The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-05
CENTENARY OF Pr. BGUNUNI
GREAT SNOWMAN as Az OLD
FRIEND RECALLS HIN.

NMLIIlN
America Win Jenny Land and q
Euroes with Wonderful Tom Thumb.
Il wonder how May people have Il in
mind that the Sth 81 next July will be the
ioOth anniversary Of the birth Of Phineas
T. RArnum. one Of the most Interesting
ChAncters this city has ever known
his remark vas made N q SUE re-
porter by ]. n. Johnston. an active. rosy
cheeksd young merchant Of .. when
W. sns asked - tell something of the
interesting men he knew who were prom
inant in h,lainsaa. the professions and
literature half q century ago.
Mr. IOhnstons own career In New
York would supply one chapter In the
story sngkestsd, hut AZ he is still in active
business and purposes IN remain 20 Tor
many more years he prefers nov n talk
n ethsra rather than ~ himself He was
an intimate friend II Walt Whitman. of
Robert @. Ingersou. entertained here
and vas entertained IN London by SIR
Edwin Arnold and has n fascinating
store Of anecdotes about them. and Of
Rarnum. the great Snowman, he has =
thousand reoolleciions
1T nay he aid Mr. Johnston. that
dfsl gained Mr. Mnum's favorable atien-
DIN because ! showed little ~ HE own
rSrkistsncy in advertising In Isso | was
ID be jswelry business on the Bowery
At the corner NJ BrOome street. partner
In store had entered - an apprentice
In 1853. Rarnum's Museum st the corner
II Broadway and Ann street Was then,
az u had been for many yesFs. the most
REGULAR amusement resort IN ire citv.
n was the beet advertised nlacs IN the
world. and anything associated with Il
whatever else It might be, was also an
advertisement
ia occurred 70 mo that " I could get
a couple Of clocks with my name on the
dian placed conspicuously In RaTnums
Museum would he doing the b~st kind
Il advertisement II Was Un December
n, 1870. that I went down 70 the museum
and persisted IN my eFort 20 zee TIE
great and buay man until laid my card
% his private once desk and under his
nose.
well. young man, SAid he, wha, can
N for you'
4 ted him ! wanted 10 put two clocks
with my name on the dials somewhere
In his museum.
he laughed and said lots Of jewellers
wanted the sane privilege. Only day
or two before. he said. two clock men
frnp Cortlandf street had applied for
Ina same privilege. hIt although he
vent all over the premises with them
neither could point oft place for clock
that was satisfactory to him.
"'COms right with-me. Mr.. Barnum.
said. and III chow you the proper
place..
II took him 20 the lecture room. AZ he
nioualy called hia theatre. and pJinted
III two conapicuOua spaceq under private
hoEsa.
-'Clocks in such places ought TO be
ytpv haDdoouts aaid he
Il asaured him they would be the best
IN ne CITY.
ssAn coversd with Eold. en- he asked
Il hastepad 10 ten him that they would
b tawilNad uopthlV n rsuulred 20 keen
49, sgiehs
And ksot weund -,,p and corrected
saiA the shreu,d baraniner
II told him ia wind them and correct
,hsuo weakly with nv own hands
Ian riaht. Young man maid he 4
nsrd a eeunls Of GOOD clock. 40 veil
al 4. a barg,in'"
m hrthsrsnoe Of the bargain Mr..
Rspum ave Mr.. Johnston he pass
rSDroducsd herewith written ON a letter
sbp,t which was half occupied with ad.
vertisemspts Of his shows
sI'ntil the musaupn barnad continued
Mr. Johnaton 4 went there svsrv week
IA wipd and set the CLOCKS. ana in that uav
nv aoouaintance crew and dsvelop-d
into an intiuaarv vbicA ynve me an en-.
tir.lv new view Of the showman's charsc.
iar
cha. vas b.fors the pressnt GENERA.
,ion tpsw him bsfope no became tho
owror N a vrsat circ,,s and u,.paVaria
vhen /, was stiIl the almost universal
fashion 20 sneak Of him a. tho great hum
hug. And there was curious th,na. too
for Barnum before that had brought
fanny Lind hare and Conducted for ber
throughout the country the most success
ful concert tour ever made. There was
no humbuR about that. JENNY Lind was
everything Bsrnuu had promised AZ a
siwusr. her troupe wa probablv the rest
that could have been selected in the world
sverv great civ in the United States
raRsa about her. raid such prices as ere
noa known now 10 hear her aVain and
aAain. vet stiIl IL was the fashion 10 cali