The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
TIE CENTENNIAL.

Things at Philadelphia are beginning
to foreshadow the great coming event,
and this in the unpleasant, rather than
the agreeable sense. We are not moving
the roseate atmosphere that betokens
coming sun, but we are beginning to
get the benefit of the increase of prices
brought about by a belief in immense
future demand. I am bound to say that
the hotel keepers have not yet made any
forward movement, but there is a visible
reluctance to let rooms to single men,
the obvious reason being that married
couple occupy the same amount of space
and give double the amount of profit.
The hotel men are looking far forward
into the misty region of the future, and
they see all their rooms occupied by
families, and all the dining rooms, break
fast rooms, corridors, parlors, stairways
covered with encampments OF cots. Still.
In spite of such previsionings, the prices
have not advanced. But In the matter of
boarding-houses, a specially of enter
prise usually conducted by females, it
NAV boldly be said that the signs of a
determined resolution to kill the golden
goose before it can lay a single egg are
absolutely unmistakable. Prices have
gone up fifty per cent, with indications
that the maximum of extortion has not
been reached by any means. And the
accommodation which is fairly good now
threatens by the 1st of May to sink to
minimum. The reyerie of Alnaschar III
the Arabian Nights was not more Elusive
than the fond imaginings of some of
these landladies. The most extravaganza
have informed me that they do not in
tend 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, 81 shall
put four beds in my large rooms and two
in nv small ones. I shall not take any
ladies. and I expect two gentlemen to
occupy each bed" "But, ma'am," I
reconstructed In as insinuating tones as I
could command, 'swhere viii all these
men come from 90 ooh p she answered,
tossing her head, CT have cousin In
one of the hotels. and I expect to get all
the overflow from that house" And [
find, from general questioning in the
boarding house districts, that they all
RELY more or less on the overflow from
the hotels.
While the boarding house keepers are
preparing to transmute the overflow
from the hotels into a golden shower,
there are various schemes In different
stages Of development for utilizing the
inevitable indignation of the public with
the boarding house keepers. There is a
granger company which proposes to
erect wooden barracks In park not far
from the Centennial ground, which will
accommodate 5000, and their charge
will be fifty cents per head. Meals will
be supplied at moderate rates upon the
ground, and the whole thing will be con-
Quoted as much as possible after the
fashion of a camp-meeting. Everything
will be rough and ready, or perhaps very
particularly rough and ready, or perhaps
very particularly rough and not particu-
larly ready. Another company has pur-
chased the old Oak cemetery for SINH
lar purpose. Formerly there was here
a splendid mansion and fine grounds. [
understand that only part of the lands be-
longing to the property was ever used
for interment. Burials have ceased here
for some years, and [ may state for the
relief of those who are timid about
ghosts, and who believe in the midnight
appearance of the sheeted dead, that the
monuments are being removed as fast as
possible In fact, by the time the crash
comes there will be nothing to remind
the encamper of the past uses of these
grounds, save perhaps the funeral aspect
of the shrubs, which have been planted
on purpose to look gloomy and solemn,
will not unnaturally hardly be ablo to
acquire POLITICALLY cheerful and pictur-
esque aspect In go short time. Then [
understood from one of the agents of the
principal railway here that encampments
are being projected along the lands of
the three principal roads that enter the
city-the Pennsylvania Central, the
Philadelphia and Reading, and the Will
mington, Baltimore and Washington.
The arrangements here have not been
developed to any great extent, but the
railroads have agreed to give commuta-
ton tickets at very low rate, and to
run trains every half hour, or every
twenty minutes if necessary. The dis
tances of these encampments viii aver
age from two and half to seven miles
from the Centennial grounds, and can
state from personal observation that
along two of the lines there are many
very beautiful and commodious sites for
such q purpose. And [ have no doubt
that the same thing is equally true of
the third line.
It is really too bad that the excessive
greed of the Philadelphians should bid
fair to overturn the really admirable
plans of the Centennial managers. On
the one hand, the boarding house keep
ers are banded together to prevent the
visitors from being anything but tran
sient. On the other hand, Gen. Hawley
and others are straining every nerve to
make such arrangements to interest and
attract the visitors as to induce them to
stay.
Man-Eating Tigers.