The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-06-15
LOWEST RAILROAD
RATES EVER GRANTED
TO The SOUTH
Announced for the Appa!ach-
ian Exposition.
Unprecedented Southern Show
to Be Given at Knoxville,
Tenn. September IL
to October u.

The Appalachian Exposition. 10 be
held 4; Knoxville. Tenn, Sept. 70 10
Oct L Of this year, VIII 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 a 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 viii ap-
preciate. The exposition being espe
cially designed for the states OF this
region, Tennessee. Virginia. West Wiz.
GINA, North Carolina. South Carolina,
Georgia. Alabama and Kentucky. they
viii be splendidly represented in the
attendance.
The coach rate tickets viii be on
sale on Tuesdays and Thursdays dur
ing the exposition period. Upon 9th.
er days. a rate OF one and one-half
cents per mile viii be granted.
Coach excursion tickets will be sold,
from all points within a radius OF go
miles Of Knoxville. on Tuesdays. Sept
70, 90 and 81, and Oct. 4. These tick
cts viii be limited 10 five days exclu.
sive Of date OF sale.
Coach excursion tickets viii also
be sold. from all points south of the
Ohio and Potomac rivers and east OF
the Mississippi river, on Thursdays
Sept Is. % and %. and Oct. 6. Limit
on these tickets viii 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 10 Oct. 70. inclusive
final limit OF ten days, not to Gpveed
Oct. is.
The one cent per mile. or coach ex.
cursion" tickets. VIII not be good for
transportation in Pullman aleepers.
being confined 10 coaches exclusively.
The one and one-half cent round trip
tickets. however. VIII be good for any
part OF the train, from smoker 10 Pull.
man sleeper.
Some Of the rates on the coach ba.
sis from the point OF selling 10 Knox
vile and return. are as follows: Wash
ingtcn. Sl0.75; Richmond. sS.45: Nor
folk. Sl1.O5; Memphis, $50: Cincin
natl. 500: Atlanta. $3.50: New or
leans. SIPS: Jacksonville. Sl1.2O; St
Louis. S12.55; Augusta, $50: Charles
ton. SlO.SO; CHATTANOOGA. S2.22: Bris.
tol. s2.62; Nashville. 1926.
Detailed information as 70 rates
from any point may be obtained from
H. P. Cary. general passenger agent
OF the Southern railway. Washington
p. G.: or W. A. Russell. general pas
seneer agent OF the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad. Louisville. Ky. OF the
Appalachian Exposition, Arnstein
building. Knoxville. Tenn.
The main lines OF the Southern and
I. & \. railroads reach Knoxville. and
through trains and direct connections
with other roads from all points Or
these great systems mal,erast ti,ae into
Knoxville. The railroads are already
making extensive preparations for al
diticral equipment ard trains FOR tho
accommodation OF this exposition busi
ness. Il Is confidently expected the.
at least %5o,0OO people viii visit ii,
exposition during the four weeks q.
It's duration. Nov that such unprece
deniedly low railroad rates have beer
granted. the attendance may be ever
greater.
The Public Comfort department @,
the exposition is planning for Aousins
and feeding every exposition visitor
as Knowles homes w!u be throw
omen IS well as its many large aaS
new or remodeled hotels. One DOS
telry Of 700 rooms has Just been com
pleted and opened, and another o.
more than $50 rooms is nearing com.
pietion and win be opened before the
exposition period.
MARBLE BAND STAND FOR APPA
LRcHIAN EXPOSITION.