Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-06-29

Chicago, ILL.,, June 23.-Our trip
from Nashville to this place was
uneventful, save the fact that our
special train made the run in a
little over twelve hours, when the
regular time is fifteen hours.
The difference in the age of the
corn crop in Tennessee and Him
OILS was one of the many points of
interest that attracted our atten.
ton. Here corn is just up ready
for the first working; you know
how it is there.
The first thought of one intend
ing to visit the Fair is as to what
will his hotel bill be. We are 10.
Gated in the Manchester Hotel,
corner Wentworth and Sixty-first
streets, ten minutes run from the
grounds, and are paying $500 a
day for room that two occupy.
But there are hundreds of rooms
in this vicinity that one can rent
by the week for $500 or by the
day for $1.00 and no questions
will be asked as to how many oc-
cupy the room. The writer in.
spected some of these rooms and
found them clean and well furnish
ed. In this hotel meals are SOC,
but we get just as good meals at
a restaurant across the street for
Soc. But we often take only a
lunch, paying sc for a ham sand
witch, sc for quarter section of
pie and other things in proper
ton. Lunches and meals on the
grounds are higher, but a large
majority of the people carry lunch
as with them. One has no trouble
in finding water to drink or places
to sit down and eat their lunches.
The city is prepared to accomo.
date 100000 people, but are only
actually accommodating about
100000 so you can readily see why
it is no trouble to get accOmoda-
lions at reasonable rates.
Visitors would find Cottage
Grove Avenue a very convenient
place to locate. On that thorough
fare one is convenient to both the
city and the Fair without change
Of street cars. Street cars are so
crowded that one is glad to avoid
them as much as possible. The
most wonderful system of travel
that we noticed is the suburban
trains run by the Illinois Central.
They frequently handle 10000
people within an hour without
being OvercrOwded.
The Fair is a wonderful collec-
ton of architecture, manufactured
articles and curios from all parts
of the known world. A look at
the buildings and grounds, with
out going into a single building, is
enough to furnish the mind with
pleasant thoughts for long time.
And to see these buildings in all
their grandeur ono must take q
boat from the city and 60 down
the lake. This costs 15c and gives
you a view of the grounds that
you can get in no other way.
If ones time is limited the Fair
should be seen Systematically
Take it building after building and
do not run from one part of the
grounds to another to see certain
buildings.
And it is also necessary to take
frequent rests. If one permits the
feet to follow the eye in it's wan
behring's, before you are aware OF
it you will be completely broken
down. And it is not prudent to
stay out at night or go hungry
The electrical display at night is
grand and should be seen at least
once, but that will satisfy most
people.
If we were advising a person in
what order to visit the different
buildings we would say go first to
the larger buildings, Agricultural,
Mechanical, Transportation, Fish
cries, Horticultural, Art and Lib
eral Arts. Then take in the for
eign and state buildings as YOU
come to them. We have probably
not named the buildings in the or
der in which you will reach then
as that depends upon the point
from which you start.
We will not attempt to describe
each building and it's contents az
that is being done in an article OF
our first page each week.
This letter is more for the guild
ance of those who expect to visi
the Fair than for the information
of those who do not expect tt
see it.
BY the courtesy of the Wisconsin
Central Railroad we leave here a
5 o'clock today for Duluth, Min.
where we will spend a day, return
ing here Sunday and leaving TO
home Monday or Tuesday, full o
pleasant recollections of the grand
est panoramic scene that has, o
probably ever will pass before on
| vision.