Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — THOUSANDS VISIT THE FAIR. [ARTICLE]

THOUSANDS VISIT THE FAIR.

The Paid Attendance at the San Francisco Show Beaches 00,000. Official figures from the Midwinter Fair headquarters show that 72,248 people passed through the turnstiles Saturday, the opening day. Of this number ever 60,000 paEid the regular admission fee of 50 cents. So far there has been little or no agitation to close the fair Sunday and everything on the grounds is wide open on that day. In the management of concessionaires and the general conduct of the exhibition theie was nothing to distinguish Sunday from any other day, and though chaos still reigns in Machinery Hall and all of the exhibits in other buildings aro still in a state of disorder thousands of people on last Sunday afternoon visited the grounds.