Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-07-07
tFrom the Boston Journal
BAnNUM's LAST ENT


The arrival in Boston last Monday Of
Barnum's new enterprise, comprising
Museum, Menagerie, Carayan and Hippo
drofne, to which Is gratuitously added Dan
Castcllo's mammoth Circus, has produced
a sensation in this city never before equaled
by any amusement enterprise known to
New England.
we have had our snnivcrsariee. revlews,
paratlcs, tho Odd Bcilows, and today shall
have Fisk's famous "Ninth." But after
all, nothing seems to equal or eclipse the
great Barnum and his Immense amuse-
mont enterprise, which is the theme of uni
versal comment and observation here, as
elsewhere. "lIave you seen BarnumV Is
the question that is heard in the streets,
counting house, stores and shops, the pub
lie being as anxious to see the veteran
Show King as they are to visit his big
show.
We confess that Barnum is curiosity,
and always has been for the last thirty
years, during which time he has figured
prominently before the American people,
until the fame of him is as familiar 10 both
worlds as household words. gr IL
| Verify, who has not heard of 7. t. Bar
mum and the famous American Museum2
We don't mean that as specimen of the
genus homo Barnum is very different from
| other specimens who have gained notorety
| and success but simply as an embodiment
| of the very best representative type of
shrewd, enterprising, wide-awake Ameri-
! can, who has achieved an immense success
in his speciality as the greatest amusement
| caterer ofthe nineteenth century. Through
| two disastrous conflagrations his immense
museum collection in New York, however,
| the accumuations of half a century, were
in single day almost entirely swept out of
| existence.
This was a serious loss to the public as it
was to Nh. Barnum, although he IS said to
| have taken it AS coolly and imperturbablya as
| the apple woman round the corner would
| the loss of a Roxbury russet. Already ad-
vancing in years, and thinking, no doubt,
| he had served the public long enough, Mr..
| Barnum concluded after the loss of his
| museum, to retire permanently from the
| show business, and, taking Horace Gree
| ley's advice, 90 fishing or seek the shade
| of more quiet aud private life for the
| balance of his days.
A man, however, like y. T. Barnum,
who has spent a whole life amid scenes of
hustle and excitement, with Il constant ten
sion of muscle and brain, catering for the
ever-recurring demands Of a curious pub
| lic naturally fond Of amusements, especial
! ly the marvellous and sensational, is rarely
| satisfied to withdraw suddenly, like the
| tortoise, within his own shell, and let the
| outside world "vag," without taking an
active interest in passing events.
Thus Mr.. Barnum's retirement although
surrounded by every luxury that money
r,, nia,o, ror,,n,, ,I,,sicI od ~, i9p't ;ioi
ioo,,;,I of IL njn,, an, !; ;s no ,ondo,
- Co., ' i,,,,,5,,,,'', ,',' i ho,o,,,o a.
solutely "restive under rest"
His ambition, like ancient Utica he
felt to be too much "pent up and as vol
vonocs pelioM e.e my uI9cillpVSue, -
! Like Dan Castello's famous gymnasts, his
vaulting ambition has fairly DER leapt itself,
for by single bound he comes before the
PuViic III ,,eM Iote, naSl,Is on us ,IaIus
"ii V'uPii""t itioiD ~ iolicoioua "Iu @ % lel'
sMiNe M 10 lli1'ase tian tne famous q,aurulGu
t,at p.;1 use, o. ue sen P,oMlnH on , ms
noses axoctlv Int os a ..r0clk ct thrown mn
| to attract public attention to my Broadway
| American Museum"
About year ago Mr.. Barnum, desirous
| to do good In his day and generation, insti-
tuted and put on wheels his present mann
moth enterprise, at cost of nearly three
| quarters of a million dollars, which has
met with a success unparalleled IN me an
nails of the show business. rms success Is
50 Sudden and complete -as~ 70 asionish
everybody, and none more so than profess
siQnals themselves. =
| hnowlng the interest," the PuDllc Iee,S III
All that pertains to L. i. Barnun, ana es-
pecialiy his last great eiiort (Barnunl
himseli calls 1t ms last great SphTge, whlch
| we readily grant IN deierence 10 MS KNOWN
;uloucstyl, we sent one OF our reporters !"
lhe Whole aIIair anu as MS m
l lunc'iohs @ were lh pera'lNet 10 'stlck TO lacts
| iy"'e J@S'.t'u ,HI' ia, ccetHHt) our reaueTs wiz
uc apio 10 luuge oI tne plg snow as ~, ~ aP-
| PtaIeu. OHe 'Hlhg g Is V9ry eNIuent' o,hce
@ S@.arVi,ns lroili NtM iTrh' parilull I sno" ,'
has peci patIpnlHeu py lhe la.Sest EL ron-
ind ia typsi, ao.nse no no,,ut.,, M
,ahu' ms tIansIt aGross .nt toui,'rS .h mas y
oeen 'ihe Stleriliaii nialcn ,'. 20 tne ;oGa
Whlie ms euterlalnlllents haNS peelI Nisiteu
by me great masses, lnciuulng enllllent EN- ili.,
clersyileh anu tielr ll,ili'ies' "lu we 'iqs. Us,
respectable of all persuaslons-in fact, by
everybody, without reference to race
color, or previous condition, %c.
BARNUM's GREAT PROCESSION,
yticb mazda ito first annearance in tbe
streets last Monday il one of The prandest
I s,it;9ot - ,lroo,,te Of fho Lind
anu ilost hi"shineSH' PtSSn'i'9 va ~, - N'"N