. The city of Troy and its vicinity. th-out coming away, if not better, atleast a wiser person. Birds and beastsof every description are ranged aroundthe rooms, from the smallest hummingbird to the American eagle, and fromthe monkey to the rhinoceros. Wewere particularly pleased with thedifferent specimens of the flamingo,some of them most perfect, both inform and color. Minerals, fossils, andshells, rare, curious, and in greatabundance; strange fish, crocodiles,and a creature called the duck-billed 158 patibus are among the wonderful; wife of the manager, taking the role while of the beautifu
. The city of Troy and its vicinity. th-out coming away, if not better, atleast a wiser person. Birds and beastsof every description are ranged aroundthe rooms, from the smallest hummingbird to the American eagle, and fromthe monkey to the rhinoceros. Wewere particularly pleased with thedifferent specimens of the flamingo,some of them most perfect, both inform and color. Minerals, fossils, andshells, rare, curious, and in greatabundance; strange fish, crocodiles,and a creature called the duck-billed 158 patibus are among the wonderful; wife of the manager, taking the role while of the beautiful, the cosmoramic of Topsy. The play had a contin- views are the most lovely things we uous run of 150 nghts in Troy,have seen. * * * Take it all in A larger play-house being desired, all, we have no hesitation in saying a number of capitalists organized the that our museum, in point of beauty Troy Dramatic Building Association, neatness, and elegance, is second to and erected, in 1855, on the none. site of the Griswold Opera House,. DIAGRAM OF GRISWOLD OPERA HOUSE. The different concerts and dramatic Nos. 10 and 12 Third Street, the thea-performances given nightly, excepting tre known as the Troy Adelphi, seat-Sunday, and on Saturday afternoon, ing 1,400 people. The stage had amade the museum for many years a depth of 42 feet. The drop curtain,popular place of entertainment, painted by Edward Hayes of the Uncle Toms Cabin, as a play, was Boston Theatre, displayed a picture offirst presented on the stage of the mu- the Lake of Geneva, Switzerland,seum, Mrs. George C. Howard, the The Adelphi was opened on Monday 159 night, October 22, 1855, with the pre-sentation of Loves Sacrifice, or theRival Merchants. The last perform-ance, Peep ODay, was given onSaturday night, September 13, the morning of October 10, 1862,a few minutes before i oclock, thethe theatre was discovered on fire,and was quickly burned. Griswold Hall, named in honor ofJohn A. Griswold, was built on thesit
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