The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-11-04

] IT Will be, Is the accommodation NJ Ieasonh-
BILE rates and in satisfactory manner, with
out confusion, of the hundreds of thousands
who will desire to visit Philadelphia between
April and October of next year. There is no
longer any doubt of the success of the Exhl-
bitlon. The interest in it has rapidly in
creased during the summer and fall months,
not only in this country, but also in Europe.
In this country the great event and celebra-
ton OF next year is already one of the fav-
orlte topics of interest among the people of
even the most distant West and South. Peo-
pie of moderate means are saving money ''to
attend the Centennial" heads of families are
laying plans to bring wives and children to
Philadelphia; everywhere one meets in
quiries about reduced fares, and fears that
the numbers who would like to attend will
not be able to find proper shelter and sup
plies in Philadelphia at reasonable charges.
| Inquiry on this last head has been so fire.
quent among our correspondents from West
ern and Southern States that we have taken
some pains to make investigations on the
subject, and with the following results =
| /. The managers of the railroads which
run into Philadelphia are engaged in confer
ences, with view to the establishment of
excursion rates of fare, and will probably be
able to make public programme, which will
| include all parts of the country, in time to
allow people everywhere to make their prep
arations.
| 2. With the consent and encouragement
of the managers of leading railroads, and of
the heads of the Centennial Commission,
company calling itself the Centennial
Lodging House Agency" is now engaged in
making arrangements with boarding house
keepers and the occupants Of private houses
in Philadelphia, by which q great deal of
house room will be definitely engaged before
hand, at specified prices, for the accommoda-
ton of VISITORS and it is intended to perfect
this system SO far as to enable railroad COM
panies in all parts of the country
to sell to those who wish them, with their
railroad tickets, coupons emitting the hold
ers to specified accommodations lodging
and food-in Philadelphia at fixed rates, and
for such periods as may be desired Agents
of the company will then be placed on every
| incoming train to direct the holders of such
coupons to the places where lodgings have
been engaged for them, and by hand maps
of the city and other means to explain to
strangers how most cheaply and conveniently
to reach the Centennial grounds and see the
other remarkable and historic points of the
city. We print elsewhere some details show
ing how this plan is to be carried out.
3. 1t is proposed to run Exhibition trains
between New York and Philadelphia at such
times and rates as to make day at the Ex-
hibition an easy achievement for the popula-
ton Of New York and its suburbs. Between
Jersey City and the Exhibition ground the
time Of these trains is, we hear, not to ex-
coed two hours.
4 Almost every town and village near
Philadelphia is making preparations to re-
ceive strangers, and there is reason to believe
that in number of them some organized
effort will be made to make known at dis
lance the style and price Of accommodations
that can be obtained.
5. The fruit and vegetable gardeners
within fifty miles of Philadelphia began
already last year to make preparations for the
extraordinary demand which they anticipate
for their products in 1876 and the amount
available in the city will be very greatly in
creased over previous years, so that prices of
these kinds of food will not probably
rise. Moreover, many Of the villages in
New Jersey where truck farming and garden
ing are pursued, such as Vineland, have
hotels and houses capable of accommodating
strangers ct reasonable rates, and have such
frequent access to the city as is convenient
to visitors.
On the whole it is safe to assure the thou
sands who desire to attend the Centennial
Exhibition from distance, and the greater
number of whom must necessarily be people
of moderate and limited means, that they
may count upon doing so at an expense
which they will be able pretty accurately to
calculate beforehand, and without being an
noyed by confusion or needless trouble
The MISSISSIPPI ELECTION. to
various fears, hopes and expectations,
election day appears to have been as
quiet in Mississippi as any one, even
Quaker, could have wished. The democrats
have carried the State, and this puts an end
to thescandalous misrule of Governor Ames,
which was as hateful to the honest republi-
cans of Mississippi as to the democrats.
Yesterday showed that Attorney General
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