90 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 



for my success. I was pleased with my brief 

 visit to this place, as my class soon swelled to 

 the number of three hundred and fifty. I here 

 formed the acquaintance of Prof. Eastman, of 

 Eastman College, who solicited me to give an 

 exhibition, on the grounds in front of his splen- 

 did mansion, to the Sabbath-school children of 

 the city. I consented, and gave an exhibition 

 which was received with delight by a multitude 

 of youth of both sexes. 



I now determined to direct my course down 

 the beautiful Hudson to the great commercial 

 emporium of the country, the city of New York. 

 There I built an academy, at a cost of nearly 

 three thousand dollars, capable of accommodat- 

 ing about four thousand persons. I opened, with 

 brilliant prospects, about the middle of October, 

 1871, and as the days rolled by I bad ample evi- 

 dence of the appreciation of my efforts in the 

 daily increase of my class, until, on the I5th of 

 January, 1872, I had the pleasure of numbering 

 on my register the handsome amount of three 



