EXHIBITION FAILURE
i > jiiijAdi;di > hia’s rig shoav| POI.ITJCS AND BLL’KDERS. PHIDADBLPHIA. Oct. 15. The scsquiccntcnnial exposition is a (Inimical failure, and is lo be definitely closed on November 30. The attendance so far has been only 4.000. instead of the anticipated 25.000. The principal cause of failure at the hack of those figures is a long, consistent record of mismanagement, mistakes and politics. According lo critics thus far (he direct cost, to Hie city is £3,000.000. It was politics which placed (he exposition on a thousand-acre, mosquitoin rested swamp. Transit, lines had (o be improvised, with other hasty arrangements, to make, it possible for anyone lo attend. Critics attribute much of the lack of attendance to (he persistent opposition, the warfare of the churches and Sunday observance bodies.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3491, 29 October 1926, Page 3
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128EXHIBITION FAILURE Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3491, 29 October 1926, Page 3
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