Editing Tony Pastor (section)

=== Death ===
Tony Pastor died in [[Elmhurst, Queens|Elmhurst, Queens County]], New York, on August 26, 1908, and was interred in the [[Cemetery of the Evergreens]] in [[Brooklyn]].  He was 71, and though greatly mourned at his death as one of the last gentlemen of the early vaudeville halls, the medium had passed him by with the advent of the vaudeville circuit in the 1880s.  Pastor had remained a local showman in an epoch that increasingly came to be dominated by regional and national chains.  Fighting against the monopolies for the rights of individual local showmen was an undertaking that marked the last years of his life, earning him the nickname of "Little Man Tony".