Article on the price of minstrel shows

"Current prices for minstrels shows too high: “Although minstrel entertainments are of a higher order than those of former years, they do not succeed in attracting such crowded audiences as in the olden time, when Christy’s Minstrels—under E. P. Christy’s management—succeeded in filling Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway, night after night, for several years, and that without regard to the weather.”