The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-02
BEAT THE PARIS FAIR
Receipts of the Columbian Expo
sitiOn May Reach S14, 100000.
Stockholders Will Get 80 Cents on the
DOllar-Midway Shows, with Their
Naughty Girls, Going to California.

CHICAGO, Nov 1.-The official figures Of
paid admissions to the worlds fair up to
Monday, the closing day, are q, 469. 461. Add
ing the number admitted on passes, the
total is swelled TO 27,53904i. 1t is con-
sidered by exposition statisticians that
these figures beat the records made at
Paris, all things considered. Paris showed
a total of 2S,149,353, but they had practical
ly no free admissions, while here over
100000 We're issued Nobody who had bust
ness Of any kind on the grounds was re-
Quired to pay. The exhibitors held month
ly passes, and did all their employees
The receipts of this exposition laid Paris
away in the shade The total receipts of
the Paris exposition were SS,3O000O. The re-
turns are not all in yet for the Worlds
Columbian Exposition, as the amount of
salvage. etc, is to be added, but the re-
ceipts will not fall short of $14,OOOO0O. Paris
sold space to her exhibitors; Chicago gave
them room free.
Chairman of the Finance Committee
Peck reports the treasury in healthy
dition. All obligations have been met, and
there is a cash balance on hand of g. $780,
600. The gate receipts from now on, and
the salvage from now on, it is figured,
will pay the current expenses until the
| end, so that the stockholders who have
| holdings representing $1,000 900, upon which
| they scarcely expected to realize any
thing, will be paid 90 cents on the dollar.
| Most of them, however, are expected to be
generous, and contribute their stock to the
Columbian Museum 1t is believed that ST.
| 0Ve,VOO of this stock will be SO donated, and
this, with the 81, 600 gift to the museum
by Marshall Field, the 100000 by George
| Nj. Pullman, and between 100000 and ST.
Uoo,VOO more that is expected from others,
| Will give the museum a working capital of
over $SOOO,OOO. The exhibits were carried
out fast to-day. The Midway was closed
| and the concessionaires are getting out in
| a hurry. Not many visitors were on the
| grounds The work of destroying the
| buildings will not be commenced for some
| time
California has captured all of the Midway
| Plaisance attractions worth having. They
| VIII be changed in form when set up on the
| west coast so that visitors who have seen
| them mere can look at them there again
and learn something. Old Vienna, for in
| stance, is to be a card at the nlidwinter
| exposition, but it won't be old Vienna
| there in name or appearance. 1t will be a
| reproduction OF a pleasure garden of Wen
| ma. The German village that has furnished
| good dinners, good beer and luncheon, with
| the best of music thrown in, will change its
| castle taking the place of the village. But
| the best effect of the midwinter street of all
| nations will be the streets of all the eastern
| countries intersecting one another. One adj
| mission will allow person to see Cairo
| street as 1t was seen here and Turkish
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earth. The most popular of the naughty
| dancing girls of the Midway are going to
| San Francisco. too. They will dance at
| some of the foreign theaters there at the
| fair grounds. Negotiations are pending be
| tween the managers of the California show
| and the Libby glass works and if that ex-
| hibit gets a concession California will have
| all, of the best attractions of Midway save
| Hagenbeck's animal show and the Ferris
] wheel. AS n substitute for the latter it is
| announced the midwinter fair is to have a
| tower 266 feet high. which will be illumi-
| mated by 5000 incandescent lights and eighty
arc lights.
Col. John w Clark manager of the
Augusta exposition, and Hugh n. Middle
| ton, of the Augusta Chronicle, and also a
| representative of the Augusta exposition,
| are laboring successfully with exhibitors
| here to bring them to their enterprise,
| which opens Nov. ii and closes Dec. Il.
| They have secured a number of exhibits
| which are going to California when GE;.. "a
is done with them Albert Shepherton's cot
| ton exhibit that was in the government
l building, which is deemed remarkably fine
by experts, has been secured by these gen.
tlemen, and it is thought that it alone will
| draw people from all sections of the South
| TO the Augusta exposition, which is the only
one to be held in the South this year. Pat
| rick Walsh, the president of the Augusta
| exposition, has been able TO draw a lot of
| prominent men there by virtue of his posi-
ton as commissioner at large from Georgia
| to the Worlds Columbian Exposition. The
national commissioners are all going there.
| Secretary of Agriculture Morton accepted
| Mr.. Walsh's invitation when here and
| NllG1 MI w dlSI Ills uulltS III
| the commission to go home he stopped at
| Washington to invite President Cleveland
and his Cabinet to Augusta.
The Ferris wheel continued to revolve to-
day despite the order of Director-general
| Davis closing all Midway attractions A
| company of Columbian guards sent TO
| the wheel to enforce the order. The man.
| ager of the big wheel refused to obey, and
one guard who attempted to take possession
| of one of the cars was elected. The man.
! ager of the wheel applied for an injunction
restraining the fair officials from interfering
| with his business.