The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-08-03
Prices ii he Morld's Fair.

! 70 Forest from q visit to his Ole
home in Iowa, gave his
READERS some idea of the cost OF
seeing the big fair and of the
cheapness with which one may
make the trip if be cares TO prac-
tice economy. This article will
no doubt be Of interest to our
readers, and especially to those
who expect to attend the fair later
Ion.
In the first place, a vast number
of private homes in the city have
been opend to visitors, the prices
for rooms ranging from rs cents a
day up to $500. IF two or more
persons should attend and not OBJ
ject to rooming together, the mat
ter of room rent would be a small
Expense. A great many families
in st. Louis are crowding them
selves into back rooms and gar
rets in order to have attractive
front rooms to rent to visitors so
that they can add to their income
and make up the difference in
rent.
The best arrangement for the
visitor is to get a room, either
without board at all or only break
fast, for you will want to eat all
your meals except breakfast on
the fair grounds. There are plen-
Ity of restaurants along Olive
street down town where the rates
are very reasonable. On the fair
grounds the restaurant prices
range all the way from Is cents a
meal to So. That sfor regular
meals. OF course, at all the res
taurants one may order by the
bill of fare card and pay for what
he gets, but you are likely to get
''gouged" in doing this. You
will pay at least 10 cents any
where, away from the Pike, for a
cup of coffee. You will pay as
much as IS cents for small dish
of ice cream at many of the res
taurants; you will pay so cents
for the smallest steak they serve
at nearly any place. You will pay
so cents for small bottle of beer
and 10 cents foI a little bowl of
thin soup and SO on through the
bill Of fare; but it doesn't take
you long to learn that you can
get the above named articles on
the grounds for third the
price.
The really smart thing to do, if
money is any object Oh if you
don't like to be 'gouged, is to
buy your lunch downtown and
carry it around until you get
ready to eat it. You will have
plenty of very respectable COM
pany in this little device of econo-
my, for thousands of people do it
every day. There are plenty of
nice, shady places whore you can
sit and eat while you rest. One
of the very best places of these is
on the terrace of states up above
the cascades, where you have
spread out before you the very
choicest view which the grounds
afford. But, if you don't waLt
to carry a lunch, and still don't
want to spend all your substance
for something to eat, 60 down on
the Pike and patronize one of the
restaurants where they advertise
table d'hote dinners and you will
come somewhere near getting the
worth of your money.
OF course there are all sorts of
devices to tempt man to part
with his money. At the gateway
he will be assaulted by dozen
linen imploring him to buy a guide
book, and the cry Of some kind Of
vendors Of something or other
will hardly be out of his ears all
day long. He will have a chance
to ride on the Intramural railroad
flor 10 cents trip, or in a roller
chair for so cents an hour, or in
an automobile for 25 cents an
hour, or in a gondola for so cents
for twenty-five minutes, or in a
steam launch for half that sum and
soon and so on. You are likely
to pay a nickel for a glass OF
water, because a pretty girl in a
soda water and lemonade booth
gives you the impression that you
can't get water fit to drink any
where else, but you will find that
the penny-in-the-slot machines
will give you just as good water
4 for one-fifth the cost.
You are also likely to pay a
nickel at one of the toilet rooms,
but you will learn after awhile
that there is a free side which is
good enough. So far ais the Reg
lister EDITORS observation went the
management does not practice OF
4 permit any extortion in any mat
| ter connected with the comfort Oh
convenience Of the people in re-
lation TO any matter pertaining to
the general exhibits. So far as
the fair itself is concerned, one
may limit his expenses to the so.
cent gate fee If lie chooses. What
The may spend for extras, in The
way Of the side shows on the Pike
land at other places, things to cal
land drink, souvenirs, etc., is Of
course wholly a matter Oh individ-
Eual taste and purse and IN this
lno correct estimate of your ex-
penses could be derived at.
a Physician Healed.
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