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torenoon.I he afternoon could not have'teen more forbidding.The rain that begun in the nigit continued all the morning, and gave the lie to tjHa old saying, “if it rains before 19 it will atop before fore u, nor at 12, nor at any other time before the hour for beginning the matinee. Any ordinary enterprise would have succumbed to the Inclement elements, andwould have surrendered all hope of success,Hut the festival is not an ordinary enterprise. It has interested toe many people to lie allowed to dwindleon account of rain. It moves on by virtue of its own momentum. No letter proof of its hold on the public is wanted than the very largo attendance yesterday afternoon, There must have been two thousand fivehundred people in the house, besides the performers, \ Such an audience could hardly have boon called together for any other purpose under tkfi circum-ft '- fTbe^rain was unkind? to Mr. Whitney. Hl» aolo ^Bolina tft jtotmiug billows,*’ was quite imperfectly 4 heard on account of theuoiee of the pouring shower on the roof. At the tluael(\tbe ante, many who were seated in the haU omcs left their places, and took seats . in the lower part el the hall, where the noise on the roof was not so plainly heard. But the force of the •bower abated after this, and the enjoyment of the
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Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, May 08, 1873
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