The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-07
GOING TO THE FAIR {?
If You Ire These Facts May In
tereSt You.

The Money Side Of a Visit to the Co.
lumbar Show - Railroad Fares,
Board, Lodging, Fees and Extras.
Perhaps You May Like to GO in a
Tourist Party With Guide-Boats
and Trains in Gil cago.
Copyright, 1881
Chicago, May 6.-Perhaps you have put
OF indefinitely the question as to whether
Or not YOU are going to the fair. Proba-
bly, most people have. But everybody is
In frame of mind to receive information
That may help to the solution of the
problem when the question is taken up.
Even those who have conservatively said
that they scarcely expect to go, or that
they won't 90, do not despise a glimpse at
ho,elor boarding house rates and fares in
general.
Undoubtedly as many people are over
estimating as are Understanding the
cost of visiting the fair. If you cannot
60 for a song, it is also true that it will
cost considerably less than a fortune.
What win it cost?
Well, it depends good deal on what
part OF the country you are living in, for
Ihe railroad fares are the big item to any
2QGody living far from the Windy city
mere has been much sanguine talk as to
4dreS-as to cut rates, excursions, spe-
ClaItes, etc. But it must be remembered
Ihat these expectations are generally too
sdhgulne. Railways cannot carry people
!Of nothing, or for the excitement of hav-
ing crowded cars. The great lines have
already been very busy, and it is esti-
mated that many of them will have all
lhey can carry in a few weeks, even
should the rates remain unchanged There
VIII, however, be reductions in rates
everywhere; not great reductions, hut
uoLneatlons that will reduce the travel
Hlg expense OF. visiting the fair about one
Ihlrd. OF course there will be special eX-
GHSlons that will cut the figure still
lover but these will be the exception.
, railway fares are an item of expense
mat Is quickly determinable Every one
Is IN a position to find out what they will
amount to. What everybody wants to
66llQW Just now isss what must l spend at
Chicago?
The question is not easy to answer, be-
cause you may spend as much as you like
dI chicago if not as little as you like.
Let us look first at the matter of lOdg-
ii,Ss. People who suppose that there is
nhellhood OF scarcity of room in Chicago
ar greatly mistaken. Chicago has about
so0 hotels. These are good, bad and indif-
Ierent, of course, like the hotels
ol any other city, and are scat
Tered over the area of a city that
sPtawls considerably Many of these
hotels have recently increased their ac-
commodatiOns. 1t was said of the Ire
mont house, in Chicago's earlier days,
tudt one OF the amusements Of its guests
was SIT in the doorway and shoot the wild
uNcks in the neighboring swamps. This
;;,a5on the hotel loungers are going to sit
u! me doorway and watch worlds fair
visitors wrestle for rooms
Unless rooms are engaged in advance IL
y gong 10 be a precarious matter looking
t'f quarters AT the better class OF Chicago
n''nls this summer. So far as rates go
urre viii not be much Of any raise here;
~ mat the item OF hotel expenses can
EASILY be figured up by estimating the
",.FentiOual rates-from g 10 $40 a day
very cary carly Ia the game Chicago
ahoke 70 the possibilities on the furnished
rom line Of trade The south side IN the
vicinity Of Jackson park was stormed b.