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Show and the icceipts from the lecture were $14,763. On the other hand Alexander Graham Bell used to lecture for $25 a night in schoolhouses and the struggling Inventor was glad enough of the fee. STANLEY'S EXPLOITS No explorer before or since has approached the harvest that Henry M. Stanley reaped (says a wri'ter in the New York Sun), and no man of letters, let-ters, soldiers, or scholar has had such a single lecture tour as Stanley's greatest. In something like ten big cities he received $2,000 for his first appearance. For the first night in another group of cities he received $1,000 and in still another group $500. Traveling In a special car upon which he lived in most places, and accompanied by four or five guests, he ended the tour with $64.-000 $64.-000 clear of all expenses.. For that first night In New York a charity paid Stanley's agent $5,000 |