The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1893-06-10
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ments, as you would DecOne YOUR
self in like period of residence.
Iwould therefore advise visitors to
send tn the railroads and certain
b 0tels there, like the Rossmore and
others, and get a map Of both the
city and the Worlds Fair grounds
and keep it within reach to help
steer yourself and the policeman,
cab or bus driver and guide to where
you may want to go.
A number of our party, myself in
cluded, secured quarters at the Uni
versity Hotel which is directly across
Congress street from the Auditorium,
one of the greatest hotels and
theatres combined in the world.
The University was originally three
large residences which the alumni of
the University of Illinois converted
into hotel in order to raise q fund
for the purpose of building a club
house. 1t Is in charge of Mr.. Chas.
A. Killer, one of the alumni, and is
furnished with neat, plain furniture,
but kept in condition to which no
one would find reason to take except
ton. My wife and I had room
about 16x16 on the first floor for
which ! paid two dollars day for
both of us and we ate two meals a
day at one of the best restaurants in
the city, consisting of tenderloin
steak, potatoes, eggs, bread, butter.
coffee, &C., varied somewhat each
day with chicken, soup, &c., which
cost us sometimes 95 cents or some
times $1.10 meal or an average of
50 90 a day for m calls for both. Meals
may even be gotten for less than this
and learned of a suite of three
rooms within six blocks of the Fair
grounds which two couples Of our
party secured for five dollars. 1t is
questionable with me, however,
whether it is better to go close to the
grounds which are about nine miles
from the center of the city and en-
Joy four nights in the week on which
the grounds are not cp an and obtain
the pleasures of the ride both by
lake and rail down to the grounds.
If the present arrangement con-
tinues, and you locate near the
grounds you would probably be too
tired on the four nights the grounds
are closed to go up to the city and
return about midnight after a per-
Torrance at the theatre ana you
would therefore lose much of the
delights of visit to Chicago. II
close enough however to save car
fare to the grounds, you would only be
81 40 a head better off in money each
week than the one could be who was
in the center of the city. There are
numerous ways OF reaching the
grounds, the Illinois Central furnish
ing a train every two minutes, one
the fast train that does not make
stop between Van Buren, street, one
square above the University Hotel,
until it arrives at the enterance to
the grounds; and another train that
stops at many stations along the line.
The fare each way on the first is ten
cents and on the other twenty cents.
The elevated and street cars within
a square of University Hotel, the lat
ter road on Wabash Avenue and State
street and the former between the
two, all carry passengers for five and
ten cents trip. The most delightful
route though Of all, but which takes
nearly an hours time for the trip,
nearly twice as much as some other
routes and about three times as much
as the Illinois fast train, is by the
steel steamer Christopher Columbus,
1862 feet long with carrying capacity
of 5000 passengers and a beautiful
cabin of the very finest workmanship
and appointments. The lake route
affords splendid view of the city
and the Worlds Fair, and by looking
to the off side of the vessel impresses
the idea of the oceans boundless
waste of waters.
But Pm drawing near the pier at
the Worlds Fair and looking towards
the peristyle inclosing the great
square and fountain, facing the adj
building, and pause to
take breath and eXclaim: at is the
most beautiful scene l ever looked
upon"
There are many things that the
mind will fail to grasp until the eye
has first beheld them, let description
be as perfect as the very best writers
may be able to perform the task, and
the Worlds Fair will certainly, to
the unfortunates who fail to sec it, be
included in the list of the underlined
and incomprehensible wonders of
which the Imagination, for many
years to come, will be forced by the
frequent recurrence of the sub
ject, to vainly essay a form.
When Louisville gave her great
Southern Exposition a few
years ago it was thought to be some
thing remarkable in the extent of the
but if to that building you