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According to its official report, 5,162,330 visitors attended the exposition, of whom about 4.2 million entered the industrial exposition and 900,000 entered the Beaux Arts exposition. Expenses amounted to upward of $ 5,000,000, while receipts were scarcely one-tenth of that amount. The exposition
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