The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
THE cen 7ENNIAL.
Tho Note Of Preparation-What the Hotets
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Things at Philadelphia are beginnin
to foreshadow the great coming event
and this in the unpleasant, rather tina
the agreeable sense. We are not novin
in the roseate atmosphere that betoken
a coming sun, but we are beginning t
get the benefit of the increase of price
brought about by belief in immens
future demand. 1 am bound to say tina
the hotel-keepers have not yet made an.
forward movement, but there is visibl
reluctance to let rooms to single men
the obvious reason being that marrie'
couple occupy thessame amount of spac
and give double the amount of profit
The hotel men are looking far forward
into the misty region of the future, ant
they see all their rooms occupied by fam
lilies, and all the dining-roons, breakfast
rooms, corridors, parlors, stairways GOV
cred with encampments of cots. Still
in spite of such provisionings, the price
have not advanced. But in the matter
of boarding houses, a speciality OF enter
prise usually conducted by females, j
may boldly be said that the signs of
determined resolution to kill the COLDER
goose before it can lay single egg are
absolutely unmistakable. Prices have
gone up fifty per cent, with indications
that the maximum of extortion has moi
Been reached by any means. And the
accommodation which is fairly good now
threatens by the LIST of May to sink to q
minimum. The reverie of Alnaschar in
the Arabian Nights was not more Elusive
than the fond imaginings of some of these
landladies. The most extravagant have
informed me that they do not intend to
take any permanent boarders at all, nor
do they propose to, furnish meals, but
they will reserve their rooms for transient
guests. Said one, II shall put four beds
in my Large rooms and two in my small
ones. I shall not take any ladies, and 1
expect two gentlemen to occupy each
bed" But, ma'am," I demonstrated
in as insinuating tones as could COM
mand, where will all these men come
from?' "Ohw she answered, tossing her
head, I have a cousin in one of the
hotels, and I expect to get all the over
flow from that honse." And find, from
general questioning in the boarding house
that they all rely, more or less,
on the overflow from the hotels.
While the clearinghouse keepers are
to transmute the overflow from
the hotels into a golden shower, there are
various schemes in different stages of de-
velopment for utilizing the inevitable
indignation Of the public with the board
ing house keepeis. There is a:granger
which proposes to erect wooden
in a park not far from the cen
tennial ground, which will accommodate
three thousand, and their charge will be
fifty cents per head. Meals will be sup
Piled at moderate ratessupon the ground,
and the whole thing will be conducted as
much as possible after the fashion of a
camp useetins. EyeHthing will b pugh
and ready or perhapv very particularly
rough and not particularly ready. An
other company has purchased the old
Oak Cemetery for similar purpose.
Formerly there was here splendid man
,isns and ine grounds I understand
hat only, part Of the lands tef619hs to
he. proipstt u was ever ussd for intefment.
Buriais 80 cessed hen6 fbf some years.
md = ~ state for tn relief Of those
Who are umid about ghosts, and Who be-
ieye:h ne midnight appeerance Of the
'heeted dead, that the inonuments are
oeing-repoved as fast as pble i'm fact,
oy the time the crash CORES there willa
" nothing to remind the encamper of
he past uses of these grouIe l4Te per-
,apssStfA funeral aspect Of the shrubs,
vhicb hAs3.g been planted on p6fpose to
COX glols nd ecienn, vim not tnnat7
rally III ~ ble u acqaiss 4 poets
cai6 siserfl snd picturesque aspect IN
ozhsrt . time Then Understood from
,ns. of tie agenfs- of the principal RAN
vay here that encampnaents arp being
along the lands of~the three
roads that enter the city-the
Pennsylvania Central the Philadelphia
md Reading, and thu Wilmihgton, Bal
imofe and Washington. The arrange
nents here have not been developed to
my great extent, but the railroads have
lgreed to give Communication tickets at
rery low nate, md to nun trains every
lalf hour, or every twenty ninutessif
The, distances of these en-
will average from two and
,alf to seven miles from heeentennial
grounds, and can state from personal
that along two Of the lines
here are many very beautiful and COM
nodious sites for such purpose. And
AVE no doubt that the same thing is
,qually true of the third line.
1t is really too bad that the excessive
reed Of the Philadelphians should bid
air TO ..oyerturn the really admirable
,lans. of the centennial managers. On
he one hand, the bdarding house keep
RS ars<abanded Aogsther to present thel
risitors from being anything but tran
lent. On the other hand, Gen. Hawley
md others are straining every nerve to
make such arrangements to interest and
lttracts the visitors as to induce them to
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1576 AND 1s76.-The New York, World
pggests a. very plain, but very pointed
ievice for grand. national. banner which
hould be hung out in front of the grand
,nterance of the Centennial exhibition
It Philadelphia, to mark Che exact pro-
,ress which we have made in one hun
lred years of existence as a people:
= The Spirit of 1776-" am not a rich
nan, but, poor as 1 am, the King of
Great Britain is inotrich enough to; buy
JOS. Reed, of Pennsylvania, to