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Show CONCESSIONARIES WILL I EXPEND $10,000,000 mPS..-"-- San Francisco, April 7. Six 9 .thousand applications for con- H cessions at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition have M been filed with Director Frank I Burt of the Division of Conces m sions and Administrations, and although only thirty-one con-B con-B tracts have been granted to con-m con-m cessionaries, the latter will ex-M ex-M pend more than two million dol- lars in preparing their attrac- tions for 1915. 8 "It is safe to predict, " said 1 Director Burt, "that this Divi- M sion when complete will repre- r sent an investment of ten million I . dollars and the employment of I seven thousand people, which is I ' " far in excess of previous Exposi- I tions, their average investment having been seven million dollars i with the employment of five iiflwWfrf'Oi thousand people T -? "This 4a phenomenal -as the H Division of Concessions and iJ Associations of our Expositions - ', - - ; ;- -"'""l": ' " ---" ::.:--- aged one hundred and four to one hundred and twenty-four icrai for conckn. However 'the succeeeof this Division may be attributed to the fact that it will accept only that which represents what is best in the amusement world, small uninteresting "sideshows" "side-shows" are eliminated, only those that are educational and clean receiving the consideration considera-tion of this Division. .I...-.I .1.1.1.. I . Ml III |