The Newtown bee., 1893-06-23
A SANDY HOOK MAN ON THE WORLDS FAIR

Thinking it might be interesting to the readers of THE BEE, especially those au- | tlclpating visit to the great Worlds fair, to hear a few facts that could be relied on, (so much having been said by many of the Eastern papers about the extortions being practiced here), infiu- enced me to write. In fact the New
 York papers, having said so much, that before l left Connecticut it had created a fear to many about visiting Chicago. 1 have been here seven days. I have great ly enjoyed myself and I have not discov- cred any extortion, and if any ever ex- isted it is not the rule now. There are excellent lunch counters in the manufac- turers' and liberal art buildings where one can get good lunch, and at equally low rates, as at any railroad lunch coun- Gers m the Eastern states. At the regu- lar during rooms of the Wellington's Ca tering Co.,, in several of the exposition buildings, you can get good dinner at reasonable rates also outside the grounds the restaurants are numerous and their rates compare favorably with those of the Eastern cities. Any number of good furnished rooms can be found in private houses; in fact, everyone having house near the fair grounds, have furnished rooms to rent, prices varying from $l to S2 per day, rooms containing one double bed. Cots can be added by paying 50 cents per day extra. It is estimated that within five or 10 minutes walk of the grounds, there are private houses enough with furnished rooms to accommodate at least 100000 persons. Besides there are number of hotels near the grounds that rooms can be had from $2 to $4 per day, so no one need fear of visiting Chicago and not find plenty of room, and to have restful night in a clean and comfortable bed, which is about the most desirable thing after the tiresOme hours of sight seeing. Any one going to Chicago will find it much pleasanter to have rooms near the grounds than to room up in the noisy and dirty city and have to ride six to seven miles on the elevated railroad, cable or horse cars to and from the grounds. The fair buildings are all fin ished. and nearly all the exhibits com, pleted and those who have planned to visit the fair in June will not regret it. The weather will most likely be of bet ter type than that of midsummer months and you will get in your sight seeing before he flies come and the warm weather. As to architecture and magni- tude of buildings it can safely be said that the Columbian exposition outrivals all of it's predecessors, quoting the re- mark of an English gentleman we met here. He pronounced the exposition the most wonderful the world has ever seen, eclipsing all of the European expositions of the past 20 years. In the grand build ing of manufactures and liberal arts, the roof span of this great building is 375 feet in the clear, making the widest span ever used for roof truss. The length of this building is about a quarter of q mile There are under roof in this one building, including gallery area, A acres, and still this building did not prove large enough to hold all the exhib- it's under this head and they had to be given space in Machinery hall and other buildings. The agricultural building is structure of most imposing proportions and in it are exhibited the choicest illus trations of Americas great agricultural industries of the farm and field, together with her food products of all kinds and descriptions and the decorations of some of the Western states, which is made en- tirely out of grain and grasses, are alone worth going to see. A separate building is provided for all the different depart ments of exhibits, forestry, mines and mining, electric machinery and appli- ances, transportation, horticulture, hide and leather. fisheries, United States gov ernment and a number of other smaller buildings, embracing about 533 acreg.- | |. P. Blackman, Sandy Hook, Conn.