The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-25
THE THEATRICAL PANIC.
Another House Collapsed -TnniUnny Goes
Under- Three Snsusbes In One Weoh'
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Another House Collapsed -Tanmnny Goes
USder-Thrce sninsbes In One Week.
The few people who delight in the naked
drama, and who assembled last evening at the
portals of Tammany TO enjoy the unadorned
luxury of ''The Seven" found that stately insti-
tuition unlit and unopened. The calclums were
out, the big banner was down, the coronet OF
gas was extinguished A couple of disconsolate
bill boys stood against the DOORS who said they
were waiting to see MIR. Grover.
1t seems that Tammany was closed because
the "Glorious Seven" did not draw people
enough the night before to pay the gas bills. A
notice was stuck up on the stage early in the
morning yesterday to the effect that the place
would be closed for two weeks. The company,
who had not been paid for the current week,
and several of whom claim back dues, were
naturally agitated, and during the day made
numerous applications at the business Office to
see Mr. Grover, but without effect. This col
lapse was not unexpected in other quarters.
The creditors of the establishment made a
complaint that nobody was ever to be found;
that the office was guarded by usbers, who
telegraphed up stairs and reported Mr.. Grover
invariably to be out. 1t was further said by
interested parties that the institution had cleared
$40. 600 the first two months but that misman-
agement had squandered the income. Various
and curious rumors about the establishment
were afloat for months past when the grand issue
of stock was made, and the town was aston
ished one morning by the reduplicated injunc-
ton TO invest its moneyin the New York Amuse-
mentCompany.
About six hundred dollars worth of this stock
was sold and each note bore one or more cou-
pons of admission to the n. Y. A. COmpany'e
places of amusement. Quite q shock was eX-
perienced on Saturday night last when the
holders of these coupons were refused admit
tance TO Tammany, and were told that the house
had been sold. This proceeding is understood
to have outraged Mr.. Jarrett's sense of pro-
priety, and he made vigorous remonstrance
with the director and to have indirectly brought
LII ~.
Grover is now ont of the concern, and is said to
have left the city yesterday for Philadelphia.
The members of the company and the bill.
boys feel aggrieved of course, and the holders
of stock are understood to be watching the
market nervously. An enterprisng reporter OF
q penny paper, hearing that Tammany was
closed, undertook to interview one of these
same bill-boys, but failing to get any definite
information, started off to the hotel on the
corner of Twelfth street and Broadway, to find
Rose Massey. That member of the 'Gloriout
Seven" was attiring herself for the Leiderkranl
ball, and had to conduct the interview through q
half-mile speaking tube, which interview
amounted to this:-
Reporter-Were any of the company at Tam
many paid?
Voice-Yes, one.
Reporter-Who was that?
Voice-Alice Harrison, go way; I'm gettins
my back hair rolled"
The summary failure of the entertainment al
Tammany to draw n respectable audience II
another warning to managers that New York il
not yet prepared for the blackguard forms o
amusement which have found favor in European
capitals. -To-ddys World