People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1893 — ANOTHER BIG DAY. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER BIG DAY.

Ovor 308,000 Persons Visit the World’s Fair on Tuesday, Making a Total of 1,022,259 Paid Admissions for Two Days. Chicago, Oct 11.—There were 308,613 paid admissions to the fair Tuesday. The official count of the Chicago day paid admissions has not yet been completed, and will not be until some time to-day. Until then the figures given, 713,646 paid admissions, will represent the great crowd. This gives a total of 1,022,259 paid admissions for Monday and Tuesday; add to this the admissions on passes—-37,380 on Monday and 26,651 on Tuesday—and the grand total attendance for the two days is 1,086,289. The grand total of paid admissions to the world’s fair to date, with the last two days’ attendance estimated, is 16,814,039. The total number of passengers carried Chicago day by the three cable Systems, the Alley “L” road and the Illinois Central roads—the five chief ! lines of transportation patronized in I reaching the fair—was 2,556,616. These are the official returns as received by the five companies Tuesday. They are greatly in advance of expectations. The figures are as follows: 9n ble 757,660 I AL ley . Road 294 896 Other Methods. 765 J3l T0ta1 2.556,6U Noted Stallion Burned to Death. New York, Oct. 11. —Leporello, Carl Antony's famous “high school” stallion, whose almost human intelligence has won prizesand plaudits for his master in New York and many other cities, was burned to death Tuesday. The fire was in the Central park riding academy stable, a three-story brick building in Fifty-eighth street, which is connected with the academy itself, a big brick structure fronting on Seventh avenue, He was valued at $2,000. The loss by the fire was 810,000.