The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-12
CHARLES DICKENS.

sale ~ Tickets Yesterday MT Sieinway Hall
Tor the Second Course Of Readings.
''sam,vci my son, beware Of the viddors," the
constant Of the elder Weller his hopeful pro-
gony, the sitsndan. of Pickwick; and the Now York
people might be advised in similar manner to "beware
OF the agents. one might judge by the wsy In which
those gentlemen operated yesterday The sale Of tickets
for the Dickens readings in steinway Hail. The agents
ock ed early 70 the scone and having comforts
positions In front OF the qene thought they were
going to have all tLer way and be able buy up
the best ard sell them at fabulous prices. They
were mistaken, hsweveL Mr.. Dickens MANAGER was
too acute for ,bs en-; srpri.ina ticket seekers and
by dcxerous nank movement disposed Of the
back seats hrs'. These ae SPECTATORS naturally
forrod 10 buy IN turn and each person was only
allowed 10 purchase tickets The agents had retreat
from the literary sncsion, and the general public
thus enabled % have chance Of getting tickets At
fair price by purchasing them directly for themselves
instead OF bong force; 10 procure them shrsagh the
agent at . more than cent per cent premium. From
eight O'Clock yesterday morning the crowd outside Of
,snway Hsil began 70 gather. and by ten o'clock.
which hoaf the ticket Office opened, than four
hundred persons had assembled and thcss, forming IN
long line or q,as which reached from she hall rcand
irving place N front o. The Academy OF Music far
corner 81 iificsnih street. waited irarailentlv 10
have the chance OF buying paste5oayds for those read
ngs of 'bez Scsr's AL the characters cf
novelist might naye observed among the crowd
Captain Cutie vas Ihers, carefully warped W Ia pilot
jacket and fit collar and calling Qua to Weller boy
70 sttsnd by wno iuly prepared to make a note of
everything rs set dova N the csiechsm. ~. b. too
WAS prolinsAt anil ~. CorAer hi Gt smiling
and shovng MS eo.h usual, preparatory 70 procuring
front seal 10 t,e balcony. The rat boy asleep,
leaning asmnss iampposl wesrisd OIL BY his mot
fectcA attsnps 10 yet into the ring wnio sam Weller
was cha1nk TIE crowd aud raised the Dickens with Mr.
Pscksnid and Iuuxzls~ii, Mark Tspiey oil the time
claiming Inst il vas sswfay joy.r All kept n line,
however, and ss.sd patiently get their torn without
any srDf1nigg az confusion and although tie tickets
we're gwen o.. RAPIDLY there percepttc dceeess
IN the nsnhefs Of hs crowd As each got into tho
TICKET o1"e he h3nce3 ofyeis1t dollars 10 Tho clerk
and got his SIR SETS 81 tickets FOR The OF fopr
iesdnss-r1d .icSets. white tickets, purple tickets sni
green tickets ias tcEi places were soon sold and
vacant ioi the seekers after Dickens await them
solves or These latter tickets also sol out
however, aud wLia three hours after the auction began
she act seat ~s disposed Of and the sale ended. Many
paopic had 70 disappointed and Dewalcd thar
sas ~ not lhvae gu mp earlier 70 Stonwsy ia. One
eathas stfc ndfydG IL reported to have stayed in
frcnt o. tAss building r0Il ei.hI O'Clock the prsvi-
Gus evening IA order 70 be 10 time the next morning.
- 10 10 hoped that he secured good ssaI Several
ro,cefcen present 10 preserve order al the
ins hrt TIER services vera not particularly ro4arod ~
no noise % dsuEbarea arose The poop alcd Ia ozone
aide o. barrcsde erected tls ticket cica and
sheh hed cat az tha other side n regular order alter
procuring their passes exchanging their eesnbncks
Ice arrangements srpesre4 complete 70 save tho public
world have tael satisfied snd sven NJ Jsersoa Brick
seen nothing 70 srsinbis al.
Nr. Dickens visit 70 the Black Crook.
Last evening w Dickens visited Nibo's theatre and
tbs Black Crock, thas adding one 10 the sIght
pine hundred million porSsns wno are advertised ~
having viewed tna astonishing spsctarewhlch in lie
wonderful oussirirs al other possitls pieces he
kept himself the shady hack ground OF proscsaiuu