The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-05-25
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Of the Graphic, writes; / have never
until this moment written cursOry line
on the Americas show. Thst Il The
handy word 70 call it. Exhibition Is an
impondeTable word; exposition Is an
afFectation. Centennial has q tent yell
IN II, as you viii observe when you APP
proacft the thing itself, and The Peddlers,
vendors, and mountebanks begin 70 yell.
As Julius Cesar and the Latin language
had nothing to do with l776, Il was un.
fortunate to have brought them on the
ground after the hundFedth year. Let
me show you the Pegasus Is il stands.
RIDE TO THE GROUNDS.
You are in Philadelphia and take q
horse-car west, paying seven cents fare,
an excessive and inConvenient amount Of
change, though tho usual Quaker nickel.
To avoid the odd cents you take more
tickets than yen want, and heaCe every
time you pull out your handkerchief the
little tickets fly. If seven cents Is the
extent 10 which metrical coinage has adj
vanced in America, then hurrah for us.
The cars pass over a bridge and river,
the schuylkill, and are in West ghila-
delphia, where the ground begins "a rise
to higher plateau than the city. At
the foot Of the plateau is the steam-rail-
road depot; at the rise or ridge Of 10 is a
large new depot, rapidly pushed forward
by the Pennsylvania company. Looking
down at the mass Of railroad tracks, from
twelve to twenty abreast, crossed in
places by broad and long iron viaduCts
for the streets, one gets the irSt big inn
preston Of the show. But at present
we must proceed by hOrss-car through
the unintcresting and new suburb Of
West Philadelphia, and IL Is e very long
ride indeed from the heart Of the town
to the fair. should say that you could
90 by the Sixth avenue carsOf New York
from the Central to the City park and
back again while making the ride from
the Continental hotel by hQUa-CaFs to
the exhibition. There are nice carryalls,
charging so cents, open at the sides,
which 90 faster and by a better way
through the old Paramount park and
over Gimrd bridge, at least half the way
going through woodland landscape. And |
the bridge last mentioned, 100 feet wide,
Ia the most elegant construction Of that |
kind ever saw. Il Is new, a. are the
Paramount and South street bridges, but
in all there are only Ave for cars or
walkers.
PUBLIC CATERERs
It is my bslisi-and spent three days
and toek q heavy cold coming TO it
that nobody viii went to lodge in PhiIa-
delPhia proper whose daily or principal
interest requires him to be at the show.
II seemed to me that the hoEse-cars went
FIVE or six miles. Nor is there any ne
oesaity for seeking lodgings 50 far away,
a. the show has stimulated a new city
into being, almost the reproduction in
cardboard Of the older one, plentiful in
hotels, great and little, and IN lodgings,
restaurants and amusementA The ordi.
nary passing life Of Philadelphia city win
scarcely be felt on that bold plateau
whete the pageant rests, The New York
newspapers come by earliest day; before
they are read the Baltimore and Wash
ington papen arrivsi BOston publishes
on the ground. At present the United
States hotel is the only open house. and
II Is very large and we'll furnished and
put dsxterOusly up on a side street,
where the dust and the rolling wheels OF
the show win mot come, for the dust and
the heat are TO be pOndeFable qualities
here. From the skeleton city arising,
the mighty facades and Lofty pro6les 81
the exhibition buildings, the street
PAYERS and multitudes, l turned up this
little side street, under the streaming
banners Of the United States hotel, and Il
al vanished. There were familiar faces
Of BOOthby, the proprietor, whom Jaw
yesterday chiefstewarda at Wizards hotel,
and Il. III. Willard and other weli.known
governmental sconces. "Why," said |,
" Lord bless mel thought this was, to
Ne foreign show" Dobbins, the extra.
ordinary contractor who has thrown lip
the vast halls OF the exhibition, combln-
in,, ,nas,ts With might oy,na this and 1. |