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To: Greg or e who wrote (7571)	6/16/2010 9:08:49 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

LARGE LECTURE RECEIPTS His audiences on his frequent lecture tours were nearly everywhere large and enthusiastic. "Standing Room Only" was the sign often displayed at the entrance of the hall or theater where he was to speak. His lecture receipts were extraordinary. In a trip West at one time they amounted to more than fifty thousand dollars, net, in one month. Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco always gave him a warm and sympathetic welcome. Two or three thousand dollars for a single lecture was not an unusual sum received from Boston, while one great assemblage in the Auditorium at Chicago yielded exactly seven thousand and one dollars, -- the highest sum, we may well believe, ever realized for a single lecture in the history of the platform. The most thoughtful, intelligent and highly cultivated people of a community thronged to hear him. Even hearers who hesitated to accept all he said could not help admiring the way he said it, and if not convinced, never left the auditorium but in a thoughtful mood. instances were common where men and women travelled long distances to listen to his eloquent words, and one ardent admirer -- a young lawyer from Boston -- followed him thousands of miles that he might not lose an opportunity of hearing him.