The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-01-22
THE PACIFIC
Commercial AOOtrtiser.
SATURDA 7, January %
From the Philadelphia Tines
Centennial Hash.
HOW THE NATIONS WILL BE PED AND LODGED.

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While noticeable improvements have been
made in the hotel accommodations Of Philadel-
phia in anticipation Of an extraordinary demand
during the Centennial season, many Of the house
keepers have signifed an intention of also pro-
viding for the reception Of visitors. From the
interest already displayed in thisEmovement it Is
calculated that least one hundred and twenty-five
thousand people can be comfortably lodged here
that is, thirty-hve thousand IN the hotels and
ninety thousand in private houses. These figures
have been reached partially by the Investigations
Of the Centennial LOdglng-house Agency, after a
canvass of a very little less than one half Of the
city, and by a comparison Of the number Of
dwelling-hOuses and population in this city with
New York. Then considering the available hall
and vacant store-room that could DC brought into
requisition In quarterlng visiting organizations,
the facilities for serving meals at the various
eating-saloons scattered throughout the city, and
calculated TO furnish over 200 900 meals q day,
the establishment Of restaurants within the Cen
tennial grounds capable of furnishing over twenty
five thousand meals in one hour, II would seem
apparent that ample facilities for feeding and
lodging visitors will be provided.
The American restaurant of Messrs. TobiaSon
and HeiIbrun will be managed so as to serve
1000 meals in an hour, or so 900 meals in a
day. MERGERS Southern restaurant 2 200 people
at one sitting, while Sundreau's New York res
taurant, Lauber's German restaurant and Coy
ards French restaurant will feed over Is 900
people. Inc CALCULATIONS tnuS lar maze as 10 tue
probable attendance at the Exhibition have hg-
ured the daily arrivals at Philadelphia at twenty
thousand. With an average of ten days for a
visit, and a daily outlay of five dollars for each
visitor, there will be "a, 900 900 expended here
each day, or a total of 5000 900 900 during the
Centennial season. This is q very important con-
sideration in determining the benefits Philadel-
phia will derive from the success of the Exhibi-
ton. But it is not only promised that the Fair
will excel all others in the character OF exhibits,
ETC., since, as a prominent member OF the Cen
tennial Board assured a Times reporter, yester-
day, the Exhibition will prove a financial success,
and thus carry of the palm from all the Worlds
Fairs yet held, none of them ever having paid
expenses. The greatest obstacle the Centennial
authorities had to contend with in providing ac-
cOmmOdations for visitors, after the question of
lodgings had been disposed of, was the difficulty
people that would congregate here. But the mat
ter worked itself out. 1t was feared vegetables
would be scarce, and that butter, eggs, and meats
would command high prices. This, at first sight,
appeared inevitable. No method of providing
against q scarcity seemed feasible, and several
hOtel-keepers and spectators, to guard against
too great an advance in prices, made contracts
for buying butter at 81 per pound, and other
provisions IN proportion. 1t is not likely. how
ever, that these extreme precautions will prove at
all profitable, and there will be little or no in
crease in the price OF provisions if a careful in
vestigation into the preparation already inaugu-
rated can can be relied upon as an indication.
Philadelphia is SO located that a 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 the extra demand, while the facilities
for obtaining meat at the abattoir of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, on the west bank of the Schuyl-
kill, will be unrivaied. Merchants are already
soliciting consignments of provisions from New
York State, localities that heretofore found q
market in New York city. Farmers and dairy
men generally are increasing their stock to supply
milk and butter. The large diaries of New
York, Western Pennsylvania and Ohio, that pre-
viously manufactured cheese on an extensive
scale, propose now to turn their attention to sup
plying butter. A firm that has generally packed
$4,000 dozen eggs and keeps them in good condi-
ton for years by q patent process, has this year
packed 500 900 dozen. Another sample of the
enterprise which has been manifested in prepar-
ing for the Centennial can be found in the pro-
ject of a party of capitalists who have invested
upward Of 5000 900 in poultry. This they have
packed in a frozen condition in a storehouse on
the White Mountains, and propose delivering
here next year in refrigerator cans. Provision
dealers are investing largely in hams and cured
meats.