Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1905-08-12
PASSES
THE MILLION MARK
Record For Sixty.Three Days
at Portland Fair FOOls
up l.OI3.2SI.
EXPOSITION A GREAT SUCCESS

Portland. Ore. AoE. 1.-THE mll.
lion mark has been reached and passed
In the record OF attendance at tho
Lewis aud Clark exposition. when
all ol The admissions we're added to
the aggregate since the fair opened
ON June ]. Il was found that In STR
ty'three days i,0la,55i safe admissions
had been recorded BY the turnstilea.
The admissions dcpai tmcnt wan lubi-
liant, and all tho rest OF the exposition
officials and the people OF Portland
and the Pacific northwest In general
Joined IN the lubilatlon. Figures tell
the truth, and these hgnrcs show that
The LoWiA and Clark centennial Ia a
success.
those who said. We'll m you have
100000 attendance during the four
ana onC.half months OF your show,
you viii DO doing very well. The
management, OF course, expected 90
thl considerably In advance OF this.
but nobody was ganguno enough 20
count upon a million during the FIRST
two months. with more than half the
exposition period stu 10 run, Il Ia now
the popular prophecy that at least
2.5e0O00 viii be reached. The expert
cnco OF an expOsltiuua has been that
the largest attendance n enjoyed dur
Ing the last two months. Portland
expects the crowds 10 increase from
week 10 week, aud the figures thus
far prove that such an expectation il
well founded The attendance by
weeks. up 10 August 2, has been a.
follows!
June / 10 7, inclusive. ve..,... 99.27s
June s 10 "a, inclusive. ....... i0O.72f
June iS TO "a, inelusiye. ye.. 9S.Gf2
June ~ TO rs, Inclusive. S9,9ie
June 20 10 July 8, inclusive. ifi.it5
July 9 20 ~. inclusive.
July i3 to 10. inclusive ,.....fi3.737
July 20 10 20, inclusive, e,.......13i,e ,eSf
July "a to August 2, inclusive. .i25.i2i
The extra attendance for the week
from June ~ 10 July D, was due te
the large number OF admissions Un
the Fourth of July. Since then, as a
porusal of the naurcN shows, the at
tendance has Increased constantly.
The Trans Mississippi exposition at
Omaha In 1883. which was about tho
elze OF the Portland enterprise, mEz
DO used as a baAld f0f comparison IN
attendance. The official record shows
that during the hrst two months of
the Omaha fair the admissions were
6il 035 POrtland'a figures. oiiicial and
verified. show a total OF 87S,0tI for
the first two months. Thus we ind
that the Lewis and Clark exposition
attendance for the hrat two months
has exceeded that OF the Omaha en-
terprise by 3G6,9s2, or considerably
moro than 90 per cent. Moreover, lei
Il be- taken into consideration that
within radius OF 600 miles OF Omaha
thoro were ii.000OuO people. approx
imately. while within n IKE radius OF
Portland there are not more than L.
500 900 people,
The Pan-American exposition at
nufalo In 1901. with a population OF
i00O0,OOU within the 500-mile radius,
had an attendance OF i.203,236 dur
Ing the FIRST two months. This ia only
about 20 per cent In excess Of shs
Portland figures POI tland and Omaha
have approximately the same number
OF Inhabitants, while Buffalo IS sew
eral times 40 large as the Lewis aud
Clark city
y. u. Dawson. chief Of the depart
ment uf admissions at Portland, who
has had experience in the same de-
partment Rt several expeditions, ex-
NfNhHHh iND uNNHi ihhh tNh iHWtn anu
Clark fair will run Omaha close
race, and 10 all probability will via
out In the total attendance. though
at Omaha the exposition Was open
ave fuli months, walie she present en-
torprlae lR TO be open but four and
0ne.half months OmahaA total ht.
tendance was 2,0l85O8.
Mr. Dawson expects a considerable
increase IN the attendance after tho
wheat farmers 0f the "lnland EN-
pire' shall have finished their har-
Yestlng and the hop growers Of Ore
gon and Washington shall have gath
cred their hop crops.
Nothing succeeds Ike success, and
tho Portland fair has shown BY aCsdal
and indisputahle figures that K Is q
success. As Il Is western enterprise
the entire west a 10 bo congratulated.
and n The east Htlil imagincs that
nothing good eau came out of Nhz-
areth. LEI that section take notice OF
tlo most successful Of an American
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