Anyone know why this past SAT question is correct?

lifelearner
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:00:28 +0000

Note: some insignificant words slightly changed:

The crowds that flocked to the world’s fair in New York in 1895 were larger and more enthusiastic than the crowds at the World’s fair in London had been a few years earlier.

SAT said the above was correctly written as the best choice, and I would like to know why choice E below wouldn’t be equally or more correct?

Choice E reads: “in comparison to those at the World’s Fair in Paris”

Thanks to anyone who can help.