Show ATTENDANCE AT THE FAIR A Gradual But Constant Increase Every Day LOWER EAILEOAD RATES The Completion of the Lone Star State Building Celebrated in a Way Likely to Strike Popular Sentiment and Be Imitated by Many Other State Commissioners Commission-ers A Series of Musical Recitals CHICAGO July 8The fine weather of July is beeinning to tell perceptibly on I the attendance at the fair the daily average aver-age showing a gradual but constant increase r in-crease and officials expect this to continue con-tinue until early in autumn Estimates of the railroads seem to justify the expectation ex-pectation of fair officials that the attendance I attend-ance the last months of the fair will show a great increase Again the period of selfish amity among railroad officials having hav-ing passed and the railroads having begun be-gun to cut rates in their greed for patronage patron-age the approaching era of cheap travel cannot fail to show an enormous increase in the number of visitors from a distance The completion of the Lone Star state building was celebrated today in a way likely to strike popular sentiment and be imitated by many other state conums sioners It was by the inauguration of a series of mnsicaljecitals io be given by amateur talent in the auditorium a handsome hand-some structure from time to time through the summer The first concert was a decided de-cided success The official dedication of the building will occur July 29 A popular orchestral concert this evening even-ing at the new music pavilion inaugurated inaugu-rated a new series of open air concerts under the direction of Theodore Thomas The doors of the building of the Republic Re-public of Colombia were thrown open this afternoon without the formality of a formal celebration reserved for July 29 which is the national independence day of Colombia Bliss Rlgelow Is Better CHICAGO July 8Miss Jessie Bigelow of Ogden Utah who was seriously injured in-jured yesterday during the burning of two Worlds fair hotels is resting easily today and may recover The several others injured two of them guests and five firemen will all recover |