The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-05-13
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Gate Receipts Opening Day-The Rush
Abates and There Is Plenty OF Room.

The special correspondent of the
San Francisco Examiner gives the fol-
lowing information relative to the
Worlds Fair:
The Bureau of Admissions report
Mondays attendance: Total number
persons passed the gate was 2S6, 40,
of whom III, 100 presented pay daily
tickets, %, 900 souvenir tickets, and
139, 300 had passes. This would make
the cash receipts represent about $751;
400. If every day be as good as Mon
day, the fair would take in about $13,-
600, 900 at the gate, or half a million
more than was subscribed in stock and
subsidy by Chicago. Then current
expenses must be deducted, and they
are enormous. The useless and ignor-
ant Columbian Guard costs So, 800 per
day alone.
But the financial success of the fair
does not depend on the gate receipts.
All the special privileges except the
photographing pay from 55 to 65 per
cent of their receipts to the fair, and
the income from that source will be
enormous. Some of the specialties
will be disappointed, because no mat
ter how large the crowd, it will never
be big enough to make business large
for all of them. The restaurant man
intends to get rich in hurry. His
prices are high, and Commissioner De
Young told me to-day that the food
supplied was the worst he had ever
eaten. The $125, 900 peanuts man is
forced to sell his fruit ready shelled,
and no one wants to buy peanuts when
the pleasure of cracking them and
throwing the shells on the gound is
eliminated.
THE PROPHETS BEARD MALIGNED.
!, The barbaric tribes down Midway
Plaisance, as it should be called, in
stead of Midway, are cursing the beard
of the prophet and quarreling because
trade is slack AS Mr.. Levy, who
manages the Turks, remarked: "What
with Buffalo Bill outside and the big
free shows inside the grounds there is
very poor picking for us.
Still it is too early to speak of the
success of anything. If the fair is a
loss, Chicago need not care, for in
South Chicago alone the assessed value
of property has increased $40, 900, 900
since the work began. The fair itself
covers more than a square mile, and
on five square miles around it a great
city of 80, 900 has arisen. The no.
900 employees admission tickets taken
in on Monday tell what the fair has
done and is doing for Chicago.
The weather was fine to-day and the
buildings, bright with bunting, looked
beautiful, but the confusion inside of
them is as great as it was week ago.
Nothing is complete. California is all
right, save for the absence of a COM
plete roof and exhibits.
THE RUSH ABATEs.
A strange thing has happened, and
Unexpectedly. The rush to Chicago
has not only ceased, but there is fall
ing off in the numbers. The bad
weather and the reports sent out of the
backward state of the fair have kept
people from coming. The swell and
we'll known hotels are full, of course,
bnt the places put up for the occasion
are empty. One house that got rid of
all it's regular boarders to secure big
prices from World Fair trade is with
out customer. There is oceans of
room in the city, and, except in few
places that have the call, prices have
adjusted themselves through competi-
ton. An agency reports 175, 900 va
can't rooms in hotels and lodging houses
alone. The nice restaurants are busy,
but are not overcrowded. The walters
had strike to-day. and in some houses
won, and in others lost. They de-
mand So per day in one class, and So so
in another. Breslin of the Auditorium
gave in at an early hour. The walters
say they felt that he was making
money, and they wanted their share.
He said he would give them $6 day
if they would agree to punch all their
tins and tllrn them over tn him Thew