[12b] He died in 1872.
[12c] Boase’s Biog. Dict., s.v.; Blanchard’s Life, ii., p. 472 f.; Sala in Daily Telegraph, August 7, 1894; Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette, March 22, 1889.
[14a] G. L. Banks, Blondin (1862), p. 85.
[14b] A married woman named Powell, who called herself ‘Madame Geneive (sic), the Female Blondin,’ was killed by falling from the rope on July 20, 1863, at Aston Park, Birmingham. The occasion was a Forester’s fête, and she was paid £15. The incident was a particularly shocking one, for the rope is said to have been old and decayed, and the poor woman, for certain reasons, ought to have been anywhere at the time rather than on the tight-rope.
[15] Under Ellis in 1849 there had been a less elaborate ‘Eglinton Tournament’ managed by Batty, of Astley’s.
[16a] A good account in Illustrated London News for July 18, 1863, apparently by Sala; also Illustrated Times of same date. In 1864 Smith gave a monster Belgian fête to the members of the Garde civique of Belgium. On the afternoon of July 14, 1866, there was a pretty juvenile fête, during which a number of miniature balloons were sent up to please the children.
[16b] Some other entertainments during Smith’s management were: 1861, the graceful gymnast Leotard on five trapezes, in the Ashburnham Hall. March, 1863, dog-show in the Ashburnham Hall. This hall was also used for trotting matches and for wrestling and sports on Good Friday, 1865. 1868, Madame Pereira, gymnast.
[16c] G. Bryan, Chelsea (1869), p. 169; Walford, Old and New London, v. 86. In July, 1864, Eugène Godard’s huge Montgolfier balloon ascended from Cremorne, and came down in the East Greenwich marshes. It was heated by air, there being in the centre of the car a stove filled with rye-straw compressed into blocks. An earlier London ascent of a Montgolfier balloon took place at the Surrey Zoological Gardens (see infra). For Godard’s balloon, see Illustrated London News for July 30, 1864; Coxwell, My Life, second series, p. 207 f., with picture of the balloon. In August, 1865, Delamarne’s sailing balloon, L’Espérance, was shown. It was about 200 feet long, and had screw propellers and a rudder set in motion by machinery.
[17] Burnand’s burlesque, Black-eyed Susan, was one of the entertainments under Baum.
[18] Now Sydney Street.