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sion to one or both of the other buildings is in view when their 

 exhibition halls shall have been arranged. On the first date of open- 

 ing, October 8, 1911, the attendance reached the almost unprecedented 

 figure of 15,467. It fell to 4,570 on the second, to 3,885 on the third, 

 and to 3,280 on the fourth Sunday, with an average for all Sundays 

 of 1,666 visitors as against a week-day average of 693 visitors. There 

 is no doubt, therefore, that the step has been fully justified, and it is 

 hoped that the jirovision of an additional place to which people may 

 resort on Sundays for instruction and diversion has not been without 

 some moral influence. 



