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Show A THfiATEffSLAST DAY. A Farewell Performance in the Brook-lyu Brook-lyu Building Well Attended. At-tended. STANLEY GIVEN A BANQUET. Special News From All Parts of the World Carefully Compiled. Com-piled. BifwiaY.Y. X. y., Juno 2.-Spocial. Tliis, tlio last day of the history oT the Brooklyn theater, was commemorated by a farewell performance this afternoon after-noon hy Richard Manslield. who brought his company over from New York to present "A Parisian Romance." This evening a performance of "Lou-1 doc Assurance" w ill lie given with Rose Couglan as Lady Gay .Spanker. The old theater which for nearly twetity-one twetity-one years has occupied the silo at Washington and Johnson streets was crowded at the arternoon performance. Many who were .unable to obtain even statidiug room stood on the sidewalks ami took a last look at the old structure. struc-ture. Tomorrow morning the work of tearing down the bin ding will begin. On its site w ill be elected a building for the Brooklyn Eagle. Tho building doomed to destruction is associated in the minds of American play-goers with the most awful disaster iu s'tago anuals in this country. The Conways opened it with Biumcr's "Money" in October, 1871, and held the management for four years. When Conways died Theodore Moss took the theater." and he was succeeded- by Shook & rainier, who remained re-mained in possession until December .", liWtt. This was the date of the terrible disaster. The curtain had risen that night on the last act. of the "Two Orphans" Or-phans" when Kate C'laxton, who was playing the leading - part, heard the actors behind the curtain exclaim ex-claim "the. theater is on lire." The flames spread rapidly and the alarm soon spread to the gallery. gal-lery. Then began a frightful struggle for life. Consternation spread through the audience, and men ,and women trampled upon each other in their efforts ef-forts to escape. Those iu tho gallery were wedged in the narrow stairway leading to the street, and the police closed this exit to shut olf tho draught, not knowing the passage was choked with struggling victims. These were speedily suffocated with smoke, ami the roof fell in and the stairs gave way beneath be-neath them Two of the actors, Henry S. Murdoek and Claudo J. Burraighs, were burned to death in trying to save their wardrobes. . Tho next day, w hen the fury of tho fire had spent itself, piles of bodies were recovered from the ruins. Two hundred and ninety-five persons arc knowu to have perished in the flames, and of this number less than 100 could bo identified. On .Saturday a public fuiicral took place, with the city authorities in the procession. The unknown un-known were buried in one grave hi Greenwood cemetery, and tho city erected a handsome monument above them. The ruins of the theater stood undisturbed for two years. The present pres-ent building was then erected, and was opened October 4, 187t, as Havcrly's theater. Among those who have played at tho Brooklyn theater, during its nineteen years of existence, are Edwin Booth, Clara Morris. John McCullnugh, Joseph Jefferson, Mrs. Lnugtry, Kate C'laxton, C. W. Couldock, Dion Bouci-cault, Bouci-cault, and the Florences. |