Show GRAND CRAND OPERA HOUSE I I OF oi NEW YORK SOLD I NEW EW YORK May Mav 21 The t. The famous lamous old Grand opera house at Twenty third third tre street t and aud Ei Eighth avenue emie has been soM t b by the tho executors of the tho Jay lav Gould 1 PS- PS I tate to td tt a company specially formed forme-d to p purchase it for Cor a stated value of 1 I Many memories of Jav Jay Gould and Jim JIm F Fisk lisk ak are linked with th the famous i theater It was here bere- that Jay Jav Gould Goulda a and d flak FUk took refu refuge from the mobs on OD clack lack Friday in m 1873 In the build build- iq is a D vault of heavy vy masonry ox ox- tending lending from the tho basement to the roof t tie the e floors floora of ot which aro are reached by bJ a narrow circular stairway in tho stones S. task mid said that he and Jay Gould GO eon con concealed on sealed themselves in tins this v vault when I the infuriated crowd attacked their the offices of of- floes in Wall Vall street I One of the boxes in in the tho t theater is is known as RS the Gould box and is kept I locked It seats from twenty to thirty persons but has never been ot occupied lI except b by members of the Gould family |