The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-10-21

July (twenty-six days. ........... 36,6lS
August (twenty-seyen days)..". 908,G84
September (twcnty-six days. ~, 1870, 1891
Oct. I'd to l4th (twelve days)... 971 SOC
Total paying visitors for 1876 days 5 ,722, 44S
The non-paying admissions for
same time, including exhibit
tors, attendants, workmen, la
borers, officers, &C., were......1 1862 ,629
Total admissions 1876 days..,.7, 0S5,O
Now let US make some comparisons.
At the Vienna Exhibition, the most re-
cent instance, the roster Of visitors for the
whole period of one hundred and eighty.
six days, the Exhibition having been kept
open there on Sunday, shows the follow
ing totals:
Total pay admissions (Yienna,)
l96 days ...........",........3, 492, 622
Total non-paying admissions. --.3, PAT 1873
Aggregate admissions ofall kinds G, 74O 500
Some Of the non-paying admissions we're
very cheap tickets to exhibitors atten-
dants. From these figures it will be seen
that the pay admissions to the Centennial
Exhibition for the 1876 days it has been
open already exceed the whole number of
pay admissions to the Yiena Exhibition
during 1876 days by no less number than
2,229,S26. 1t will also be observed that
the proportion of non-paying admissions
to the paying visitors at the Centennial is
far less than at the Vienna Exhibition.
For the other Exhibitions, unfortunate
ly, We have not the same data to make
comparisons with, as the aggregate num-
bor of visitors only is given in the reports
We have at hand, without discriminating
between the real or paying visitors and
the admissions of exhibitors, attendants,
workmen, officers and others, who were
present in the performance of duty or SER
vice from day to day. But the whole
number of all kinds who attended the
London Exhibition of 1851 was G, 039, 1876
in al days. Our Exhibition already ex-
ceeds that by more than million. The
aggregate admissions of all kinds to the
Paris Exhibition of 1855 was 5,162, $3.50
in 200 days. Our admissions already ex-
coed that by nearly two millions The
aggregate numbers of all kinds attending
the London Exhibition of 1862 were g.
2l1, JOB in III days Our pay admis-
sions alone are within less than half mil
lion of those figures now, and our aggre-
gate exceeds it by nearly million.
At the Paris Exhibition Of 1867 the
whole number of admissions of all kinds
was reported at s,SO5, 1859, during a period
of 2l7 days. The Centennial admissions
for 1876 days are 7,0S5,077, of which, as
before stated, 5,722, AS were OF paying
visitors There seems to be no reasonable
room for doubt that the returns for the
twenty-five remaining Exhibition days
after October ii will add million and
threc-quarters to the aggregate of paying
visitors, and quarter Of million to the
others, thus making over nine millions in
all for l5S days Sundays excluded, J
against the S,805,969 for Paris in PIT
days, Sundays included And so again we
may state the fact that there has never
been any such movement of numbers at
any International Exhibition in the same
space of time as that which has marked
the Centennial,
This movement will appear the more
striking when we invite attention to an
other fact, viz: that the aggregate popula-
ton within seven days travel of the Cen.
tennial Exhibition does not exceed forty
five millions, whilst the aggregate popula-
ton within seven days travel of either of
the other great Exhibitions was not far
short of two hundred millions The only
estimates made in the foregoing statements
relate to the twenty-five Exhibition days,
the returns of which are yet to come. The
"probabilities" as to these are based on the
following returns of the acreage daily mum
Der Of pay admissions month by month, as
the fame of the Exhibition has grown
among the people:
In May the average daily number
was. ........................ 1896
In June the average daily number
was. ........................ 26,756
In July the average daily number
was. ...........,..... .............. 24,4s1
In August the average daily num-
Der Observation-Disclosures. 1860
In September the average daily
number was. ...................... s1,961
In October Ito 14th) the average
daily number was. ............. S0,967
1t was the tremendous Pennsylvania Day
in September that raised the daily average
of that month above the October average.
Excluding that the daily average of the
twelve days of the present month is greater
than any in the very extraordinary expe-
rience of the Centennial Exhibition. In
its pecuniary results the Centennial already
largely exceeds those of any Exhibition
yet held. The greatest return was at the
London Exhibition of 1851, viz 81
121 ,61O the next at Paris, in 1867, when
it was so, 103,677. The cash receipts for
gate money during the past 136 days Of
the Centennial, to October 14th, were
81, 6S6, 6O375.-Phila. Ledger, Oct. IS.