Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-09
WHAT 1T WILL COST
To Take in the Worlds Fair at Nsw
Orleans.
The Round Trip From Wheeling. Including
Berths and Meals - Steamboat
Rates - Prices at the
Crescent City.

Many are the Wheelin5ites who read their
daily papers and think, with a sigh, of the
New Orleans Exposition and Cotton Gem
tennial and wish and hope to be there. In
this northern cline, and especially when
the snow is deep and the Hypsrborean
winds whistle about our Nail City ears,
there is a fascination in even thinking about
the sunny Southland. The sleigh6ell has
a silvery tinkls, sure enough, but in the
whistle Of the mocking bird there is a softer
melody to charm and make us forget it all
inthe land where nearly every day is sum
mer, and where there is at this time a special
attracIion-a worlds exposition. New Or
leans is at present the place which fasci-
mates, and there are hundreds of Wheeling.
ties who are willing to leave behind the
snowdrop's whiteness and all that sort OF
thing, and the land where the thermone-
ter's upper stories are all to let, for one
where the mercury lives on the parlor floor.
But first of all there must be a ticket.
A PEW CALCULATIONS.
The ticket question is an important one,
however, and no matter how calculated gen
orally calls forth the same nSw from
every one. (which is the cheapest way to
go?' An excursion or round trip ticket is
the proper thing. The railroads sell them
from here for $25 40, good for twenty days,
which will afford an abundance OF time for
the average visitor. The Baltimore & Ohio
and Pan Handle are about the same, on
rates. People who can afford it can make
arrangements with the Baltimore Il Ohio to
take in Florida and other places on their
way 10 the Crescent City, and the whole
trip will cost about 500 under this arrange
ment. Besides this there are many other
routes and ways a man can go by and
come for from $50 to S75, but the cheapest
way is the most popular this season. 1t
will take Sl5 for sleeping car berths for the
round trip, but if two occupy one berth ii
will be much cheaper. Meals cost seventy
five cents each on the dining cars, If this
manner of living is preferred; if net, the
railroad restaurants supply lunches much
cheaper, but, perhaps, not as desirable
Thus the expenses of the round trip on the
cars, including meals and sleeping, will
amount to some SIS. If a man is used to
hard bunking and can stand it he can utl'
lie his seat for a bed and he is Sl5 in. Tie
will also be entitled to save something if he
does not patronize the dining car.
NEW ORLEANS.
Arrived in in New Orleans the first thing
you think of naturally is a desirable stop
ping place where they charge rates com
mensurate with the condition of your peck
| etbook. The hotels, as a rule, are good.
| There are some exceptions, however, which
need not be enumerated, though. When
YOU have found them, you will recognize
them. Good hotels are so numerous thai
there is no necessity for going twice to q
bad one. A comfortable room can be hac
at the st. Charles for 81 a day, and you car
get substantial meals for so cents each
The City and st. James Hotels are gooc
places to stop at, and Victors, Moreau S
and Johns restaurants lay large claim tc
public favor. For 81. so a day a man cal
get fair accommodations. In three or -four
DAYS one can manage to take in the Expo
sition and the sights of the city. In thi'
short space Of time you car look at the great
show, the streets-and there are many mag
nifcent horoughfares-Carrolton the Ca
thedral, the Spanish Fort, the West End
the old lake" at Ponchartrain Depot, the
French Market and divers other places. The
| beauty about:,the street car arrangement o.
New Orleans is its simplicity. You ma!
| take a car there for any part OF the city, anC
returning, any car will bring you on Cana
streetagain at the starting place. Figuring a
a $3.50 rate a day, car fare, &c. your neces
sary outlay will aggregate about $l2 for thu
four days, and this sun added to the 81:
for railroad expenses will make a CRANE
total of $57, provided You enjoy the com
forts Of the dining and sleeping coaches
otherwise the sum will be much smaller
The whole trip, The four days stay in New
Orleans included, can be made in eight da-S
But if you have plenty of spare time you cal
spend thirty days at it, going and coming
by boat through the sunny South, the hom'
OF the alligator and the paradise Of orang'
groves. The Southern Transportation
| Company takes passengers from here vi
the Cincinnati Packet Line. The fare i
$50 for the round trip, meals and berths in
cluded for the voyage, and passengers ca
eat and sleep on board without extra charg
during the stop in New Orleans, which vii
be from three to five days.