People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — BIG WEEK AT THE FAIR. [ARTICLE]

BIG WEEK AT THE FAIR.

Over 2,100.000 Persons Paid to Ho* th* Great Exposition Last Week. Chicago, Oct 17,—The week ending Saturday, as was predicted, proved to be the banner week of the fair so far as attendance is concerned. There been weeks of much pleasanter weather, when everything could be seen to better advantage because there were two-thirds less people on the grounds, but all in all the week just closed will be the historical one of the exposition season. The average daily paid attendance was 800,000, and the attendance on Saturday was 207,732, and the total for the weak was 2,121,794. The significance of these figures is best understood when it is said they represent twice the paid attendance of May. In round numbers they also represent within 500,000 of the total attendance for June, and within 750,000 of the paid attendance for July. Had the weather been as propitious Thursday, Friday and Saturday as Monday and Tuesday, the total attendance would undoubtedly have been half a million greater. The record of the banner week in detail follows: Total paid Chicago day week. admu»ton». Sunday, October 8 88,050 Monday, October 9 716,881 Tuesday. October 10 309,293 Wednesday, October 11 309.277 Thursday, October 12 275,217 Friday. October 13 215,343 Saturday, October 14 207,733 T0ta12,121,794 There is a strange coincidence in the fact that there was a difference of but seventeen in the total paid attendance registered Tuesday and Wednesday. The records by months and week* follow: Total paid Month. admittiont. May 1,050,037 June 2,675,113 Ju1y2,760,263 Augu5t3,515,493 September 4,659,871 Week ending October 71,043,454 Week ending October 142,121,794 T0ta117,826,025 The exposition is now free from debt and will have nearly three weeks’ receipts to apply toward the payment of the stockholders, who contributed nearly 810,000,000, not one cent of which did they expect ever to have returned to them. The attendance at the fair on Sunday numbered 81,760 paid admissions. For the first time since the exposition opened last May all the buildings, except those belonging to the government and the separate states, and all the concessions were running in full blast, not alone on the Midway, but throughout the whole of Jackson park. Visitors found every opportunity for sight-seeing Sunday as readily as they did Saturday. Bands played, restaurants were open and the grounds were illuminated at night.