Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-09-29

| STRUGGLES IND TRTUMPHs, or Forty 4ears
Recollections of P. T. Barnum, as q Mer-
chant, Manager, Banker, Lect urer, and
Snowman on two continents. J. 8. Burr
3 Co., Publishers, Hartford, Conn.
This work, the nature of which is set forth
above, cannot fail to be one of Unusual interest
and will dou btless meet with an almost an
precedented sale. The most of our readers
have read Barnum's Autobiography, q very
popular book published about fifteen years
ago, but the present work is one altogether
different, being far more comprehensive in
its plan and embracing many subjects of
interest upon which Mr.. Barnum, from his
forty years of public life, can speak of his
own personal knowledge. His celebrated
lecture on the cart of Money Getting" and
his ''Rules for Success in Business" are in
Guided. Che book contains $50 pages, is
printed in English and German and is illus
trated with SO fine, full page engravings.
1t is to be sold only on subscription and
agents are wanted in every town. We make
the following extract from advance sheets
which have been sent us!
I thoroughly understand the art of add
Vertising, not merely by means Of printers
ink, which have always used freely, and
to which confess myself so much indebted
for my success, but by turning every posi-
bic circumstance to my account. ItWaS my
monomania to make the Museum the town
wonder and town talk I often seized upon
an opportunity by instinct, even before
had a very definite conception as to how it
should be used, and it seemed, somehow, to
mature itself and serve my purpose. AS an
illustration, one morning a stout, hearty
looking man, came into my ticket-office and
begged some money | asked him why he
did not work and earn his living2 He re-
piled that he could get nothing to do and
that he would be glad OF any job at a dol
lar day ! handed him a quarter of a dol
lar, told him to go and get his breakfast and
return. and | would employ him at light la
Dor at dollar and It half a day When he
returned l gave him five common bricks.
"Now," said l. ''go and lay brick on the
sidewalk at the corner Of Broadway and Ann
Street; another close by the Museum a
third diagonally across the way at the corn
er of Broadway and Vesey Street, by the Astor
House put down the fourth on the sidewalk
in front of ST. Paul's Church, opposite; then
with he fifth brick IN hand, t. Ike up q rapid
march from one point to the other, making
the circuit, exchanging your brick at every
point, and say nothing to any one"
'W hat is tie object of this p inquire the
man.
''No matter, replied; "all you need to
know is that it brings fifteen cents wages
per hour. 1t is bit of my fun, and to as
sist ne properly you must seem to be as deaf
as post; wear serious countenance; an
swer no questions; pay no attention to any
one but attend faithfully to the work and
at the end of every hour by ST. Paul's clock
show this ticket at the Museum door; enter
walking solemnly through every hall in the
building; pass out, and resume your work"
With the remark that it was t'alI one to
him, so long as he could earn his living" the
man placed his bricks and began his round
Half an hour afterwards, at least five hundred
people were watching his mysterious move
meuts. He had assumed q military step and
bearing, and looking as sober as a judge, he
made no response whatever to the constant
inquiries as to the object Of his singular
conduct. At the end of the first hour, the
sidewalks in the vicinity were packed with
people all anxious tOsolye the mystery The
man, as ulfecIeu, tAeh went into the Museum,
deyoting fifteen minutes to a solemn sur
yey Of the halls, and afterwards returning
10 his round. This was repeated every hour
till shutdown, and whenever the man went
into the Museum a dozen or more persons
would buy tickets and follow him, hoping
to crafty their curiosity in r,gard to thu
purpose of his movements. This was con
tinued for several day5-the curious people
who followed the man into the Museum con
siderably more than paying his wages-til
finally the policeman, to which l had i'm
pared my object, complained tha5 the OBJ
struction OF the sidewalk by crowds had be-
come SO serious that must call in my
''bricF man" This trivial incident excited
considerable talk amusement; it advertised
me and il materially advanced my purpose
of making lively corner near the Museum