The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-04-25

ul, IL tHS odl4le year he was the frs
TT president Of the Pequonnock BAN
40 OF Bridgeport, and laid out the cit
est OF last Bridgeport, which grew wit
he great rapldity. He thought of moth
ing but the new city, and lent hi
W. name as security for SI1o, 600 to tn
it Jerome Clock Company of New
O. Haven. on condition that it shoult
m remove to East Bridgeport. Before
us 1t did SO it failed, taking not onl,
re $4,000, but his whole fortune be.
b. sides.
dt BEGINNING LIFE OVER AGAIN.
-. In pecunlary sense he had to be-
gin lie over again at forty-six, but
he had plenty of friends who offered
y to help him.
He returned to London and found
, Albert Smith, whom he had last
:. known as a contributor to Punch, in
! the show business. When the late
William NJ. Thackery visited the
United States in 1852 he brought
letter of Introduction from Smith to
Barnum, and the American author
was able to give SINE excellent ad-
vice to the English one. Before he
went away he expressed the most
intense admiration for Barnum.
! During his next European trip he
made a stay en Holland. This
country, he says, gave him much
genuine pleasure, but he made no
money these, for the people have no
curiosity.
In Manchester he received a visit
from a man named John Fish, yzho
came to tell him that two wears be-
fore he was an ordinary laborer, and
that now he was the proprietor of a
cotton a.-lli. He was very ambitious,
and advertised tor d p2srtn-r with |
money. Then he read Barnum SRI
book, which contains valuable adj
vice as to money-making, and taking r
that advice, he advertised that he
had money and wanted a partner. ,
The result was his prosperity. Fish +
was afterwards very rseful to Bar :,
mum.
In 1860 he extinguished the in >,
caused by the failure of =,
the clock company and purchased r.
the American Museum. -
GRIZZLY ADAMS. b,
For the benefit of the museum he p'
ecured the services of Grizzly Os
Adams, who taught grizzly bears to
perform. 1t is not usual to train sh
Years, and Adams had to take on
'reat many knocks while he was la
them. "
The knocks broke a limb, carried III
way ham, calf, or part of his oe
calp every time, and while he ul'
-orked in the museum his skull was
o badly cracked that the brains Al
ould be seen plainly. He even. ac'
Tally died from these wounds. isl
lik
WHITE WHALES,
Hearing that some fishermen had CIR
'ptured a live white whale at the 10,
outh OF the St. Lawrence, he went
ere himself, with the intention of
1nglng two live white ones back to ;,
ew York. 1t was only necessary that
e mouth and blow hole of the whale "
ould be kept wet with salt water IN N
der that it might be brought here '''''
We. "@o
AT last ne caught two in a trap ar q
nged for the purpose. He left IN y
uctions to his trusty assistants to bring "O'
the whales and care for them prop. po' ~
y. He went on to New York first,
d gave instructions to each telegraph
orator on the way to copy out all '''i,
ss.oes sa.,. txo, ,,o-, to h
rk and spread the news among their ~
owtownsmen. lie thus secured an ""u ,.
700 miles long.
The New York papers published all Nv ~
kilograms IN full, and when the "'o'
ales were at last trying to swim about A
the tanks of the museum such
wds as came to see them had never '''1
n heard of in New York. The whales mus
n died and two more were fetched. po'''
tain malicious ones said that the ~'
lies were porpoises, but Prof. Agas- 0'
of Harford, certified that they ~
e genuine white whales. After this NV, NV "
procured sharks, porpoises, sea n
'es and angel fish. out
ded |
COMMODORE MUTT.
4 December, 1861, he had the
d fortune to meet George Wash =,
on Morrison Mutt who was as wv u
i as Tom Thumb had been half man
m years ago. The General had
60 '1N electe
g to look at, many persons expresss. w l
he opinion that Commodore Mutt ~ ~,
the General under a new name. >0'l
brought Tom Thumb from the '"I -
and introduced both dwarfs on
stage as "The Two Dromios, the ,io''o'
Smallest Men and Greatest Cur h0iu
IS Living" The incredulous ONES +h"''e
lined lncredulous, because Thumb NUN
changed so much. Barnum was @''o y
ed by President Lincoln to bring
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