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Well, we all saw "Damon and Pythias" in Barnum's "Lecture Room," with real scenery that split up the middle and slid apart over a carpet of green baize. And 'twas a real play, played by real players, at least they were once real players, but that was long before. It may be their antiquated and failing art rendered them harmless.
When bright days came, Broadway undoubtedly looked a little better Barnum's streamers, "up town," floating out bravely over the heads of the "stage" drivers but I was never able to overcome my first impressions of it and New York generally; and, to make an end of the matter, I may say now, that the longer I stayed in the "land of the settin' sun," north, south, east, and west I had experience of all the less I saw to like in it.
But under Barnum's skilful leadership he at last obtained a majority in the party caucus and was accordingly elected. During that summer Barnum entertained many eminent politicians and other public men at his beautiful residence, Lindencroft. Governor Hawley wanted him to serve as a Commissioner to the Paris Exposition of 1867, but he was unable to do so.
Almost every one of them presently received what purported to be a telegraphic despatch. Barnum's own daughter did not escape. She was informed that her mother, her cousin, and several other relatives, were waiting for her in Louisville, and various other important and extraordinary items of domestic intelligence were communicated to her. Mr.
While engaged in this business the Vauxhall Saloon was re-opened, under the management of John Hallett, Mrs. Barnum's brother. At the end of the season they had cleared about $200. This sum was soon exhausted, and for the rest of the winter Barnum managed to eke out a living by writing for the Sunday papers, and getting up unique advertisements for the Bowery Amphitheatre.
" 'We have received no statement of her earnings yet, said the Commodore, 'but if you want money, give your receipt to our treasurer, and take some. "A few months subsequent to this, I sold out my share in the steamship to Mr. Daniel Drew." Numerous smaller enterprises also marked this stage of Mr. Barnum's career.
"Well," said he, "my good woman, you have now fairly earned your sewing-machine, and you have done one thing more, YOU HAVE LEARNED HOW TO SAVE." And thereupon he handed back the money, and told her to put it in safe keeping. Mr. Barnum's deep attachment for Bridgeport grew year by year, and was most strikingly manifessed.
The Jerome Company also failed, and in addition to absorbing Barnum's fortune, was able to pay only about fifteen per cent. of its own obligations. Of course it never removed to East Bridgeport at all. The failure was a nine-days' wonder all over the country. Never had Barnum achieved such notoriety.
Rogers's face, or the line of nondescript humanity that gesticulated in the field as though they wished to stop the Paris 'Rapide. For it was a very human touch; and either Barnum's Circus or the byeways and hedges of Fairyland had sent their picked representatives with a dance seen usually only in shy moonlit glades. His master named them as the carriage rattled by.
April 10th, 1891, was the day set for Mr. Barnum's funeral. The morning was cold, gray, and dismal. Nature's heart, with the spring joy put back and deadened, symboled the melancholy that had fallen upon Bridgeport. No town was ever more transformed than was this city by one earthly event.
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