New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-23
1 MANAGERS ANECDOTES.
MAJOR POND TALKS ABOUT WELL-KNoWN
LECTURERS.
HOW HE MADE MONEY WITH sTANLEY-BEECHhl
AND INGERSOLL TOGETHER ON ToOK--
PETROLEUM V NAsBYS LITTLE
Joke on JOHN y. COUGH.

JOKE on JOHN p COUGH
lecture ny Major Pond. which was hslenei 10
" fashionable throng az Chckerlhs nan "S'
night turned out to be no lecture at all but an e"'
tersainng talk well seasoned with anecdo'e' '"o
among the scores Of pictures thrown on the canvas
drew more than the usual ehcomluihs' l"''' WV
were Stanley and Beecher.
With Henry Ward Beecher. Major Pond s'id' III
had travelled more miles than win ahEOouE e''e'
u, showed stereopucon pictures OF me great
nreacher when he first came to Plymouth Church'
others as he got older and taken of him dur
ing their last trip in England together The lecturer
seemed 10 find il difficult quit theme so attract
I've as his recollections OF his trips Win 'eeco''
He told of the speech Beacher made at the i1er-
bert Spencer reception at Deimonicos' ana no"
Snencer said Il was worth coming all the way 10
America TO hear man who could talk hKe ''h',
and ~ q tourney he once made with 1ngerson ana
Beecher together. Beecher told him syF tha' ~
had written Ingersors epitaph 1t was on the cage
of newspaper. and read this way
Robert burns.
az STANLEY too q haif-dozen pictures were thrown
and the lecturer described the great explorers far
ness and good-felowship. When / first engaged
stanley" said Major Pond, eft was at 800 night
with a proviso that II he was called upon py 'he
King OF the Belgians that would end the CON
tract at once. Everybody laughed at me. but the
first night Mr.. Beecher. who had been manly IN
str,mental in having me engage Stanley INTRODUCED
him TO a $3.50 audience right here in Chickering
Hall The next night in Brooklyn he drew even
better, and then everybody was via 10 ne"
him by the time he got TO Hartford and Boston
4 night or two afterward l got dispatch from
him that he must go TO Brussels. and would san
tho following Saturday OF course. knew the ohiy
thing 10 do was 10 make the best of IT, Taxing
me nv the hand Just before the steamer salied'
Stanley promised that II he came back alive ne
would come 10 America and finish MS contract
with me When he back from Africa next
after Mr. Stanley had shown me a contract offered
for his signature at sl25O0 for 100 lectures he
told me to make him the best offer couI1 u
writing l offered him an engagement 10 denVe1
100 lectures at 81 900 EACH and we TOOK IN eiious
TO average 81 coo a night for him. ana >i''' edc"
lecture for me. . 49, -oc,,,ri,,o .,
the lecture were those Of some cele0fatei "one ~
them Susan b An'h1 nHs 6 5Eh Har
ret Beecher Stowe and Mary A tlVe ih, ,h
speaking OF the author Of Uncle rom : oSDm I'm nv
lish minister and old darkey rms piS;d..l,. go
The poor Cd negro TO ba be Mas the orena Of the
title character OF her novel, ana ihaue d io' 'u'''
Colonel Ingersol's picture applauded, as vas
the lecturers description OF MIN as man %
In rapid succession the familiar faces Of Thomas
Mast. who said by he lecturer TO De me a ma,
who developed the cartoon and did more 10 p1 ION T
the Rebellion with his pencil than almost any ON
GER in the Army dd with his SWORD ana pen HEM
Watterson, DR.. McGlynn. Napoleon oarohy AM
Harry Burney were shown. -, o,,,
Then came a group that more than usualI!
interesting. 1t composed OF JOSH bliihsS
Mark Twain and Petroleum Y. Nasty. MT LOCK
(Nasby) he said, 10 whose genius a.
America is under obligations. The Major recailes
a little Incident concerning the writer OF the letter
on fat money He said that day Locke salC
to him. II suppose John B. Cough don't IKE M
any more?
'Why not?" asked the Major
well you see" he replied, "out in Cincinnati
one day l was hard up for article for the paper
I strolied into the hotel and hearing that Cough
was in his room, ordered two cock ais sent ~
T1ler l mi
Among the other names and faces dweli on b
Major Pond were those OF Max OReI. ole Bull
John Rogers Emma Thursby, Emma Abbott
Adelaide Phillips. p: S. Gilmore. r. p O'connor
Matthew Arnold. Edwin Booth. Henry Irving. +
Marion Crawford General Lew Wallace Eiwar'
Everett Hale George William Curtis DR.. Parker
Robert Collyer Bishop Potter and William f
Gladstone.