Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-21
Centennial Hash.

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- While noticeable Improvements have
| been made in the hotel accommodations
of Philadelphia in anticipation OF an
extraordinary demand during the Cen
| tennial season, many of the housekeepers
| have signified an intention of also pro-
viding for the reception Of visitors From
| the interest already displayed in this
movement it is calculated that at least
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
people can be comfortably lodged here
that is, thirty.five thousand in the
hotels and ninety thousand in private
houses. These figures have been reach
ed partially by the Investigations Of the
Centennial lodging house agency, after
q canvass of little less than one-half
of the city, and bya comparison OF the
number of dwelling houses and p0puls-
ton in this city with New York. Then
considering the available hall and vacant
store.rOOm that could be brought into
requisitiOn in quaItering visiting Or
CARNATIONS, the facilities for serving
meals at the various eating saloons
scattered throughout the city and calcu-
lated to furnish over two hundred thou
sand meals a day, the establish,
ment of restaurants within the
Centennial grounds capable of fur
nishing over thirty-five thousand
meals in one hour, it would seem
apparent that ample facilities for
feeding and lodging visitors will be pro-
vided. The American restaurant Of
Messrs. Tobias0n d HeiIbrun will be
managed SO as to serve five thousand
meals in an hour, or fifty thousand
meals in day; MERGERS Southern res
taurant two thousand people at one
sitting, while Sudreau's New York
restaurant, Lauber's German restaurant
and Goyard's French restaurant will
feed over fifteen thousand people. The
calculations thus far made az to the
probable attendance at the exhibition
have figured the daily arrivals in Phila-
delphia at twenty thousand. With an
average OF ten days for visit and
daily outlay for each visitor of five dol
lars there would be one million dollars
expended here each day, or a total of
two hundred million dollars during the
Centennial season. This is a very i'm
the benefits Philadelphia will derive
from the success OF the exhibition. But
it is net only promised that the fair will
excel all others in the character o! ex.
hibits, ETC., since as prominent
member OF the Centennial board
Of finance assured q Times re-
porter yesterday, the exhibition will
prove a financial success, and thus
carry off the palm from all the worlds
fairs yet held, none of them having
paid expenses. The greatest obstacle
the Centennial authorities had TO con-
tend with in providing accommodations
for visitors, after the question oflCdgings
had been disposed of, was the difficulty
in securing provisions to feed such q
great mass of people as would congregate
here. But the matter worked itsel II cut.
1t was feared that vegetables would be
scarce, and that butter, eggs and meats
would command enormous prices. This
a. first sight appeared inevitable. No
method Of providing against a scarcity
seemed feasible, and several hotel
keepers and spectators, to guard
against too great an advance in prices,
made contracts for buying butter at one
dollar per pound, and other provisions
in proportion. 1t is not likely, however,
that these extreme precautions will
prove at all profitable, and there will be
little or no increase in the price Of pro.
visions if careful investigation into
the preparations already inaugurated can
be relied upon as an indication. Philadel-
phia is 80 located that large section of
country can be drained at comparatively
little cost. All through New jersey
vegetable patches have been planted by
farmers with the idea of meeting extra
demand, while the facilities for obtain
ing meat ct the abattoir Of the PennsyI-
vania railroad, on the west bank of the
Schuylkill, will be unrivaIed. Merchants
are already soliciting cOnsignme nts of
provisions from New York State, locali. |
lies that heretofore found a market in |
New York city. Farmers and darymen |
generally are increasing their stock to |
supply milk and butter. The large |
dairies of New York, western Pennsyl- |
vania and Ohio, that previously manu- |
featured cheese on an extensive scale, |
propose now to turn their attention to |
supplying butter. A firm that hes gene
rally packed fifty thousand dozen eggs |
and kept them in good condition for |
years by patent process, has, this year |
packed five hunOred thousand dozen. |
Another fample Of the enterprise which |
has been manifested in preparing for |
the Centennial can bs found in the |
project of a party of capitalists who |
have invested upward OF two hundred |
dollars in poultry. This they
have packed in frozen condition in a
.torehouse on the White mountains, and
propose delivering here next year in
cans. Provision dealers are
investing largely in hams and cured