Milford chronicle., 1893-06-30

next month The vacation season VIII
/ bring TO Chicago thousands upon thou
sands OF people who work for salaries, Just
/ as the luil in farm work after harvest will
! bring thousands upon thousands of people
/ from the agricultural communities.
Considering that the exposition was not
complete till about the first OF June, and
| that MAY was cold aud wet. month in
! Chicago, the attendance at the exposition
/ has been surprisingly large The paid at
tendance during May was about l,OD,OO9
/ or an average OF nearly 5000 day, While
I the attendance at the Philadelphia expo
sition 0t 1876 during the first twenty-eight
| days it was open averaged only @ mite
, over q, 600 per day. As the season weara
on the contrast between Philadelphia and
! Chicago becomes even more striking
During June at the Centennial the attend
ance averaged less thap $1,000 Per day,
while this month 81 Chicago is likely to
show an average Of 5000. 1t is remark
able fact tla5 in the week just CLOSED tho
Chicago exposition showed an attendance
as great rs that at the Centennial during
the whole month OF June.
There is some doubt az to whether the
I attendance for July viii be very much
larger Lhgn that Of June. It surely will
be if the weather proves favorable, and II
dreaded cholera or other menace 10 the
health Of the people will be good enough
TO stay away. At the Centennial they
were much surprised when the attendance
for the month OF july amounted 10 only
twoIhirds the attendance during tho pre-
vious month. / asked Major Handy, the
chief of the push and puff department OF
this great enterprise, how that happened
at Philadelphia, knowing he could tell me
because ms was there. 1t was on account
OF the extreme heat, A2 said. That July
was about the hottest July Philadelphia
has ever known. Besides the heat, therd
was much sickness, and people were afraid
to expose themselves to the sun while go
ing to the fair The result was the attend
ance diminished instead Of increased, as
everyone had thought it would.
l was talking the other day with a
prominent Chicago man about his invest
meut IN Worlds fair stock. He had sub
scribod for $4,000 worth and paid in. the
money. ,,;l roy ~ Bht
u will sell yo,--ss.s sflhd Aud closely
sajd. "es 10 c.is generally ii
more than [ far Sfhait stock, today" lie
.e ST findinnts ON the dollar. That Is
= have sSina expect to so5 on 70 When "e
come 10 = md up the affairs OF the eAPosi
tion. The y3est Of tits, don't care Il snap
whetherI Al even 10 cents on the uollal
or not So NJ as 1 know that is the way
sil the ChicaN0 Stockholders feel. They
did di, not not expect q get their money back
when they subySribed to the stock, ,.3 ana Tt
Tra5 81 rift With tEem, and they are not
sorry they made 1t, e0ther.'
~ And vet the chances tSye my friend would
be throwing away money il he sold LIS
stock at 10 cents on the dpllar. believe
he viii oet back 40 or so per cent. OF his
subscription. 81 The crowds Of July, August
and particularly of September and DC,
tober, are going to put up the value of that
stock percepdbly. During the SIX months
The exposition should take in from ten to
twelve millions Of dollars at the gates, and
half as much more from concessions; and
If II can do this it will be able to pay It's
debts and return to stockholders, lnclIlo-
inc the city of Chicago, which put up five
millions in one sum, about so cents on the
dollor WALTER WELLMAN.