington can see them " Jl^S^^""^^" ^ ™P"®**' "^'*' millions of persons ^6. wlU nev^r .virit Washington will regret that 1 had never brought these historiaU - relics where ^ey would see them. " "^"^ I shall always believe, regardless of any profit (or loss) which might have accrued to me, that my plan was one creditable - 11 oonoemed and that it is to be regretted that It was nqt catried out. I was reminded of General Grant's assurance of my name being known to the ends of the earth, when a few weeks later I received a letter wldrajsed to "Mr. Baraum. America." and posted in Noulmein. British Burmah. on January 15th. It had been sUmped seven times on its face and back» and bore the marks of the Post Olflce of Bombay, Brindisi..tha " Bea Post Offlcs," and the Po^l Othce in New York, whence It was trau- mitted to Bridgeport The envelope conUined Iwo liters in the Bar- mp» language, to the aixe^daats' on the White Elephant. The JMb Stmndard remarked : ' T .i.2i*»K*?* *^H *n* •^'^^ ^** *^">?'X " Mr Barmim, America." nmU STJ.^ w''L?^1°''^'"»??'« *' <^ *-'• ^ra""*. °ot only ofthe VSJ 8««U4. or North America, but of Uw watlA /**•«. w^ V »■ ^i.- ^ '"'* i&t^sMfe. » multitadM Qost diitant riea whether ^^ v. ,-r--^ ^^.M ^^X^ff"^/ .i^^iV ^BE FVMA OR AMERICAN OTIQUL -j,."aite :• 4i-. -K . SJC^'^ .•■^.: • : ■^■:,X' ... Tfc^= OurG ijhtfden, tnug, N, fTlBter 1 dive of £ Bylvauia New Br and Ont Tiousye ,Theft occmrrec "Albert McCorui in death life, Alb '•^jjJl^IK "jPIRy-t r^atriztee the hngi straggle Smithso OnT» UBiversa a great i Jumbo, was kill Railway There ^ liflofon fractnre btitween tnoL OHAPTEE Llli ALIOB. Our Great Bamum-London Show opened itt aeuoa at Ma«jikOii o^unn liarden, New York City, Monday, March 16th, 1885, and ciotieu at New tfoxg, N. Y., Batuipday, October, 24th, whence It was shippeit directly to fainter Headquarters, Bridgeport, Conn. In the course of liT^ days, exclu- diye of Sundays, it traveled 8,471 miles and exhibited in Ne perfect athlete and equestrian, came into the ring, riding four bare-backed hoiMi. . They were very spirited animals, |uid Uwy went tiirough tiieu tarloof avoliitions witii such parfection and celerity as U bring rcpaatai \ 4 476 AUOM, ) tkunden of applause. ' PrtaenUy the youthful rider ivU^ed a aomeraault, alighted upon his head, and In that position, wIUi his hee^s In the Vir, rodr > MTeral times around the ring. All were wondering at this extrao^dbmiy ' feat, when my old farmer friend jmnped to his feet, wild wi^h excitement f wung his hat in the alrand exclaimed, • I'll bet five doUto that's ]^um. v\ There ain't another man in America who can do that but JBaiiaum.' t did not disabuse his mind. He felt that he had gotten his money's worth, and I was satisfied." • \ During the six weeks of the exhibition in New York, I was a oonst^^t visitor in the afternoons and an occasional one In the evenings, at whi<^' latter times I ren'ewfed many old acquaintanceships. When it was not posA sible to attend both, I always gave the preference to the afternoon perform.\ ances, so as to meet as many as possible of my little friends and patrons,"' to whose amusement and happiness it Is such a pleasure to minister. To me there is no picture s<^*)eautiful as ten thousand smUing, bright-eyed, happy children ; no music sjo sweet as their clear ringing laughter. That I h^ve had liower, year after year, by providing innocemt amusement for the little ones, to create such pictures, to evoke such music, is my proudest and happiest reflectidn. Often, as I walked through tjie Madison Square ^ Garden, I was the recipient o! spontaneous bursts of applause and clapping of little hands from the multitude of children present. These incidents are among the pleasantest of my life and never to be forgotten. The show left the city for its annual traveling season and traveled through th? following states, first going to Brooklyn, Hew Jersey, Penn- sylTania^ Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, back to New Yorjc State, through Canada, then into New York Stute again, Pennsylvania* and lastly New . Jersey, closing the season In Hoboken, on Octobfer 23, 1887. It was a most satisfactory season financially, although not quite as extensive as : formerly. In its travels the show visited liS cities, covering over 10,600 • miles Of territory and meeting with but few accidents, and none of any consequence. Prom Hoboken all the animals and material were safely transported to the winter quarters at Bridgeport At the close of the season, Messi's. Hutchinson, Cole and Cooper,' feeling [■'**r^m'a. desire for more leisurely lives than the terms of our partnership per mitted, and being possessed of fortunes large enough to gratify all reason able tastes, withdrew from the firm, with my fn» consent, and the show property was housed for the winter with myself and Mr. James A. Bai^y as equal partners and proprietors, and under the name, of the Barnum d, Bailey Show. The sad news of Jenny Lind's death in London, November t, 1887, news which flashed ftrrnm tl^e wnrlH ■wnir«» in^ i,ntT c r s al sor ro w and mgiilt ^ appealed peculiarly to me. It was not only that the dead songstress was associated with one of the most successful business enterprises of my life, •ad one of which I am particularly pleased, but f root tlM time of our flnt AJMM, 477 .-/'■'■■ .\ MMciation 1 ooacelTedrfor *lie wonum and the artist a Warm regard which «a« not impaired by any subsequent evento. Her imputoea yrtnj^^jn good, and if the somewhat abrupt termination of her engagement with me twnot in keeping with the toe sen?e of justice whidi ordinarily regulated \ier actioD^a, the blami» must rest on her^terested advis*8, not on Je»ft"r ^'l^th/years whfchhave passed since then we have each held ^l^* ready to do the other any friendly service possible; ^^^^^]r^ff' * mutukipleasure in recalling the many humorous »°d pathettc^ncldents^f our conLt season. I remember the glorious ^f «^^^8^*^f Jf/ J^^^^ alone in the raptures of unrivalled singing, but low^soft. '^J^hpit^J tender words, as she sought to comfort one in trojible ; or ringing out in the hearty laughter of blithe and vigorous you»i wo^a'^o^d. From my ve^ heart came the words of sympathy I sent to her devoted ^-^^f'^l from his. I am sure, came the message he cabled from Malvern. Ei^^land, where he had just laid the body of his worshipped wife :y JoveJ wife, and w'as always remembered by her ^^'^''^g;^^^^^ Bo dl«a away the kst eclM •f the moat gloriou- Tolce-the world has tvci , \ ■ ' ^' A *»* ' •.-•. »-.,"*., f .-«■ v.. . ^ ^PHAFTER LIV. ' ' '. , '■ dVeamsof uoman butl^^ and!^'^^^^ P-obubly entered info tha possible to organize a drcus;Wch^^S' °° """^^ ">yself'*eliered it taining to it. ^ '**'"'^ '^'P^*^* t^® Church and all per- In those day« the circus was vferv *t,ativ th« ^m . . ^ animadversions. Ita sDectacular at tZ.t- ^ . ^^''''^ °' ^^« Church's teo eatr6e horses ^11^^^",'"°' "T '"'"^ principally of six to ing feats on h^r^lbr ;t"n^?J ^.^d pT^S tT ^ " apprentice boys, who rode more or less (and rath or ^ t' ^*'^*^°^«° Joined in flip flaps, hand-sprinw and in fh« «f? "" *^*° ""^'""^ '^'^'^ theTailor" or •' Pete JeX8^^„ 1 J?' ^^r^"'''"* "^"^^ ^""^" ■entedand broad Jokes s^teS' J ,r '^ ^'^^^'' characters were repre consisted of thet^:^ X^l^^^T.T.^Zj'' /"" and suggestive eesiurpa i«.t r,\.^„- 1 *; ,, , *"" ™^'^® Tulgar mostly of the rowdy element and U h«^ ri, • ^^ employees wer« pockets and swindLfr^aiw 1^ ''''"'« °^ card-sharpers, pick- Circus p-P-tor:ir;tmTh';7hr;xri^^^^^^ '^^ ?^« , Hdvent was dreaded bv all iar-w7 '^*'*^."»«' iH-gotten gains. Its would ^^^<^J',^^r^:,1^zz't,^^^'7 X -'^*," be believed that it was thn r„«/^™^# f * ^ ^* ^^ scarcely #*•"- TMx OHTixcni AHD aauvik TBB manoN or tkb cuboui. Xrflijf OM In these enlightened days concedes that human filature impenir tlvely dnnanda amusenient and recreation. The childish mind to which all the world is yet fresh and interesting and the jaded brq^ of the adult call with equal insistence for " something new and strange." Granted the necessity of amusements and the desirability of their being morally clean and healthful and instructlTe, the provider of such entertainments is a nubile benefactor and may reasonably ask for his wares, the countenance of the G&urch. The so-called circus of to4ay, with, I regret to say, some exceptions. Is a wiflely different affair from that of the past When under proper man- agement it is decorous and orderly in operation and composed of features which appeal to all jtges, classes and conditions. While modestly submit- ting to bear the generic title of circus, a genuine tent exhibition under thai name must comprise a menagefie and museum, the accumulating of wbdch necesdtated a diligent searching o*: the whole earth at an incredible pecuniary outlay. In the proper circus of today the athlete demonstrates the perfection of training of wbjjch the human body is capable. His feats of strength and graceful agility pleases the understanding as well as the eye, and if the average small boy does stand on his head and practice turning "hand-springs" and "flip-flaps" with exasperating persistence for thrfte weeks running after going to the circus his physique will" be Ml the better for it The juggler shows tbe marvelous precision and nicety %i^. of touch which can be acquired by patient practice. In the real circus of to day the intelligent lover of horse-flesh will find the finest specimens of , the equine race trained to do almost anything but talk. There the scien- tific mind is attracted by such strange examples of mechaniMn as the talk- ing machine, an ingenious duplicate of the structure of the human throat, giving forth under manipulation a very human, if not very sweet, voice. The ethnologist finds gathered together for his leisurely inspection repre- ; ■entatives of notable and peculiar tribes, civilized and savipp'frora far distant lands— types which otherwise he would never see, aamify can only be sought in their native eountriea at the risk of life, and at the q;xpendl- ture of time and money possible to very few. The menagerie of wild bea^ birds and reptiles— comprising every curious specimen of animal life, from the denizens of the torrid African jungle to those of the Polai regions— form a study that will impart more valuable informa^n in two hours than can be obtained from reading books on zoology in a ^ear. XORALITT or BlfPLOTBB& r llie morality of a genuine circus troupe comparos favorably wittt toat of any equal number of any other profession or trade. l^Iany of thorn are educated and intelligent ; most are loya^ to strong family affections and to ISch domeatidty aa hi •ttfrinnble wlOle traveling. For the rert, they ira f' *^iiJ%ilksU^J^ 0^'. . «1 (MOJWir AJfD OttOUS. ■ ,. ^ -^/ ' * :■ • "..#:•..■. dfe"* *^ *^^ '^ "^^ ^*'^"» proprietor lus a mpre complete W ^ is ^wST"" ^"* ',° P"^''^ profanity by fine, and druflefne^by ^^^ _ dtoes .He has the wWp hapd, and retains during the seasbn a ma^rZ of-the employee's salary. ;ihich l^e receives at the end^nhe L^if l? record is goo4. not otherwise. Business interests Xe l^LT^io«^ nn4. who shall' say that the employee. who is compeSo Siv^Weul no at the end of the se^on. somewhit the better fSr eight mSro7cl»* pulsdry sobriety, civility and orderly Uviaf ? ^ °' °^" The best cirbna of to-day is not a fair mark lor the Chuithli hostUJf^ fn tr^ *''f '"" ^" advanced in meri.. the Church ^^l^""^ If iTr;. ""^ r^P'""^ "' '^^'•'"^ P'-^P^^'^^ I »^*-« been the wC ?orr7 '^';°^ 9Pd an^using Amenities on the part of the ChurS As Stt M ""• f 1° ^°|"°day evening. May 21. 1883. 1 enteredZchufcJ . of tlie Messiah. New York Cily. Rev. Robert Collyer. pastor and aSv me and L T "^'' '"' *'^ '"° '''''''y'' of L' preach /ftL'upL'" me and to hear his resonant voice announce. "IseeF. T Barmim In ! back pew of this church, and I invite him to ^ome forward and S^^. I ! and I want to give him as good in my church." I thought the revered .gentleman had the courage of his convictions to a most unusualXr^ and I ^was grateful tohis.rongregation for the gravity with wfccS listened to this very remarkable "pulpit notice" and'^mirw^y for 'e '"di:::^d""\'"'*"^"^"*-^'^'"^^ P^-Pton" Again, last summer, a few days befoiwmy great show was to visit St* Albans, Vt., Pteceived a letter signed by the clergy of that town remind mg me that my organization was t«^arrive among them on SurarZn' m^early. and asking that I would give orders th^at node of XYraX"" naha wagons, etc.. shouM be in ti^nsit between the railroad deootw he show grounds during the hours of divine service. I wTs ptSiou taseeing,tha their yeiy reasonable request was respected. BeK St Albans myself that Sunday. I received, with my co^apany. prin^ inriti Uons to attend a prominent church. I. at l««t. Ventf and h^ard i vet good sermon, and the preacher did not take the occsion to decry the S tnR I represented, as happened to Miss E«ma Abbott re^tly WB^m« IN CHUPCH. ^" I wiU not say whether I thin? it was well m ill advised of her to rise in meetmg a nd combat the u n ge n erou a s trlctaiea' of Wpi'eBoher turT-ffliP lie same tlung diyself (af terthe benedicti^^^^^^^^ ^.^ ^ same pro^ocatioh, in Lenox, Mass.. fifty-one ^ars ago. anThaS a mos .tteptiw.^.v«„athetic audience, as I'doubt not MJsfAbb^X. ^ . :,'- ■• ■ , lihoaldU^e, If J hid time,- to TMt joar gigMitic (wmMmiMm cmHi jk weekdariagthAwhore MMOa.-for there is ao madi to mo thai ■• oat aoold do the matter Juatioe in toi^ time. ' :"^ ( Toon. . . mENRT WABD BKKOHIR.* ^ * ^^BWf OBX, /omiafy 15. I9It. Mt Dbab BABHtnc.: Itgiveeme great pleauue^to ezpieM my tinmr opinion, that in the entertabments which yon have f umiuied, for the pnb lie, your patrons have always reoeiTed a f ml and profltable'money'a-worth, ■•ad that they are fitted aqt only to amua^ but to kutnut^koA are certainly free from anythiag that can be la the least tfh|ectioaabl^ to aa^ reflaal ^[religions persoa.^ ) ' ■ ^ ; < ^ Inmaim, tralyj^ran. ^^.x,^ itjnmtnflt, 18TB Mt Daaa Oio Fanan : "TheKimtneirer dies.* TVs Md maxim of royalty seems to at»ply to yon as the HiBg of BxhiUtors abd Oaterers, not m^relv to tbe pubUo amusement, but to popular instruction. , Millions of " litjtle folks " may consider you 'their benefactor In affording .them innocent gratification. I lave sevw^ timei taken my ohildran to your Muaeums, Menaf^fies and ISzhibitions, and have not obeerved there anything profane or impure. I especially thank yon tot ytloai, the wtrre menagerie perished in the flames. An Immense quantity otMOfit- ties, oanras tents, poles, seats, harness, oto., Horad bk the aeeoBJ|pM7 was also destroyed. * ' Ifany thrilling inoldenta of that night ^ Ibng raiaaln virldly 1a tiie memory of those who witnessed them. A terrllled speetotor. who did bM realiie that the released Hon w corned' unumeiy ends. The baby elephant, a most amiable and dodu^ lkti« o«M«re.diedAprin« 188«.a»thet«^.g.^|^;^^^^ ^m- amt.aBBM 4SS ipat wbera be WM born. Junbo wm killed Ibj^j^oMUttT*^ Md ti« idiita dtpbant and Alice perUhed tng^oally la tbe mdng «f the WaM Qauten. - .- -'.-^ • , ■,' ■■■■■:■■ \:. %«> Tbe followfaig iietl^, eterted wlllioiit my knowledge, wee rigned l^ihe iMqror> three ex-mejon, beak presideatB and oMblen, end more thaa one " thooeead of aar principel dticeas, indnding ell our chief mercbeate end prondaeat biuineM mea, ead I baTe aot beerd a diawatiag roiem s To Mmoui BABxmc A Baxsmw : ■ GMUemen—Tbit undenlgaed citizeiui sad badnvee hooeee of Bri^tepoTt learn with regret that a proposal has been made to xemoTO the Wmter Quarters from this dty. We respectfully request that snob proposal be aot eatertained by you, but that the Winter Quarters will still remain ia thisdty. ' ^ ^ We should coadder It a great Injury to oar dty to KaTe yon remove, and %ist that you will favorably consider our request to remua. ^Bridgeport, Ooait., Nor. 38, 188r PrdMbly erery aewspaper ia the world will paUidi aa aooooat of my last flie. Those already reodved from Maiae to Cahfoniia express sym- nathy for me. Scores of Eaglish. French and Germaa papers are equally qrmpatbetio and all concur in reoognidng it as a greet public loss. Tbe London ThneM of Nov. 23, 1887»,devetes an editorial of more than a column to the lire, aad abouads in compUmeatary alludons to the mala inddents in my life. It says : "It would not be easy to forget the promptitude and energy with which oae disaster after another was repaired as soon as sas- tdned, with which the loss of some central objeet of Interest was made good byihe discovery of another ; and the way, in short, in which many of the qualities which adorn a general or a statesman were displayed in ao msigaiflcaat degree m an undertaking so humble as the conducting of a show. • • • Madame Jenny Lind, who, probably, notwithstanding her magnificent voice, owes a large measure of her popularity in America tc Mx. Baraum's maaagement, always bore testimoay to the absolute integrity and honor of his dealings with her. • * * We confess to a very friendly feeling for Mr. Bamum, and trust that his menagerie will soon rise |rom its ashes and that tiie oatastrople by which it has been dispensed may turnish the means of rendering the successor still more attractive than tly original." My wdl-beloved City of Bridgeport, at this writing the seooad in tbe lUte, Uds fdr sooa to beodtaae the first la population^ as it has been ions in interprise. Important factors in its almost unprecedented growth and prosperity are its beautiful position on tbe shore of Long Island Bound jlpA \tM «^— « 4«7 mmufi* tiMt ImU ■oeommortllM (riz knadnd pMpIt (wllh itaf«^ete.),tlilslMatate1iMnDiqneiiiel«gMioeMtkitlnpiirpoM. MijpL Gle?«lud, wifeaf the PradcUnl of the United Statet, piddtotlie Wamr Brothera'geiMroiiB gift th« fitting and gmefnl trilmte of signifying hv willingn«« to opon tlie Inititate in person. The occasioii wm » umI •BjoyftUe one for the working women, erery one of whom Mrs. Cnereitod took by the hand, and for the few guests inyited, among whom were my wife and myself. Bzoellent speeches were made by the Rer. IMs. OoIIyw . and Ttjlag, of New York, and the formal opening of the Inititate wii greeted with «B appredatlTe enthusiasm well merited hy the foondsrik the beaatlfal SeMlde Park in Bridgeport, whose beginning tw«ty jeers ago I dasorlbed In Chapter XLV., his now become the most lovfly Fttrk which lies on Long Island Bound. On sereral occasions it ha« been enlarged l^ raloable land fronting the Sound presented by me. Ify tail gift of thirty aoteo at the West end, on which, including the Pyke aad origtaalimrohase money, I had expended more than fifty thousand ^llam, eitends the FeriE boundary to a creek, which in ti^ nefor future the Oily of Bridgeport wOl bridge, thus extending the $dlore drive to FblrflelA Bouthport, Westport and Norwalk^ a distance oC fourteen miles. M an expense of $90,000 1 filled up fort)r.fite a<;Tee«f tow, marshy tend, owned by me, adjoining the Park, raisimt it six-feet This ezpenslfe Improv*- Bsnt hasmaterlanyenhanoedthAeauty of theFukaadwlll be a gnat pfubUo benefit. As I dose this Tolume I am mora thankful than wofdieaB expnss thel my health is pteserred, and that I am Uessed withA Tigor and buoyaMy of M^ts touohsafed to but few ; but I am by no means insensible to tiM. fbot that I hwre raaohed the erenlng of life (which Is well lif^ted, how ever), and I am glad to know that though this is Indeed a beautlAil, daO^tfal world to those who have thetempMrament, the resolution, aad, tte judgment to m«ke It so. yet It hai^ily is not our aUding-place ; and Omt he is unwise who sets his heart so firmly upon its traniitory pleasarss as to feel a leluctanoe tp obey the call when his FMher makea it, to leave all behind and to come up higher, In that Orsat Futon, when all that we BOW prlie so highly (except our k>ve to Qod aad man) shaD dwladta lale «.>.»» *"'i.st'-^%! MM-ni^ 'ST I =!m;^^ *i-. V.-«' HMnaRiPT. ^ApvMdtd It tht flin indaauMm «f th* BtU^ •t AN OPBNIiBTTBB. Waldhobi, Bbidoipom; Of. «. . «. . ^*^' 1**, 1887. Bidng Phomix-like from the Mhei of my fifth grwit lb» which only iwrred to mumimite my path of duty .. t£ Ai^. can peoples champion amusement proyider, I haye taken into equal partnership my energetic and experienced friend imd for. mer associate JAJJES A. BAILEY. We hare enh«^ «d TMtiy improyed The Greatest Show on Earth, whiTW prcK pose to establish «■ 4 permanence, with a reserye capital of mer^ million, of dollars At A early day we intena to e^teb MUSEUMS oon^nmg many thousands of Natural, Artificial. Mechanical and Sdentiflc Curiosities. Bach museum will U supplied with, an immense Lecture lloom, in which wiU be giyen Lectures on aU importont subjects. Interesting amuse- ' ments will also be produced upon the same stage, inoludin* Pan- tomimei|, Panoramas, Tableaux, and mo»l dramas. The Baiv a "w JTS'Va m '^"^'^^ *^ '^ ^^ '«*^re generation. TEAnS I ""^ ! '"^'^ ®^^^^^ ^' OBJECT TEACHING, of unexampled yariety and superior excellence, more amusing, instructiye, comprehenslye, and yast than was eyw before seen or dreamed of. It is the pride of my declinimr years that I am able to giye, as the result of my long Wed MJ^ence wd determined effort, that innocent and educational diteniosi which eyerycne concedes that human nature imper». im The PobUo's Obedient Semn^ " ^ PHINBAB T. BABNUM. '•■i..jA^' THB FIFTH OEBAT F3E. .*■ 489 [The editor to whom the lot has faUen of issuing this edition of Mr. Bamum's Life begs leave to append the following supplement to the great showman's foregoing statement :] At the beginning of the season of 1889, Mr. Barnum struck a truce with his formidable rival, the late Adam Forepaugh The « two shows had been chasing each other around the country for sev- eral seasons, involving extraordinary expenses m the way of adver- tising without a corresponding inerease in receipts. So the two great showmen came tbgether and entered upon a contort, which was religiously observed, by which the country wasdivided up be- tween them, and the two shows ceased to exhibit inthe same town during the same season. ^ - At the close of the season of 1889, Mr. Barnum transported his entire ^'Aggregation" to London, where he astonished the nativ^ with a midwinter season of American circus. His keen senw ot opportunities for effective advertising had not failed him, and nil London became interested in the "Aggregation " when Mr. Barnum attempted to hold his street parade on the same day as the Lord Mayo-'s show. The privilege of offering this free counter-attraction was of course denied him by the police authoriti«8, but the racket over it lasted several days and brought both the East End and the West End of London to Olympia. Although the trip is said to have cost over a third of a million dollars, it was one of the great- est financial successes in which even Mr. Barnum ever participated. During the season of thirteen weeks in London the »tte^d»°ce fi^^ erajred 30,000 visitors daily, while the receipts aggregated $900,000. Mr Barnum was never idle. He was a frequent contributor to the press, attended to his correspondence, made speeches on occf Bion.and during his last year had time to indite a volume on • _i !.'...uM t Kiimn in which hc showflH Btrpng re a sonft for maintajnin g_ his Wtheoria of the present and future state of the soul of man. 4dO XHs varm qsleat fibe. and put forth ah unanswerable argument in fevor of hi. qu«tion "Why am I a UniverBahst?" Mr. Bamum held that thisl^rM was a pretty good one for all men, and that the next world is not too good for any of us. Indeed, he claimed that the next is intended for all of us, and that we shall aU get there, and that there is no «Uphurou8 locality where those we think in this life are not quit^ good enough for high place are to be asngned. > ■■>('' [APTER hVL. 1i- ■:^ Art of Money Getting. tn th» TSmltM ■«•««•. i»kere i« bar. mor. l-id than people, tt 1> net at all dllj. th-r* MT^TmanT aTonue. of •ucoeea open, fo many Twjation. wWoh are net «^r^t i^^n of either «x who 1. willln,. at least for the time ^ti ZTla^-P-fO^ occupation that oifr.. mar find lucratiTO •^r'X r«air d«.ire to attain an lnd.p«»d«.c. hare only to .et their mU.^ n^^ «d^pt the proper mean., as they do in regard to any other objert upon It, ana aaop» ui«» »»» »7* ,. ^ ^ . ^^^ howerer easy which they wish to aocompllsh, and the thing i« easuy aon* ^^ U may be found to make money. I have no doubt many of ^•^'^^ ^ . t J. tte mort difacult thine ^ "^e world to keep It. The road to wealth to, •« Dr?ISLLtC^- Plain «. the road to the miU." It ~-^ ^»P^'Jj Lmo^ !•« than we earn, that seems to be a Tery simple P*^"*"- .^f*^ MiSito^ orof thoee happy creations of the genial Di«>k*i». P«f the ca«» In a STn^^Hhen h. says Sit to ha,e an income of tw-ty Po^,?" ^1^^; ;S .P«d twenty pounds and sixpence, to to be the it^ ml^bl. otm^ wWreU. te have an Inbome of only twenty pounds, and spend ^ut ^.^ ^ZTUd iJpe.ce to to be the happiest of mortals. Many of ^rj^ m^ JT^^wT «ndem«id thto , thto to economy, and we know economy ^J^^' Siw^^r^it our cake and keep it .too." Yet 1 be, to s«r that pethart -mot* ^iMirilttre The iMt to. aany psopto tWafc thn undwstMid 4>«%thi. joint than timM *^^^*' mtand eoonomy iSiiTi^MSHBrw 49^ AET OP MONEI GETTINa. »ri» •otmcmiy h in!«j>prdieoded, and pe(n)Ie go fliro^ comprehending what that principle ia. One aaya, "I have an inoom« ef m much, and here is my neighbor who has the same; yet every year he getB^n. thing ahead and I faUahort; why ia it? I know aU about economy." He thfada he does, but he does not. There are many who think that economy oonsistB in saTing cheese-paringa and candle-ends, in cutting oflf two pence from the laundreas' biU and doing all sorts of Uttle, mean, dirty things. Economy is not meiumeas. The misfortune is, also, that this class of persons let th^ econoiv apply in only one direction. They fancy they are so wonderfully economical in •avmg a half-penny where they ought to spend two pence, that they think thev can afford to squander in other directiona A lew years ago, before kerosene oU was discovered or thought of, one nMght stop over night at almost any fanner's house in the agricultural districts and get a very good supper, but after supper he might attempt to read in the sitting-room, and would find it impoBBible with the inefficient light of one oandle. The hostess, seeing his dilemma, would say 'It is rather difHcult to read here evenings; the proverb says ' you must have a •hip at sea in order to be able to bum two candles at once;' we never have an extra candle except on extra occasions." These extra occasions occur perhapsL twice a year. In this way the good woman saves five, six, or ten dollars in thS time; but the information which might be derived from having the extm light would, of course, far outweigh a ton of candles. But the trouble does i^ot end here. Feeling that she is so economical in taUow candle^ she thinks she can afford to go frequently to the village and spend twenty OT thirty dollars for ribbons and furbelows, many of which are not necessary This false ecohomy may frequently be seen in man of businon, and in those Instances it often nms to writing-paper. You find good business men whosav^ all the old envelopes, and scraps, and would not tear a new 'sheet of paper if thev could avoid it. for the world. . This is aU very weU; they may in this way save five or ten doUars a year, but being so economical (only in note paper), they think *hey can afford to waste time; to have expensive parties, and to drivothdr oaiv riagea. TUsisanlllustrationof Dr. FrankUn»8 "saving at the s^got and wasttng at the bung-hole; " •' penny wise and' pound fooUsh." Punch in speaking of this "one idea" class of people says "they are like the man who^ bough^I penny herring.for his family's dinner and then hired a coach and four to take it homai 1 never knew a man to succeed by practising this kind of economy. True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out^ Wea* • the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of glovea- mend the old dress; live on plainer food if need be; so that, under aU circum- stances, unless som6 unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in &vor of the income. A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest^ goes on accu- mulating, and in this way tho desired result is attained. It requires some training, wrhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find then it more satisfaction in rational saving, than in irrational spending. Here is a rwdpe which I reoonunend; I have found it to work an exceUent cure for extmva. ganoe, and especially for m ista ken economy: When you find that you have n« ' surplus at tho end o^ the year, and yet ha.v0 a good income, I adviM you to take • faw sh eets of paper and form them into a b»«>>ir iti P'* "i«.ri r d own ere ey Hbeattit ocpeBditure. Post it every day or week in two columns, one headdd "^neoessaiieB " or even "comforts," and the other headed " luxurien" and you will find that th« latter ooldmn will be dooblSj^tMUib aacl tcmamOr tai timsi greater^iha tht jiBt'X OF MONEI GETrtNO. 493 )» " earn. Dr. Franklin «ay« » ^ the eyeaoi ^V^YShoidd not care for fln« clothfiB or furniture." IV iB the fear « ^ i„ America many person. -Xtrrbom-freeand --^^-^r-rll^:^^^^^^^ ^oVSlbornecpuOly ricl. ^d^e^er^^^,^^^^^ , ,^^ who has an income of Afty *°°"?3 whenhewaa poor like mypeff, now h^ hi ^ousand dollars; I knew that 'f^.^^Xhow hiTtl^t I pm as ^ as hejsj, rich and th^ he is better thaa I am. I ^^^ ^^ 1 IwiUgoandbuyahorseandbug^o^^a^ ^ ^^^^p^,,tohto ,^andridethi.aftemoononthe«uneroaa^«» thaaamasgoodashei* ^^^ you can easily pro^e «»* yo« "" My friend, you need not <***. ^^^J'Vwdl as he does; but you camiot ' "asgoodasheisj-'youhayeonlytob^^as g^dee, if you put on these Jl^Tybody beMeve that you «jrid.as^^^^^^ ^ ^^ uairs," and waste your tame and jp^d yo« ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ a time. oSdtoscrubherflngersottathome^^andWn . p^,^ « 'a^rything el« in P^'^'^^^^S &^ n-Tf ^ «^^„ ^ after all, decUve nobody Oott^eot^ a, ^^ "everybody sa,^^^ ^S of money-getting as ^^^^^^^ 5^f flaking t*e road that lead, to / SSS^ You cannot accumulate f '<"^^°L^ho Uve lully uj. te their ' ?^ Itneedsnopr^l^ttejd^?-^^^ Urns, without any thought of a r«v«r« to uus .^„ «„. ^ independence. . . ,^^tyr every whim^d caprice, wiu ma ^ mS^ women accustomed *« K^^^^^ expenses, iind wi» fe^it • hXat first, to cut down ^^^^-^^^C^/S^^ aocdst^med J^ ^«lf.ienialto Uve in a »^^^^ *5^ costty dothtog, 'f^^ser^a^ tith IBOB expensive furmture, less <»™P*"y' *!~,,,^^ pksaBqre excui^ S'S^y^STtry the pbmof "^fSLoilv in^S^to 1«^ tuey ^^"fP^ iAtheplea«mtobedenvedfi^c^^"^^l, tdiscour.^ Z!»rin^ economical habits which are engou answw for another «-4 » ^ jt-mR-Lik^-'iiuJih}^,^ Mi^i^ 494 k' .«A j^QrottiM or if Hi n iii tii ilBl ii H batter flik r t m ip Lpk i; aejg ibM» ana »tHlA walk wlU i«..»ir«iiiore«dillM«itfiig thanaridein the flnoet coach*' ■odal chat, an ev«nlnir'» reading in the family circles or an hour'a pli» of "hunt Uw 8Upper"«and ' blind aan's buflf,''wm be far more pleasant than a fifty or %« hondred dollar |»rty, whtoUiO reflection on the difference in cost iH Indulged io by thow who Mgi« ».* kaem the pleasures of saving. Thousands of men ai^ kept poor, and tens of thouwaidf are made so after they have acquired quite sufficient to support them weU tiux,u^ utm, /w consequence of laying then ^^lans of living on too broad a platform. Some Ikunilies expend twenty thousand dollars pw wmum, and some much more, and would scarcely know how to live on lees, white rthOTs seem* more solid enjoymeiit frequently on a twentieth part of that amount I-rosperity is a more seyere ordeal than adversity, especiaUy sudden prosperitv Basy come, easy go," is an old and true proverb. A spirit of pride and vanitv when permitted to have full sway, is the undying canker-worm which gnaws the very vitals of 4 man's worldy possessions, let them be smaU w great, hundreds or milhona Many persons, as they begin to prosper, immediately expand their Ideas and commence expending for loxuries, until in a short time^their expenses swaUow up their income,, and they become ruined in their ridiculous attempts to keep up appearances, and make a " sensation." - I know a gentleman of fortune who says, that when he flret began to prosper Ws wife would have a new and.elegapt sof^ "That sofa,»iie says, "cortme tiurty thousand dollarsi ", When the sofa reached the house, it was found neces- sary to get chairs to match; then side-boards, carpets and tables "to oorresptod" wilithem, ardsoon through th^entirestock of furniture; whe^Tat last it was found that the bouse itself was quite too smaU and old-fashioned for the funflture. and a new one was built to correspond with the new purchases; ^' thus,'? added mv friend, munming up an outlay of thirty thousand dollare, caused Ji&hat sinele wU, iga siddlingi on me, in the shape of servants, eqiipage, and^fneceaS^ expenses attendant upon keeping up a fine ^Wblishment,' a yearly ouSavci eleven thousand dollars, and a tight pinch at that; whereas, ten yeah, ago we hved with much more real comfort, because with much less care, on as manv hundreda The truth is," he continued, " that sofa would have brought me to fawltaWe bankniptcy, had not a most unexampled tide of prosperity kept, me above it, and had I not checked the natural desire to ♦ cut a dash.'" The foundation of success in life is good health; that is the substratum of foi- tune; It 18 also the basis of ta>ines8. A person cannot accumulate a fortnme very w^ when he is sick. ^- has no wnbition; no incentive; no force. Of fcouree, there are those who have bad health and cannot help it; you cannot * expect that such persons can accumulate wealth; but there are a great many in poor health who need not be sa S?^ - 1^ then, sound health is the foundation of success and hapirfness^life, how important it is that iTfc should study the laws of health, wh&s but another expression for the laws of na*uref The closer we keep to the laws of nature, the nearer we are to good health, aj>4 yet how many pAwns there are who pay n» attention to natural laws, but al natural indinaticHi. We ought!' winked at In regard to the vio ' tran^gressT thein, even against their own '.that the "sin of ignorance "is never ~SirGaeB iiie penai^. A child mayi iogit will bom, and so siifters. the flcones witjumt know- r^^w^ not «(iA> the smart. Many i^Sui: «iSi. 'v*t- a&^i. (i ABT OF MONEY OETllNO. 49S many person* there are who de come 14ii« implanted *"'^«"^9ii|r' it They hasre got hold hold of thefia. ^ ^^^'^l^ the carpet and|flo"**"<^ *'™*" not know much rt,oat <«y8«°'7^?!;^„^jTvJ^^^ «vea-by. 3|l»^^^^;£nSkly^^^ «^^*^ ^ In the m9rnh^g «JJT iffone^ mm. **2L^L«w^fo; the "«a«Bervation of their UveB," during *h« ^^^^r^ZTSlS^ri^nt^be^S. Probably some Wgen-iM* nlght,andnobodyhadbettermi8ontoM^ and thus saved th^ the window, or i^ ««^V^Sl^e ^ of 'n^^ thA*er Im Itony pen«n« J'«>t^,^°*'^!j^^ oT^ thafc nothinf ^^ ''"J^:^"l^Z^ S^S^ed, and thai i« tobacco, y«t ho# ^ Uviug except s vile vrorm «^.^^^^ T„ „nnatarid appetite, md ove«t ' SOab TOch a degree that they get to Tov«' 3lthy weed, »r rather that tukeaafirpi tt^erwho run about spitting tobacco j^oe on . sometime^even upon their wives besides. ThBj do , '_,«iafflaBCi.T^to» drunken men, brt ao^. Wck their wJipill^fdoo^^^edrmiKm^ doubt, often wish W^"" ^^S^*^ ?^^y ^it fe^;" when yt« thatthis artiadal appetite, like jealousy «™;? ^^^ ^^^^d for the hurtful thing love iJuit which is umu^tural, » «\^XZ^ "SieTSan^ld piJverb which than the natural desire for f »»* ^J^^^^^iSitisstrongarthann^ say. that "haWti. second natu«," but an ar^d^tob^^ T^e for ^stance, «! old ^^^^f^ ^rJ^^^^npZu^heet earier than his love for any particular kind of fooo. iie«ui»» *- than give up the weed. ♦* ^ „«„. ti«,v would Hk» togoto bed boy» YoS« lads r^t ^they '^^;^,^^ZrZ^hBiJS of their sed- - a^ wake up men; and to ac^]^ t^ *^yc^^ tow. Little Tommy and JoWjeetoe^^^,^^ they say, "K I cduld o^y ^otl^ Iwould be a^n^^, ^^ ^^ ^^ out a^dleftU. pipe of tobaeco, f ^^^^^^e^^^riike it Jolmnyl" That aPd then puff awniy. "^«^" ^'^^u'^.r^ bitter;- by and by he grows Tad dolefSly replies: ''^^J^J^^l^l'^^^^ ^ of ltaW«; ^ tiSttpnoketen or fifteen <^^^y^*^^' ^^^na,^ '. ^Wath and WS^ it there all fay ; »«^«^ ?f™* ^ intervals daring the day . W^one.orwhenbs^^^ wd evening. "»«y ^'*f?^^„^* c^Sagain. This simply pro^ti«* ': «oaghtotakeadrink,andtopopitgoesD«»^j^-^ When the tpbwsoo- Sn^tlte f or rum is even sbron^ tha^^ A«^goea to your count ry '^J^^^^^^' ^^ trm^ rijl # •^TirndBay «My friend, I have got here ttie mo* fntt, anfl say, »J'__^_ "7- . ^ «m«rtrtBd ther- > ssri'SSSKs^s'sr^ wK—— . m \ - *^J3*u^S.** ^^ youTBdf; 1 Tnmt toaee'you delight yoonnlf with thew ihliijjj^he wffl roUttie dear quid under hi« tongroand luu^, "N6, 1 thaS j-o^ I Iftve go* tobacco in my m6ath./f Hig palate has become naicotized by the ViWHdouB wged, and hethas'lprt, in i^^^reafe measui-^ the delicate and en4b# ta^ for fruits. This shows what ■ex^ve,uwleffl and injurious habits men wiU ^ . , .?' J «P«>^fr»n'-.«cperiencet I have smoked untO I trembled Uke an aspen leaf, the Wood rushedto my head, and t had a palpitation of the heart ^Sl thought was heart disease, till I was ahnpst kiUed with fright When 1 insulted my ph^Hician, be said " break oflf tobacco using." I was not only hijuring my t«^imd spending a great deal of money, but I was setting a brid^exaim^^ t ^^.^ ^!°S:. ^** y°"^ "^ ^ *^* ^^'■I'J ^^ iooJ^d so beautiful, as fa* ' thought he did, behind a fifteen cent cigar or a meerschaumi "^ « d^ TJese remarks apply with tenfold force to the use of intoxicating drinksL 1V> make money, requires* clear brain: A mup has got to see that two and two make four ; he must lay aU his plans with reflection and forethought, and closely examine all the details and the ins and outs of business. As no ^ can suS l^'Z'^, ^ess hehasa brain to enable him to la,^ plans, and reason to guide him in then- exepution, so, no matter how bountifully a man may be blessed i '"?i^!!°^',",'^^ ^"^ ^ """^^ ^ ^ judgment warped by intoxi- ^ing drinks, It is impossible for him to carry on business succesrftally How "^Lf?^,''^^'^''':^^^ °«^«^ ^ "<^ ^tile a man waTsipping ^^fi^ ""'"^Jt ^'°^' ^"'^ "^y.'ooliHh bargains have been S uMei* the mfluence of the "nervine." which temporarily makes ite victim think ^i^K * T^^ importamt chances have been put ofT until to-morrow and then 'o^^r because the wine cup has thrown the system into a state of tajritudj neuta^JWng the energies so essential, to success in business. Verily .n^.*? S t , ^« "«« °f intoxicating drinks as a beverage, is as muS an hifWuati«^ as is the smoking of opium by the Chinese, andTe fonfier to ^^d©*^ evil, utterly indefensible in the light of philosophy, religion or good ^!!lJ« - Parenfcof nearly every otiier evil in our country. - ^wr^UtoutK Yodt Vocation.-^ safest plan, and iie^ne mo* «w of l^^a^uTiH^ ^■^*"'»°d guardians are often quite too negUgwt IB W6»rd to thia It is very common for a fattier to say. for examnle^'Th-«» ss.'rs^L^r^ ^"^^ ^ iT^'^ '^"^ * la^-Txrrdoctor.'r wltii 8«nniy. He returns home and says "Sammy. I see watch-making isa nte^^t^^ess; I think I wiU make you a gold«nith." r7^^ rBgardkM of Sam's natural Inclination^ or genius. ^;^^''°^^^^"'^o^'^''^prirplf,I-aid"letu-gotohere. Wetr?^ ^ve-in thepn««ceof t»fflu-rio« Ao^ tobeXdiarpeatmantothatllnelhadeTermet Hetol^'trtfomeertworfflnary 2MisrrKrtohi«bea«ied ladle-, his Albino-, and hi- Annies, wUch t^ ^^eve. but thought it "bet^r t» believe it^V^>^-^^ ^" HeaniuybeggedtocaUourattentiontowmewfartat™^ ITalU of the diiei* and lUthiest wax flgores ImaglnaUk HlV»«tod"« «ieyhadiiotiaenwa*8raIno»tlieDeluf». ,„- . . M What Is thwe-o wonderful about your *ataai7» ..IJfS- ^ _.. ^aikm '•Ibegyounotton«ak-o8atiricaUy," hereidled, "Sir t4»e»«iio*l^^ TuISJ. wax flguril3r covered with f^^^^^^"^ tllS^ and copied from engravtogs and photographs. Mine, rir, were *aken IrcmUS^ X^ you l^pon one of those flgun-. you may consldfir that yoo «. looWng upon the UvinglndlviduaL- . ^-.,.„__ym »,nd«-dhigalttlla OlanolngoasuaUy at them, I -aw one labelled "H-Biyvm., "»""*^"!r" «S^\^SS that it look«l like Oalvln Bdso^ \ i«Do you call that 'Henry the Eighth! "• „ __^ «_^ u«. ^rST-Oertainly!^; it w«itok«nfl«nllf.»H«iiplooOourt,byi tfd-rtff his majesty, on such a day." _ . _.^ ..i -toot old kiBg, aad knows that.' Henry vnL' wa» a lank: whstdoyooiaytothatt'* ^ i.i*«^--a WigashahML^ .Ldi ^p m^^ 498 ABT OP UOTSmS GETTING. ,1,. llierewMnor^dstlnggocaafgaiiient* ImMtomrVngiUti tnmA."t^^ ■^iT / n ° "°f '^ ''^ ''^^^ ' ""' ^ ^'^ <*• ^M<» '«*t^^ "iS,« T "f, ^ *^T*^' "^ ""^^ tha rabble In the rtreet, he caUed oat of my viffltorB,' pointing to us an we walked away. I caUed^n himTo™3b ofdayBafterwa|ti8;toldhimwhoIwa8,and8aidf °»"~ "?«» »»i«> • oour» kxlti^""^ ^°" "* ^ ***^ "*^^''™*°' »»* y« ^^ "»«^ a b«l w^2S"1'or™"'''™^ *• ''^ ««*taU my talent. .« thn.wn away; h.t " You can go to America,»' I rejaied. •• You can givQ fuU play to vuur fiu-t W-. orer thei^; you will fl„d plenty of elbow-room i^Z^J^iv^Z^'^ R I^T.' "^^ ''^^ y°" wm be awe to go on your own'atZJ^^^^ "^ ue accepted my offer and remained two years In my New Yoih MuiMim n ti.eu went to New Orloms and earned on i travelC ^ow b^n^TL 5' munn^ To^y he is worth sixty tliousand doll^ 2pTyZ^^ h^^S^' TTu^ removes are as bad as a flro," but when aman is In theflre. It matt^ little how soon or how often he removes. «« utb, w matters but AYom D.BT -Young men starting in life Should avoid running Into debt m™^ ^^scarcely anything that drag, a person down like deTlfis . J ^ Sr to d«hf S' ''"' "'^ ^^ many a young man, hardly out of his " teeL» ,^ nln§ In debt. He meets a chum and savR. " Look at tw« r !,-,,« ~>* *_^. . n^suitof clothe." He seems to lo:;:?pon';^'^:tI^ J^^rucTgi"^ weU, it frequenUy is so. but. if he succeeds in paying and then^te iSZl^' he Is adopting a habit which will keep him In poverty through We ^^ ma^of his self-respect, and makes him almS demise iZj^ G^l^"^^ «Jted upon t» pay up, he has nothing to show for his money; this Is properlv S ^hTJJ'ri' I' "^"^ "'^^ ^"^ °" "^* *" «'^«'- ^ ^'^ *»>« pun-Si^ to ^ tCL^niS^^^'J^^f to his farmer son, "John, never get t^stedT^ut i Wttti^"""^*^' ^ '* ^'**' '-anu™.' because that will h;ipth; Mr. Beecher advised young men to get in debt If they could to a smaH »mm^ i^^rr^^'.^'i "* "" «»^^di«tricti. "If aTouug ^rrr i!S.i^„ 1 ??^^ '"' .°^*''*°« ^"^•" T^ ""y »» «^« to a limited «SS 2 gett^ fa debt for what you eat and drink and wear is to bea^dS^L™ tomjk. have a f oollM. habit of getting crtKlit at " the .to J?' «d il^^^u! I-mAa* many thing, which might have been dlspen«Kl with. "»"^'««''» » li aU vwT weU to «y, '• I have got trust*! for rixty days, and if I don't l«« fa tto world, who have mch good memorie. as cr«Uto«L When ZlixtyT^ I^^»I^?''"^'*^'°P*y- «y°° do not W. you win break ZrSmr •nd probably resort to a fklMhnoH v™. «- jIT u ^ iMwnuse, •Iwwheni to naT^i-^ m^TTT T "*^ '"*'''' •""* ^^"^ or get fa debt •Mewaers to pay It, but that only favoivei you the dni^i^r a «« um.i A guud-kiukla^J.^ young fWlow, wa. the appn«tio. boy, HoraMa I^^JTJr^-?*'"^ "I-thfak-l-have-h. HiN have," h« IBT OF MONBS GETTINa '^nWr> totorerttaaocnmulatinga^y^^ b a very excellent servant butaterrlble Money ia in eome renpecte ,^^^* ^^ ^^ ^tereet Is constantly piling up marter. When you have it metering yon. wn^ But let money. againHtyou,itwfllkeepyoudo^^v^^^ ltta„o"ey«. workfor you,iind youtovethe mort devo^^^n^ ^ ^ ^^^ money when piaoed at interest, iveu ■Boureu. or dry weather. ,. .^ g^^ ,,, Connecticut, where the ild Purit«« had I^ bom tothe blue-law °*^^^lf°°^ laws 80 rigid that It was said, ^^^ ^f * ^^ ofdoJLs at interest, and on Yet ttie-e rich old Puritans would h«J« f «^^ on ainday they would go to th« «a day BfB^^iiaxriiat to 1»»1 i«, ohaiiM tor aicoM" to U* qoiOltifl^ •• Dft^y CroclB*»it said: » Thta thing '•«i«3;t«[',l5[5:j"«J SJP^* ^ H.«*r-J-2'"7-*'-„*rr^y"^^"^"^^^ "♦blues" take possession of you, so as to ni»o jr .^le for independ^^ wt^r^^^^^^ Ifc li, noAmbt, often true, as Shakespeare say.: •« Th«re ta » tide Jn the allklii; of men, „ ! VhtohVtiken at the floo.l,le»di on to fortune. B^nenOw the proverb of Solomon: He ^T^fTn *^ SSTSj but the hand of the diligent maki^ riot ^^ ^^ look oa t h i» Hark w ide j *'t<— ■»■■ I Then they ask for advic*. and they wiUUgov^..-^-^^^^^^ «^r. ««doannotrely upon^em^^^ „«:p«>naUy. icM' they thonght tli«j oonid nvnr overaome tkeir niifortane. Bot I have known othan who hftye met more wrioui financial difflcoltiee, and hare bridged tbem erer by dmple peneveranoe, aided by a Ann belief that they were doing Jnitty and that ProTidenoe would " overoome evil irith good." You will see this illK trated in any sphere of life. Take two generals; both nndentand mUitary taotioe, both edaeated at Weel Point, if you pleaae, both equally gifted ; yet one, having this prinoiple of %er«e. ▼eranoe, and the other lacking it, the former will suoceed in his profession, while the latter will fail. One may hear the cry, «« the enemy are coming, and thev have got cannon." ^ ** Got cannon r " lays the hesitating general. "Yes." "Then halt every man." He wants time to reflect ; his bedtatlon is his rain ; the enemy passes unmolested or overwhelms him ; while on the other hand, the general of pluck, peneveranoe and seii^reliance, goes into batUe with a will, and, amid the clash of arms the booming of cannon, the shrieks of the wounded, and the moans of the dying.'you will see this man persevering, going on, cutUng and iOashing his way through with unwavering determination, inspiring his soldiers to deeds of fortitude, valor ind triumph. ' Whatever you do, do it with alL youb mioht.— Work at it, if necessary early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done Just as well now. The old proverb is i\Ul of truth and meaning, " Whatever is worth doing at aU, is worth doing well." Many a man acquires a fortune by doing his business thoroughly while his neighbor remains poor for life, because he only half does it. iimbition* eneigy, industry, perseverance are indispensable requisites for succqm in business! Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps the man who does not help u. « ^°^'^ *^° ^ "P*"*^ y**"' ""• "^® ^'' Mioawber, in waiting for some- thing to turn up." To such men one of two things usually " turns up » the poor-house er the Jail ; for idleness breeds bad habits, and clothes a man in nun. The poor spendthrift vagabond said to a rich man: " I have discovered there is money enough in the worid for all of ns, if It was equally divided j this must be done, and we shall all be happy together " " ^at," was the response, " If everybody was like you, it would be spent in two months, and what would you do then f " "Oh I divide again ; keep dividing, of course I " I was recently reading in a London paper an account of a like philosophio I?"^i T^* ^^ ^^'^^^ ""* **' • "^'••P t>o»«»J«>«"house beoause he could not pay his bill, but he had a roll of papers sticking out of his coat pocket, which, upon examination, proved to be his plan for paying off the naUonal debt of England without the aid of a penny. People have got to do as Cromwell said : " not onW trust in Providenoe, but keep the powder dry." Do your part of the work or ./on c an not .wooeed . Mahomet, one ulgH- wl ille euoampiag in tfawdeeer^ - ' heard one of his fhtigued followers remark : " I will loose my camel, and trust it n^,' Tv!'^°' "°' "°* ■«."••« J «>• P«>ph«t, "tie thy camel and trust it to Uod I Do all you can for youraofven, and then trast to Providence, or look. «r whatever you please to call it, for the rest, •^Ca. A,jiaiJ^,..f5jj *T'* s'^'t ^y ABT OF MONEY QETTINe. 501 to nal applloaUon and «»f ^^^r^i^tsTr^^iy . he wUl learn .om- h„ got tolearn the many detaih^^^^^^^^ j,^ thing every day, and he will find IJ^J,^" » ^ experience, il he bat heed. thew very mletake. are helps *« ^^, *"^*J,*;J' JHing been cheated a. to . them. He wUl be Uke *Jt J»"^*?,^"-j^^d' «a1 right, there', a litU. info1^ quality in tl«purch»eoCh4sme«handU^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^„ i^Um to be gained every day ; ^ J,^" "•^^ J^"" j^^ j, „ot pwchai^J 1^ too Thu a man buy. hi. experience, and it I. the Dert «n i- ^ ^*»*'^ " v«ni«*' ""^L W J^^^^^ Uken. On on. , Lw a-pictureof the oy«°Jj7\^^t*'.\^' Th:y,Jlled one of their number oocarion hi. .tudent. attempted to^^^^'*^: ' yj „ , „ew .pedmen. Whea SToow Ain and put him under the prof«-o^. ^^je^'Jked him what animal 1 philosopher came i"*^ tl« n>om. -me^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^.. It wa.. Suddenly the animal «id ^ rj »''• ^^ ^i^ <^ta„, and, exMii. It Wa. but natural that Cuvier .hould derire to oia*uy iBing It Intently, he said: ♦k.^„„«»» there U great -i^-/" ^i-Tsy '•' yoim-t exercise your caution in laying what I have already said. ^^^^*'^'^^^,n a man who U ail caution. wlU .our plans, but be bold in carrying »^r. ?,*• d""^ ^ ^^ u all boldne-, I. aeror dare to take hold and be '^^^^\^Zn ^ EO on '"change" .«d merely reoklem^nd must •^•°»«'^;y ^^'^ tn T^lLfln -too^ •* * •^»«^« operation. But ifi^^luu. s.mp e ^^"?" ^^'^"'ijrmu.^ have both th. caution what he gains to.day\h« ^'" ^"^ to-morrow. and the boldness, to i^suw. success. ^ « wythlng to do with ■> •r V^.-^^^. r-' ^!^J\rr ;: ^nfand":^^^^ on «»ou^ Ihe KuU ^ blia, bs y s nnnth^ r " ^ -^ ^'^.^-ravTanythdig to do wtO; unlucky man or plaoef That is to "T • » .pp^, to be or pU«. whloh never ^looeeds, because, •'^'*!:'^"»*' ' "^!L-„ fciJu^^ i. on aooonut Z£i!ixiiM^i. yt If he trie, this - t^»* f^^-^^Xli^Tfc^ -^««»— Of ■om. ftwlt or Inftmilty that you may not bo abio » oiPi^ ^pUlki>wttsli*> ■JI|11B|J»^*H1ISl^BI sm^BBS^Bm^ mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 50a ART OF MONET GErtNO. 1 V, another to-morrow, and soon, day after day. He may do so once to^ I^ .^ut 80 far a« mew hick I. concmied. he ta «, Lde to loJit a. t^^^ ^XJ'^r^***'^-: «amanadoptBthepropermethod.tolisucce^ luck" wiU not prevent him. IT he does not succeed, there are re«M»S^ although, perhiipe, he may not b« able to see them: ™" "« w-wns for it, ih.tU^VflT^I^''^^'' ^ engaging employees ihpuld becareftil to eet ?no^I 'r*^J°" "^**' *"^* too good tools to work with, ^dlhf^ is no tool you should be so particular about as Uving toolk. If yor«T a ^ one. it ,s better to keep him. than keep changinTHeTrn. som^ e?^ day. and you ue benefited by ttie experience he acquires. He is wotT^ore tJ * ri!^^^.*^"^'^»»®^«»«^"»»«to^with.previA^^ •re good, and he continue, faithful «, as he gete more^^Srhedami^i^ jmexorbitentlncreaee of salary. ontheSppcdtirthat you^t'^^TC ^^ i^^^ Ptaoe may be suppUed, and second. becaWheT^Sd fS nothmg if he thlpks he Is invaluable and oaimot be spared. "*"""«««'<» ^Lnr"*? ^T^ ^ ." po«Bible, in^er to profit from ttie rewUt of hi. •xpeftencft An important element in an employee is the breln. yZ\^ ^ m up. "Hands Wanted." but "hand." are nofeltorth a irreat d^d^^SST! "heada" Mr. Beecher iUpstrates this, in thiswise: » 8reat deal without An employee offers his nrvioes by saying. " I have a tudr nf !,-«.<- j c^^y fingers tMnks." "That is ve,^g^/sai.t:iS^:^^'^'^,htC oanee«long, and.says "he has twofin^re that think." • Tm thS^» i!L^ ^^J^^'^tfS'^^ "^ '"'* "^ "^ ^^« * brain that thS^^ think all over; I am a thinking as weU as a working maul" "Yen .»i th^Zlt I. waat," says the delighted employer. »^ ™n' Yir^enlia and^conomy, patlenoe ana jw -ucceed in accumulating, x qa»» ww1^^venotean»ed.youarenot««^^ i« no cla« of persoDB who are ^ ^"^ «irnoctant heirs that it is w. i^?"»y" ^r*«.o "thereiBnovoyal road toweaitn. .^,-_oad that enables the until, in the pleasant process 01 u. analvae every atom of tne giowj, ^^ tt.»dl«- _ „. Q- „ to oonMenoe, rtnV »• "J* r^^T" uid ^rS'-«2 ••Ul«l with ""'^"J^^ited, .1»«»bl.t»f«5 S^ At college to ln«»'J^»^^,,,^,^„rikd»gtartoM^ . Iv_hyrnidpe«.t l*e g«a* amS^ooIdJeS^^ **' """^ T^ ^ gentlemen. ,«i»b«« doctor, tb. bertdeJ^^.r^TJ'"*"' °"*"«* '•'•»«•.' ManisiiosadiwQrdasfiilL ^-ioemor, icu-bylrHnrapiott 'A,-. &tJOB§tllFj t J-tf»l.rf.. 1. fi ..J "> ABT QF MONEY GETTING. ^OK Hora FBBDOicnrATB, bitj: bk not too yibiohabt.— Ifanj penms aii always kept poor, because thay are too Tisiooary. Every project looks to then UkB certain suooea, and therefore they keep changing from one bnslDen to another, always in hot water, always "under the harrow." The plan of "Bounty iog the chickens before they are hatched" ia an error of andent dato^ bat it dom not seem to ilnprove by age. Do NOT BOATTBB TOUR FQWXB&— Engage in one kind of business daly, anl stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until your experience shows .that yon diould abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements oCi Value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen difterenlj subjects at once. Many a fortune has slipped through a man's fingers because hir was engaged in too many occupations at a time. There is good sense in' the qld oaution against having too many irons in the fire at once. ^ JBm STSTBMATio. — Men should be systematio in their business. A person who <3oai fc.asinees by rule, having a time and place for everything, doing his vrork Tiromptly, will accomplish twice as much and with half the trouble of him who does it carelefldy and sUpshod. By introducing system hito all your transac tioDS, doing one thing at a time, always meeting appointments with punctuality, you fln<^ leisure for pastime and recreation; whereas the man who oidy half does one thing, and jbhen turns to aometbing else, and half does that) wfll have his business at loose ends, and will niiver know when his day's work is done, for it sever will be done. Of course, there is a limit to all these rules. We must try to preserve the happy medium, for there is such a thing as being too systematic, rhere are men and women, for instance, who put away things so carefully that they can never flti«^ them again. It is too much like the " red tape " formality at Washington, and Mr. Dickem^ "Giroumlocution OJBOce,"— all theory and no result. Whoi the " Astor House" was flraj started In New York dty,"lt was undonbt* edly the best hotel in the country. The proprietors had learned a good deal in Europe regarding hotels, and the landlords were proud of the rigid system whidi pervaded every department of their great establishment. When twelve o'clock at night had arrived, and there were a number of guests around, one of the proprietors would say, " Touch that liell, John; " and in two minutes sixty aei- vants, with a wato^bucket in each hand, would present themselves in the haO. "This," said the landlord, addressing his guests, " is our flre-bell; It will diow you we are \Q[uite safe here; we do everything systematically." This was before the Onbaa water was introduced into the city. But they sometimes carried their t-stem too tar. On one occasion, when the hotel wa-s thronged with guests, one ' tbs waiten WMiQddflnlylitdiqwsMl, aad although Vben were fifty waitersft tba hotel, the landlord tboufl^t he must .have his full complement, or his **ty* tarn" would be interfered with. Just before dinner-time, he rushed down stein and said, "There must be another waitw, / am oa6 waitershort, whatcan I dof He happened to see " Boots," the Irishman. 'Pat," said he, " wash your handl an^ face; take that white apron and come inxio the dining-room in five minutes." rresnntly Pat aiqpeaied a. required, and the pnyrietor said; "Vow Tat, you 'n ilii^baSBia {Eiiefwo oQOrs, and waitm^Vj Iten; did yon ever act as a waiter! " *^ I iBWV att about it. sore, but I Mv«r did i» " ' ikl^d, .^c^ik- dMi^^" -^ -^-C- ^J-,-^ - "/•?noto to the bank, get it discounts and take the cash. He gets money fer the time beiag without effort ; without hiconvenienoe to himself. Now mark the result He sees a chance for speculation outside of Ids business. A temporary investment of only $10,000 is reqah:«d. It is sure to come back before a note at , the bank would be dua He plac^ a note for that amount before yoc You sign ' , it almost mechanically. ?^ Being firmly convinced that your friend is responriUe , and trustworthy, you indorse his no^i as a " mattor of course." tTnfoKtunately the speculation does not come to a head iii4H«oiato the vahM of those dol^ , » ^ se» m; r ABT OF MONEY OETTmO/ .di AB^rBBvni TOim Boninsft— W« aU dspwd, iBON or lia^ ttpcm oormppcMii. We aU trade witji the pQt]Uo--li6^3r««,doo«on,Bhoeiiudcen^ai1^ bladcsniiths, dKHnnen, opera Bingers, railroad presidentB, and coll^ce profeagorai ^ Thooe who deal with the public must be careful thac their gooda are valuable; that they are genuine, and will give satisfaction. . When you get an article whksh you know is going to please your customers, and that when they have triec^ it, they will feel they have got their money's worth, then let the fact be known that you have got it Be careful to advertise it in some shape or other, because It is evident that if a man has ever SQ good an article foraale^and nobody knows it, it will bring him no return. In a country like this, where nearly eiferybody , reads, and where newqnpeni are issued and circulated in editions of flvethousand >(• two hundred thousand, it wouM be very unwise if this channel was not taken *lvantage of to reaoh the public in advertising. A newspaper goes into thei fwnily, and is read uy wife and children, as well as the Jhead of the house; henc3 hundreds and thousands of people n^fcy read your advertisement, while you are attending to your routine business. Many, perhaps, read it while you are asleep. The whole phUosophy of life is, first "sow," then " reap." That is the way the fanner does; he plants his potatoes and com, and sows his grain, and then gow about something else, and the time comes when he reapp. But he never rei^ first and sows afterwards. This principle applies to all kinds of business, and to ndihing more eminently tlyin to advertising. If a man has a genuine article, there is no way in which he can reap more advantageously than by "sowing " to the public in this way. ge niust, of course, Uinre a really good article, and one whidi wiH please his customers; anything spurious will not succeed permanently because the public is wiser than many imagine. Men and women are aeWsh, and we all prefer purchasing where we can get the most foe o^)«oo#ecp- an^. w^ try to find out where we can most surely do so. Too may advertise a spurious article, and induce btssiy pm^m^ co 9^t and buy it once, bat they will denounce you as an imposter and snriiidier, tjnf your business will gradually die out and leave you po6r. This b ri^t. Few peopb ^ «an safely depend upon chance custom. You all need to have your customeiH retom and purchase again. A man said tome. "I have tried advertising and did not succeed; yet I have a good artide." I replied, " My friend, there may be exceptions to a genwal rule. But how dfl jroaadvertiset" ^ ■"Iput itin a wetddy newspaper tbree times, and paidadoll^and a half forit* I replied: " Sir, advertising is like leamiog— • a little is a dangerous thing I' » A French writer says that " The reader of a newspaper does not see t^ first Insertion of an ordinary advertisement; the second insertion be sees, but do€««o| read; the third insertion he reads; the fourth insertion, he looks at the price; the^ I flfth insertion, he speaks of it to his wife; the sixth insertion, he is ready to'pur- dMse^ and the seventh insertion, he purchasea " Your object in advertising is to nMkB tiie public undostand what you Bave got. to sell, and if you have not the pluck to keep advertising, until you have imparted that information, all tha money you have spent is lost. You are like the fellow who t
it» aiul to tlUf { •«aTe the dollar •IrMMl7«zpe&. » ^ PiJlU -tJ_ Affl M&9 X 5IO > ABT OF MONEY QBTTINa. fB toiiin Am nm to* vora.ooRoioBu.— pouhmm and «iTUtt7 an tb* iNpt ei|ltal wTer inTMMd In buslneM. Luf* storM, gilt •igni. UmbIiic tAf^ U««iMatib will an ptor* uimt«1Ui>c it you or your •mployMd treat your patrottit abruptlr,, THa tmth la, tbe more kind and Uberal a man ia, the mora generona will tw tbe patronac* beatowed upon talm. " Like begets like." Tbe man who glTea tbe greaMat amouat ot goods ot a corresponding quality tor tbe least sum (stMl resekTlng'tor blmselX a profit) wlU generaUy suooeed best In tbe long run. This brings uste tbe golden rule, "As ye would that men should do to yon, do ye also to, ttiem," and they will do better by you than It you always treated them as It you ws|kted ta get the most you could out ot them tor the least return, seen who drlTe sharp bargains with their customers, acting as It ithey nerer expected to see them again, will not be mistaken. They wlU nerer sea them again aiy customers., People don't like to pay and get kicked also. One ot the ushers In my Museum once told me he Intended to whip a ^ m who was lit tbe lecture-room as soon as he came out. "What tor f" I Inquired. s" Because he said I was no genUeman," replied the usher; »• Never mind," I repUed, "be pays tor that, and you will not oonvlnoe him you are p gentleman by whipping him. I cannot afford to lose a customer. It you whip him, he wUl never visit tbe Museum again, and be will Induce trlends to go wtth him to other places ot amusement Instead ot this, and thus ybu see, I should be a serious loser." ' ' M But he Insulted me," mbttered the usher.^ . f Exactly," I repUed, "and It he owned the Museum, and you had paid him tor tbe prlvlege ot vlslUng it. and he had then Insulted you, ther^ might be some ' reason In your resenUng It,, but In this Instance he Is the man who pi^s, while we receive, and you must, therefore, put ap with his bad m'Atmera." My usher laughingly remarked, that this was undoubtedly the true policy, but he added that he should not object to an Increase ot salary l| be was expected to be abused in order to promote my Interest Bs OHABiTABLX.— Ot oourse men should be charitable, because It Is a duty and a pleasure. But even as a matter ot poUcy. if you possess no higher InoenUve, you will find that the liberal man will command patronage. whUe the sordid' ancbarltable- miser will be avoided. ' Solomon says: "There Is that soattereth and yet Inoreasetb; and there Is tb»t- wttbholdeth more than meet, but it tendeth to poverty." Ot oonrae the only ^true charity is that which is from the heart ' The bsst kind ot charity is to help those who are willing to help tl(«BM>T«s. PromisououB almsgiving, without inquiring into the worthiness ot the applicant Is \fiA in every sense. But to search out and quleUy assist those who are strug' gUag toir themselves^ is the kind that "soattereth and yet inoreasetb." But don*t tafl Into the Idea that some persons practice, ot giving a prayer instead ot a potato^ and a benediction Instead ot bread, to the hungry. It la easier to »n akt Christiana with tnll stomachs than empty. * Dox'T BLAB.— Some men have a foolish habit of telling ttielr business seei«ts, tt tbey make money they like to tell their neighbors how it was done. Nothing Is gained by this, and ofttlmes mu^h Is lost Say nothing about yoor proflia, yaor hopsB. your expeotattona. your Intentions, jjind this should app ly ( w»ll a« to eoavsnattoA Ooethe makes Mephlstophlles say: "Never write a leMsr nor destroy on*." Bnslness men mdst writ* lettars. bat tbey should be eanfvl AET OP MONET GEtTlNO. 5U ^^li^ttmr^MmHfi. Ityoaanloibigmoney, bsqpMWIjrcMillowtlid isU of itt or yon will low joar repatetioD. Pbbssbvx toub nnraaBiTT.— It Is mare precious than diamonds or rnbiea. The Old miser said to his sons: **Qeb money; get it honestlj!^ if you can, but get money."' Thki advloe was not oidy atrociously wicked, but it was the very essence of sti^idity. It was as much as to say, " tt-yon find It difficult to obtain money honestly, you can easily get it dishonestly. Gtet it in that way." Poor fooll Not to know that the most difficult thing in lifeisto make money diidumestly I aot to know that our prisons are full of men who attempted to follow this advice; not to understand that no man can be dishonest, without soon being found out^ and that when his lack of princiide is discovered, nearly every avenne to socoeas is ckwed against him forever. The public very properly shun all whose integrity is doubted. No matter how polite and pleasant and accommodating a man may be, nond Of us dare to deal with him if we suspect "f^Jse weights and measures." Strict honesty, not only Ues at the foundation of all suooees in life (financially), but in every other respect Uncompromising integrity of character in invalus- ble. It secures to its possessor a pe^oe and joy whicb cannot be attained without it — ^which DO amount of money, or houses and lands can purchase. A man who is known to be strictly hcmest, may be everl» poor, but he has the purses of all the community at his di^KMat— for all know that if he promises to i^etom what he borrows, he will never disappoint them. As a mere matter, of selfishness, there- fore, if a man bad no higher motive for being honest, all will find .that the tiyt-rim of Dr. Franklin can never tall to be true, that "honesty is tAia best policy. " I To get rich, Is not always equivalent to being sucoeiBsfuL "There ar* many rich poor men," while thei^ are many others, honest and devout men and wuuien, who have never po B s o sB o d so much money as some rich persons squander in a week, but who are nevertheless really richer and happier than any man can ever be while he is a transgressor of the Ugber laws of his being. The inordinate love of money, no doubt, may be and is "the root of' all trrH," but money itself, when properly used, is not only a " handy thing to hate in the house," but aitords the gratification of blessing our race by enabling its possessor to enlarge the soope of human happiness and human influence. The desire ior wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the poa- sessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity. « - The history of money-getting, which is commerce, is a history of dvillat^ion, and wherever trade has flourii^ed most, tberst too, have art ikod sdenoe prodooed fhe noblest fruits. In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of oar raoeL To them, ina great measure, are we indebted for otr institutions of learning and-^ art, our academies, colleges and ohurcheK It is no argument against the desire for, or the possession of, wealth, to mj that there are soma^ times misers who hoard money only for the sake of hoarding, and who have no higher aqdration than to grasp everything whidi oomes withiu thehr reach. Aa we have sometimes hypocrites in religion, and demagogues in politios, so there are occasionally lAissrs among money-getter» Tuese, however, are dnly ezeep- tions to the g«a««I rola. But whan, in Uus oountary, we find such a nuisanoa tvA •^v^*^}^ x}^^ j>B § mimT , w<»rwnMnberwith gratltads that to wo hava no hiwt oi primogaidtare, and Uiatln the dne oooraa of OMtiire tlM tiaa wfU ODOM wlian the hoarded dust will be scattered foi> the benefit of mankind. 1V» all men and womm, Unrefore, do I conscientiously say, mak« money honestly, and not otherwise, for Bhaktispeare has truly said, " Ha thai wants money, mi«||| •Wl ooQtwt, ia wttlKNik tfaraa f^ ttillM»" =r^i^^wpiiiep \ •"i'i*. CHAPTER LVn. Mr. Bamum's Death. No man can finish his own biography. The closing scenes of his life must be portrayed by another hand The time comes when he must lay down his pen and cease to relate his story. The foregoing pages are Mr. Bamum's graphic recital of his extraordinary career. It only remains for another to end the tale. The sensation caused by the death of the great showman was even more profound than any created by the most conspicuous events of his life. ' He died at Bridgeport, Conn., on Tuesday, April 7, 1891i During the period of Mr. Bamum's invalidism aiid conGnement to the house, which continued twenty-one weeks, there were fre- quent fluctuations in his condition, frqm each of which he rallied although in each instance with a slightly lowered vitality. The change for the worse which occurred the preceding night, however, was so much more pronounced than the previous attacks had been that it convinced the attending physicians that their patient had not many more hours to live. Duriug his confinement to the house he had been down stairs only twice, although sitting up much of the time and being cheerful and conversationally m- olined in his waking moments. After the attack, which came upon him shortly before midnight, Mr. Barnum suffered a .good deal of pain. He seemed to reuiie that he could not live much longer, and spoke of the approaching end with calmness. During his illness the phvsicians had been oarefiil aboui, administering morphine or sedatives of any kind, through a fear that they might produce ulterior ill effects. Mr. Barnum spoke of this, and said wnen all hope was gone he wished to be given sedatives which would allay hb pain and make his death as peaceful as possible. The first sedative was given at ten minutes past ten o'clock in the raouiing. It was unaerstood by the patient and his family to mean that the end was near. Mrs. Barnum Iremainea at her husband's side throughout the night. In alte rnate spells of doting and in conversation, w hioli ihowed his brain to he as clear as ever, Mr.iftBarauin ])aMted the houn until about four o'clock iu tlie morning, when he sank iuto % MB. .PABBTTOS mATSU m lethargy which was a condition of stupor rather than of natural sleep. To rouse him from this state of unconsciousness was difficult. A faint gleam of recognition alone indicated that he had knowledge •I his surroundings or knew the familiar and sympathetic feoei MDuped around him. Thus matters went on until about ten o'clock m the morning. He was again aroused, and his mental faculties appeared to be brighter than at any time during the several houra previous. ,, . , __ _ Among the sorrowing group then m the room were Mrs. Bamum ; Rev. L. B. Fiaher, pastor of the Universalist Church; Mrs. D. W. L. Thompson, his daughter; Mrs. Clarke of New York, a grand- daughter; Miss May Read, his niece; Mrs. W. H. Pushtelle of New York, another daughter; Clinton H. Seeley, his grandron; Benjamin f 'ish, Mrs. Barnum's brother and treasurer of the Bar- oum and Bailey' show; Dr. Hubbard; Mrs. A. L. Rikeman, the housekeeper; C. B. Olcutt, a trained nurse from Bellevue Hos- pital; and W. D. Roberts, for many years Mr. Bamums faithfu' colored valet. v . -w u The scene in the dying man's chamber was pathetic. Mr. JSar- num was fully awake and conscious, although his nearly exhausted physical powers^ made it impossible for him to talk. Previous to the arrival of several of the relatives from New York on the ten o'clock train, Rev. Mr. Fisher bent over the dying man and spoke to him words of religious consolation. Mr. Bar- num'a eyes brightened as the scriptural promises were recalled to him, and heiiilf nodded his head in assent. Shortly after ten o'clock he took a sedative, and soon afterward sank into a peacetul At half-past three o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Bamura sank into A comatose condition, from which it was evident that there would be little hope of his again returning to consciousness. W^e^ th* end came it was peaceftil and to all appearances painless. The physicians said that Mr. Bamun? had no organic diaeaa* whatever, the enfeebled heart action which had been apj^rent for the past few months being due to a gradual failure of his general powers, resulting from old age. ., , ,. ^. * . vs. In a general way Mr. Barnuin prescribed directions for his ftinftwO. He wished it to be of a private character and unoa- teptatious. Of show and parade he said he had had enough du^ bg his life, and his commitment to his last resting-place he wished devoid of aU ceremony beyond the simplest tribute of affection and rwpeot. He directed that the interment should be in the Mountain GrovaCeninUiry, where, aeveral ymn before his dwU^he erected ■ .1 PMMiTe granite monument of simple design. 614 ♦ MB. BARMJlirS DEATa Mr. Barnum preserved his mental and physical vigor to a i^ markable degree, and long after ordinary men are considered old he was erect, springy, full of life and vigor, and well preserved for one who had been through so many labors and vicissitudes. A gentleman gave the following pen-picture of him a dozen jneara before his death : . " People who catch him at business say he is prompt, exacting, and systematic, frugal of his time and' mtolerant of supei^uous questions or social palaver ; but I found him one of the most genial and gracious of men, patient in explanation, punct^ious in courtesy, and taking matters as easy as if time existed by his permission. Li this house is a room where Hprace Greeley used to stay for days and rest, and it is called the ' Greeley room.' " Mr. Barnum is seventy — as stout, straight, sturdy a man as ont often meets. He has a broad head, fUll m the overcoming^uali- ties, perceptives that iut over his gray eyes like slopine eaves, iron- gray hair that curls tightly around the base of a bald ciiown, and every movement is one of decision and self-reliance. He ^till has ' go ' in him, and I believe if every dollar of his fortune should be swept away to-morrow, he possesses energy enough to go to work and accumulate another. In a few minutes he invitMl me to a drive. He has put up a hundred buildings himself on streets that he has opened. "In making the grand rounds we drove by the residence of J. D. Johnson, just west of where Iranistan used to be. Here Bar- num, who is an unequalled wit and a first-rato story-toller, said to me, ' Johnson played a, practical jok6 on me once.' — ' What was it?' I asked. — * "Wny, he explained, ' I had a bi^ park opposite John- son's hous^ here, containing Rocky Mountain deer, elk, reindeer, eto. Strangers would naturally suppose it belonged to Johnson's Citato, and this mistake was emphasized by his jocular son-in-law, S. H. Wales, of the Soientific Ameriean, who put up at the entranot a board reading, "All persons are forbidden to trespass or duiturb the deer." It was a good joke, and I let it stand.' In about a week Johnson had a large party from New York visiting him, ami aft^* supper he took them out to enjoy the joke he had played on Bar- num. Reaching the sign, he wheeled them around and mw, to his dismay, that I had added the words, "Gamekeeper to P. T. Bar- num.''^ " ' He was called " Bamum's gamekeeoer " for some time by his friends. But a couple of months aft«r tnat I gave a swell dmner at Iranistan to the aireotors of the bank, and I sent West for prai- to find at the ddpdt the great box addressed to me and marked .i^-..*.r^-„!*j- Sl ^^LtY'. \ int. BABNUM'S DBATR. v 51j!| ** Oame.'' He tdd the express agent that he was Barnum's same- keeper, and woum take the box. It was delivered to his house, and when it arrived Johnson sent over a note to me saying that I had ajpipoihted him my gamekeeper, and that he had entered upon ' the duties of his office — that a box of game had come, and he ahduld keep it till I sent him an order for a new hat. I was a little cha^^ned, and didn't exactly Icnow what to do, but I actually heard the next day that the rascal was going td give a game supper himself, and I sent over the hat.' " Mr. Bamum may be said to have written his own eulogy. In a letter to a religious journal he said: "I happen to be a showman. Circumstances in my early life threw me into that position. Probably if I had been a clerrjrman, a doctor, or a lawyer, I should' have exercised energy and diligence in my profession, but 1 honestly believe I should not have labored luiy more earnestly or conscientiously to make the woi4d better than I have done as a caterer for the public recreation, It has i ever been toy aim to exalt the- character of public amusements. 1 have invariably sought not to cater to depraved taste, .but to culti- vate the public love of what is pure ijnd refined, being careful to sandwich in, on all proper occasions, sufficient humor to inspire hilarity and cheerfulness. Any exhibition or performance par- takinir of vulgarity, profanity, or which could even remotely be .V 3 ^ _*'-ii /-Li--^: Li- Ti ..: ..,.1.. «w^1.,<1a^ j^g for and young, are not made wiser, better, and happier by the recreation which I provide for them, my elSbrts in that direction will cease." At another time Mr. Barnum stated that, from an examination of hii account-books 83,000,000 adniinsion tickets to his princi- pal exhibitions h Thompflon, my old femily Bible, the Jenny lind eontract, my family aljbum of photographs, and other artidw of personal property. . - To David W. Thompson, my portrait of myself, now in my bed' room, and other mementos. To Colonel 8. B. Sumner, James Na- ples, C^lrtis Thompson, the late John D. Candee, and others, books as mementos, as a faint recognition of the public press. To Henry C. Bowser the s&m of $3000, and to Charles R. Brothwell the sum of $5000, these in recognition of the faithful services rendered by them. To J. B. Prindle, of Bridgeport, $100; to the Universalist Church of Bridgeport, $3000, also the sum of $500 a year after my decease. To Bridgeport Protestant Orphan Asylum, $1000; Ladies' Charitable Society, $1000 ; Mountain Grove Cemetery Association, $1000, to be used on my lot of burying land ; to fl!elen M. Bou- telle, $1500 a year. All the rest and residue of the estate is de- vised and bequeathed to Henry E. Bowser, Charles R. Brothwell, , Curtis Thompson, and others, in trust, to pay 33i per cent, to Our* ' oline C. Thompson, to, her and her heirs for ever ; also, 33i per cent, to the children of Samuel C. Kurd, amounts advanced to any of them heretofore to be deducted from the bequMts herein men- tioned. ; c' Any opposition to the probate of my will or attempt to set adde the provisions of the same' shall operate to deprive the one or ones ' so ofi^ring to oppose and contest of the amount bequeathed to lum or them. ' M'- The First Codicil. The first codicil is dated May 24, 1889, and it ratifies the former will, except as to the following changes: It gives to Nancy Bar^ num the additional sum of $5000, his diamond' stud, and other articles of personal property. The rents in* the old and new Waldemere, that belong to said Nancy Barnum, shall remain her own. Annuity of $22,500 a year -is made additional in the codicil for Mrs. Barnum. The whole annuity thereby to be $25,000 a year. These bequests are in lieu ' of all dower. To the children of Pauline Seeley the sura of $40,000, and the following legacies, to wit : To Carolme C. Thompson, $100,000; to Helen M. Boutelle, $100,000 ; to Julia H. Clark, $100,000 ; to ain- ton H. Seeley, ""' '^"'^ ' * * ' $25.000 is juaait, to y ■ ■i: MS. BA w 8 DEATH. 819 I / ft, W;r. f t ffed^. filii '^ initae to wsrpM&i the name of Banium. To Henry E. Boiwer and Charles K. iftfothwell, 16000 each i^iNueathed; to CoadbmanHugh Brady $pd the colored valet, pWerts, WOO each ; to Patrick and Jane %)Qnan, $200 each, in recognition of fiathfhl household services ; ;'*td the First Universalist Society, * 116,000, and the sum of $700 * year for two years ; to Tuft s Col- lege, 130,000, to be appli^ to jthe Bamum Museum of Natural ^ To tibe Connecticut IJniYers^list Convention for Missionary Pur- poeee, 12600, and also a lil^ silm to be held as a ftind and invested ^the benefit of said convention ; to Chapin Home, Lexington avenue. New York, $1#); to Children's Aid Society of New York, 11000; to Bridgeport Hospital, $5000, to establiA and maintain a bed to be known as the Bamum free bed ; to Bridge- port Protestant Widows' Society, $1000 ; to the Connecticut Hu- mane Society, $1000 ; to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of which Henry Bergh was president, $1000; to the Women's Centenary Society of Universalist Church, $500 ; to the Associated Charities and Ladies' Charitable Society of Bridgeport, $1000 each ; to the Universalist Publishing Company of Boston, $1000; to the Bridgeport Public Library, $1000 ; to the Bndg^ . port Protestant Orphan Asylum, $1000 ; to the settled partor of Universalist Church, Kev. L. B. Fisher^ $500; and to the Society of St. Lawrence, $1000; , <» . •,' .v ^ a j Article eight of this codicil stipulates and provides that a fund of $200,000 shall be held in reserve for the maintenance of t^ Bamum and Bailey shows. Article nine says : " If the estate of the testator shall exceed in value the sum of $1,500,000, the sum of $60,000 shall be given to the Bridgeport Scientific and the .Tairfield County Historical societies." One-third of the remainder of the estote is bemieathed to his deceased daughter, Carphne E. Seelev ; bn^ixth of the residue is bequeathed in trust to William B. Hmcks and Benjamin Fish, for the benefit of Helen M. BouteUe-, one-sixth to JulU H. Clark ; one-nmth to Clinton Seeley ; one-nmUi to Caroline Thompson, in trust for testator's granddaughter^ Jessie B Seeley ; and one-ninth to Clinton B. Seeley and Carolme Thomp- son, in trust for Herbert B. Seeley until he becomes twenty-five ■ Portions of a previous will are here revoked aiid proviito made fer the execution of the remamdet, ithd it is specially pro^Ja^ that no fconds shall be required from his executors— William Hincks and Benjamin Fish. Any contest of the provisions contamed m Uw will by aayof^tfrbenefieiariefr^ibe wittshi ^^ • , MB. BABNUM'S DEATH. RL?-il?**T^'''*a?^ " appraisers of the estate CJharles R Brothwell, James Staples, and Henry E. Bowser. The Second Codicil. ^,/?® ^.«>4 c2J?icil is dated- September 24, liB90^ and provides Aat Benjamin Pish shall have two per cent.' of thi ^t pffi of ihe Barnum-Bailey ghow, in addition to his regu&r sala^^ if he should remam m the employ of said firm. "^ »ry, u ne Three per cent, of the net receipts are to be paid tq Clinton B Seeley wfiile he travels With the show, but the said per cent fe-not l:rf p' f ^1°^ «10,000 i^annum. A lot of^rbound^' K^i S ^^''^ P^*?" ?^' his residence, is given to his widow, Nwicy Barnum, and the sum of $25,000 in addition thereto. Jii case the estate shall exceed the sum of «8,000,000, to J. L. ? J?!!15^i ^'® ^''''^^'' P*^*"®^' ^3000, in trust for the wife of J S* t^S"^''*^', u ?on''.^°''^^'« ^°°^^ «^ Bridgeport, $6000; -and J^»wi ""^i? 1^^"^'!?^^' *«^"^^ employes at the present t^(^. Mr^Smt^l^Oo'tr^^^^^^ ^me revocations qf bequests previously made are made in thif codiciL It also provides that where differences of opinion ahaU The Third and Fourth Codicils. The third codicil is dated September 30, 1890, and gives t?^ %