The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-05-18

1alr there are some things. to be learned
which when known will enable visitors
g save much expense. A few hiuts on
the subject may be Of service at this
time. S sss# 1e* 81.
. The railroads terminating or center
ing in Chicago have nearly all come to
On, agreement on rates that vary from
twenty tostwenty-five per cent. reduc-
ton on round-trip tickets. So many of
the roads have come down to the neigh
sborhood Of two cents mile that others
will be compelled 10 do so in order 10
get passengers. There will also be fire.
quent excursions ruin ON all roads and
the rates for these will depend on the
number Of people of small means who
desire to come to the fair from a dis
lance. They. are. not TO exceed one and
one-half cents mile, however, and may
be as low as one cent. *%E. .E
This will be easy enough to manage
from the visitors local station. 1t will
be when you arrive at one of the railway
stations OF Chicago that your troubles
will begin. You will be confused by
the crowd and strange streets, and will
have but the vaguest notion of where
to go or how to get there if you d,
know. In the first case you can leave
your trunks for twenty-four hours in tue
baggage room, where they will be safe
and will cost nothing for storage. Hand
baggage can be left at the checking
counter, which is to be found in each
station. for day for ten cents for each
package. Thus relieved of bundles, you
can ask q policeman how to get to a
certain point on q street car or you can
take = cab. = - -
The legal rate of fare for q one-horse
vehicle for one mile or less for one or
two persons is fifty cents. For the Sec
ond and subsequent miles, twenty-five
cents. If taken by the hour the rate is
seventy-tive cents per hour. For two
horse carriages twice this amount NAV
be demanded for two persons and fifty
cents additional for every passenger
over this number. Children under four
teen are charged twenty-five cents, but
those under five years are carried free.
One trunk not exceeding one hundred
pounds in weight and twenty-five
pounds of hand baggage is also taken
free of charge. All the downtown
hotels are within mile of any of the
railway stations. The visitor may stop
at one of these for day for from three
to five dollars and have time to secure
q boarding place. 1t would be cheaper
for you, however, to leave your trunks
at the station, take valise and um-
brella and 60 at once to jackson park
by any one of the five routes of rapid
transit.
To get to Jackson park from any
point downtown take the State street
or Wabash avenue cable line or the
ALLEY L" farther down, any one of
which will take you to the fair for Eve
cents. The Illinois Central may be
boarded on the lake front or you may
go by boat from the foot of Van Buren,
street. Either of these routes will cost
twenty-five cents for the round trip;
the train makes the trip in fifteen min
utes, the boat in forty-five, but when
time is not an object ride on gay
steam launch with music by band
and view of the "White City, at the
worlds fair from the water is by far
the more enjoyable. The Illinois Gen.
trail road will probably sell commuta-
ton tickets of twenty-five rides at
substantial reduction on a single ride,
as they do now to suburban pas
sengers. If your rooms are more
than a mile from any of the entrances
to Jackson park this item of transport
tation has to be considered in the ex-
penses. 1t will not be wise to walk
much outside the grounds, as you will
have all the walking you want inside.
The distance from the center of the
CITY to Jackson park is seven miles, and
the journey occupies from twenty to
torty-tive minutes, according to the
route you take, but if your rooms are
on the North or West side of the city
connecting car line will have to be
taken and five cents more paid.
All roads coming into Chicago will
land passenger in the terminal sta
ton in jackson park for the price of
one admission to the fair and ten cents
in addition to the price of your railway
ticket. 1t is by far the simplest and
cheapest plan, since in the fair grounds
you can transact all the necessary bust
ness incident to arrival in a strange
city. In the terminal station you may
check your hand baggage, have the
free use of a well-equipped toilet room
and get q lunch as simple or as elab-
crate as you wish,
Thus refreshed you can send off tele-
grams to friends or write letters. If
you wish to do this ask Columbian
guard to direct you to your state build
ing. This will be your headquarters
while at the fair, place in which you
have a part and may feel at home.
One of the first things to be done is
to deposit all money except the amount
necessary fora weeks expenses. 1t is
unsafe to carry considerable sum
about. you. =. You can deposit your
checks, drafts or money ON certificate
of deposit in bank on the grounds, or
rent box in safety deposit vault for
q small fee, you having the only key to
the box. Money orders may be pur-
chased s Or cashed at the worlds fair
post Office. -,
:. This attended TO-, return to the
terminal station, where the principal
Office of the bureau of public comfort
is located, and resign yourself to its
care with entire faith,