The record-union., 1899-08-28

Exposition this artist was engaged at
a stated salary. 1t was generous
one, but after he had taken it from
his receipts and paid all the salaries of
his large corps Of assistants and had
bought mountain of supplies, the bal
ance left, which was clear profit to the
Exposition, reached the astounding sum
of $1S2,000.
The badge and gum and candy and
soup and popcorn and peanut privil-
eyes all reaped rich rewards for the
lucky men holding them at the great
Exposition in the city OF Chicago, and
an army Of men are bidding against
each other for the privi. i.ages of making
fortunes from the sales of the same
commodities at Buffalo in 1901, bat
there are also some who are ambitious,
as were MesSrS. Ferris OF Ferris Wheel
fame and Eiffel of Eiffel Tower fame.
and there are as many of these genluseS
in the Concession Department as there
are gum, nut and candy men. The
latest of the ambitious throng was Mr..
Easton, who called two days since
and submitted the working plans for
the Zion Hill, which he hopes TO con-
struct.
The plans show mammoth trianGu-
I lar hill constructed of iron, with rail-
roads running up and down either side
of the incline and across the apex and
all along the lower level. From this
rail forty cars are to be suspended, each
of which will be capable of containing
twenty people. From the ground to
the apex of the triangle the distance
will be three hundred feet or three
fifthS as high as the Washington Mon
ument. It is the hope OF Mr. Easton
to have this monumental piece Of en-
gineerin2 ingenuity cons tructed IN time
for the Fair and he cannot see i.oW be
and his associates can fail 10 cap
financial flood if the plans go not aWry.
With the forty cars running up one
side of the hill, over the apex. and down
the other side each fifteen minutes,
each car laden to it's fall capacity, It
would mean 800 fares at 80 cents each,
or 81 $50 an hour. In ten hours tha
receipts would be $4,000. In ten days
the cost of the structure. SltO.00O,
would be taken in, and in 100 days the
profits would be $1,600,000, which any
man will concede to be G fair invest
ment.
That's the way Mr.. Easton figures it
out.
Within the past two weeks one Of the
most effective and novel advertising
methods ever adopted III this or any
other country has been put into opc~;t-
tion by the Publicity Committee mere,
and the wisdom of it and the oddity of
it has created a great deal of commen-
datory talk and incidentally has stirred
up some people who have all along
thought that the Postal Department of
the United States Government could
project such as is the PanAmerican
Exposition This advertisement con-
sists in having the Postoffice at Buf-
falo adopt a special cancelling stamp
with the words PAM American Exposi-
tion-1901" as it's chiefest features.
That has been done here and the re-
suits are simply startling, for the Off
cial figures show that the cancellation
stamp is placed on 1873, 600 outgoing let
ters and 10000 outgoing circulars every
day. 1t simply means that the read
ing public of the World will know of
the Fair of 1901 before the gates are
opened, for, figuring on no increase at
all in the next two years, not less than
56,000,000 letters and circulars will
have passed through the Buffalo Post
Office between now and May, 1901, and
each one will carry that little Pan
American Exposition story on it's face.
ROY CRANDALL.