From the Total Receipts of Ninety-five Concerts $712,161 34 Deduct the receipts of the first two, which, as between P. T. Barnum and Jenny Lind, were aside from the contract, and are not numbered in the Table 32,067 08 ----------- Total Receipts of Concerts from No. 1 to No. 93 $680,094 26 Deduct the receipts of the 28 Concerts, each of which fell short of $5,500 $123,311 15 Also deduct $5,500 for each of the remaining 65 Concerts 357,500 00 480,811 15 ----------- ---------- Leaving the total excess, as above $199,283 11 Being equally divided, Miss Lind’s portion was $99,641 55 I paid her $1,000 for each of the 93 Concerts 93,000 00 Also one half the receipts of the first two Concerts 16,033 54 ----------- Amount paid to Jenny Lind $208,675 09 She refunded to me as forfeiture, per contract, in case she withdrew after the 100th Concert $25,000 She also paid me $1,000 each for the seven Concerts relinquished 7,000 32,000 00 ------- ----------- JENNY LIND’S net avails of 95 Concerts $176,675 09 P. T. BARNUM’S gross receipts, after paying Miss Lind 535,486 25 ----------- TOTAL RECEIPTS of 95 Concerts $712,161 34 PRICE OF TICKETS.--The highest prices paid for tickets were at auction as follows:--John N. Genin, in New York, $225; Ossian E. Dodge, in Boston, $625; Col. William C. Ross, in Providence, $650; M. A. Root, in Philadelphia, $625; Mr. D’Arcy, in New Orleans, $240; a keeper of a refreshment saloon in St. Louis, $150; a Daguerrotypist, in Baltimore, $100. I cannot now recall the names of the last two. After the sale of the first ticket, the premium usually fell to $20, and so downward in the scale of figures. The fixed price of tickets ranged from $7 to $3. Promenade tickets were from $2 to $1 each. CHAPTER XXIII. OTHER ENTERPRISES.