Milford chronicle., 1893-09-22

NANCES.
eresting Figures q
sAs - Exposition.
! Z llRIg0N o. THB AITENDAN0E

81 the Centennial was Already Out
an ths rirst Of This aIonth-Tho
eont Of Money spent on the ExPosl-
-vghat tho United States Govern
iaant Contributed,
WORLDS FAIR, Sept. 1s.--Lspeeiall-
tits now in order to make few comparf
sons, as tho attendance has far outroh
that at the Centennial and is reasonably
certain to exceed that at the Paris exposl-
tion Of 1889. Here, too, the admission ls
30 cents (childron half price,, while at
Paris it was but franc, less than
90 cents Of our money, and every hotel
manufactory and other big institution
ia that city bought great packages OF
tickets and pushed them at discount SO
that many poor people went in for lOeents
or less. In May the Centennial barely
got started, and the tickets used were go
65o. in Chicago they were ,5l6,369, and III
Paris 6lO. .s13. In June the attendance
at Philadelphia was 1,OO6,9s9, and here
(paid admissions 2675 49, and so the IN,
crease goes on, July showing 2,Iol 2o3 ana
August 3,515, ,293 here, and this despite tne
fact that on July there were 2e3,s'S ad-
missions, which exceeded those OF any day
in August.
On the first Of this month this exposi-
tion had, rs aforesaid, outdone the Cen
tenniaI and was good second to Parls'
Int it is now certain that the admissions
1 will average 15O, COCA day or more through
September and probably to the middle OF
October So the money question comes
mn again. Director General Davis has
figured that the total cost of the talr, not
counting the articles exhibited, Is S5524s-
9sO. Surely nation can not DO ''desper-
ately hard upn when it can spend that
much money on a big show. But the ma
tion as such did little. The states put II
s6O2O $50 and foreign governments so'o'I'-
59T. OF the rest the national goyernllleno ny
appropriated g, 100000 outright S@,oUO'OOO
in souvenir coins, 100000 Tor pronAe
medals and diplomas, S559,OO for expense
of the government board, s346,s for the
national commission. So the government
has a tride over s5,OQ0,000 in this thlng,
which. like all government advances ana
sneh. may be looked on as permanent
investment" I believe there IS talK OF
some apull' on It in the law but we re-
member the Pacific railways and we nave
read Of the redistribution" in Jaeksons
administration, and we know whab we
know. .,..1 aud
- foreign. having put in nearly Slo'uOV,VOO'
there are still about Sl5OO0OOO to aecouns !
for OF this Chicago put IN so,OOVOoo ls 'lne
does not expect a cent Of it back put lllcl'
dentally is getting it out Oh US ielloHs, '5,',,
T,ta oste receipts down to opening day
o-f, u fufn
tion fund The debenture bonus SOU
amounted to "a. .O94, 500 and every cent VIII
he maid Miscellaneous receipts whlch
went to the construction fund amounted 10
s9s4 55Z75. All the rest is represented Dy
the subscribed stock, paid IN dollar IL loL
dollar, it amounts to IS, ,553, 160SO, and the
l,,rnino question of the hour and the
nlace Isl will they get it? OF course they
viii not get all OF it, as all other claims
are preferred, and only little while ago
25 cents on the dollar was the quoted IAte'
but hear the stock is going up ilItIe.
Some Of the figures on state bulldlngs
a. IF oreat interest Illinois led off by
putting $500 900 on and in her Duii9ins
and other exhibits, and SO that 1ullolng .
is mite a creditable fair in itself. Inc
structure cost but S25O, 900, and it has per-
hans the most commanding posltlon on
tbe grounds. Next came New YORK
With an expenditure of $500, 600 and Cali
fornia with $3.50, 600, and then there ls a
great drop to Pennsylvania WIN sooVNssO'
Michigan with s275.OOO ana WlScoI ~
with ssi2, 900, and after that the drpa is
continuous and pretty rapid to y t9a'
the lowest state, with $4,000, q s''fs
boma, the lowest territorgRf fff5I the ~
All the New Englanazs<s imagination
in less than half ein cas- Illinois, and
All the sixtee, ely szbtates only SlO4'
900 IparfS However, this is il
uas affair.
SCOT lOr, ecCher
buildip~ -, s.o.,,,+ IN
: Stlude any cost of the exhibits, and in an
attempt to estimate their value the i'm