Event Information

Venue(s):
P.T. Barnum's Hippodrome

Price: $.50; $.25 children under nine

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 January 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Nov 1873, All Day
04 Nov 1873, All Day
05 Nov 1873, All Day
06 Nov 1873, All Day
07 Nov 1873, All Day
08 Nov 1873, All Day

Program Details

As per New York Herald: “Open at all hours, from 12 M. [sic] to 10 P.M.”

Monday was to benefit “the afflicted people of Memphis,” but the aid was declined by a gentleman who telegraphed from Memphis (see New York Post citations).

Also billed as “P. T. Barnum’s Great Show” and “Barnum’s Museum, Menagerie, and Grand Double Circus.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 31 October 1873, 2.

Notes Memphis benefit on Monday.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 01 November 1873, 2.

“Mr. Vincent Collyer, having telegraphed from Memphis, Tenn., that no more aid for the sufferers there was needed from New York, and Mr. Jessup, president of the Young Men’s Christian Association, of this city, having consequently declined the offer extended by Mr. Barnum, of the entire gross receipts of an entertainment to have been given next Monday, the benefit is therefore indefinitely postponed.”

3)
Announcement: New York Post, 03 November 1873, 2.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 03 November 1873, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 November 1873, 9.

Two cards on the same page, the second of which contains this special announcement: “To accommodate the thousands who throng the mammoth Hippodrome…arrangements have been completed with the Western Union Telegraph Company for connecting the wires, and opening an office at a convenient location in the main pavilion on election night, November 4. Complete returns will be bulletined in full view of the audience simultaneously with their appearance at Printing House Square.”