In concluding this brief resumé of the last year’s events, I would seem ungrateful did I fail to acknowledge my heartfelt thankfulness to the public and the press, for the generous and unqualified expressions of sympathy on account of the great calamity of December 24th. Editors throughout the United States and Europe have written of this conflagration, and of those which preceded it, and have attributed to me a degree of perseverance I fear beyond my deserts. If the fiery ordeal has had any visible effect, it has been to increase my desire to identify my name with a class of entertainments at once moral, amusing and instructive. Colossal as was the Great Travelling World’s Fair of 1872, that of 1873 will surpass it.
With full confidence in that just discrimination which recognizes and rewards true merit, I remain, as ever, the public’s obedient servant.
P. T. B.
February, 1873.
| Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: |
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| MONSTER JULIEN CONCERTS=> MONSTER JULLIEN CONCERTS {pg 18} |
| EMS AND WEISBADEN=> EMS AND WIESBADEN {pg 20} |
| GUILLADEU=> GUILLAUDEU {pg 21} |
| A TERIBLE DUEL BETWEEN BENTON AND BIBBINS=> A TERRIBLE DUEL BETWEEN BENTON AND BIBBINS {pg 38} |
| the opporunity for a practical joke=> the opportunity for a practical joke {pg 61} |
| all such occacasions=> all such occasions {pg 399} |
| By using my microsope=> By using my microscope {pg 449} |
| road runs to the beatiful=> road runs to the beautiful {pg 554} |
| offered for a singe admission=> offered for a single admission {pg 603} |
| which ber bulky frame=> which her bulky frame {pg 644} |
| the oldest man, the fatest=> the oldest man, the fattest {pg 646} |
| tolerably glowing counnance=> tolerably glowing countenance {pg 688} |
| my meed of praise=> my need of praise {pg 468} |
| thoroughly indentified=> thoroughly identified {pg 468} |
| bowed, which salutatation=> bowed, which salutation {pg 850} |
| prospect of the the “Celestials”=> prospect of the “Celestials” {pg 851} |
| in in days gone by=> in days gone by {pg 861} |
| attrractive features=> attractive features {pg 863} |
| the interest of the the exhibition=> the interest of the exhibition {pg 863} |