The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-08-18
LOWEST 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. II to
Oct. IL of this year, will get the low.
est coach excursion railroad rates
ever granted for transportation of ex'
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 which
| the railroads have made the Appalach-
ian Exposition assure its success in
point of attendance, as thousands OF
| people will visit the great event who
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 Vir-
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.
err days, rate of one and onehall
cents per mile will be granted
Coach excursion tickets will be sold,
oil 10 NIT tf1. .p
miles of Knoxville, on Tuesdays, Sept
10, 20 and 81, and Oct A. 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 30, and Oct. g. Lir2it
on these tickets will be eight days in
addition to the date of sale.
Tickets at the rate of one and one
half cents per mile will be sold every
day from Sept. 10 to Oct. IL, inclusive
final limit of ten days, not to exceed
Oct. IS.
The one cent per mile, or coach ex
cursion" tickets, will not be good for
Transportation in Pullman sleepers
being confined to coaches exclusively
The one and one-half cent round trip
tickets, however, will be good for any
part of the train, from smoker to Pull
man sleeper.
Some of the rates on the coach ba
sis, from the point of selling to Knox.
vile and return, are as follows: Wash.
ington, $10.75; Richmond, $9.45; Nor.
folk, $11.O5; Memphis, $50; Cincin-
natl, $640; Atlanta, $3.50; New Or
leans, $12.45; Jacksonville, $1120; st.
Louis, SIZES; Augusta, 1920; Charles.
ton, $10S0; Chattanooga, 1922; Bri;. |
tol, 1882; Nashville, $436.
Detailed information as to rates |
from any point may be obtained from.
H. F. Cary, general passenger agent |
of the Southern railway, Washington. |
d. c.; or w. A. RUSSELL general pas |
senger agent of the Louisville & Nash |
vile railroad, Louisville, KY, of the
Appalachian Exposition, Arnstein |
building, Knoxville, Tenn.
uS HAIL lllICS VI IIe southern aIC
l.. & N. railroads reach Knoxville, and |
through trains and direct connections
with other roads from all points on
these great systems make fast time into
Knoxville. The railroads are already
making extensive preparations for ad
ditional equipment and trains for the
accommodation of this exposition bust.
ness. 1t is confidently expected that |
at least 100000 people will visit the
exposition during the four weeks o.
its duration. Now that such unprece-
dentedly low railroad rates have been
granted, the attendance may be ever
greater.
The Public Comfort department O,
me exposition is planning for housing
and feeding every exposition visitor
rs Knoxville's homes will be thrown
open as we'll as its many large and
new or remodeled hotels. One nos.
telry of 100 rooms has just been com
pleted and opened, and another OF
more than $50 rooms is nearing com.
pletion and will be opened before the
exposition neriod