Show A GREAT SURPRISE IN STORE PT Barnum Will Erect a lingo Building for the Presentation of Spectacular Pieces Special to TIE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK Jan iLThe great and only Barnum in connection with his partner has another surprise far the public It was known only to a few persons that just previous to starting for Europe he expended ex-pended over one hundred thousand dollars in cash for the purchase of such spectacular spectacu-lar plays a The Fall of Babylon The Conquest of Mexico Nero or The Fall of Rome and others in fact buying all the plays of that kind in the country In order to successfully produce them an immense im-mense building was necessary with a stage not less than five hunired feet Ling All this winter the firms agent in this cit has been hard at work looking up a suitable suit-able site for the erection of a building aua he finally found one that suited at Eighty sixth street Eighth and Ninh street 700x900 feet and arrangements are now under way for the erection of the building |