The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-06-22
THE PRINCE OF HUMBUGS.
Il SOCIdL CHIT WITH y. r. BLiRNUM.
HOW HE MIKES MS MONEY.

The Mysteries of tho Trade--How q
Circus Is Manage re minis cences Of
! Former Days--A Moral Entertain
mont.
[Boston Correspondence Ne,o York Post]
"When things got quietod down
Mr.. Barnum gave me some figures
about the show business. In his
present Biggest Show on Earth
which consists Of q menagerie, cir
Gus, &C., he has 100000 invested.
The expenses are $4,000 a day,
There are 800 persons employed
and $50 horses. Every spring it
costs from $SO,O00 to 100000 to
get froshoned up for the season,
but by about the 10th of June this
latter sum Las been recovered, and
from that time on the profits begin
to como in. This afternoon he
said, I'VE took in $4,000; this even
ing, $4,000. The hard times 30 it.
People must be amused. And the
more you give them the more they
want. The value of q show is ex-
hausted after people have seen it
once. When you como around
again you must have novelties, and
the best will pay the best. II had
twenty years more this sort of
thing isn't exactly in my line, but
my museums would keep burning.
All the smaller shows get absorbed
in mine. Why, hero are Nathans,
Bailey and June, who manage my
show. They are all old showmen.
'Barnum, they came to me and
said, you go like hurricane. We
can't stand it. They now have an
interest in my business. L do not
pay them cent of salary. I say:
TIL furnish the money; you organ
ize and run the show, and at tho
end Of each season you shall have
together fourth of the profits
That's the only way to do, after all.
Give men a direct interest in Il
business and they will take care of
it for you. My gross receipts are
about 100000 Il season, and my
net receipts about 40 per ccntum,
Or $2S0,O00; one-fourth Of which,
or $4,000, goes to Nathans, Bailey
and June, who thus got about
S17,500 apiece.
DIssIPATED DWARF TEMpTs BARNUAI
TO 1NTEMpERANcE.
"Where's Tom Thumb now Mr..
Barnum?'
"He is living in NIiddleborough,
Plymouth county, Mass, near
Taunton. He is great big fellow
now, weighs eighty pounds. Yet
he draws pretty we'll. He and his
wife, and General Grant, jr., and
Minnie Warren, give drawing. room
entertainments every winter. They
net about 5000 a night. Tom
Thumb should be very well Oft.
But he has squandered II good deal
OF his money in yachts, &c. Ho is
forty one years Old L will tell you
something in the strictest con-
fidence. Minnie Warren, you know,
VINO married General Grant, ir. (his
real name is NewelD u short time
ago, is i'll very interesting condi>
ton. She is nice little thing.
Her parents and tho other little
peoples parents all live in or near
Middleborough."
els Jenny Lind poor p
"Not a bit of it. The reports to
that effect in the newspapers were
the grossest slanders---all that
story, you remember, about her
husband being q spendthrift and
making way with her money. He
sued one of tho publishers and
proved in court that Jenny is worth
$2,000,000. She made S1,O00,000
in America, aad Mr.. Goldschmidt
invested it SO successfully that it
has doubled itself. He is q real
nice, quiet little fellow, O. Jew
though he became Christian when
he married her-and three or four
years younger than she. I saw her
only a year ago. She is we'll and
happy. She has grown-up son
and daughter. Sir julius Benedict,
the composer, Jenny's old teacher,
told me that tho daughter would