Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-15
d TALK WITH B.IR YUM,

d TALK WITH BIRsUH.
While eating supper one night last week in
Boston ht"el. whom should I see entes' the
room hut 7. L. Barnum, whose Biggest Shrs
on Earth was exni biting in that city. Scarce
ly an hour before was iiSJemag TO spaecu
ir,m him 10 nine Thousand men. wo,n.tl aud
chiliren gathered around the circus RAG
h ha me Protection OF mammal tedt;
ne himself as he stood there decaiming 10
the appauding crowd, being in some resptct.
the Biggest Sh"w on Earth: Fresh, rosy.
hearty, and IN his sixtY-eighth year-ls ne
afterward tod niche took a seat at tn table
where was sitting, aud, after a rapid but in
ci~ive survey of the bill of fare ordered, som.
Stewed oysters and cup OF tea. Little fishes !!
| myself was partakiug OF the same refresh
mehts: We fell-or rather Soared-into con
verSation.
When things got quoted down Mr.. Barnum
gave me some figures about the show bust
ness. In his present Biggest Show GA
Earth" which consists of a menagerie, circus
SC, he has 100000 invested. The expenses
are S,UU0 day. There are three hundred
persons employed, and one hundred and
eighty horses. Every spring il costs from
$4,000 to 100000 to get freShened up for the
season, but by about the 10th OF June this lat
ter sum has been recovered ami from taat
time on the profits begin 10 come in. "rnis N
ternOOn, he said, i've took in 5000; thi ) eve
ming 5000. The hard times do it. PEG Die ,nuSt
be amused. And the more you give hem IN
more they want. The v.tlue OF a shog is
exhausted after people have seen it once
When you come around again you most we
novelties, and the best will pay The best. II /
had twenty years more.-this sort of hin
isn't exactly in my line, but my mu ,eu Ms
get absorbed in mine. Why, here ace Ma
thanS, Bailey and JunS, who manage my show
They are ali Old showmen. Barilun. they
come to me and said, you go like hurricane
We can't stand it They now have an Inter
est in my business. l do not pay them &c It
# salary. say, I'll furnish the money; YOU
each season you shall have together fourth
of the profits That's the only way to do,
after all. Give men direct interest in
business, and they will take care of it for You
My gross receipts are about 100000 a season
and my net receipts about forty per centum,
or s28DO00; one-fourth OF which, or $4,000,
goes to Nathans, Bailey and June, who thus
get about $I75 apiece
Where's Tom Thumb now, Mr. Barnum?"
He is living in Middleborough, Plymouth
county, Mass, near Taunton. He is a great
he ID avs pretty well. He and his wife, aud
General Grant, jr., and Minnie Warren, give
drawlngroom entertainments every winter
They net about 500 night. Tom Thumb
should be very well off. But he has squander-
ed good deal of his money in yachts. &c. He
is forty-One years old. | will tell you some
thing III the Stricte>t confidence. Minnie
Warren, you know, who married Gen. Gram,
jr, (hiS real name is NeweIl,) a short ii ne ago
is i'll a very interesting condition. She is Il
nice little thing. Her parents and the other
little peoples parents all live i'll or near Mid
oil boz Ongh.''
us Jenny | ind poor?''
Nbt Il OIL OI IL. ne II pOrGS TO GlaC eHeCC
in the newspapers were the grossest SANDERS
all that story, you remember about her huS-
bdnu Icing Il Spendthrifv and making way
with her money. He sued one of the publish
erS, and proved in court that Jenny is worth
5 10000. She made $1,000, 900 in America "A nd
MIR. GOldSchmidt invested it so successfully
that 1t has doubled itself. He is real nice,
quiet. little fellow, a Jew-though he became a
Christian when he married her-and three or
four years younger than she. / saw her only
year ago. She IS well and happy: She has a
sroWn-up son and daughter. Sir Julius Bene-
dict, the composer, Jenny's old teacher, told
me that the daughter would have been as great
singer as her mother ever was if she hadn't
been rich: AS for the son, he knows that Jenny
is I1ch. He likes to spend the money, and
Jenny likes 20 have him.
You can't imagine what a triumph the tour
OF Jenny Lind in thIs country VAS 1t was an
ever he heard her sing the Swiss Echo song,
would rise in the audience as soon as she had
finished, and make three profound bows. He
did 1t in Castle Garden, in Providence, in BoS-
ton, IN Washington. She always expected it,
and she always received it. l introduced him
to her one day in the Revere house, in Boston.
He wore buff vest and velvet collar, and had
his bair brushed up Off his forehead. He talked
sound sense to her, with dignity and state
courtesy 1 remember the old fellow telling
her In his most Impressive and Senatorial
manner that America is the best country in
the world, Madam, for persons who do not In
dulge in Intoxicating beverages He I'd just
been 'WetEing his whistle in the bar-rCom
After he had gone Jenny jumped up, walk ed
the floor excltedly, clasped her hands, aud with
lndeScrlDable earneStueSS and prettineSS eX-
claimed oh, MIR. Barnum, that is man. that
is man, Mr.. Barnum: never saw d man be-
lore observations which she repeated several
times in succession.
"Genin, the halter, 1 see is dead" re
marked.
''Yes, put him up to bidding that 1925 for
the Jenny Lind ticket. 1t made fortune ioE
him. One day was riding with George Au
gustus Sala, of London, up Broadway. ii t..
invited Genin to join u.s. The conversation
having touched upon Jenny Lind's success,
Mr.. Sala inquired, BY the way, what ha| he.
come OF that halter, Jeenin, who paid 50 muc!,
money for a ticket - | assured him that Mr.
Gen-in, who was in the carriage with us, WIS
the gentleman himself. How much further
ticket?' l asked. We'll. drawled Genn, |
told my agent to go up to $1,000, and thtn-lIe
knew what my back account was-:o use his
own Judgment"
Mr.. Barnum. as everybody knows is tenn
perance man, in the strictest sense of the
word. He is a teetOtaler. Nor does he use to.
bacco in any form. Whatever do he said,
81 do with my whole life, and it is easier 10 :
me to abstain entirely from beer. wine and
liquor than to be moderate in the use OF them
from lSi2 46. when was with Tom Thumb in
England, France. Belgium and other coun-
tries, l got to liking ale, halfin- half, cham
pouring in. When l returned home The habit
was strong, and l broke it at once. should
have been In my grave now If | hadn't sup
pose, though, If there was nothing stronger in
the world than claret wine, l should drink
that."-[N N. Post.
Emigration to Utah.
When discussing the iniquitieS of Mormon
ism, English journalists occasionally treat the
subject as If it were the mere outcome of the
In pInttC will