Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition CommissionLouisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
We have agreed the receipts from sales of tickets with the
ticket custodian's record, and have verified the tickets
appearing on that record as unsold. We have also satisfied
ourselves that the system in the admissions department was such
as to provide adequate safeguards for the collection by the
company of the admissions receipts derived from other sources.
It would appear that the total loss of the company in this
department through shortages of employees, counterfeit and
mutilated coins, etc., amounted to about $1,250, about one-third
of which is probably recoverable from the bonding company, so
that the final loss to the exposition will be very small.
The total receipts for admissions are distributed as follows:
Exposition period:
Admissions of individuals ................ $6,042,746.65
Vehicles ................................. 5,671.50
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$6,048,418.15
Pre-exposition period .....................................
175,906.25
Post-exposition period ....................................
16,156.50
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6,240,480.90
The details of the attendance and revenue during the exposition
period are as follows:
--------------------------------------+-----------+---------------+---------
| Number. | Receipts. |Cents per
| | |admission
--------------------------------------+-----------+---------------+---------
Adults: | | |
General admission .................. | 11,180,996| $5,589,715.50 | 50.00
Season and other commutation tickets | 961,175| 291,827.00 | 30.32
Children: +-----------+---------------+---------
General admission .................. | 621,640| 155,634.25 | 25.04
Season and other commutation tickets | 40,805| 5,569.90 | 13.65
+-----------+---------------+---------
Total paid attendance ............... | 12,804,616| 6,042.746.65 | 47.19
Free: | | |
Adults ............................. | 6,480,267 | ............. | ........
Children ........................... | 409,972 | ............. | ........
+-----------+---------------+---------
Total exposition days ........... | 19,694,855| ............. | ........
Sundays (free) ...................... | 371,682| ............. | ........
+-----------+---------------+---------
Grand total ..................... | 20,066,537| ............. | ........
--------------------------------------+-----------+---------------+---------
It may be of interest to add that the attendance by months was
as follows:
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