Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-12
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WORLDS FAIR. Sept. la-iSpecial J.
II Is now in order to make few compari
sons, as the attendance has far outru,
that at the Centennial and Is reasonably
eertain to exceed that at the Paris exposi
sion OF 1879. Here, too, the admission i.
30 cents tchildren half price,, while a,
Paris it WAS but franc, less thar
% cents Of our money. and every hotel
lmanufaetory and other big institution
IN that city bought great packages Of
Tickets and pushed them at discount, 70
hat many poor people went in for I0cents
pr less. In May the Centennial barely
got started, and the tickets used were 4a., !.
80; in Chicago they were I,5l6, 500, and in
Paris 2,6lo,sIs. In June the attendance
at Philadelphia was I.oo6 $50, and here
tpaid admissionsl 2,615, il3, and so the in-
crease goes on, July showing a,76i ,ats aud
August 3,5l5,as3 here. and this despite the
TACT that on July there were 3S3, 273 adj
missions, VIII ich exceeded those Of any day
in August.
On the first of this month this exposi.
| tion had, as aforesaid. outdone the Cen
seminal and was good second to Paris;
but it is now certain that the admissions
will average $50, coca day or more through
September and probably to the middle of
October, So the money question comes
up again. Director General Davis has
figured that the total cost of the fair, not
counting the articles exhibited, is S33, 24s,-
p30 Surely Il nation can not be ''desper.
ately hard up" VIXEN it can spend that
much money on a big show. But the ma
ton as such did little The states put in
~, or, $50 and foreign governments $6,51l,-
p27 OF the rest the national government
appropriated Il 500, 600 outright, &, 500 900
in souvenir coins, $4,000 for bronze
medals and diplomas, s559. 600 for expense
of the government board, S346, ss5 for the
national commission. So the government
has trihc over q, 200 in this thing,
which, like all government advances and
such, may be looked on as permanent
investment" l believe there is talk of
some pulp ON it in the law; but we re-
member the Pacific railways, and we have
read Of the distribution" in Jackson's
administration, and we know what we
know.
The governments, state, national and
foreign, having put in nearly SIS, op0, 900,
there are still about 500 600 to account
for. OF this Chicago put in s, 000, go and
does not expect a cent of it back, but Incl.
dentally is getting II out of us fellows.
The gate pts down TO opening day
were s23i, $50 and went into the construc
ton fund. The debenture bonds sold
amounted to y, 09i, so and every cent will
be paid. Miscellaneous receipts which
went to the construction fund amounted to
1884, ,551.775. All the rest is represented by
the subscribed stock, paid in dollar for
dollar; il amounts to -, l553, 100 50. and the
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