The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-10-16
BOER WARS SUCCESS
AMAZING TO SH0WMEM
ton Has Played to q Per Cent
of Fair visitors.

Most persons IN st. Louis ars-s nozr
thoroughly imbued with the idea that The
Boer War u Tia greatest success q th4
Worlds Fair. but few really know thAf
the Boer War In corciustvely proved b.
figures aS the greatest success that has
ever been presented at any worlds fatS
The showing that Is mada By the Boe1
War is something altogether remarkable
In showdown Il . Snowman plays d
% Per cent Of Q local and floating popu5H
ton he thinks he Is doing wei
E. sherman Dandy Of the Bosr Wa r.
marked that the Bosr War was piavfn6
to q per cent o. the. worlds FAT ytdfoES
Danny. ' %as the ssfR naas.; Ts D:sI s sol .hs@
selves, and figures, though thsy may b
manipulated, are not supposed to LA
g gSs instance. tass last week At The Is$Ai
Geo. Now. OF that Ii, ooo. moro than Ao60
monthue. n animals. In addition -
circulation. 90 that va have about so;.
00 paid admissions to the Fair on .ah
average daily. Now, Of that 5000 that
came In. say. On Thursday. how many
Tuesday and Wednesday. and viii eoaa
By thai. I mean that = large properties
OF Fair visitors come here and spend &
cent. Then there are remaining those rn6
come for about three days. generally comb
eas f q daSn es ss at rssseaz Ts saa =T 1To s.ss
tons. or divisions. as I may term them, Of
the Worlds Fair visitors make up at lead
80 per cent Of the total paid admission6
local trafic Of 81 Louis, who come ouS
mostly at night and accompany thet9
ally. Il 5000 is the average daily attend!
at the Worlds Fair and each visitoN (
attends on an average OF four days tttA
ratio Of neT arrivals would b
new arrivals on the fourth day. Speaking
literally and without gathering every e
tail. the average paid admissions Of new
500.
Now" continued Mr.. Dandy. "of that
SO the Boer War daily receives an at
tendance Of more than 5000. We are NOT
seen our show there In no necessity for
him to come again, though he does hayO
TO pay a fresh admission into the grounds
my figures conservatively, and I think
most people Will agree with mo that they
conservative, the Boer War Is play
FAR visitors Never Sefore II In shs
OF the world has n performances
or show Drawn such q big ~percentaxo; IN
fact. the Boer War has made a new REQ
ord in showdom that Will be hard to beat, (
and which in fact may never be beaten
You will notice that we always featured
in our advertisement not on tbs Pike
Many people thought that we would have
done better before we opened IL We had
been located on the Pike. In this ! have
never been able 10 agree i hin the very Z
fact that we are mot on the Pike" but
In a location by ourselves. did a whole lot
TO influence the mind of the innocent and
unsuspecttnE visitor. who always looks q
the superficial and reasons accordingly.
Then. again, We have a wonderful show
a wonderful man at the head. In
Mr.. Fills to-day We have the premier
Of the world. and In putting On
The Boer War he has absolutely cclfpsed II
all previous efforts and has given US the /;
most realistic production Of modern tfmeAb
IS everything, and Mr.. Fills ale
ways has kept that before him" FL