San Francisco Minstrels

     “The Eight Hundred and Fifth performance of the San Francisco Minstrels, in their hall, 585 Broadway, takes place this evening. They opened there on May 8th, 1865, and closed the season July 7th, 1866, giving three hundred and sixty-six uninterrupted performances. The receipts for the first two months amounted to $14,970, a greater sum, it is said, than ever before received by a minstrel band. The second season commenced September 3d, and closed June 29th, 1867, with two hundred and fifty-eight performances. Reopened August 17th for the present season. Their receitps for the year 1867, from January to December, inclusive, were $92,279. This is, probably, a greater sum received, in the same length of time, than by any other minstrel troupe. They have never given a matinee performance in their hall, although two were advertised, but the weather was so bad on both occasions they did not perform. There are at present ten performers in the first part, as follows:--Birch and Backus on the ends, W. H. Bernard, interlocutor; Clarendon, clarinet; J. H. Williams, cornet; J. B. Donnniker, musical director and first violin; W. H. Bernard, second violin, and Fowler, violoncello; Juch, pianist; Wambold, Grier, Templeton and Fowler, quartet; Bobby Newcomb, song and dance; Cooper and Fields, cloggists; Henry Rice, female impersonator, and John Runcett, treasurer. The company gives a first-class show, and deserves the patronage bestowed upon them by the public.”