Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-06-08

BISMARCK DAILY TRl0uN1, W
$4,000 people an hour. Prices for
meals are not greater than in any city
cafe or restaurant. Gushing and the
writer of this sketch dropped into a
fair pavilion for q steak, some pota-
toes. bread and butter. coffee for Cush
and a bottle of the celebrated Busch
Water for the other member of the
party. The charge was $3.50. That's
better than you can do on any dining
car in the country. The sandwich
resorts charge 10 to Is cents for
sandwiches, beef, chicken, pork,
cheese or what you will. Beer is Ave
cents glass. Hot roast beef sand
wiches are ten cents. think it is
safe to say that for SIS day you can
pay for your room, eat as much as
you desire, and that means good
breakfast, lunch at noon and dinner
in the evening, pay your admission to
the fair, ride some on the railroad,
see Pike attraction or two, smoke a
few times and have carfare home.
That doesn't mean room with q
bath at the Southern or the Planters,
and it doesn't mean a course dinner
at the swell hotels or cafes. But it
means good, wholesome food, clean
comfortable room, and a day crowded
with education and pleasure. That
would mean $35 for week at the
fair, and you won't get as much for
your money anywhere that I think of
now.
There are two ways of seeing the
fair. One is to wander into the
grounds, wander about the grounds,
wander into building, wander out
again, wander away at night and
wonder what you came for. The other
is to get an official guide book, study
it well before you go, see what there
is that you don't see at home and that
you think would give you the most
spiritual and intellectual pleasure,
make a note of these and where they
are located, apportion your time
among them as you choose, get into
| the grounds when they open, make for
your destination, see what you want
to see and put in beneficial day.
The ladies of course will want to see
Queen Victoria's jubilee presents. It
| is just as we'll to make a note Of the
fact that they are in the administra-
ton building. The intramural car
stops right in front of this and it won't
take you five minutes to get to the
exhibit. The ladies will also want to
see the Worth gowns, the Tiffany
jewels, the Chinese and Japanese ex-
! hibits, the fine arts exhibit and per-
! haps a hundred and one things that
you might wander aimlessly about the
grounds and never see. It's easy to
find out where they are and easy to
find your way there These are
gratuitous suggestions, not intended
to be offensive to the natural intelli-
gence and wisdom of people who in
tend going to the fair, but merely to
call attention to the fact that if you
go down to the fair without a definite
idea of what you want to see you
| won't see as much as you would II
you adopt the plan of the systematic
sight seer.
It's the same way on the Pike. Find
out what is good and in your line.
There are three or four. streets of
Cairo and Oriental concessions. One
of them will give you an excellent
idea of all. There are three or four
illusions, showing you what can be
done in the way of scenic realism.
One of them will satisfy you. There
is number of attractions that won't
give you the worth of your money,
perhaps, because they will disappoint
you. Not that they are not good but
they are not what you are looking for.
You can get the worth of your money
every time if you keep your eyes and
ears open. And you can waste your
money, if you choose. But then you
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throw it into the Mississippi river.
That would not be the fault of the
fair but your own
| The official call for a prohibition
state convention is out, the same to