The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-12
Details For Personal Comfort.
Novel Plan of Caring for Visitors
Children.
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topic of the day in the United States
is being commented upon in every
conceivable style. The impression
incautiously given out by some OF
the leading journals, that extortion-
ate charges are the cause of dissatis-
faction, is misleading to say the
least.
The great cities of America can
afford most anything to be desired,
and if one comes to Chicago, or in
fact, visits anywhere in the United
States with the expectation of
being robbed he need not be disap-
pointed. Barnum says the Amer
leans 'like to be humbugged," and
it will prove true of anyone who
meets with more than a reasonable
expense in a trip to the Worlds
Fair.
The railroad companies have
done the least towards facilitating
and encouraging in the important
question of how can people of linn
tied means afford to see this Won
derful exhibition. The cut rates
now being made will somewhat
lessen that difficulty. Hotels
within a few minutes walk of the
grounds offer rates from $3.50 up
wards per day on the American
plan, and from 81 to So per day on
the European plan. Lodgings can
be obtained in frame houses for 50
and Is cents per night and you
may camp out under tent for %
cents.
Board can be had at the same
rates as before a fair was thought
of, the best places, however, being
sometimes thronged with impa-
tient fair goers the service will
hardly bear praise.
The hotels in Chicago proper,
simply. maintain rates which are
consistent with the accommoda-
tons required and during the Fair
season will make no concessions
in transient rates. There is little
time lost in going to and from Van
Buren, street to the Fair grounds,
fare ten cents each way, on the Hi
nois Central railroad direct ex-
press. Many ways Of transporta-
ton to and from the Fair grounds
are provided, and some may prefer
taking up quarters in the main
portion of the city. Meals in all
STYLES, and at any desired cost, are
furnished within the grounds and
refreshments of every sort are with
in reach of the most careful.
Wheeled chairs can be obtained
with guide for rs cents per hour,
or should you be fortunate enough
to have some friend to push your
little carriage along, you will need
to pay but forty cents per hour.
Light but strong portable chairs
are rented from numerous stands
for ten cents per day, proving a
most valuable convenience to the
footsore and weary.
The admission being fifty cents,
there is no further cost excepting
through the interesting scenes of
the Midway Plaisance. Admission
prices from ten to fifty cents are
charged by the various enterprises,
which summed up amount to about
$500.
The intermural railway system
is a great convenience in going to
and from extreme points of the
grounds: fare ten cents. or all the
way around for twenty cents.
Packages will be cared for at the
many offices for that purpose, the
charge being ten cents a day for
each package. A novel feature is
the care of children, who may be
left with nurses in the children's
building, and will be cared for and
amused in a most satisfactory man
ner. Every toy that could be
thought of is provided each child
being labeled, and tag held by
the owner, which is receipt for
the precious little package until
reclaimed.
Suffice to say there has been
every provision possible for the
accommodation for the expected
immense attendance which has not
vet reached the estimated 100000
a day.
The first thought that strikes
the average person might, if ex-
pressed, be "what a feast for eyes"
Where to commence needs only to
be answered by your most intense
interest. The names of the build
ings will lead you to crafty your
ambition, or taking you far beyond
will excite an interest in progress
that fascinates, and is an educa-
ton to be gained in no other way
in the same length of time.
Scarcely anyone who has enough
money saved up to take them to
this most wonderful display of en-
terprise and genius, brought wildly
into contrast with earlier days, can
afford to miss this chance of life
time.