Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-22
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from 81 per week up. Very comfortable
rooms within five to ten blocks of the
fair grounds can be had at rs cents
to ST per night. Food, 1. e., lunches
and meals. are as cheap as anywhere,
even in your own town; %, 35 and SO
cent signs "for square meals" are
placarded everywhere. OF course one
can pay more, as some friends of the
writer did. at one of the big hotels
down town, SIS night for bed, ana
breakfast costing 1910. They claim
calling for an additional baked potato
added Is cents to their breakfast Dill.
A very good plan is to ask before one
sleep, eat or drink-the fact that one
place on the Pike sells the best beer TOT
S cents does not prevent his next door
neighbor getting Is cents for smail
stems. And the number of places
where meals can be obtained Is legion.
They are anywhere and everywhere
All you have to do when hungry is 10
stop and eat. To illustrate possibilities
one young lady from Tama made a
weeks visit to the fair and return LOT
$3.50. A clergyman from the same
town made four days trip for $3.50.
Both of these trips included car fare
$3.50 for round trip. The other slde IS
where one man claims he took IN all
of the shows on the Pike and the al
mission fees were $187.5O.
Speaking of beer, here are hundreds
of places selling all kinds OF liquor,
and drunken man Is curiosity.
During one trip not a single drunken
man was seen or heard.
Ia thing ia the lack OF
rolice and the perfect order displayed.
On AN average 10000 people were on
the grounds last week. The writer saw
no arrests made, only one patrol wagon
and heard of no thievery. knock DOWNS
robberies or pickpockets. or course
the class of citizens who make liv-
ing by crime are here but something
besides police force keeps them IN Or
der.
Another noticeable thing is the num-
Der of "poor, lone women" travelling
over the grounds. A large percentage
are bachelor girls, notebooks In hand,
and a. handbag full Of souvenirs"
which as rule they can purchase at
any fair store at home for about one
third worlds fair prices. They are as
free from molestation or insult as tho
walking the streets Of Grinnell on Sun
day afternoon.
Others may not have noticed 1t, but
it seems to the writer that each de-
partment has set OF visitors, very
much alike and much different from
another class elsewhere. For instance
on the Philippine exposition grounds
the crowd was entirely different from
those in the agricultural building.
Their faces were different; their
clothes, their language, their whole
makeup was from an entirely different
part of the world. They were as much
a world unto themselves as the half
naked Igorotes singing, my country
tits of wee" Their latest musical &C
complishment is a classical rendering
of "Good-goo eyes"
Again, the arrangements TO handle
the crowd" are marvellous. For in
stance, those living along the Iowa
Central railroad, can take the after
noon train, engage sleeping car berths
| I'm advance. go comfortably to bed,
wake IN at 7 o'clock next morning and
find themselves a half-minute's walk
from the main entrance OF the fair
grounds. Fifty places are anxious to
give good breakfast. not two minutes
walk from the train. Inside the
grounds take an intermural car for 10c,
go to the Iowa building and remove
"the dust of travel" Iowa at this ex-
position has a building, conveniences
und attendants ~ ta 6a &eoRa Of.