Middletown transcript., 1893-08-05
A GOOD SHOWING
The Commissioners Make Good Show
ON the Right Side OF the Ledger for
the First Half Of the Worlds Big
Pair,


Pair.
w. D. BoycE's CORRESPONDENTS BUREAU, |
COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, August 2, 1893 ]
One-haIf of the term of the World:
Columbian Exposition is past. The build
lngs in jackson park were opened to thu
people of the world May 1st- Wednesday
July 26th. was the eighty-third open day o.
the fair and the end of the first half of the
exposition. The last day of the fair will
be October 30th. 1t will end, as it began
on Monday. Auditor William K. Acker.
man of the exposition made his first com.
plete report July 9th. This report showed
the gate receipts for the pre- exposition
period and the first two months of the ex-
position to amount 10 50, ,l2i ,6oO.76, and
the concession receipts til $500, ,006 36. The
total receipts from the date of the organi-
zation of the Exposition company to June
30th were given at $21, PSI, ,31452. Accord
ing to this report, the expenditures to June
3Oth were $2O,62O. 100. The estimated
receipts from the month of May were
$719, ,402, and the expenses S609, 1888, leaving
a balance of $10s,5l9. For the month Of
June the estimated receipts were 81, ,660, 800
and the estimated expenses only $426. 6.021,
leaving another balance Of $1.017, ,S99. AT
the present time the estimated daily ex-
penditures amount to about $15, 900, which
is materially less than for the preceding
months.
The attendance is increasing and the
directors are hopeful that the receipts will
be doubled during the next three months.
The attendance Thursday, July 27, was
1904, of which number 103651 were paid
admissions. When 10000 visitors are
present at the fair the restaurants, villages
and plaisance shows are sure to be well
patronized. When it is remembered that
rs per cent. of all money earned by these
enterprises finds its way into the exposi-
tons Golfers, it does not require skilled
mathematician to figure out the large sums
that must daily accrue from this source.
The so cent admission fee is but mere
atom from the visitors purse. There are
souvenirs to buy, meals to pay for, and
one thousand and one catchpenny arrange
ments to dodge. The most economical
visitor will spend IS nearly every day
passed at the fair. Many spend three times
that amount the first two or three days they
are here. OF course, the first glimpse of
Midway plaisance sets every fresh visitor
in futter. The newcomer does not stop
to ask questions, but produces the neces-
sary coin and passes right along in. taking
things just as they come.
There is probably no other place at the
fair where so much jolly fun can be had
for Is cents as the visitor will find in Cairo
street, Midway plaisance, just west of the
Ferris wheel. Cairo street and its several
hundred hustling Mohammedans seem to
catch the crowd at all times, morning,
e 5ening. noon or night and the wonderful
Egyptian thoroughfare is sure to be over
flowing with delighted patrons. Cairo
street is made up of native stores. candy
booths, theaters, museums, workshops, in
fact, all that one would naturally expect to
find in the real Cairo. The prevailing fad
in Cairostreet is donkey and camel riding,
and it is this pastime that attracts the null
tityde and holds them convulsed in laugh
ter until merriment positively becomes
wearisome. Husbands who at home are
no doubt as dignifed and reserved as a
methodist parson, here lose control of
and shout and applaud as their
c outrageous better-halves pass along perched
on the hump of stately old camel. Two per-
8 ons generally sit together when indulging
in a camel ride, and the anxiety exhibited
by the damosel behind, lest she slide down
underneath the camel's softly plodding
heels. is worth going hundreds of miles to
see. The donkey boys and their patient
little beasts are great favorites with the
children, and it is needless to say that the
columbus" and MARY Anderson"
are prime favorites.
The only blot on Cairo streets escutchecn
Is the performance given by the five native
dancing girls in the large theater. Having
found all else interesting and amusing, the
visitor is only too ready to complete his
tour through Cairo with an hour spent in
tbe attractive looking theatre. If the visi-
tor ia a man, ard one with strong nerve
md calloused cheek, perhaps the dancing
,f the several voluptuous young women
w;,l not have any very lamentable effects.
,ut let the same man by chance take his
\. ...-lter ~ son there. and he will
'oon feel like applying match to the whole
s;srenutable affair. Without going into