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Show WORLD'S FAIR PICTURES. Everybody Wants Them hut as They Cost Money It Will h Impossible to Supply Them All. George M. Barbour, who has charge of the lithograph, or advertising department of the World's Columbian exposition, is al the Continental. He was seen by a reporter in regard to the working of the department He says: "I left Chicago some few weeks ago, and have stopped at all the large cities. I am on my way to the coast and from there will go to the Sandwich Islands and Japan. I a:u on what you might call an advertising trip. "The department with which I am connected con-nected receives ou average, of 0000 letters a day, and some days, Monday's especially, as many as 18,000. Most of the letters are in regard to the lithographic cuts of the fair, ana it kept an army of clerks answering them. It was (bought it would he cheaper to put men on the road. Thousands of people seem to think they ought to get one of the lithographic cuts, when the fact is, that if one tenth of the requests re-quests were granted it would cost the department de-partment a million of dollars. F.ach oue of tiie hirdseye views cost about 70 cents. The plate alone for it cost some 40,(KK), and when you take into consideration that there are 160,000 leading hotels in tho United Slates, every one of which wants one, without with-out counting the thousands of country post-ollices, post-ollices, newspapers, etc., who all want one, it is easy to be seen how many it would take. The tlrst order we made was for 110,000 and they lasted but a short time. F.ach one of those views have to be handled twenty-six times'and go through the press twenty times before It is finished." "What do you think of the question of closing the Fair on Sunday?" was asked by the reporter. "I think tiiere is no clanger w hatever of it being closed on Sunday. Two-thirds of the commissioners are in favor of it being kept open, and the people in Chicago go wild whenever the Sunday closing question is mentioned." |