Show attendance AT THE FAIR the probable attendance on the worlds fair is ie a subject which to ia receiving soma attention now that the opening day Is ia close at hand of course everything of tola this nature la Is only conjecture but there are some standards of arriving at conclusions that are better than others the chi cago record while hol holding jing that comparisons pari sons between the paris exposition and the columbian are not to be drawn still thinks that before the gates at jackson park are thrown open a perusal of the figures representing the attendance at the former will be la in that exhibition was opened may 6 1889 and closed nov 6 following during that period it was visited by people who paid entrance fees at the tae gates thirty millions of tickets were issued and were used lifted these figures in themselves will not the thinks approach those of the attend ance at chicago various estimates have been made based upon a 61 liberal attendance of visitors from abroad just what countries most liberally patronized the paris pans exhibit tion may indicate those nations most tobe relied on in this event at paris people were franr the preach provinces and were foreigners of the foreign visitors the english led in numbers these are the figures english 1 1 ll 11 h russians B belgians i i ms greeks turks germans and Roun bounnam iani north ameri amen ans cans portuguese spaniards scandinavians 2600 2500 baiss bw iss Asi aties iLta lians ansi africans and al austrians Aust rians gercans ge nans south americans it is ie thus ihus shown that england ta la numbers loi lej every other sightseeing sight seeing foreign nation but the he two continents of america showed greatest comparative interest when di distance is considered even this comparative table may be reversed so far as concerns europe st at chicago exhibits from all nationalities have been prepared with great earse Etness it is not too much to expect that a nation strongly interested in exhibits will he be to the he same degree concerned in supplying visitors to what extent this holds good will be interesting to note |