The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-06-13
The combined hotel capacity is


houses, private rooming houses,
&c, will accommodate as many
more. Rates for rooms range
from so cents a day to $40 a day;
yet you take a risk in striking q
hotel that asks you less THIN a
dollar a day for a room. Your
meals, then will cost you as you
like-you pay for what you order.
If you want roast beef or mutton
you are charged 30 cents, and that
includes bread and butter and a
glass of ice water; a cup of coffee,
) cents; mashed or fried potatoes
. cents. Piece of pie, 5 cents.
If you prefer fresh fish to the
roast, the price is the same-30
cents; if you want sirloin steak, it
is 80 cents; tenderloin, so, and
porterhouse S1.00. Two eggs, 10
cents. Strawberries and cream,
Is cents. Griddle cakes and ma
pie syrup, 10 cents. Where two
persons are ordering together,
one order of meat or fish will be
plenty for two; so that an order
Of 80 to GO cents will usually bring
as much as two of you get at
home. OF course, in addition to
what hls been named are dozens
Of other things-all kinds of veg
etables, fruits, desserts, &c. &C.,
and the prices are about the aver
age. In the grounds where you
must take your midday lunch, you
are likely to pay more.
The admission to the grounds
is so cents. This allows you to
see through all the Exposition
buildings proper; but there are
about forty attractions that
make up what is known as the
Midway. These are the "side
shows" TO the main circus. To
enter these will cost you from ten
to 80 cents-usually % cents. To
visit the Pan, however, and not
see at least part Of the Midway,
would be to miss some very inter
esting things.
To illustrate what these attrac-
tions are like, we will notice the
great war cyclorama; the now
famous battle of Missionary
Ridge. The great battle paint
ing is sixty rect high, and three
hundred and eight feet in circum-
ference.
The scene before you repre-
sents the last of those three
memorable days in November,
1868, which commenced with the
shifting of the Confederate's S
crescent line of battle on Monday,
November 23d; the capture from
the rebel forces of Lookout Noun
tain, Tuesday, November Oath,
and the storming of "Misslon
Ridge" by the Union Army, un-
der the invincible leadership OF
the indomitable Grant, on We'd
nesday, November Goth, 1862.
You are standing again on Or
chard Knob, the center of the
Union line of advance; Mission
Ridge is before; Fort Wood be-
hind: the shining elbow of the
Tennessee River to the left: Look
out Mountain to the right. New
er was theatre more magnificent
Never was drama worthier of its
surroundings.
Imagine a chain of Fedora
forts, built in between, with walls
of living men, the line flung
Northward out of sight, anc
Southwark beyond Lookout
Mountain, and I'll grand cory
don, commanded by Generals
Grant, Thomas, Sheridan, Grang
er, Meigs, Hunter and Reynolds
with the tips of it's wings led by
Sherman and Hooker-and {
chain of mountains crowned by
batteries and manned by the Con
federate forces, through si1
mile sweep, officered by Gener
ais Bragg, Breckenridge, Har
dee, Stevens, Cleburne, Bates
and Walker, and you have the
two fronts.
The electrical display is the
finest the world has ever seen
and the impression made upol
first witnessing the illumination
by night will never be forgotten
Soaring to the height of 37
feet stands the Electric Tower
the crowning centerpiece of tn
Exposition. The Tower is enter
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