San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-30

| and wharves were ,densely packed will
men and women.
As Jenny Lind stepped down tn,
sangplank. which was covered will
carpet for the occasion, the crow,
made a mad dash to get nearer ant
snapped the gates of the dock; som,
men Snd women were trampled undel
others feet. and many were injured
but none killed. The Tribune reportel
saw 4 man. squeezed under the mas.
and hardly able to breathe, holding on
his new hat at arms length and i'm
ploring somebody TO take it and pre-
! vent it from being smashed"
On the dock Barnum had lined III
some of his museum employees, and
as Jenny Lind approached the car
riage they threw bouquets into it
making the public and newspaper.
believe that here was spontaneous
tribute to Il great popular favorite.
Barnum Rode With Driver.
When the party was seated in his
carriage. Barnum mounted the box
beside the driver. because the people
knew him. and IN, presence on the
outside of the carriage aided those
who filled the windows and side.
walks along the whole route in COM
ing TO the conclusion that Jenny
Lind had arrived
1t may be. too, that he wanted to
give those who had opportunity to
see his songstress something for their
trouble; there were nudgings and
shouts of That's Barnum there's
Barnum." The crowd crossed on
after the carriage, and it was with
difficulty that it reached the Irving
House, where Barnum had engaged
rooms. jenny Lind appeared several
times at the window of the carriage
and bowed to the people who were
throwing flowers into it,.
1t was a quarter to = o'clock be-
fore the party finally arrived at the
Irving House, where more than 5000
persons had taken up places in an
effort to catch a glimpse of Jenny
Lind. The police cleared a passage.
and she was able to proceed to her
room, but the crowd would not 20
away and would not be quiet until
loud cries for The Swedish Nightin-
gale were finally answered by her APP
pearance on balcony; she waved her
handkerchief to the mass of people,
who howled their gratitude.
The crowds continued outside the
Irving House all day, and every time
shadow passed before Jenny
Lind's window, or what the crowd
chose as .her window, enthusiastic
cheers greeted it. At halfpast twelve
that night the New York Musical
Fund Society, which had been prepar-
ing for this occasion for three weeks,
began an instrumental serenade. The
musicians were escorted by 90 fire
men in red shirts. bearing lighted
torches. More than 10000 people
watched, listened and cheered. Broad
way was completely blocked, and the
300 spluttering torches revealed fig
ures on the roofs, in the neighboring
windows, and hanging to lamp posts
and awning frames.
Made a Halter Famous.
Tickets for the first performance
of Jenny Lind in Castle Garden were
sold at auction, noval device at the
time. The average price for the tick
cts was $6.3S, and the total proceeds
for the one performance amounted to
81. S64.0J.
The bidding for the first ticket was
lively, and the 1000 persons who had
come out on a rainy day to pay their
money and take their che ce grew ex-
cited. Prices rose rapidly. and the
first ticket was finally sold for S225
to Genin. the halter, whose establish
ment adjoined Barnum's American
Museum. This was the best stroke
of business Genin ever did. News
papers in Houston, Texas. Portland,
Maine, and intervening eli les ana vii
lagos announced TO their interested
readers that Genin. the Broadway
halter, had purchased the first ticket
for the fist Jenny Lind concert at the
enormous price of $225. More than.
two million readers knew the next
that Genin was a halter. An
Iowa editor printed the story OF one
Of his neighbors who discovered that
he owned hat with Genin's label.
he pointed it out to the locLgers at
the village postoffice. and he was
urged to give his neighbors an op-
portunity for distinction by putting
The hat up at auction. IT was final
y sold TO IN excited townsman for
Sl4. In New York men hurried to
.ienin's shop to purchase hats, and
L possible. to catch glimpse of the
nan who had paid SOD for The first
ticket.
The Concert in Castle Garden.
Castle Garden. With since its
in 1907 had been a fort. o
music hall ard an opera
louise, and which is now the Aquari-
I'm, was capable If accommodating
llmost 10000 people, standing and sit.
ing.
Barnum had divided the hall into |
hree sections, each Of which was
marked by lamps of different colors,
ed, yellow and blue. The tickets |
orresponded in color with the lamps,
nd the 100 ushers wore rosettes of |
hose colOrs and carried wands OF |
hose colors, so that the audience
aimed their seats without the devas.
ating brushes which Occ FRED at tho
emmy Lind performances in England.
The doors were opened at { o'clock,
Though tn concert was scheduled to
egln at ), and more than 1000 per.
ons were seated with as much or
er and quiet as was ever witnessed ip
ne assembling Of cong legation at
hurch," according to Rarnnns de
,ription. A double row Of policemen
ept order and regulated la stream Of
lrriages. The wooden bridge which
pprOacned the entrance 10 Castle
arden was brilliantly lighted the
myth of its 200 feet, giving the eff
'ct of a triumphal av nue.. More