Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-11-07
P. T. BARNUM'S STATEMENT.
lFron y. Y. Clipper. /

Jumbo, with the other show belongings,
are now comfortably quartered in Bridge
p II, Conn, all arriving there safe on
the 18th and 10th. On the evening OF
the 10th the veteran p. I. Barnum,
looking hale and hearty as usual, called
at the Clipper office, and handed us the
appended statement, which he wishes to
make public so that his fellow-showmen
and our readers generally may see what
has been accomplished and learn in part
what he and his partners are planning
for the future. At the same time Mr..
Barnum showed us Messrs. Browns Bros.
Il Co.'S voucher for the $4,000 furnish
ed to ]. E. Warner to defray his expenses,
as mentioned below:
"P. T. BARNUM'S STATEMENT OF
FACTS REGARDING THE GREAT Show
No person can be more astonished than |
am at the bewilderingly immense proper
tons to which have grown the combina-
ton Of my Greatest Show on Earth and
the great London Show, which have now
jus, closed their second travelling season
and 10 give an idea of our great enter
Prise, | will furnish few figures from
our books, which my partners, Messrs.
James 4. Bailey and James l.. Hutch
inSon, as well as our treasurer and &C
countant, would verify under oath, If de-
sired. The expenses Of wintering our
horses and wild animals and their keep
ers, trainers and attendants, and putting
the show in order for is spring opening,
was s225,OOO. During this period the
show was not earning dollar This
one outlay Of money Is, believe, more
than many other travelling shows in the
world are worth to-day, and FIVE times
more ihan many tent shows are worth
which charge the same price Of admis-
sion that we do. and usually promise TO
show the public more costly, numerous
and rare novelties than we do. But the
COS, Of wiutering our show is but drop
in the bucket. After our agents, J. Il.
Davis, Hon. Joel +. Warner and numer-
Gus employees came back from England
last spring, bringing Jumbo, Mr.. Davis
returned to Europe in May last, accom-
panied by my partner, Mr.. Bailey, and
myself. While / remained in England
trying TO secure proper places in which
70 exhibi, our show, Messrs. Bailey and
Davis secured London, Paris, Hamburg,
Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna and most OF
the larger Continental cities, securing at
fractions for next season, and obtaining
information in regard to the principal nov
elites, extraordinary performers and Gu
noSities at present known throughout the
habi,able globe. They dispatched agents
and set on foot plans to secure the best
of them for 1882. These preliminary
measures cost Us enormous sums Of mon
ey: but 4 show of such unexsmpled mag
nitude as ours would anguish and die if
It's proprie,ors did not look years ahead.
On the 18th Of September last we de-
spatched our agent, J. r. Davis, TO Eu-
rope, amply provided with money and
letters of credit to make purchases and
contracts for our great show in countries
far away. where no show-agent ever be-
fore appeared. Ten days later we sent
Mr.. j. b. Gaylord to Australia, New
| Zealand and various other countries, with
the same general instructions which we
gave TO Mr.. Davis, besides orders to OBJ
tain several special attractions, which we
know TO exist and which never were seen
in this part of the globe. Besides the
money and credits handed to these agents,
amounting to more than twenty thousand
dollars, had already on the 9Th of Sep
tember sent to my agent, John Fish, of
Southport, England, twenty thousand
dollars in drafts from Messrs. Brown
Brothers x Co., the great English bank :
ers in New York. On the 9th of Sep
TENDER last | met my partners, Messrs.
Bailey * Hutchinson, in New York, where
we matured plans for systematic tours
around the whole world by qualified and
reliable agents in this country and Eu-
rope. going among the uncivilized as well
as the civilized races, and expending al
most fabulous amounts Of money in oul
behalf Some of these agents will be
absent Cor years. On the 2sth of Sep
TENDER we despatched our old agent, tn
Hon. Joel f. Warner, ex-Mayor of Lam
sing, Mich, by the Cunard steamer Gal
liza: and. as the receipts of Messrs
Brown Bros. & Co. shows, $4,000 il
cash and $4,000 in United States bond
were deposited with them for $4,000 ii
drafts and letters of credit, all payabl
| N the order of our agent, Mr.. Warner
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