The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-07-14
RAILROAD :
RATES EVER GRANTED
TO THE SOUTH
Announced for the Appalach-
ian Exposition.
Unprecedented Southern Show
to Be Given at Knoxville,
Tenn. September IL
to October IL.

The Appalachian Exposition, to be
held at Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. IL TO
Oct. 10 of this year, will get the low
est coach excursion railroad rates
ever granted for transportation Oh eA'
position visitors in the south. This
rate of approximately one cent per
mile has been authorized by the
Southeastern Passenger association,
which includes all the railroads in the
southeastern territory, of which the
Appalachian region is greater part.
The splendid rate concessions Wn1cn
the railroads have made the Appalaeh-
ian Exposition assure its success IN
point OF attendance, as thousands OF
people will visit the great event VINO
could not do so were the rates not so
remarkably cheap This is a great
concession which the people through
out the Appalachian region will ap-
preciate. The exposition being espe'
cially designed for the states OF this
region, Tennessee, Virginia, West Wiz
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky, they
will be splendidly represented in the
attendance.
The coach rate tickets will be on
sale on Tuesdays and Thursdays dur
ing the exposition period. Upon 9th
er days, rate of one and one-hall
cents per mile will be granted.
Coach excursion tickets will be sold
from all points within radius of 25C
miles of Knoxville, on Tuesdays, Sept
10, 20 and 81, and Oct. 4. These tick
cts will be limited to five days exclu
sive of date of sale.
Coach excursion tickets will also
be sold, from all points south OF the
Ohio and Potomac rivers and east o
the Mississippi river, on Thursdays
Sept. Is, % and 29, and Oct. 6. Limi
on these tickets will be eight days IL
addition to the date of sale.
| Tickets at the rate of one and one
half cents per mile will be sold ever.
day from Sept. 10 to Oct. IL, inclusive
final limit of ten days, not to exceet
| Oct. IS.
The one cent per mile, or coach ex
cursion" tickets, will not be good TO
transportation in Pullman sleepers
| being confined to coaches exclusively
The one and one-half cent round tri
tickets, however, will be good for an
part of the train, from smoker to Pull
man sleeper.
Some of the rates on the coach bs
sis, from the point of selling to Knol
vile and return, are as follows: WASH
ington, s1075; Richmond, $9.45; MOI
folk, $11.O5; Memphis, $3.50; Cincir
natl, $6.40; Atlanta, $3.50; New o.
leans, $12.45; Jacksonville, $1t20; s
Louis, $12.55; Augusta, 1920; Charles
ton, $1,000; Chattanooga, 1922; Bril-
toll, 1852; Nashville, $4.36.
Detailed information as to rate
from any point may be obtained froI
H. F. Cary. general passenger ageT
of the Southern railway, Washington
d. c.; or w. A. Russell, general pa
senger agent of the Louisville & Nasl
vile railroad, Louisville, KY, of tn
Appalachian Exposition, Arnstei
| building, KNOXVILLE, 1enn.
The main lines of the Southern an
l.. & N. railroads reach Knoxville, an
through trains and direct connection
,, with other roads from all points Q
these great systems make fast time int
Knoxville. The railroads are alread
making extensive preparations for a.
: ditional equipment and trains for tn
accommodation of this exposition bus
ness, 1t is confidently expected tn;
at least 100000 people will visit IL
l exposition during the four weeks
! its duration. Now that such unprec
dentedly low railroad rates have bee
granted the attendance may be eve
greater,
, The Public Comfort department
the exposition is planning for housiI
l and feeding every exposition visito
as Knoxvilles homes will be throw
; open as well as its many large al
new or remodeled hotels, One &c
te1ry Of 100 rooms has just been con
r pleted and opened, and another
more than $50 rooms is nearing COZ
pletion and will be opened before Il
exposition period.
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