The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-17
HOTELS BY THE HUNDRED.
Have Been Erected to Accommodate
Worlds Fair Visitors.
ARE OF ALL STYLES AND SIZES.
You Can Live at Any Cost That Fits
Your Purse From 10 Cent Frsnkforts
TO SEQ Plato Dinners--A Convention
OF Drummers-Fete Days Arranged.

There appears to be little fear but that
visitors to the Worlds fair will be able to
get enough u eat and place to sleep
even IL they do have to mako Dig holes In
their pocket books to do 80. A Chicago
paper has been figuring it up and an
nounces that 2ss new buildings have
been erected in the vicinity Of Jackson
park, which contain 33. 945 rooms. This
Is In addition to the old hotels ana boari-
ing houses and the furnished rooms
available for transient use. Doubtless
there are 30, 900 rooms available for stran-
gers near the grounds. Estimates as TO
the cost of the hotels in the Worlds fair
district range from So 500 600 to $4,000. .00a
In architecture there is an almost linn
itless range. The temporary structures
are OF wood or OF staH. Where the
buildings are to be continued In use as
large farlily hotels or apartment houses
stone has entered largely into the con-
struction. The larR st OF the hotels Is
the Great Eastern, which viii have j, 100
rooms and will cover aApace BOD by 600
feet.
The
Prices OF Meals
will 1T every purse. You can get your
breakfast In down town restaurant for
IS cents. coffee, rolls and piece OF meat
aud your supper with Cardinal" 3 mis-
at the Richelieu, such as can be obJai ned
In no OF her city in America, will cost $50.
The city proper Is well provided with
restaurants OF all grades ia convenient
locations, ani hundreds Of dining rooms
have been estab isbed In and about the
grounds. Mr.. Gaze, who has the chief
catering contract, estimates that his COM
pany will he called upon 20 feed an aver
aye of $4,000 people a day. To do this
will require tables seating $4,000 and
lunch count ers for 1000 more. Mr.. Gtge
has made contract for 200 tons Of coffee
in the belief that 10000, 900 cups OF that
beverage will be demanded. and 10000
cups and saucers in or er that IL may be
distributed imDartially For every day
that the fair Is open he will require 80, 900
pounds of dressed beef FROM "A stock
yards firm ana 21T tons OF ham for his
sandwiches. to say nothing OF sixty bar
res Of -four for the bakery establish
ment and other things In proportion.
Drummers' Day.
The Worlds fair com iiittee on Ger emo
nies has signed June 10 as the fete day
of the Commercial Travellers Protective
association. The program will be a very
elaborate one and will include the AZ
tendance of at. least 1900 travelling men
from almost every state In the Union.
The annual convention will be Leld at
Peoria, Ills, on June 0. and 8, and on
the 9th the delegates and members will
adjourn to Chicago, special trains being
chartered for the purpose. The Peoria
people are raising 5000 for the enter
ta;nment Of the travelling men.
There will be parades and other festivl-
ties at Peoria, and at Chicago there will
be mammoth parade. The "boys"
will be In twenty state divisions, each
division headed by a first-class Uand, and
other steps will be taken to make the
parade one of the biggest events of the
season and Of the fair. Special trains
will be on hand to take the travelling
men out to jackson park, where there
very unique character. Six orators OF
national reputation will deliver ad-
dresses, and the governors Of ten 81 tates
will also occupy positions on the plat
form
Special Fete Days.
The special fete days arranged by the
comm ittee on ceremon es are as follows
Washington, May IL; Wisconsin,, May
%; Maine. May "a; Denmark, June 8;
Commercial travellers, juno 10; Ger
many, June Is; Nebraska. June Is; Mas
sachusetts, June IL; New Hampshire,
Liberia, july 26; Foresters, Aug ~
Hayti, Aug. l6; Col red people, Aug. 25;
North Carolina, Aug. Is; Austria, Au Y.
Is; the Meth erlands. Aug. 81; Nicaragua,
Sept. i; Catholic education, Sept. 2; New
York, Sept. A; Brazil, Sept. z: Cali, ornia,
Sept. o; Maryland, Sept. IL; Michigan,
Sspt. i3 and IA; Kansas, Sept. Is; Colo
RADIO. sept. 10; Montana. Sept. %; Patri-
otic Order Sons of America, Sept 20;
Iowa. Sept. 2l; Rhode Island, Oct. 5;
Spain, Oct, IL; Italian societies, Oct. IL;
Minnesota, Oct. ID