Historical Sketch. 



631 



*Japan 



Leeward Islpnds. . . . 



Liberia 



Mexico 



Morocco 



*New South Wales. 



Netherlands 



New Zealand 



Nicaragua 



"■Norway 



Orange Free State.. . 



Paraguay 



Peru 



7, 



50, 



150, 



343: 



100, 



27; 



31, 



56, 



7, 



100! 



140, 



000 

 000 

 000 

 000 

 000 

 325 

 000 

 500 

 000 

 280 

 500 

 000 

 000 



Russia 



Salvador 



San Domingo. 



*Siam 



*Spain 



*Sweden 



Trinidad 



*Turkey .... 



Uruguay 



*Venezuela. . . 



$46,320 

 13,500 

 35,000 

 35,000 



300,000 



108,000 

 15,000 

 17,466 

 24,000 



100.000 



Total $5,951,531 



* Erected government buildings for exhibits and headquarters of commissioners. 



Attendance. 



While the Chicago Exposition did not, as was fondly hoped, excel 

 all previous records in attendance, it so closely approached them, 

 under adverse conditions, as to practically triumph over its com- 

 petitors. The price of admission, double that of Paris, its closest 

 rival, the distance to be traveled by sightseers, the high rates prevail- 

 ing on many railroads till late in the season, and the comparatively 

 small population within a radius of one hundred miles, render the 

 figures actually recorded a marvel. 



The following table gives the monthly and total attendance in com- 

 parison with Paris and Philadelphia : 



* The Chicago figures do not include post-exposition attendance. 



No very accurate comparison can be made between Chicago's paid 

 admissions and Paris'. The admission fee in Paris was one franc, but 

 before eleven a. m. and in the evening two tickets were required for 

 admission, and on some special fete days five tickets were required. 

 The exact number of persons who visited the Paris Exposition on the 

 above number of paid admissions was 25,398,609. The number admit- 

 ted by passes in Paris was 4,204,758, making the total admissions, paid 

 and free, 32,354,111. In Philadelphia the free admissions were 

 1,906,692, making the total attendance 9,910,966. At the Chicago Fair 

 the admission was fifty cents, and no reduction was made except dur- 

 ing Children's Week in the month of October. 



