Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-05-26

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buildings of the exhibition are mag
nificent to look at-white structures
that seem like marble palaces, adorned
with pillars and statuary-of wonder
full architectural beauty. They are
built of a framework OF iron aud
wood, covered with staff, which is
composition of plaster, cement and
hemp or some other tibrous stun.
staff is light and tough, easily mould
ed into any shape desired, and is fire
proof and waterproof 1t looks all
right-but it is not marble
CONCERNING PRICES.
The great question is, How are the
prices-what will u visit cost? Well,
Won can get accommodations at any
price. You can get comfortable quar-
ters for two dollars IL day and up
wards, or you can get inferior accom-
modations for five dollars day and
upwards. There are many places
where moderate prices prevail and
there are many where you Will be
swindled and plucked numerically.
Do not 90 to Chicago unless you have
made arrangements beforehand and
know where you will stop and what
prices YOU will be charged. The
writer of this article had comfortable
ouarters ct the Palmer House at 80. 50
a day. The Palmer House is one OF
the best hotels in the country, and
the price named is low, considering
the excellence Of the fare. 1t may be
we'll to say, however, that we heard
man at the same table in the dining
room kicking because he was being
charged $3.50 a day. You can get
rooms that will cost you $50 day
and upwards-if you want them.
There are plenty of smaller hotels
where rooms may be obtained as low
as so cents a day, and meals in pro
portion. At the restaurants the
prices vary in the same way. One
young fellow found n place where
you could get all you want to eat for
| fifteen cents" You'd get u good deal
more than you'd want. Some places
of very decent appearance furnished
a meal for % cents, but you couldn t
enjoy it greatly. a very nice average
| . ,trha
cost from fifty cents to a dollar, &C.
cording to what you ordered. On the
| fair grounds a first-rate restaurant
furnished good piece of roast beef,
potatoes and bread and butter for
forty cents coffee ten cents cup,
and additional articles in proportion.
The fair management regulated the
prices in the restaurants inside the
grounds, and required prices to be
printed on the bills of fare, so that
no one need be swindled. There were
some places where you would have to
pay a dollar for u beef-steak and %
cents for vegetable or a cup Of cof-
fee, but these could be easily avoided.
In many cases it is almost a neces-
sity for restaurants in or near the fair
grounds TO charge tremendous prices.
In the first place, they have been
compelled to pay enormous prices for
their concessions-or stands where
they may conduct business the pro
duce dealers force them to pay fright
full prices for supplies; their walters
will not work except for the very
highest wages. At best they have
ONLY about six months in which they
can transact business, and in this
time they must make enough to pay
for their outfit, cover all of the heavy
expenses they incur, and have mar
gin of profits. Many of them will lose
money. The people have heard of
the way they are to be charged and
are prepared. They refuse to be
plucked, and many of them carry
their lunches with them. When lunch
time comes you may see any number
OF persons sitting around in groups
emptying the boxes or baskets they
have brought with them.
One can stop at good hotel, at
tend the fair each day, take in the
sights and side-shOws, and get along
very comfortably on five dollars a
day. Or you can stop at respecta-
BILE place, leave off the side-shows and
other unnecessaries, for a couple of
dollars less. If your pocketbook is
full, you can get rid of just any
amount of money you wish.
AS before remarked, you can get
anything you are looking for
cheap, moderate, high, extortionate,
awful-good, bad, Indifferent, best,
worst-you simply pay your money
and take your choice.
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