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terests. The Passenger Railways will soon run across the 
Girard Avenue Bridge, landing passengers directly at the 
north gate of the Garden, and it is confidently believed that 
at no distant date, communication will be opened by a track 
from the passenger railways running in West Philadelphia, 
via Thirty-fifth street, landing visitors at the southern gate. 
With these additional means of access, the increased attrac- 
tion of the Garden and its collection, and the influx of 
visitors to the coming Centennial Exhibition, it is safe to 
predict a very considerable increase to the numbers of the 
past year. 
The following table shows the number of admissions and 
gate receipts, in detail, for the past eight months : 
Adults, (paying 25 cents at the gate), 161,467 
Children ( " 10 " " " ) 39,450 
Members, (this includes life and annual 
members, loan-certificate holders, an- 
nual and complimentary annual tickets) 6,289 
Loan-certificate holders, (single tickets) 2,205 
Complimentary, " " 308 
Tickets sold by local agents, . . 105 
" " Race & Vine st. R. E. rec'd 8,255 
" " Green & Coates " " 2,977 
" " Spruce & Pine " " 1,451 
u " Steamboat . . 4,438 
Package tickets received, . . . 612 
Total visitors in eight months, . 227,557 
Visitors entered through north gate, 183,808 
" " " south " 43,749 
Receipts from north gate, . . . $39,202 69 
" south " . . . 8,698 96 
Outstanding Tickets, . . . 197 46 
Total receipts from admission, $48,099 11 
Average daily admission, . . . 936 
" " receipts from admission, $197 13 
