{"id":234,"date":"2023-07-16T15:52:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=234"},"modified":"2023-07-16T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:54:01","slug":"ferdinand-palmo-and-italian-opera-in-new-york-published-sep-11-1881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/ferdinand-palmo-and-italian-opera-in-new-york-published-sep-11-1881\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferdinand Palmo and Italian Opera in New York [published Sep. 11, 1881]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/palmosoperahouse.jpg?resize=199%2C191&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-235\" width=\"199\" height=\"191\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The recent death of that \u201cprince of caterers,\u201d as he was called, Lorenzo Delmonico, brings up naturally the remembrance of another \u201cprince of caterers\u201d of old New York, who, more ambitious than Delmonico, became the father of Italian opera in this city, and also its first martyr. Everybody nowadays knows Maretzek and Gye and Mapleson, but almost everybody has forgotten poor old Palmo. Yet a generation ago he was the leadin\u2019 restaurateur of New York, and went down to posterity (and poverty) as the founder of Palmo&#8217;s Opera House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Palmo was an odd character and in his time filled quite a place in old New York. I met him once or twice, in the decline of his days, but found the old fellow, if not as enthusiastic as he had been ten or twenty years previously, at least almost as cheerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Palmo was a genuine child of Italy, bein\u2019 born in Naples, where the opera is as much of an institution as the macaroni and the lazzaroni. He had heard a good deal of America, and how everybody could make a fortune here in anywhere from&nbsp; five months to five years, startin\u2019, if they were Dutch, on a pound of cheese and a barrel of beer; or if they were Italians, on a hand organ and a monkey. So he came over to America at the age of twenty-five or thereabouts, and opened a store in Richmond, Virginia. He did pretty well there, but having heard so much about New York, where money seemed to grow in the streets, he pushed to Gotham after the dollars. To catch \u2018em he opened a candy store on Broadway near Fulton street, but his confectionery scheme didn&#8217;t succeed at all. People, for some reason or other, didn&#8217;t take to his bonbons, and he was obliged to suck his own candy. So he put back to \u201cOle Virginny\u201d again, where he married and settled. And, if he had only kept settled there, he would have probably have been a well-to-do and independent man all his life. But some people never know to leave well enough alone. They are like the man who desired to be engraved on his tombstone, \u201cI was well. I wanted to be better, and here I lie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Palmo once more came to New York and went into business once more, but on a bigger scale. He opened a saloon or cafe, fixed it up very elegantly, and gave it a first-class foreign name\u2013\u201dCafe des Milles Colonnes.\u201d It was at the corner of Broadway and Reade street, a tip-top location then as now, and he soon made a lot of money\u2013made up in his second venture in Gotham all he had sunk in his first, and was thousands ahead. He was the Delmonico of his time, and was personally very popular. If he had only now stayed where he was, and attended to his own legitimate business, he would have lived comfortably and died rich. But he made another venture. He opened a big saloon on Chambers street, and havin\u2019 done well with it a while, he conceived the idea that New York was destined to be what the papers nowadays call \u201ca great musical centre,\u201d and that the first man who should put it in the way of fulfillin\u2019 its manifest destiny would not only get lots of glory, but lots of money besides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/palmo.jpg?resize=260%2C282&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ferdinand Palmo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After thinkin\u2019 the matter over day and night till he got kind of crazy on it, he made up his mind that he was to be this \u201cfirst man,\u201d this first fellow to help New York to fulfill its musical fate. So all the money he could get a hold of, all the savin\u2019s of his years of toil, and all the money he could borrow from his friends, over $75,000 in all, was \u201csunk\u201d in fitting up his Chambers street saloon as an opera house and gettin\u2019 an expensive company to open the new place, which he called \u201cPalmo&#8217;s Opera House.\u201d The papers sang his praises, of course, and the deadheads said there was no man like him. A few swell families took stock in the new opera house, but the people kind of gave the new concern the go-by. New York wasn&#8217;t quite big enough yet or ripe enough yet for Italian opera, and although Palmo may have been the comin\u2019 man, he certainly came too soon, which is almost as bad as comin\u2019 too late; some think worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Palmo&#8217;s Opera House was opened in fine style in the beginning of February with a tremendous crowd, the opera bein\u2019 the splendid one of <em>I Puritani<\/em>. There was plenty of cheerin\u2019 and clappin\u2019 and claquin\u2019, and the press notices were immense, and they were not \u201ccooked,\u201d either. For a week or so it looked as if Palmo had really stumbled on \u201ca big thing,\u201d but pretty soon the enthusiasm died away, and Palmo was left to struggle on with his opera and his opera house as best he could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He struggled bravely for three seasons, then his opera house yielded up the ghost, because in stage slang \u201cthe ghost couldn&#8217;t walk\u201d any longer, and it&#8217;s manager became a bankrupt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There never was a manager in the whole history of New York who from first to last meant better or worked harder than this Ferdinand Palmo\u2013not even Max Maretzek. And yet he had worse luck than even Maretzek, for Max managed to save somethin\u2019 from the wreck, and has, I believe and hope, a place to call his own on Staten Island somewhere. But poor Palmo when he threw up the sponge was an utter bankrupt; not worth a hundred dollars in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He was a pretty old man by this time, too, nearly sixty-five years of age, and pretty well played out and discouraged; so his future looked blank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But a few of the friends of his better days stuck to him still\u2013only a few, but enough to start him once more in a \u201chotel.\u201d But the old man had lost head as well as heart by this time, and he couldn&#8217;t \u201ckeep a hotel\u201d any more, nor could the hotel keep him. So he gave up the hotel to his \u201cbackers\u201d and, like the true, sensible man he was at bottom still (all exceptin\u2019 his musical madness), he put his pride in his pocket (it was about the only thing he had to put in his pocket just then) and called upon a sport he had once known, a man called Chris Williams, who kept an eatin\u2019 saloon called the Waverly, at the corner of Fourth street and Broadway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This Chris Williams was somethin\u2019 of an oddity and though pretty tough in his ways, was at heart a real good fellow, \u201cwhich nobody will deny.\u201d He had made quite a success out of the Waverly, and had acquired quite a reputation for servin\u2019 exquisite dishes. Well, Palmo called upon Williams and asked him for a place in his establishment. Williams thought, of course, Palmo wanted to become superintendent or manager of the place, and told him that he (Williams) always intended to be his own manager and superintendent. \u201cThat is all right,\u201d said Palmo,&nbsp; \u201cbut I do not wish the position of manager. I have managed it a great deal too much already.\u201d \u201cWell, then,\u201d asked Williams in surprise, \u201cwhat on earth can I do for you? What other position do you want in my place?\u201d \u201cI want to be your cook,\u201d said Palmo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This proposition almost took Williams\u2019s breath away. The idea of the celebrated manager of Italian opera in New York becomin\u2019 the cook of a New York restaurant. And yet, why not? All good Italians were good cooks. Palmo had kept a saloon himself, and knew all about it. Besides, the very fact of having Palmo for his cook would attract some curiosity, and be a good advertisement for William&#8217;s place. And then it would be a charitable and decent thing to do to give an enterprisin\u2019, well-known, unfortunate old man a support in his declining years. So Williams agreed to Palmo&#8217;s proposition and the ex-manager of Italian opera entered at once upon his culinary duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He put on his white apron and his white cap and went about the Waverly next day as if he had been cook there from childhood. He never played the \u201cseen better days\u201d dodge. He never went round the place murmurin\u2019 over the past or howlin\u2019 over the present. Nor, on the other hand, did he hide himself from the public gaze, as if he was a leper. No; he behaved like a first-class old fellow, and while he worked well he enjoyed himself in his spare times, when he had any, and if anybody got to talkin\u2019 with him about Italian opera, why he would let \u2018em talk, that was all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I really think he was more of a man, and showed more stuff in him as Chris Williams\u2019s cook then he did as the director of Italian opera at Palmo&#8217;s Opera House. Anybody can be a manager, but everybody can&#8217;t be a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Williams and Palma became sincerely attached to each other, but Williams one day did what all men do\u2013some time or other, because they can&#8217;t help it\u2013he died. This broke up the old \u201cWaverly,\u201d and left Palmo nearly seventy-five years old, unable to do much work, and without a dollar or a situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It was a cruel position for a man who had spent a fortune in tryin\u2019 to give New York a new and noble amusement, but it brought the amusement people out strong, and showed one of their best points\u2013their kindness to each other in distress. An association was formed to create what was called a Palmo fund; each member of this association paid only a mere trifle to the fund, only a dollar a month, but altogether it made a comfortable yearly support to poor, old Palmo, who lived gratefully upon it till his eighty-eighth year, when his fund and his troubles ceased together, and he was buried in Greenwood Cemetery\u2013a warnin\u2019 to managers, and a martyr to music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The recent death of that \u201cprince of caterers,\u201d as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,50,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurs","category-opera","category-restaurants"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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