Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-24
FAIR TO DRAW ON
VAST POPULATION
f7,1o4,643 Persons Live Within
Radius Of $50 Miles Of
City Hall
FACTS SHOWN BY SURVEY

lyIu you Know
That 2.69I.0 persons live within n
twenty -fve-mile radius of City Hall?
Were you aware:
That within n fifty mile radius OF
City Hall 7.4O7. 1870 have their homes7 ?
Thas any one told you:
That within $50 miles there arc H.
194 ,643 persons living; that is to say
about one-f fifth of the whole population
of the United States?
IL that is not q good reason for hav.
ing n Sesqui Centennial Fair. the sta
tisticai Committee of the organization
sponsoring that undertaking would Ike
to know what Is. Anyway. these
figures were brought out by the COM
mittee which is composed Of engineers.
architests and real estate men. as part
of their effort to find what is the most
suitable location for the coming expo
sition
The enormous amount Of work which
must be done in preparation. can be
gauged somewhat by n review of the
work which has been already done TO-.
ward determining the site. \ mass Of
statistics bearing on every possible
nngle of the case has been gathered and
from these II is understood how each
of the fourteen sites proposed presents
different problems.
What Committee Is Doing
The work Of the committee has. there.
for, been divided into three heads: the
gathering of data the consideration Of
facts and tho hearing of arguments by
proponents Of respective sites in the
hope that new facts may be uncovered.
The fourteen sites suggested are:
Pennypack Park Site No. 1 Cover
ing park only-Indorsed by Holiness
burg Improvement Association. Ar-
proximately 1000 acres. All city
Pennypack Park site No. 2--1ndorsPd
by Frankford Board of Trade. Seven
thousand acres. 20OO city owned. 5000
privately owned. Ten miles from City
Pennpypack Park Site No. 3--In-
dorsed by Tacony Improvement Associ-
ntion. One thousand acres. 800 city,
800 privately owned. Ten miles from
City Hall.
of boulevard Endorsed by Albright <
Mebus, 1000 acres. all privately owned.
Eight miles from City Hall.
Lower Roosevelt boulevard (west side
Of boulevard-Sevcn hundred acres. part
privately and part city owned Six miles
from City Hall.
The Tacony Park Plan
Juniata and Tacony Park plan-Six
hundred acres, part city and part prl
yately owned. Five miles from City
Hail.
Roxborough plan-Indorscd by De
Almond. Ashmead & Buckley, 200C
acres, all privately owned. Nine miles
from City Hall.
Upper Fairmount Park former Cen
tennial site)-Indorsed by Albright &
Mebus, $50 acres. all city owned. Foul
miles from City Hall.
Lower Fairmount Park. or Cret plal
Endorsed by Fairmount Park Art As
sociation, PA acres, part city. par
RAILROAD. and part privately owned
Available adjacent property, GOO acres
Two miles from City Hall.
League Island Park plan-Indorset
by Joseph NJ Huston, 063 acres, bein,
300 city. $50 railroad and 104 private
Ayailable adjacent acreage, $50. Fou
miles from City Hall.
Thirty ninth Ward plan Gimme
diately north of League Island Parl
plan)-Offered by Real Estate Board
1000 acres, all privately owned. Fiv,
miles from City Hall.
Fortieth Ward, or Cannonball Farm
plan - Eighteen hundred acres, par
privately and part city owned. 81,
miles from City Hall
Fortieth Ward plan Nmmediatel,
north of Cannonball Farm Offered b,
Real Estate Board, 1000 acres, nj
privately owned. Five miles from Cit,
Hall.
Hog Island plan-IndOrsed By w. 7.
Plack, G. F. Neff and Victor Wier.
man, S46 acres, owned by Federal Gov.
ernment. Available adjacent property
1000 acres. Seven miles from Cit,
Hall.
Philadelphia Excels Chicago
The Chicago Exposition of 1893
which had the largest surrounding pop
ulation to draw upon Of any of thos,
listed, shows only 500, 900 persons liy,
ing within a radius Of ffty miles
whereas Philadelphia has 7.497 ,33Q,
Among other figures brought to ligh
by this piece of research are: The ratir
of local population to the total pai,
attendance was 14.4 per cent for al
twelve expositions: the outlay of th,
money for buildings and grounds aver
aged 81 per cent of the total outlay tn,
gross outlay per paid admission aver,
aged $1.14; the paid admissions aver,
aged 0 per cent Of the local popula
tion.
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