Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-09-17
OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT CAPITAL
Of the Country and the Greatest
Commercial Centre ofthe United
States Never Before Equalled.

The Grand Army of the Republic will
be In annual encampment in Washing
ton. d. c., from October 6 to II, 1902.
The Queen and Crescent Route, be
lIeving that large number of ths peo-
pie residing along and contiguous to its
lines DESTROYS of visiting Washington,
the capital of the republic, and New
York, the greatest commercial centre of
the country, has arranged = very low
rate for round trip excursion tickets,
which will be on sale at all of the prin-
cipal stations.
The rate to Washington and return is
one cent per mile travelled. The round
trip rate to New York is only so more
than the rate to Washington and return.
The dates of sale are October 3. 4, 5
AMI 6, and tickets are good to return
on or before October 10, 1902, with pro-
vision for an extension to N0vember 8,
1902, by depositing same with joint
agent at Washington.
The arrangement also provides for
one stop over at any point on the route
by depositing the ticket with the rail-
road agent at the point of stop-oYer.
Never in the history of railroads in
the south have such liberal orange
ments been made, and it is expected that
the number of excursionists will be very
| large.
The Queen and Crescent Reute will
arrange for special sleeping cars to run
through to Washington to accommodate
patrons of its line, and all meals will be
furnished in dining cars.
In order that ample accommodations
may be provided. special request is
hereby made that the home ticket agent
be advised at once of the space that in
tending excursionists will require. By
no other method can the railroad Off
Gals arrive at the number Of cars re-
quired.
The attractions of the capital are too
numerous to mention in detail, but it is
notorious that no othe city in the coun
thy affords so many opportunities to the
visitor and sight seer. The congress
sional library contains the finest exhibit
of art and literature in the world. The
building itself is accounted one OF
the finest in the world The capito
building should be familiar object tC
every good citizen. The white house
and grounds are among the mos
attractive in the world. The Smith
sonian Institute and grounds are more
attractive than any exposition ever pro-
duced. The treasury department, occu-
plying an immense building on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, contains more curious
and interesting features than can bt
found in any building in this country
outside of Washington.
The population of Washington il
made up of persons not only from every
state in the union, but there are domi
ciled within the city representatives o
every nation of Importance on the fac
of the earth. Strange costumes an(
unfamiliar faces and figures are as com
mon in Washington as cotton blooms il
Mississippi.
New York comprises all the feature
of vast commercial, manufacturing
apd seaport city. There may be seei
evidences of vast wealth and the squalit
surroundings of pauperism.
To visit these two great centres is t
gain d knowledge of the world no
dreamed of by the ordinary individual
who has spent a lifetime in his hom
surroundings.
D Such an opportunity as is afforded b
this excursion may not again be offere
for several years.