The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-01
MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO.. PA, JUNE |, 1893

other street car line also carries
passengers to jackson park.
1t has been said that there are all
sorts of schemes for taking in the
unwary. OF course this is true. but
they are no more numerous in pro-
portion to the enterprise than they
are mt an ordinary county fair, and
we doubt if they are more successful.
numbers and circumstance consid-
cred than the Same class of individ-
uals at the county fair. The county
fair is $4,000 enterprise, with its
due proportion of scoundrcls the
worlds fair is II S3OO.OlO, OOO enter
prise with scoundrols in proportion.
\ man who has sense enough to keep
in the middle of the road need not
be swindlcd at any kind of II fair.
As we expect to print descriptions
of the exhibits on our inside pages
every week during the continuance
of the Fair, | will not enter into de
tail here, but will coniine myself prin-
cipally to the result of my research
es in ragurd to the necessary eN-
penses of visitors to the Worlds
FAIR. estimate the necessary eX-
penses ut $3.50 per day, viz: one
dollar for lodging, one dollar for
meals, and fifty cents for admission.
This, of course, does not include
street car aud railroad fair to and
from the grounds, aud I would ad-
wise all to avoid elevated travel rs
much rs possible, for it is almost
worth mans life to attempt pass
age on the elevated when there are
ten or twenty thousand people
bound for the same point AMI eager
to Petthere. The elevated is now
the principal means ST ransporta-
ton, and "A train of livewrrs leave the
station every five minutes. These
trains carry about three hundred
people each, but every time II train
leaves there remain several thous-
and disappointed people ON the plat
form hedging, wedging, pushing
and pulling like II flock of sheep driv-
on into close quarters by dogs.
When you have fought your way TO
II car by sheer determination YOU
have to stand and hold to the strap.
or sit down while the rest fall on
you every time the train lurches to
y side. Imagine this state of oilairs
when the thermometer registers 10
in the shade as it sometimes does
during the summer months in Chi
cagO.
But there is II means of avoiding
all this, and that is TO secure lodg-
ing close to the grounds in one of
the innumerable hotels there erected
for this special purpose, and get
your boarding Mt n restaurant where
plain but substantial food is furn-
ished ut from 25t 80 cents per meal.
If you desire to visit the city in the
evening wait till the rush of travel
has ceased and then take the cleyat-
ed or State street cable, either of
which will land you III the heart of
the city for nickle.
There is also misunderstanding
i'll regard to the rates of admission
that / desire to correct. You are
required to pay fifty cents every
time you enter tho grounds, but
when in you have perfect liberty to
go where you please without charge
except to Midway Plaisance where
all nations of the earth have special
exhibits and represent their modes
of living. These are side-shows to
the great circus and % cents adj
mission is charged.
How can | see the most in the
least time p Buy Il guide book which
is obtainable on any part of the
grounds for % cents. Study this
thoroughly so you become acquaint-
ed with the nature and extent of the
exhibits in the different buildings.
Then select one building at Il time,
complete it, and then pass to the
next and so on. If you have Il lady
with you and she tires out, have Il
push-chair at 40 cents an hour and
move along, for time is precious at
S5 or So per couple per day. If you
engage a chair and man to push it,
it will cost you Is cents per hour.
while pushing it yourself will give
relief as you will not be apt to go SO
fast and support on the back OF
the chair affords a means of rest.
! 'Do they sell liquor on the
la.