Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — THIRTEENTH ANNUAL [ARTICLE]

THIRTEENTH ANNUAL

Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicano. REFTEMBEII 2 TO OCTOBER 17, JBSS. Of all the Exhibitions of this class which have been started in the world only two have been able to maintain themselves for any considerable term of years without intermission. The American Institute of New York, is one of the two, and has been either se//-sustaining, or has a sufficient endowment to establish it as a permanency. The only other, and by tar the most eminently successful, in all respects, is the one at Chicago. Opening for the first time, September j2sth, 1878, it has held twelve annual consecutive Exhibitions, of the very highest class—its field being Industry, Science and Art. Its unvarying success is evidenced by the fact that, with an admission fee of only 25 cents, its treasury has never failed in any one year to realize from $35,000 to $50,000 net. Its visitors who paid fadmission have averaged about 8,000 per day for forty days—and this attendance, made up as it is of the most progressive, wide-awake people on the face of the earth, is ample evidence of the genuine merit of the Exhibition itself. The truth in a nut-shell is, that no intelligent poison within reach of ,\icage, who desires to keep abreast of the progress of mankind in the mechanic and fine arts, can afford, for even a single year, to miss the opportunity for observation and study which these annual Exhibitions offer. Railroad fares during the forty days are reduced to the lowest figures.