The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-16
The CENTENNIAL.

Hints to visitors-successo Of the Exhibition.
Hon. Robt. Lowry, United States Gen.
tennial Commissioner for Iowa, returned
from Philadelphia recently, TO spend
fewweeks in Davenport. In an interview
he stated that he made the trip from
Philadelphia to Davenport in just thirty
three hours running time. The fast
mail. train leaves Philadelphia ut 7:20
a. M, making but three stops between
that city and Pittsburgh, reaching Chi
cago at 800 next morning, and Daven-
port at 40 in the evening. Mr.. l..
wants publicity given to few sug-
gestions concerning the Centennial
which will prove OF interest and value to
visitors. M
1t should be understood distinctly that
fifty cents admits to all parts of the
Exposition grounds. Once admitted
through the gates, all there is in all the
buildings can be seen without additional
fees.
The Centennial Commission has ad-
journed to meet July 1st, at which time
the Sunday opening matter and other
questions of importance will be finally
settled.
Articles for exhibition are still arriv-
ing. Already the foreign Commissioners,
the visitors and exhibitors admit that the
Exposition is the greatest sight of the
kind the world has ever seen. Mr..
Lowry states that there is but one senti-
ment on the subject, and that is, that it
is grand and unexampled success in
every particular except attendance.
In regard to boarding accommodation
at Philadelphia there seems to be much
misapprehension and ignorance, among
Western people especially. Mr. l.. states
that there is room in the great city for
four five hundred thousand people, and
that at no time yet, not even during the
opening day, were even the hotels crowd
ed. OF the leading hotels, the Cont
mental has reduced its daily rates from
IS to $3.50, the Girard has reduced to
SO. so, and so have all the other down.
town hotels. The international and
Globe, at the grounds, still charge So a
day. Besides this, Philadelphia is filed
with the very best of private boarding
houses, and at these anybody and every
body can get excellent board at from Sc
to $14 a week, Mt distance of from one
mile to three miles from the grounds.
Six of the Iowa superintendent are now
getting good board at So a week. The
street Car lines extend from the park, on
all the streets to all parts of the city, the
fare on which is but seven cents. There
is ample accommodation for all the peo-
pie who may or will go, and there exists
not the least necessity for writing in adj
vance to engage rooms or board. Poo
pie arriving from the West by the Penn
sylvania Central should leave their fami-
lies or lady companions at the Centennial
depot of the railway, then hunt up and
secure lodgings and remove directly to
them. 1t is better to avoid the restau-
rants and boarding halls on the grounds,
as the prices at these are very much
higher than at hotels and boarding
houses. The latter institutions are be-
coming alarmed at the small attendance
SO far, and are reducing their rates right
along, which reduction will be still
greater after the Fourth of July. People
visiting the grounds should take lunch
along and remain all day, as, if they
leave the place to go to dinner, they will
have to pay fifty cents. to re-enter.
As yet the railroads have manifested
no disposition to reduce their rates 1t
is feared that if further reduction of
twenty-five per cent. is not made the
success of the enterprise will be serious
ly endangered.