The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-04-07
THE CENTENNIAL.

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Possible Disa stroas Delay of American
Exhibitors--Ihe Accommodating Prepare
tions--Advioe % visitors.
PH1r.ApRLpHrA. April There is no
longer real reason to doubt that delays
in the arrival Of articles to be placed In
the buildings, especially by. American
exhibitors, win probably bauik the sue
cessful opening of the show. Notwith
standing all the notifications and warn
ings addressed to Americans who have
applied for space they are as backward
in coming forward as Yankees usually
are until the last eventful hour. At
present there are huxes of activity in and
around the Exhibition buildings, in
which the terminal facilities provided for
the reception and disposition of goods
proves to be excellent. But when, a
month hence, the delayed hundreds of
American packages-some OF them OF
enormous size-come rolling in on rail
way trains at the same time with the
heavy foreign invoices, which the cable
daily tells the shipping of, we may antic-
ipate dire confusion. Such confusion is
certain unless the circulars Just now
issued by the Director-general to exhib-
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Exhibition shall be responded to without
any delay.
The next worst (no, it is the first worst)
question is The one of living, boarding
accommodations in Philadelphia and in
the grounds adjacent to the Exhibition.
There is fear that the monopoly of
boarding places outside of the hotels,
controlled by the Centennial Lodging
House Agency QimiteO will be of dis
service to most strangers who are unable
to pay regular hotel prices. am afraid
it will be SO.
In the first place, the price imposed
upon people who will go to hotels is
simply swindling and sordid. The Con-
tnental Hotel is TO charge So a day, and
this price, to those rich people, or people
who have saved up their money, who oc-
casionally visit New York and stop there
on business or ON sprees, may seem to be
in the ordinary course of the un-com-
plained-of extortion to which they have
accustomed themselves. Not ut ALL Any
and every Philadelphia hotel-keeper who
puts up the price of board on travellers
during this Cent ennial summer is just
as certainly robber as any hghwayman
is, unless he supplies to his guests, for
the extra charges, better accommodations
than he now supplies. There is not the
least reason to believe that the accommo-
dations will be as good as they are at
present. The crowds will increase the
discomforts and profits of the hotels,
whose keepers will pocket the moueyand
be as Indifferent to the reasonable de-
Sires of visitors as ever.
In the next place the boarding house
proprietors and widows and reduced
families who have responded to the pro-
position of the Centennial Lodging
House Company are not ali of them, L
fear, able to provide rooms and board
according to the charges per day i'm
posed. The charges are from S1.5O to
$500 without dinner and they are
wrong. Whosoever comes here could
much better afford to write on in advance
for copies of two or three Philadelphia
newspapers-say the Ledger, the Press
and the Esaquirer-consult therein the
boarding advertisements, correspond
with the advertisers, and thus obtain at
the cost of q few extra cents decent
board at fair price. / will tell your
readers just about what they ought to
pay for board
If man comes here whose business,
profession or associations require him to
stay through the season and receive Wis
itors in his apartment, he ought to get
good room, with q bed, lounge, an
easy-chair and washing facilities for from
SO to 80 week. His meals in the same
house should cost him about 81 or SO ex-
ira. He will, of course, find these sums
insufficient unless his vocation or habits
admit of regular hours for meals as for
dinner out of regular hours he must pay
at restaurants.
But man who comes merely to see
the Exhibition, who will be content with
bedroom only. or one who brings his
family with the same willingness, may
possibly procure simple, decent, whole
some lodging and board for each person
for 81 to $1.75 day. advise visitors
to examine into this matter and not to be
cheated.