The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-16
A wheeiinSite AT the Centennial
What it Costs TO Stay I'm Phiiadei-
phta-He Becomes Enraptured
with the Paintings and Statuary
In the Art Gallery.


Editors of the Register.
l promised to give Information in re-
gard to the cost of staying here, and
think the following statement may be
relied upon. You can get very good
board in private families for from Sl2 so
to SIS per week. This will give you
supper, lodging and breakfsst-dinner
of course, you will get at the Centennial
grounds, because, when once in, IN the
morning, scarcely anything would in
duce you to come away before night, II
you wish to board at any OF the hotels,
your bills will run from SIS to $40 per
week, according to the style you take
on. The Atlas Hotel, built for the oc-
casion, and within three minutes walk
of the main building, having &C
commodstions for four thousand
guests, will give you supper, lodg
ing and breakfast for $3.50
per day; or you can pay one dollar per
day for your room and board where you
D. ease, but if you take a room you must
also take room mate rs every room Is
furnished with two beds. the object being
to save gas, rs it takes no more to light
two persons than II does 10 light one.
The Grand Exposition Hotel is another
on the same plan, and not far from the
grounds-in fact you can't go amiss for
accommodations, and on very reasonable
terms. The family with whom | am
stopping tells me that provisions are just
as cheap now. as they ever have been
since they have lived here; some articles
are even cheaper such rs butter and
vegetables. saw boys on last Friday
hawking Strawberries from door to door
at ten cents per box. Agents from the
city board every train 40 or so miles
out, who are prepared TO furnish the
passengers with any kind OF boarding
they may wish, and in almost any part OF
the city These agents can be rel!ed
upon, as the railroads are very jealous
o; the rights of their passengers and
would not by any means permit swlnd-
lers TO operate against them. l have
now put in eight busy days in and about
the exposition buildings, and still the IN
terest does not abate one joi or title.
Why sirl The art gallery alone con-
tains enough to keep any ordinary NOR
tai il terested for-I was going 10 say
month-but | don't believe any one man
could mere than appreciate it in life
time. just see those beautiful paintingsl
Those grand, glorious, magnificent con-
cent, ms: paintings that have taken their
authors months and years of study and
labor to perfect and no"
could you expect oooy
70 gather them in" at glance. And
vet there are thousands who .'do up TINS
whole building IN two or three hours.
som. of the finest paintings the world
ever saw are passed by with some trivial
rernsrk. Take, for instance, bIerstadts
"Settling of Californis." Hundreds will
MSS il by with some such remark rs this,
IA rent those horses natursiT Now
this picture contains two groups OF hg-
urss with immense meaning depicted IN
their faces, combined with landscape
almost unsurpassed anywhere, and IN
order to get all its meaning and beauty,
one should study it for hours. Is 1t any
wonder that artists, the most sensitive
neonIe in the world, should shrink away
and retire from the vulgar crowd IN dis
gus, and despair? Right here. let me
saw TO all those who wish 10 appreciate
these works to their full extent, bring
along your opera-glasses; and be sure you
bring along \ inst class pair. They VIII
develop beauties and glories undetected
nv the naked eve. and will also serve 10
show YOU the difference between paint
ing and 3 daub. The ststuary IN this same
building are marvellous works OF genius
and execution. The symmetrical outlines
and wonderful expressions given to these
cold, white, marble stones, together with
the drapery, form 8 subject for hours OF
sweet mental reverie- The most OF these
figures represent female grace ana beauty,
and what more refining and civi!izing IN
iuence can . man have than to fellow on
one of those ideal pictures into dream
land?
Mr.. Editor, l am not putting on the
airs of an exquisite when / tell you
that Language fails 10 give anything ou'
a beggared description of these gresi
master pieces. One may exhaust Oil inc
adjec,Ives in the English language ana
then fall Ear short of the living reality.
IL will reward any one TO come spd see.
Wheeling is pretty we'll represented
among the visitors which shows tina the
Wheeling CITES don't like hard times, lac
cent on the hard with Q nasal tvang,)
hothsr than Yours. p. IL.