People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — A SUCCESS. [ARTICLE]

A SUCCESS.

Midway Plaisance Attractions Have Paid 84,000,000 to the Fair. Chicago, Oct. 30 —Midway Plaisance covers eighty acres of the 533 in the exposition grounds. But the relation, it bears to the grand success of the fair is rated higher than the proportion of acreage to the whole. There never was before such a conglomeration of thte nations of the earth, from the 1 orient to the Occident, in so small a space. At the Paris exposition the total amount received from concessions, on the grounds amounted to $600,000. Over $4,000,000 has been paid into the treasury of the World’s Columbian exposition by Midway concessioners. Of all the shows of the Midway,, from Blarney castle to the Bedouin encampment and from the Sitting Bull cabin to the beauty show. Cairo street leads the van with over 2,250,000 of paid admissions. By this concession alone SIBO,OOO has been paid to the exposition company. Ferris wheel comes second with $120,000 paid since September 9.