The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-08-10
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Correspondence of TIE RECORD.

Columbian Exposition is passed. The
buildings in Jackson Park were opened
to the people of the world May |.
Wednesday, July &c, was the eighty
third open day of the fair and the end
of the first half of the exposition. The
last day Of the fair will be October 80.
1t will end, as 1t began, on Monday.
Auditor William X. Alderman of the
exposition made his first complete re-
port July 6. This report showed the
gate receipts Tor the pre-txposition
period and the first two months of the
exposition to amount to 50, 121, 660. 06
and the concession receipts to $780,
006.36. The total receipts from the
date of the organization of the Exposi-
ton company to June 80 were given at
81 ,251, $40. SO. According to this re-
port, the expenditures to June 80 were
500 ,620,l60. The estimated receipts
from the month of May were s7l9,4O2
and the expenses S609,S leaving a
balance Of S109,519 For the month
of June the estimated receipts were
Sl,660, 500 and the estimated expenses
only S642,02l, leaving another balance
of 81 ,0l7, 899. At the present time the
estimated daily expenditures amount
to about $4,000, 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 81, was LAG, 044, of which mum Der
l03, 65i we're paid admissions. When
$50, 900 visitors are present at the fair
the restaurants, villages and plaisance
shows are sure to be well patronized.
When it is remembered that % per
cent of all money earned by these
enterprises finds its way into the expo
sition's Golfers, it does not require
skilled mathematician to figure out the
large sums that must daily accrue from
this source. The 50-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 arrangements to dodge.
The most economical visitor will spend
S. 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 q futter. The newcomer
does not stop to ask questions, but pro-
duces the necessary 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 fifteen cents as the visitor
will find in Cairo street, Midway Plai-
sance, just west of the Ferris wheel.
Cairo street and its several hundred
hustling Mohammedans seems to catch
the crowd at all times. Go there
morning, evening, noon or night and
the wonderful Egyptian thoroughfare
is sure to be fairly Overlooking with
delighted patrons. Cairo street is
made up of native stores, candy
booths, theaters, museums, workshops,
in fact, all that one would naturally ex-
pect to find in the real Cairo. The
prevailing fad in Cairo street is donkey
and camel riding, and it is this pastime
that attract the multitude and holds
them convulsed in laughter until merri
ment positively becomes wearisome
Husbands who at home are no doubt as
dignified and reserved as Methodist
parson, here lose control ofthemselves
and shout and applaud as their cour'
ageous better halves pass along perchet
high upon the hump of stately OLD
camel. Two persons generally sit to-
gether when indulging in camel ride
and the anxiety exhibited by the
damozel behind, least she slide down
underneath the cancels softly Flooding
heels, is worth going hundreds O
miles to see. The donkey boys and
their patient little beasts are grea
favorites with the children, and 1t i;
needless to say that the donkeyi
columbus" and Mary Anderson" arr
prime fasorites.
The only blot on Cairo streets escut
cheon is the performance given by thu
FIVE native dancing girls in the large
theater. Having found all else inter
esiing and amusing, the visitor is only
too ready to complete his tour through
Cairo with an hour spent in the attrac
overlooking theatre. II the visitor is
man, and one with strong nerve ant
caloused cheek, perhaps the dancing
Of the several voluptous young womer
will not have any very lamentabls
effects, but let the same man by chance
take bis wife. daughter or son there
and ne will soon feel like applying I
match to the whole disreputable affair
Without going into details it can b.
thruthfnlly said that the three sets o.
oriental dancing girls now giving hour
ly exhibitions in Midway Plaisanct
should be bundled aboard fast train