Show ST LOUIS FAIR ATTENDANCE T JHB ATTENTION of the St Louts Louis LouisI I fair management has again been directed to the tile necessity for advertising that great bleat attraction This because the C attendance 8 has bus been beeR far fa under the t ex cx expectations expectation of having the expos exposi in charge To the ordinary y ob observer 06 o server it would seem HeIft that the tM fair fall has been pretty prett thoroughly t hb advertised Surely Surel nobody in this country is un unaware unaware unaware aware of t tile the tact fact that the Ute greatest ex exposition exposition position ever conducted in any aD land is isnow isnow Isnow now in progress r t t St Louis Every body lody who no has bet sees u eow the show has ha come away way a sUk nothing but kind words for forit forit forit it Viewed from fr rn any standpoint t it te Is the greatest thing thin of its kind kiad eyer eer a apt a ate tempted te But the people have ve not DOt been bt n going goinS to see aee it That is 18 not in as great gr t aunt num numbers bers ber as go m Daring the n l ariy rt three mo tW that t the Ute gates have ve been open something tike like J iMI people passed Ui them At that rate the attendance will wUl fall far snort short of the attendance atten at the Worlds fair of 1893 at Chicago During the x months th the Chicago fir fair was wae open up upward upward ward of or people saw it It IL One On a t single e day Oct DeL 3 t more More than three quarters of ofa a million millien people were inside the enclosure The paid admissions that day were TOMB and the free tree ad admissions admissions missions y ea ran the total above are net the people going to the Ute St Louis fair more generally geJl Is it because the th presidential election makes malea them careful wIlt w their money Are Me times tame so 0 hard that they cannot afford the r outlay Why in lIP ISM the nation Dation experienced one oue of the worst wont panics pan in its history Thousands of merchants Were wee forced into tat bankruptcy hundreds of banks anks went to the wall Nevertheless Never te teI less ieee I millions had bad enough money to Oft on trips to the Chicago fair fairA fairA A detailed ed record of the attendance at Chicago shows that the Ue crowds were light I ht first tint three taree month During DuiJn the last three months m they tINY In Increased Increased creased notably Perhaps this Otis will be betrue betrue true of St Louis L Bat But when all aU je j said sold it must most be M remembered that the I Chicago fair was advertised d as al never a 8 fair was as advertised ed before Detore or 0 since Though the St Sl Louis exposition will wUl willbe willbe be open a month longer than was the Chicago shew it does cIoe not now new seem probable that more people or 0 anything like Ilk as many will see the St Louis at attraction attraction traction as were present pre ent at Chicago e |