Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-06-22
A Month Of the Worlds Fair.

AT the close OF the first month OF tn,
Exhibition, with all the excitement o
the openeng passed away, people ar,
able to judge of it and of its success in
reasonable, intelligent way, people art
able to judge of it and of its success in ,
reasonable, intelligent way. The mos
important fact they have to refer to il
that the daily number of paying visi
tors is now just about three times a;
great as was that of the first few days
after the opening. The attendance
greatly exceeds that of the Vienna Ex
hibition, and is fast rising to the pro-
portions of the successful ones of Lon.
don and Paris. 1t is well known fact
that the numbers increase as an eXhibi.
tiOn goes on, and that the closing
months are always the most profitable;
and it may be safely calculated that in
October and November the daily aver
age of aging visitors will exceed fifty
thousand.
The experience of all that have been
in the Exhibition here is that the often
er they go, the oftener they want to see
it. They tell their friends of its Won
ders; these are in turn inspired with
the irresistabie desire to behold it, and
these, repeating "the wendrous tale" +"
again excite others. Thus there is an
ever-groWing progressive increase in
the number OF those who want and are
resolved to come to the Worlds Fair.
While things have settled down to
comparative quite at the hotels, there
is much greater number of strangers
in the city than there was three weeks
ago. There will be still greater in
crease when the tide of Southern and
Western travel, mostly composed of
summer tourists, sets in !; for these will
all come to Philadelphia, either for
brief visits, or for extended sojournS
such as they usually make at seaside or
mountain resorts.
All through the period of the eXhibi-
tion there will be SUGGESTIONS of meet
ings of National, State and other socie-
ties, each of which will bring a fresh
set of visitors. The variovs military
visitatians will attract thousand of civ
ilian attendants. Excursion parties,
from near and distant points, will be
coming every day over the leading
railroads, especially those that make
liberal arrangements for reduced fares
for such parties, as has just been done
by the Reading Railroad Company.
The greatest crowds will, of course, be
on and about the 4th of July, and we
must be prepared for such a multitude
on that particular day as has never be-
fore been assembled for any part of the
world. Those who saw the crowd at
tracted to the Bunker Hill Centennial
celebration, last year, have given us
warning that, huge as that was, there
will be infinitely more people at the
national and international observance
of the nations hundredth birth day.
The exhibition itself, on that day, will
be little considered. But the number
of paying visitors will be enormous,
and most of the strangers will remain
in town for few days, to examine the
show quietly. ALI things considered,
the people of Philadelphia and of Penn.
sylyania have reason to feel perfectly
assured of the success of the grand en-
terprise in which they have put so
much money. Hostility, abuse and
falshoods, in New York, Chicago and
st. Louis papers, have failed to hurt it.
The whole country knows that it is the
grandest exhibition ever held on this
planet, and that it is worth travelling
of miles to see and study it.
Il Philadelphia Evening Bulleton.