Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-06-23

A WISCONSIN MANS SCHEME.
next month. The vacation season will
bring to Chicago thousands Upon thou
sands of people who work for salaries, just
as the lull in farm work after harvest will
bring thousands onthousands of people
from the agricultural communities.
Considering that the exposition was not
complete till about the first of June. and
that May was a cold and wet; month in
Chicago, the attendance at the exposition
has been surprisingly large. The paid at.
tendance during May was about 1 1000, 600,
or an average of nearly SO, 1000 a day, while
the attendance at the Philadelphia expo.
sition of 1876 during the first twenty-eight
days it was open averaged only q little
over 10000 per day. AS the season wears
on the contrast between Philadelphia and
Chicago becomes even more striking.
During June at the Centennial the attend.
ance averaged less than $1,000 per day,
while this month at Chicago is likely tc
show an average of $4,000. It is n remark.
able fact that in the week just closed the
Chicago exposition showed an attendance
as great as that at the Centennial during
the whole month of June.
There is some doubt as to whether the
attendance for July will be very. much
6SA SAuA CAAtIp VI OuAOs AZ 6uAc1y WILL
be if the weather proves favorable, and il
dreaded cholera or other menace to 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 to only
two-thirds the attendance during the pre-.
vious month. I asked Major Handy, thu
chief of the push and puff department Of
this great enterprise, how that happened
at Philadelphia, knowing he could tell me
because he was there. 1t was on account
of the extreme heat, he said. That July
was about the hottest July Philadelphia
has ever known. Besides the heat, there
was much sickness, and people were afraid
to expose themselves to the sun while 20
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 g
prominent Chicago man about his invest
ment in Worlds fair stock. He had sub
scribed for $4,000 worth and paid in the
money.
II will sell you that stock, today" he
said, sat 10 cents on the dollar. That j.
more than I expect to get on it when We
come to wind up the affairs of the exposi
ton. The best of it is, l don't care n snaI
whether l get even 10 cents on the dollar
or not. So far as I know that is the way
all the Chicago stockholders feel. They
did not expect to get their money back
when they subscribed to the stock, and
they will not be a bit disappointed. 1t
vas a gift with them, and they are not
sorry they made it, either"
And yet the chances are my friend would
be throwing away money if he sold his
stock at 10 cents. on the. dollar. I believe
he will get back 40 or so per cent. of his
subscription. The crowds e July, August,
and particularly of Sept9aber and DC.
tober, are going to put up the value of that
stock perceptibly. 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 it can do this it will be able to pay its
debts and return to stockholders, includ.
ing the city Of Chicago, which put up five
millions In one sum about so cents on the
dollar. WALTER WELLMAN.