The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-12
GETTING TO THE FAIR.
Arrangements for Carrying the Crowd to Ded-
ication Day Ceremonies.

Mail received by The Republic Profit
Sharing Bureau indicates continually in
creasIng interest in the question the bu-
reau has put to the subscribers Of The Re-
public. The state OF the weather during the
past week evidently awakened considerable
speculation. and = number Of inquiries have
come asking for information about the me
neurological records OF past years suhscrib-
ers who have not yet sent IN estimates ara
manifestly anxious TO know what proper
ton OF the days in the past ten or fifteen
years has been rainy. IL Is easy to under
stand how a subscriber concluding that
the chances Of April weather give = great
probability Of rain on April - would make
a low estimate on the attendance. On the
other hand. q subscriber concluding thet
the chances are favorable for clear weather
would make a large estimate
For the Information Of all who desire 10
be advised on this point IL may be stated
that the statistics preserved In. the. Gov
eminent Weather Bureau show thai during
the past ten years over "a per cent OF the
days were clear. % per cent were CLOUDY
and ! per cent rainy. Another factor direct
Is affecting the probable attendance is the
Temperature record The Weather Bureau
data shows that during ten years the aver
age temperature the last OF April ana tne
beginning OF May In St Louis was over 70
degrees.
The arrangements OF the transportation
companies for carrying passengers TO the
II dAE kLOuAu5 IL VI III Co AGNcAtoN ~
subscribers who are contemplating making
estimates. These-have now taken suficient-
ly definite shape to indicate that. the street
railway companies alone Will be able to
carry q very large number OF people ex-
pediuously and. with reasonable comfort
As heretofore stated in The REPUBLIC. the
Transit Company will have three different
terminals on the north side OF the Fair
grounds Two Of these terminals Will be
at the junction OF De Baliviere and De Civ
The olive street line approaches the park
by way Of DeGtveryflle avenue. These cars
VIII make a Loop. running f sno 70 the hs
back to DeGiveryille avenue. The Delmar
avenue cars. including the various lines
that converge onto that street. Will make I
loop on the west side OF De Baiiviere.
Neither of these lines VIII cross the Rock
Island or the Wabash tracks. Both loops
will be fenced IN with a close fence. 30 as
TO prevent psaseagers passing the tracks OF
the steam railways on the grade A viaduct
will be built to take the passengers across
the tracks. so that the terminals Of the
Transit Company at this point Will be both
convenient and safe.
AZ to the number Of passengers the
m Company can deliver at this point,
the managing officials confidently claim thar
they can discharge an average Of N00 peo-
pie every hour. unless unexpected accidents
intervene to defeat their calculation. II the,
succeed In doing what they are planning.
they Will deliver at these two terminals
East OF these terminals, and within easy
walking distance OF the main entrance to
the Fair GROUNDS, Is the Union avenue ter
minal OF the Suburban Railway Company
The Suburban. however. has a pocket IN
stead OF a loop terminal. so that Its faciii-
ties for discharging passengers win neces-
sarily be more limited than the Transit
Company will have at each OF Its De Bali
viere terminals The Suburban officials.
however. claim that they Will be able to
deliver 5000 passengers an hour.
In addition to these two terminals the
Transit Company will have a third terminal
on the Skinker road, just north OF the
Rock Island tracks. How many cars will
be run on this terminal, and what number
of passengers win be delivered by the lines
using It. cannot yet be stated, The Transit
Company has not up to this time made
any definite announcement
The Suburban Company has also a termi-
nal Immediately west of the Administration
building. and oppose the pow-r-house.
This station of the Suburban Is on its Clay
ton and Webster branch. but the probable
ity is that the Suburban viii run compare
lively few cars on this line. at least during
the daytime. Both the Suburban Company
and the Transit Company VIII naturally en-
deavor to deliver as large a proportion Of
the passengers they carry at the points
they can reach with the shortest haul For
this reason the terminals at the northwest
side OF the Exposition grounds are not ex-
pected to handle n lsrge part OF the
crowd.
The Transit COMPANY has a station at
Kings highway. reached by the Laclede
line. which IS not as near TO the worlds
Fair grounds as the other terminals. and
vet no very great distance away II Is
quite probable therefore. that = considera-
bic number OF people will ind IL practical
bla to use the cars running over Lacieoe