Show nl NEW W YORK bettel LETTER R nE aurAH A NEW MUSE MUSEUM UINI N EX PENSIVE NAVAL 1 OUR DIRTY STREP E M NEW YORK jan 20 1890 itis reported on reliable authority that P T barnum is about to establish aruthor museum in this city if this is true it will bo be welcome news to our thousands of children and to many it a person who has long since passed the happy age of childhood and who can perhaps perli aps look back to tho the time whon when his hoart WAS delighted by the museum of old which tood on the cornor corner of broadway and street ae or further bac back lr stilli still when it stood whore the building now stands at broadway Broad ivay and arin ann street if present plans aro are carried out tile new museum will bo be a mu ii more extensive n flair affair than either of the old did ones and it is almost needless to say will bo be a groat great doal deal further uptown of aflato late years barnum has invariably bogun begun the circus season by a months anco in ff madison adison ji iare garden but iho lie old building has boon torn down and a now ono is being built which will unfortunately tuna tely bo be too small to nto ate barnum be besides sides ho he has had a hitch haich with chii the garden com piny and the result is ins his agents are hard at work planning 0 a now new structure tur j which will rival tho the madison square garden this will cover the block between and street and ith th and oth avenues it will have supported by te central a A 1 massachusetts man mail is said to li vo ve had bad benns beans grow on on ono 0 silk k that was w is worth caving sa v i n g for fo r raj |