People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Spend Lots of Money. [ARTICLE]

Spend Lots of Money.

Visitors at the fair are estimated to have spent within the ground fifteen million dollars, which is in addition to the money paid for admission. Of this amount three million dollars, according to Chief Clerk Blackwell, of the department of collection, has gone into the treasury,of the exposition. Moreover, business with the concessionaires is increasing, % and it is expected this source of income will net ten million dollars before October 30. A statuette of Emperor William, of Germany, on horseback contains fifteen hundred silver dollars.