The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-12

NEW YORK, July IL, 1871.
The Late Mr.. I.tnanrd.

late Mr.. James w. Lingard, IL may not be out of
place to mention few facts in relation to that
unhappy man. 1t was about seventeen years
ago when he first began to be successful. On
the 18th of July, 1853, he appeared as "Deacon
Perry" in Mr.. Aikens adaptation of Uncle Toms
Cabin. In the spring of the succeeding year
Q854) he commenced playing "Uncle Tom
Ia the same play, at Barnum's old Museum.
This character he represented more thar one
huodred times. He and Mr.. G. L. Fox, the
comedian and pantomimist, then became asso-
ciated together in the Old Bowery Theatre, and
continued in partnership until ex-District
Attorney Whitney (familiarly known as ''Little
BittersD built the New Bowery. When the latter
theatre was completed Fox & Lingard dissolved
partnership. Fox remained at the Old Bowery
and Lingard assumed the management of the
New. Here he made all the money that he ever
became possessed of, not much, in fact, but
sufficient to become the nucleus of q very re-
spectacle fortune had he met with ordinary luck
in the application of it. His funds never
reached higher sum than $50, 900, the largest
portion of which was invested in scenery
and wardrobe. Unfortunately the theatre was
burned, he was not insured, and he lost all
excepting comparatively Insignificant sum
which he had invested in his wife's name. This
misfortune may be said to have been the COM
IN 3ncement of his downfall. A number of bene-
fits seemed in some small degree to compensate
him for his losses, and he passed to the
Theatre Comique, of which he
became manager. Not very successful
there, he opened several drinking saloons, one
after another, all of which were more or less
failures. To these annoyances were added
others of still more trying and irretrievable
nature. l allude to his domestic miseries,
which, being domestic, do not require to be
Iengthily paraded here. Though possessed of a
wife and children he was anxious to leave this
country, to emigrate to Australia, and there in
his forty-seventh year, commence life anew
aud rewn in his maturity those theatrical lau-
rels he had worn in his young man
hood. This was not to be, however
Tne friends and managers on whom he had
depended for assistance were very reticent in
their proffers This combination of grefs and
disappointments found its climax In suicide.
On Wednesday night he wrote several letters to
friends, bidding them farewell, and it is sup
posed he Immediately proceeded to the foot of
Beach street and threw himself into the river
His corpse was found on Thursday morning
but, singular to say, was not recognized until
Friday. A coroner's inquest was held on Satur-
day afternoon and yesterday afternoon he was
buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery. His funeral
was attended by hundreds, among whom was at
u
had they been so minded, and so
STAYED off the tragedy. But such is life. We
ask bread and receive stones; and those who
would follow us to the grave rather than lend us
their money fly to shed tears over the lowered
coffin. In similar circumstances to those of
poor Lngard / think one of my dying wishes
would be to be spared the satire of having a
euogy pronounced over my tomb by the men
who had helped to send me thither
Arnusem Present and Future.
This week there is perceptible frightening
of the theatrical horizon, which in another six
weeks will begin to be in blaze of glory. At
the Grand Opera House Madame Rathi Lanner
and her troupe appeared for the first time last
evening, presenting the ballet La GlSette; or,
The willis Of this troupe there are but three
principal members Madame Lanner herself,
Madue Bertha Lind, and M. Venuta francesca.
The two ladies are natural blondes, an interest
ing fact in view of the number of bottles of
aureated tinctures that have been tonsorially
applied by actresses in this city during the last
two wears Bertha Lind is said to be a
sssort Of niece to Jenny, but I scarcely
know what recommendation it is to ddnseuse
to be distantly related to q prtrnd donna with a
cracked voice. Neither of them is stupendous
in comparison with such dancers as Bonfanti or
Sangali. If l may so express it, dramatic
dancing seems rather to their forte-dancing
which is in close relationship to pantomime,
pleasing rather by its intelligent and picturesque
Interpretation of coherent story than by the
audacity of its steps the celebrity of its execu
tion The audience was very large, resem
bin that of the first nights of the T,celue Temp
tations.
In regard to other theatricals, Mr. Brougham's
silly masterpiece Mirnies Luck, has been
Withdrawn from Wallacks, and replaced by Mr.
Gayler's F,'itz, which is Mr.. Gayler's second
attempt this season to propitiate the press OF
New York. Niblo's is being regilt, refrescoed
and recushioned, and promises to become one o.
the handsomest theatres in town. Mr.. Daily il
preparing to revive Molere at the Fifth Avenue
in the autumn. Madame Marie Seebach, tn,
German tragedienne, commences her hundred
nights at the French Theatre early in Septem
Der. Nilsson appears at Steinway Hall on Sep
tember 49, Janauschek is negotiating to appea
in English. Mr.. Fisk intends to have oper,
boufe at the Grand Opera House. / do no
know positively yet who will constitute tn
principal members of the company, except thai
in all probability, Irma win not be omitted.
Ice.
Show may the extortions of the ice companie
be escaped?" is the question at present taxing th
brains of every New Yorker whose bushes
compels him to deal largely In this article. /
Il cir perplexity they remember the invention
Professor Lowe, and call to mind that the ice
manufactured was better than the snow-cake
which this summers ice-carts too often leave
ones door The only question with respect I
Professor loves method was whether it coul
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