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it proposes to charge at the rate of $1 per annum 
per square foot. It will also furnUh everything 
requisite at moderate annual charges. 
The following will be the charges to an exhib- 
itor for a space of 130 square f eat for one year : 
120 square feet, at $1 $ 130 
Gas for same ^ 
Water 2S 
Heat M 
Poli ce ^ 
Janitor m 
Entrance fee 50 
Total * 445 
For this moderate rent any manufacturer or mer- 
chant may have a store, in which to make sales 
and exhibit his goods, located where visitors may 
reach it, landing at the very doors, from the fol- 
lowing steam railroads : Hudson River and New 
York Central, Harlem, New York and New Haven, 
New York and Boston, New York and Westchester, 
Vanderbilt's Rapid Transit, Madison Avenue, Third 
Avenue, and Second Avenue Horse Railroads, with 
water communication at East River, only 1,600 
f«et distant. It is very fairly estimated that the 
charges for gas, water, heat, police, janitor, and 
the entrance-fee will not only pay all the running 
expenses of the institution, but will also furnish 
a handsome revenue to the Company. But then 
there is the S130 a year rent for the space. This 
would be profit, and would amount annually to 
$1 574 400. It is estimated that the number of 
visitors to the Exhibition will average 6,500 per- 
sons each day. The charge of admission will be 50 
cents for each person. Thus the daily income from 
this source will be S3,250, amounting in a year of 
300 days to the large sum of £975,000. Then there 
will be 96 stores below the main floor of the 
building, each of which will be 35 feet wide, 33 feet 
high, and 135 feet deep. The Company expects to 
be° able to rent these stores at $1,000 each, thereby 
addin" $96,000 more to the annual revenue. It 
must not be forgotten that in these estimates the 
large sum of $4,364,000, accruing from the charges 
for gas water, etc., has all been set aside to cover 
the running expenses of the Company, though 
probably one third of it will be profit. But, apart 
from this, the recapitulation of the Company's 
estimated income makes a splendid showing. It is 
as follows: 
Rent of 13,120 spaces $1,574,400 
Eentof 96 stores 96,000 
Receipts from daily visitors ...975,000 
Total $2,645,400 
These estimates have been purposely made low. 
The number of daily visitors has been put lower 
than the number known to have visited any similar 
institution, and no account has been taken of what 
may be received from restaurants and special places 
of amusement. Still, at the lowest calculation, 
there will be an annual income of $3,645,400 to 
be divided. 
In order to show to those who are unfamiliar with 
these subjects that the Company is more than justi- 
fied in anticipating that its income will be much 
larger, the following statistics of the results of 
other exhibitions are appended. It must be remem- 
bered, also, that none of these exhibitions were 
open more than six months. 
During the Exhibition of 1851, in London, it was 
visited by 6,201,856 paying visitors and 2,313,000 
free visitors. 300,000 season tickets were sold, 
which were probably presented at the doors 20 or 30 
times each during the 144 days the Exhibition re- 
mained open. The large sum of $2,500,000 was taken 
at the doors of the Exhibition building. The vis- 
itors spent S3,615,000 in the Exhibition building. 
The receipts of the railroad companies running into 
London were increased $4,000,000 by carrying 
passengers to see the Exhibition. Calculating an 
expenditure of £10 ($50) by each person who visited 
the Exhibition, and we have the enormous sum of 
$310,093,800 put in circulation among the shop- 
keepers of London. It is estimated that the rail- 
roads and different branches of trade realized extra 
profit to the amount of $64,000,000, solely in eon- 
sequence of the Exhibition. 
At the Exhibition at Cork, in 1853, there were 
74,095 daily admissions and 54,936 season-ticket 
holders, and this for a city with only a population of 
80,000. If a circle be described, with the City Hall 
of' New York as its center-, having a radius of 12 
miles, it would inclose a population of 2,500,000 
people, exclusive of the vast numbers who are al- 
ways to be found registered on the lists of visitors 
at our numerous hotels, and none of whom would 
b« likely to leave tha city without having first paid 
a visit to the Industrial Exhibition. 
Dublin had 634,523 daily visitors to its Exhi- 
bition, in 1S54 ; while 360,745 tickets were sold. 
The population of Paris in 1855 was about 
1,200,000. 5,433,564 persons, who paid at the door, 
visited the Exhibition and Art Gallery during the 
few months they were open in that year. 
In Manchester, in 1S57, an Exhibition was given 
of Works of Art. It was open only a few months; 
but 1,530,538 persons paid at the doors and 283,177 
season tickets were sold. 
In conclusion, it may not be out of place to 
give the number of visitors to the Central Park 
during the last 10 years, for a great number of 
visitors will certainly pass direct from the Park 
to the Industrial Exhibition. 
Visitors to Central Park in 1862 4,195,593 
Visitors to Central Park in 1863 4,326,500 
Visitors to Central Park in 18M G.120,179 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 
7,593,139 
7,839,373 
7,227,855 
7,089,798 
7,350,957 
8.628,826 
Visitors to Central Park in 1S65 
Visitors to Central Park in 1E66. 
Visitors to Central Park in 1867 
Visitors to Central Park in 1863 
Visitors to Central Park in 1869 
Visitors to Central Park in 1870 
Visitors to Central Park in 1871 10,764,411 
The Sydenham Palace, near Loudon, has been 
in operation seventeen years. It is eight or nine 
miles from London. When it was first built 
there were but few residences near it. During 
these seventeen years four large cities have sur- 
rounded it. It is annually visited by over 2,000,- 
000 people. During the time it has been open it 
has received visitors equal to ten visits for every 
man, woman, and child in London. Railroads 
have been compelled to make long detours and 
to construct branches running to it. Consider 
that, aside from the Central Park, New York has 
no great attraction, while London has so many- 
no less than six places of equal interest with the 
Sydenham Palace— and you will be able the bet- 
ter to judge of the large number of persons 
that will visit this Industrial Exhibition. Let 
every New Yorker consider that tha Island of 
New York is limited, that the ground selected 
will be in the center of the business and dwelling 
portion of the city, that this location is sur- 
rounded with steam and horse railroads, that it 
practically has a water-front connecting with 
Brooklyn and Williamsburgh, that this is the last 
piece of ground on New York Island large enough 
to accommodate a Crystal Palace and controlled 
by one body of men, that if this is not secured 
now it will forever debar New York from having 
such an institution. 
It being possible that fears may be entertained 
by some of the gentlemen who take the initiative 
in this matter as to the ultimate completion of a 
building as magnificent as the one contemplated, 
careful"arrangements have been made to secure 
them step by step as the enterprise progresses. 
The S2,350,000 of stock held by these gentlemen 
being but a portion of $7,000,000, which is the 
whole capital stock of the Company, the balance 
of the stock has been deposited with the Union 
Trust Company, to be by it held and used only 
for the construction of the building, as the cost 
from time to time accrues, and the first $2,350,- 
000 are made a special lien upon the land, to the 
exclusion of the balance, until such balance is 
used upon the building and in appreciating the 
value of the property. Thus it will be seen that 
those who pay for the land wiU be virtually the 
owners of it, and with them will rest whether 
the Crystal Palace will he built or not. If they 
decide to go no further than the mere purchase 
of the land, they can do so. 
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(See Illustration on page 89 of this paper,) 
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