Telegram-herald., 1891-04-08
P. .T.BARNUM IS DEAD
Il Al GLAD" HIS LAST WORDS
The Moot Fsmeus American Paslte Mss
. Bsasfaetor asd hsWanitarians
Passss Away-sketeh or his Active
aad sacesssfsi Career.

BRIpsEroRr. CT, April The fol-
lowing bulletin was issued at O'Clock
this morning. Mr.. Barnum much
worse; rapidly failing; will probably
not last "a hours. [signedl Robert
Hubbard, c. c. Godfrey, attending
physicians.
BRIpGEroRr, Conn.,, April 7.-P. T.
Barnum's attending physician, DR.. c.
C. Godfrey. has been in attendance
upon Mr.. Barnum all night. He stated
this morning that Mr. Barnum would
not live many hours. He has been de-
Ginning fast snce midnight. The doctor
describes his condition as cyanotic.
Mr.. Bsrnum was conscious up to 10
O'Clock this morning and recognized
those vino were gathered around his
bedside. Shortly after 5 O'Clock Dr.
Godfrey aroused him from a coma-llke
siumber and told hIm that the city had
gone republican IN yesterdays election.
In feeble voice Mr.. Barnum MUIR
INJURED: IL am glad
DR.. Godfrey believes that his death
will be due to loss of respiration, or
heart failure. His respiration and pulse
are growing weaker every moment, and
the doctor gives 1t, as his opinion, that
the veteran Snowman will not last the
day through.
3:l5-Mr. Barnum's condition remains
unchanged. DIR. Hubbard says the doc
tors promised Mr.. Barnum that when
they saw he was beyond hope, they
would not let nun endure unnecessary
suffering. and would use sedauves TO
relieve pain. The first sedauve vas
administered at ll:l0, and the veteran
Is now unconscious.
BRIDGEpoRr, Conn.,, April 7.-P. I.
Barnum, the great Snowman, died at
4:3O O'Clock tins afternoon.
Phineas Taylor Barnum, the greatest
OF American showmen, was born in
Bethel, Connecticut, July 5, 1910. His
father was = tavernkeeper; and while
Phneas attended the village school ne
traded with and played tricks upon his
fathers customers. At the age of l3
he was employed in country
store, and about five wears afterward
he engaged in the lottery business.
He married clandestinely at 10 and
moved to Danburg, where he edited the
Herald OF Freedom and served sixty
days in jail for q libel. In 1884 he
moved TO New York where hearing of
Joice Heth, the nurse of Washington,
he purchased her for $1,000, and with
the aid of bogus documents and extern
sive advertising he made her paying
investment. He then led Bohemian
existence selling Bluies, showing colored
minstrels and writing for the press uutil
he bought the American Museum. lie
made great hit by exhibiting q Japan
ese mermaid made of a fish and
q monkey, white negress, wooily
horse and General Tom Thumb. With
the latter he went to Europe in 1874.
In lS47 he brought JENNIE Lind ID
America, paving her 81 900 night for
l5O nights. He made 100000 out of
this venture. The tickets were sold at
auction and one brought $3.50. He
built a villa at Bridgeport in imitation
OF lhe Brighton Pavilion and engaged
In various specuiations winch
bankrupted HIM. He settled with
his creditors in 1857 and soon
accumulated another fortune. He
is the author of several books among
which his autobiography. "The Hum
bugs of the World" struggles and
Triumphs" are best known. His latest
| successful business ventures were the
purchase and exhibition of Jumbo and
the Sacred White Elephant.