MILLIONTH VISITOR TO THE EXHIBITION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 4 February 1907, Page 4

MILLIONTH VISITOR TO THE EXHIBITION.

Tlii' "Millionth "Visitor" (o ihe Exhibition must be a person <>!' some nolorie.y in Chri-iehureii today, notwithstanding the f.iel. that she is only a demure little girv of seventeen, named Alice C. denning*. The .•scramble for the gojd watch, which the authorities decided to present to the fortunate individual who passed through the turn-tiles at (he right moment, was an i amusing one. At 4 p.m., snvs tiie l.ytteUon Times. Mr ,J. VI Collins, di- 1 rector of admissions, commenced his round of the lurnsti'es, taking down their numbers in a lug black book, and topping each turnstile. At ■!.:!() he reached Kilmoie street enframe, and ■joined hi r- f. Jdow jUlges.; 0. S.. Muuro and Mr I). O. Chirk, and together they recorded eaeii entrance at the three turnstiles which were left open. There were only some -2' i] admis don* to regis!er. but the crowd d'd not know litis, and they passed fearful on the brink, eager to pavthrongh, and yet iiesilant. fo* fear ihey should pa-s through too soo «. A! four miuu.o- pa-t live a ripple went through the crowd. No woid h-m j been said, hy judges or gal-'k'-cper-hut t lie >. l'owd somehow became a ware liy t haf ijueer intuii'-oa thai i< a purl and parcel of every human being', that ;he time was at hand: and one eager watcher, who hid l>■•en wale".big for this psychical moment, sprang throu-j* Ihrough the turnstile— jit-! n-ie chVV too -oon. And behind him stood the maiden who had just wnlk'd calm ! \ down 'lhe street, and without. Fiks ot trouble suddenly found herseb' lifted on the pinnacle of fame as the millionth person who hail visited the "Fxhibition. And the judges shook hand 4 with her all round, and Mr Munro said nice things in her ear, and, accompanied bv this official escort, she wa? conducted to Ihe front of the wnitim camera, behind and around her si crowd of many hundreds, seething am. struggling out of all bounds in theii unquenchable desire lo get a. good view of "The Millionth Person."