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Show BARNIUM'S COLORADO SCHEME, j The Great Showman Glts Xired Slowness of Hrid8eprt Bhidgepowt Co,,,!., ()t.t. i.0n the W of this month r.T.Harnnm will e0 to Colorado, where, he savs, ho will grow up with the country, "at least for a few weeks Hu bus large possessions there, and will direct the construction of several large business and public buildings. Mr. Barnum says he will throw up the sponge so far as erecting 1 any more buildings in Bridgeport S concerned. One reason which the great showman gives is that a certain sort of people who are wealthy euough themselves, but too close listed list-ed and stingy to make improvements im-provements ou their own prop-earty, prop-earty, are always ready .to take advantage ad-vantage of any chance to better themselves them-selves at Barnum's expeuse. Mr. Barnum Bar-num says he has had to tight these old fogies here more than fortv wars; that whenever he has opened nevv streets he has had to pay damages to those whoso land was benefited as much as his own and increased in value. He cannot even give a piece of land to the city without some landholder making capital cap-ital out of the gift by claiming that Barnum Bar-num thereby enhances the value of his own possessions. Mr. Burnmu has already al-ready presented a large corner lot iu the center of the city to the scientific and historical societies, and it is supposed sup-posed that he has provided for the erection of a large and useful building, plans for which have already been submitted sub-mitted to the donor. Mr. Barnum will retain his residence at Marina, near Seaside park, and ihe winter quarters of the greatest show on earth will remain here for the present. Future investments of any size will be made in the west, however, and if Mr. Barnum lives another score of years, which is not at all unlikely, considering his health and habits, he may yet realize real-ize greatly on his Colorado schemes. |