Thomas Popular Garden Concert

“The Central Park Garden concerts have been exceedingly well patronized during the past week, and there is likely to be no falling off in the attendance for many weeks to come. With an attractive programme, a good orchestra and other inducements ‘too numerous to mention,’ it would indeed be strange if perspiring crowds did not flock there every night.”

“The Central Park Garden continues as popular as ever, and on the warm evenings it is crowded by thousands of people who evidently appreciate the excellent music furnished by Theodore Thomas’s orchestra. In view of the great success of the garden, it is a wonder that the experiment was not tried several years earlier. The proprietors ought to make fortunes out of their enterprise, and it would not be surprising if they were obliged before long to add to the large space they have already enclosed for the accommodation of the public. The railway companies ought to increase the facilities for coming down town [sic] at the close of the entertainments, so that there would be less delay and less crowding into the cars. From 10:30 o’clock until an hour later the cars should leave at least once a minute, and thus employ some of the many cars that nightly stand empty near the stables.”