Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-04-01
THE CENTENNIAL CONCESSIONS AND
PRIVILEGES -

THE CENTENNIAL CONCESSIONS AND
PRIVILEGES -
| A correspondent Of one our exchanges
furnishes graphic account of the rates
offered or paid to the Centennial Board
Philadelphia, for the privilege of selling
various articles on the grounds:
For instance, one man has offered
$50 900 for the privilege of sweeping
out the Exhibition buildings, guaran-
! teeing to pay all his help, and to keer
the fifty odd acres Of flooring in the
| buildings perfectly cleaned. One can
not but admire the ingenuity and bust
ness foresight of this man, as little
calculation will show that by a very
moderate charge to each exhibitor for
keeping his space clean, and by being
permitted to retain money and valuables
found in his sweepings, this enterpris-
ing individual might make good thing
! out of the concession, Notwithstanding
the high price. This proposition has
not vet been accepted by the commit
tee, who have some doubt as to the pro.
pfletV OF alloWlHo ~.
Neither can we help wondering at the
ingenuity and apparent recklessness OF
the man who has paid $12, 900 for the
exclusive privilege of hiring out rolling
or Bath chairs, to visitors to the Exhi-
bition, at fifty cents an hour. He has
also agreed to pay $40 on each chair
over 800 which he employs. 1t is esti-
mated THAT $50 more than this will be
needed, which, at $40 per chair, will be
Sc, 900, making $4,000 for this rrivi-
lege alone.
"ICE COLD SODA
Another man, with every confidence
that we shall have hot summer, has
given $50, 900 for the right to dispense
soda-water for the six months of the
fair. He will also pay twenty cents
on every gallon sold, which royalty will
reach, it is thought, $32, 900, SO that the
soda water man will have to pay to the
Centennial fund about S62, 900.
THE CATALOGUE.
The Centennial Catalogue Company
have paid 100000 for the privilege of
printing and selling the full official cat
alogue of the Exhibition. The work is
to be in four volumes, is to be sold for
twenty-five cents a volume, and they
are restricted to only twenty-five pages
of advertisements in each volume. New
ertheless many are of the opinion that
Nagle & Co. have bonanza, and that
"there's millions in it,
CIGARs-ToBACCo.
For cigars and tobacco, to be sold at
five stands, on the grounds only, not in
any of the buildings, and no. exclusive
of other rights to sell, shrewd tobac-
conist has paid $4,000.
PUBLIC COMFORT DEPARTMENT.
The sum of $40, 900 has been paid for
the privilege of forming and controlling
the Department of Public Comfort
The Company is required to put up a
building 1O0x1OO feet, to cost not
less than $4,000. This is to be used
for waiting rooms for visitors, and as
reading and writing rooms for ladies
and gentlemen, and no charge will be
allowed. The company will also have
offices and messengers in many per-
tions of the buildings and grounds, and
will be allowed to charge moderately
for the care of packages, parcels, trav-
elers' luggage, umbrellas, canes, etc. j.,
for which they will give checks, and to
sell newspapers and periodicals, but not
exclusive of the rights of other news-
men. There will be messengers and a
system of telegraph to be used by the
Public Comfort Department, which will
be OF great service to visitors. For in
stance, party of travellers entering the
Exhibition at one entrance may give
orders to have their luggage and tickets
ready for them at another gate at a CIV
en- hour, or they may telegraph to have
their luggage sent to certain point to
meet them. All these requirements the
Public Comfort Department will attend
to, with many other little services, such
as giving information as to localities
and objects of interest. 1t will be g
most useful adjunct to the great fair, if
properly conducted.
HOTEL CONCESSION.
The Globe Hotel is large structure
erected just outside the principal en-
trance to the grounds for Centennial &C
commodation. It contains 1 800 rooms
can lodge and feed 5000 people, and Il
said to be the largest hotel in the world
About one half the ground on which i
stands belongs to the city, and is nov
controlled by the Centennial Commits
sion. The concession to build thereon
} was obtained for SIC, ,50O-a compare
lively small sum.
RESTAURANTS.
There will be six restaurants within
the Exhibition grounds, all in specis
buildings, to be erected by the owner
of the concessions, which cost sc, ,O0
for each establishment. These struc
lures will tie of the handsomest design
and construction, none of them to COS
less than $4,000, and one as high a
$50, 900. The names of the restaurant
are as follows: p. Sundreau, of Ne'
, York, French restaurant; E. Mercer, c
| Atlanta, Ga, "The South,' a palatif
: clubhouse, and the headquarters {
Southern visitors; L.Gavord, Les IiU
= Ereres Prorencaur, the famous Parisia
3 restaurant; R. J. Lauber, of Philade
) phia, q German restaurant on a lare
and complete scale; Tobiason & Hoi
q brun. the American restaurant, buildin
cost $50, 900. Detailed descriptions I
the plans for these restaurants woul
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