Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1893 — CROWDS AT CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

CROWDS AT CHICAGO.

More people have already paid to visit the World’s Fair than passed through the pay gates at the Centennial during the entire six months of that exposition’s existence. The record of the Centennial was broken. Thursday, long before the gate* closed, though counting the total adwi - sions, paid and free, of the two expositions, the Centennial was surpassed several days ago. More than that, those most interested in the success of the Fair assert that the crowds have just begun to come to Chicago, and the next two months will see Jackson Park so crowded each day that the Centennial attendance will be more than doubled. The paid admissions to 4he Fair. Thursday, numbered 140,404. Of the many financial schemes proposed . to speedily relievethe stringency In money, that regarded by treasury officials as the most practicable is the one to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue currency against the seigniorage or profit upon the coinage of silver bullion in the treasury. There are now 130,001000 ounces of silver bought under the act of 1890, and notes isssued against the seigniorage on that amount would add nearly 990,000,000 to the circulating mediufn. A large proportion of the notes are already printed and could be put into circulation, it is said, the day after Congress authorized the Secretary to ack