Porter and Chauncey M. Depew were there to respond. At the formal exercises Thomas F. Gilroy, Mayor of New York city, and Seth Low, President of Columbia College, took part, and the formal reception closed with a benediction by Archbishop Corrigan. Parades by day and pageants by night, closing with fireworks, were included in the ceremonies.

Attendance. The number of paid admissions to the Columbian Fair during the 179 days that it was open to the public was 21,477,218, being an average of 119,9841 per day. The total attendance, including exhibitors and others who held passes, was 27,529,400, which exceeded by nearly a million the 26,538,543 of the total admissions to the Paris Exposition during the months ending with October.

The attendance for May was only 1,050,087 Taking out the 128,965 of the opening day and the 115,578 of Decoration Day, the average for the other twenty-six days was only 30,980. The

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paid attendance for June was two and a half that of May, but its 2,675,113 included only five days the figures for which exceeded the six months' average. In July that average was first exceeded, on the 4th, with a total of 283,273, and on the 20th the average was again passed, with a total of 129,873, by the Swedish celebration. The total (3,780,263) for that month but slightly exceeded the record for June. The 3,515,493 of August was an increase of one fourth. The paid attendance for each of fifteen days exceeded the average, and except Sundays the lowest figures were 80,200. The banner day " in August was the 24th, when 243,951 persons paid their way through the gates to join in celebrating Illinois day. The other two largest records of August were 168,861 for the 19th, which was British day, and the 168,036 of the 25th, which was Machinery day. September brought an increase to nearly 4,660,000, its best day being the 231,522 for the

9th, when the Californians, the Grand Army of the Republic, Utah, the stationary engineers, and the exponents of transportation joined in celebrating. On three other days the record went above 200,000-namely, the 23d, being Knights of Honor day, with 215,643; the 7th, by Pennsylvania and Brazil, with 203,460; and the 16th, with 202,376, that being Texas, Railway, and New Mexico day. October brought 6,816,435 visitors, or an average of 227,214 for each day, which was less than one third of the 716,881 persons who paid their way on the twenty-second anniversary of the Chicago fire. On each of three other days the record exceeded 300,000, the 10th being North Dakota and Firemen's day, and the 11th, which was Connecticut day, both rising above 309,000. Making due allowance for duplications by persons who paid more than one visit to the fair, it may be estimated that twelve million different individuals went there within the six months.

Police Service.-No large gathering of people such as collected daily at Jackson Park could be expected to escape the annoyance of petty thieving. For the protection of the visitor, the Secret-Service Bureau of the World's Columbian Exposition was organized

September 1, 1892;

and ex-Police Inspector John Bonfield, formerly of the Chicago department, was given charge. He consulted with city and State officials throughout the United States and Europe, and mapped out a plan for the protection of visitors, and on May 1, 1893, he had a force on the grounds of 300 picked men, coming from every State in the Union, England, Canada, and South America.

The records show 845 arrests, 400 convictions, and 105 acquittals; 297 persons were arrested for pilfering from exhibits and released on paying for the goods they had taken: 33 persons were arrested for attempting to gain admission to the grounds on fraudulent passes; 9 persons were arrested for attempting to pass counterfeit money; 143 ex-convicts were taken in and removed from the grounds, and cautioned if they were again found in the grounds they would be prosecuted; 1,395 showcases in the different exhibits were found open and not locked, through the carelessness of exhibitors or their employees; 300 stolen souvenir tickets were recovered from a gateman; value of property reported stolen, $32,988: value of property recovered and returned to owners, $31,875. The Secret-Service Department had charge of the lost and found articles up to the 19th of August, when it was turned over to the auditing depart

ment. The number of articles found by secretservice officers and returned to owners was 861, the value being $11,381. The Secret-Service Bureau went out of existence on Dec. 1.

Cost of the Fair.-The total cash receipts of the exposition from all sources up to and including Nov. 12 were $33,290,065.58, while the disbursements were $31,117,353.79. In the month of May there were 11,482 persons on the pay rolls of the fair and their total compensation was $387,499.89, exclusive of the amount paid to the 7,000 men employed by contractors.

The average receipts a day during the six months it was open were $89,501.53, and the average expenses a day were $18,380.59. The smallest attendance was on May 5, 10,791, and the largest on Chicago day, Oct. 9, 729,203. The total number of paid admissions for the six months was 21,530,854

The disbursements represent the money paid out for landscape gardening and architecture: dredging, filling, and excavating; coloring and decorating; draughtsmen's wages; electric plant; interior docking; grading and surveying; piers and breakwaters; roadways and sidewalks; sculpture modeling; statues; water and sewerage; horses, wagons, and harnesses; the various exhibition buildings; and other items too many

to mention.

From these results it is expected that when the Committee on Finance make their final repcrt they will be able to announce a dividend of 10 per cent.