The People’s Palace at the East Eod, one of the results of Besant’s well-known novel, * All Sorts and Conditions of Men,’ is in a hopeless state of financial embarrassment. The large funds furnished to the management have been spent with great recklessness, to say no more, and unless some of the city companies come to the rescue—they have already given largely—there must be a disastrous collapse. We have (says the London correspondent of the ‘ Argus ’) yet to hear who are to blame for compromising a most promising experiment. The palace started with a sum of nearly LIOO,OOO in the bank, but there was mo permanent endowment/ ahd on title rook it has been shipwrecked, or near It.
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Evening Star, Volume 8505, Issue 8505, 2 May 1891, Page 4
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117Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Volume 8505, Issue 8505, 2 May 1891, Page 4
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