The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-23
THE CALIFORNIA EXPOSITION,
The Fair Booming and the Visitors Hav-
ing a Good Time.

The Fair Booming and the Visitors Hav-
ing a Good Time.
The second month of the California
Midwinter International Exposition is
realizing every expectation. The ut.
tendance has been increasing at a rate
which warrants the assertion that the
total attendance during the exposition
will exceed the estimate made bv the
most sanguine of its projectors. There
is no longer any doubt but that the en-
terprise will be a paying one. The best
evidence of this lies in the fact that ap-
plications for concessions continue to
come in, and concessionaires already on
the grounds are enlarging their build
ings and developing their entertainments
to meet the patronage they expect to re-
ceive. The talk about a reduction of
the price of admission to % cents has
ceased. The exposition management
spoke in no uncertain tones in favor Of
keeping the price at 30 cents, and pre-
sented incontrovertible reasons for TAX
ing their ground. The result is that
people who were waiting for the re-
duced rates are no longer hesitating to
visit the fair. and the concessionaires
are perfecting their plans OF the 50-cent
basis. In other words the preliminary
canter is over and the exposition has
settled down to the regular running.
Fete days are making a satisfactory
impression. Vermont Days success
was duplicated in Michigan Day, which
was celebrated on Monday, March ?.
In this instance Blue Monday became
one of the Red Letter days of the expo
sition, and the gate receipts were very
satisfactory. The number of railroad
coupons presented at the admission
| gates is daily on the increase. The rail-
road war is proving a godsend to the
exposition. Excursion parties, formed
weeks ago in different parts Of the East,
find their numbers doubled before the
the day of starting comes, and the re-
suit is that more people are going to see
California during the period of this
great Midwinter Exposition than have
visited the Pacific Coast in many years
that have gone by. Those who are here
now are sending back glowing accounts
of their experiences, and the good seed
sown by thC1e who have been here and
have gone home again is bearing fruit
more than a hundredfold. The effect OF
this influx of Eastern visitors is begin.
ing to be felt throughout the entire
stnte. Real estate agents report large
investments in ranch and orchard prop.
erty. Special county exhibits are also
having excellent effect, and there is not
a county exhibit at the exposition today
that has not found it advisable to estab
lish a local boom bureau in connection
with its display.
The 40 Mining Camp, by the way,
continues to advertise itself in a striking
manner, though its last advertisement
was entirely unintentional and camt
near proving very disastrous. 1t is the
custom of the camp to send its old A!
stage coach around the grounds severa
times a day loaded inside and out will
the employees Of the camp, including tn,
dancing girls and their partners in tn,
fandango. On Saturday evening las
the driver of the coach was a little care
less in going around a turn on the hill
side near the camp. entrance. and tn