CHAPTER X.
BARNUM'S CONNECTION WITH THE JEROME CLOCK CO .-- CAUSES AND RESULTS OF ITS FAILURE.
The connection of Barnum with the Jerome Manufacturing Company of New Haven, and the failure of the Company have been the subject of much speculation to the whole world, and has never been clearly understood.
Barnum claimed that he was cheated and swindled by this company, robbed of his property and name, and reduced to poverty.

But before giving any statements, I call attention to the following article taken from the New York Daily _Tribune_, of March 24th, 1860: THE GREAT SHOWMAN .-- P.T.

Barnum, "the great American showman," as he loves to hear himself called, who furnishes more amusement for a quarter of a dollar than any other man in America, is, we are happy to announce, himself again.

He has disposed of the last of those villainous clock notes, re-established his credit up on a cash basis, and once more comes forward to cater for the public amusement at the American museum.

To day, between the acts of the play, Mr.Barnum will appear upon his own stage, in his own costly character of the Yankee Clockmaker, for which he qualified himself, with the most reckless disregard of expense, and will "give a brief history of his adventures as a clockmaker, showing how the clock ran down, and how it was wound up; shadowing forth in the same the future of the museum." Of course, Barnum's benefit will be a bumper.