New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-17
TROUBLE N PURCHASING TICKETS.
COMPLAINT OF a THEATREGOER REGARDING
HIS TREATMENT AND EXPERIENCE

COMPLAINT OF a THEATRE-GOER REGARDING
HIS TREATMENT AND EXPERIENCE.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir | would like through the columns OF your
paper TO make public my experience in purchasing
tickets at Abbey's Theatre. on Tuesday March
g. | went to the box Office to get ticket Tor Sal
urday's performance. and finding almost all the
seats taken, asked what l could have for the fol
lowing Saturday March 1s. and was Informed that
seats for next week could not be bought until
Thursday morning. On Thursday morning re
turned to the theatre arriving at $50 O'Clock. nan
an hour before the opening 81 the box office TheFe
three gentlemen before me in the line ana seN
eral ladies and gentlemen came after me.
At 9 o'clock the box-otiice opened and the FRS;
gentlemen bought three tickets for the orchestra
Wednesday evening and went away. The second
gentleman asked for two seats. mentioning three
rows in any one of which he would take them
The clerk told him he could have none OF
the seats mentioned and offered him others which
did not suit him. The following conversation oc-
CURED:
Cientleman-Why can not have seats in one
Of the rows l mentioned?
Clerk-They already taken.
Gentleman-IIow is that? Are they at Tyson's?
Clerk-Perhaps Tyson NAV have some. bat they
have been ordered by writing
Gentleman-If seats can be secured By written
orders YOU should have told me SO when was here
last week 10 get these seals: IL TG o co., max tSs
seals than to come here AMI wait TO buy them per
sonally
He went away without getting any seats
The third gentleman I'm the line came next lie
bought two balcony seats. II was then my turn,
and | asked for seat in the front row OF the
orchestra for Saturday. The clerk showed me
seat in the front row. but In the side section. to
ton. The clerk told all those seats We're Al
ready taken ] told him that when | was at the
box office two days before 10 take the seat. had
been informed that could not do so until Thursday
morning and that ought at the same time TO have
been informed that could take the seat by writing
If such the case
The point to which ] wish 10 call attention Is
hat though | was the first person after the open
ing of the bOxofiice, who asked for seat for sat
uriaN' : performance (and | Rad stood in line hair
an hour TO gain tina; advantage, yet found the
Persons who happen to be late in reaching the
box-ortice when they are Informed that the seats
they wished taken, naturally conclude that the\
have been secured by those who came earlier. But
in my case | heard every transaction that took
place from the opening OF the box Office The In
ference is almost unaVOidabie-that there are more
profitable ways for disposing Of tickets than TO
The general public.
If such Is the case. then a; least people should
be Informed that although tickets can be purchased
on the opening OF the box-ofiCe at o'clock on
mitted 10 early before that hour as they
please 50 az to stand waiting long as they
may desire. yet much better seats can be secured
by simply writing to engage them.
\ FREQ ENT THEATRE~GOER.
New York March {, 1895