People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1893 — Population of the Fair. [ARTICLE]

Population of the Fair.

It seems that the term “city,” as it has been applied to the world’s fair, with various descriptive adjectives, is not so purely imaginative as would appear. In the daytime with a throng of twenty thousand sightseers in its gates it is a city, of course. But the fair has a permanent as well as a transient population. The census of thismunici; pality varies, but a world’s fair man who has been figuring up a little says that the permanent population alone is about fifteen thousand by day and five thousand at night. It includes exhibitors and their assistants, Columbian guards, and workmen of various sorts, including janitors and others.