Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19

Of Exposition tickets In advance and ex-
cursion tours from Mexico are being gotten
up which cost, oil told. only $3.50 and last
about 20 days Then there are Exposition
savings banks, Exposition lottery societies
where the lucky number gets the trip, and
all sorts of new-fangled schemes
talked with Major Handy yesterday as
to what the city could do with the crowd
He tells me that Chicago can easily take
care of q quarter of . million strangers, and
that there will be no lack of accommoda-
tions 'The town." he says. ''has about
1 800 hotels now and a number of new ones
are being built, and city Of boarding
houses is growing up about the Exposition
grounds Fifty thousand people can be
taken care of in the boarding houses alone,
and the outside towns near Chicago are easy
of access. Tens of thousands of people
will live in Pullman cars, and parties will
engage such cars to come here, and will
hold them tor sleeping accommodations dur
ing their stay.
Wonderful Railroad Preparations.
The railroads are all making great prepa-
rations with view to the Worlds Fair
and one company proposes to increase its
tracks and Is planning a vast number of
new cars. All of the roads of the West are
putting on new cars, and are improving
their roadbeds and increasing their facilities
of travel. I have been West as far as Den
yer, and have never had such accommoda-
tions nor such speed. The Union Pacific
has just put on q fast express from Omaha
to Denver. by which you go to bed in
Omaha and wake up in Denver. The usual
time has been about 20 hours, but the run is
now comfortably made, in 13, and you can
go by the Union Pacific from Denver to
Chicago in little over day, which trip
not long ago took nearly two DAYS. Extra
trains as well as increased speed have been
added, and 1898 will probably see q revolu-
tion in railroad transit.
The railway exhibition at the Fair will be
very interesting. A Brazilian road is go
ing to send q model of its line in papier
mache. This road is only two miles long
and it rises in this distance 1900 feet. It
is located near Rio Janeiro. The Baltimore
and OHIO Railroad has engaged large
amount of space in the Exposition build
ings and it will show on one line of track
the various Improvements in railroad build
ing since it came into existence, including
the old engine which was made by Peter
Cooper.
Cars Made Of Big LoEA
The queerest car show will be the red
wood tree which is being made into car at
Iulare, CAl. 4Qe tree lteeu was SSO feet
high, and the two lengths out of which the
cars are made are each 45 feet long. They
are 26 feet In diameter and they have been
followed out and windows cut in through
the bark. There are to be sleeping accom-
modations in one and sitting room, and in
the other there will be a bathroom, a
kitchen and dining car. These logs will
be mounted on car trucks and they will
carry the friends of the people who own
them to the Exposition and will form their
living quarters while there.
1 asked one of the Exposition officers to
tell me some of the queer things about the
Exposition. Hereplled: "The whole show
will be queer and its oddities are innumer-
able. The foreign shows will be wonderful
and the streets of Cairo will attract thou
sands The agricultural show will have all
the fruits of the United States and we will
have watermelons from New Mexico which
will weigh 100 pounds apiece. In the
Moorish palace there will be $1,000, 900 in
gold coin, and the dancing girls of Tunis
and Algiers will be another sight. The
first map of the world that was ever made
is to be sent here by the Pope and our
relics of Columbus will give better idea of
the times of the discovery of America than
any collection ever gathered together. The
management of the Exposition and the Ex-
position buildings will be wonderful and
the exhibits will in every respect surpass
those of any Worlds Fair of the past. /"
FRANK G, CARPENTER