Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — VISITORS TO THE FAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VISITORS TO THE FAIR.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THEIR COMFORT IN CHICAGO. The Railway Depots Where Thousands of Strangers from All l’arts of the World Will Arrive—Some Information as to Lodgings, E c. In the World's Fair City. Chicago correspondence:

rmT7rni|ir] HE person livingoutside of Chicago who 1 I visits the World’s _|j II Fair for a single day —lplil only, will find everything arranged lor P&-1 his comfort and congggSl ffj venience. All railroads coming to the 1 tBSm city will land pasJMi'l sengers at the terafSjbfe minal station at tho jr vjjKi Fair for ten cents in I if addition to the regujf ij lar railway ticket. I L&jg&sHere hand baggage k 0 checked, abound toilet

rooms, lunch counters, telegraph offices, and desks for writing. The Columbian gnards will direct tho visitor to his State building, where he may deposit his extra valuables. Ho may eee the great show, take a terminal train for his depot at nightfall, and return home within twenty-four hours, all at a cost

of faro, ticket of admission, lunch, and a trifle for a guide book or souvenir. Those coming from a distance, however, and those who wish to thoroughly inspect and enjoy the Exposition for a week or a month, should exercise considerable forethought. It is possible for such to formulate a pleasant and economical system of procedure, provided they know what to do and how to dolt. Unless they ai rive at night—in which case a stop at some hotel will be advisable—they should d*‘Vole the first day to the securing of a settled abiding place. That care off their minds, they are on a footing with the native-born Chicagoan, and are independent of restrictions of time and metnod of realizing Ihe Fair, as of the exactions of of the harpies, who will strive to extort double prices from hurried or uniformed strangers. Chicago’s Great Depots. There are six great depots in Chicago. The Northwestern is the only one located in the North Divsion of the city. Trains arriving here bring passengers principally from Northern Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin and other points lying along the route of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. This depot faces east on Wells stre et, and a walk across the river and four blocks south, brings the visitor to the very center of the city. The Union Depot is the only one located in the West Division. Here Beveral linos center —the Chicago, Burlington and Qnincy, which runs through Illinois, lowa and Missouri; the Ban Handle, bringing in mostly passengers from Indiana; the Milwaukee and St. Paul, crossing Illinois, Wisconsin and

Minnesota; the Alton and St. Louis, cutting southwest across the State to Missouri; and the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne, which takes in Indiana. Ohio, Pennsylvania and the Eastern States.

This depot fronts on the Canal street, at the corner of Adams. A walk of four, squares east on the latter thoroughfare leads across a bridge to the business center. The Illinois Central Depot is on the lake front, and in addition to housing traffic from the State after which it is named, tak s in passengers of the Michigan Central Itoad from Northern Indiana, Michigan and Canada. At the Dearborn depot arrive the trains of the Grand Trunk, the V’abash, the YVestern Indiana, ami the Alchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Bailroads. It is located at £olk and Dearborn streets. The Grand Central depot is at Harrison street and Fifth avenue, and is the terminus of the Northern Pacific and Baltimore and Ohio Baiiroads. The Michigan Southern depot faces on Van Buren, just west of Clark street, and the Michigan Southern anil the Bock Island and Pacific lines discharge their passengers here. These last-named four depots are all situated in the South Division, all face tbn business center,

and are within half a mile of the large hotels and of the points where the various street, elevated and cable cars have their down-town terminals. State and Madison streets is a corner well worth keeping in mind as the chief center of Chicago, A visitor arriving at any of these depots and meditating a sojourn here should, first of all, check his hand baggage, which may be stored for twentyiour hours at ll» cents per parcel. Inquiry at the depot Bureau of Information will elicit courteous response. Should a conveyance be needed, a printed card in the same will give the legal fares, which are fifty cents for one mile in a one-horse vehicle, and double the amount for a two-horse one, one hundred pounds of trunk and twenty-five pounds of hand baggage being carried free. All baggage may be safely left at the depot until the visitor is settled in his new home, when his landlord will take his checks and send for the same, at a cost of about twenty-five cents a trunk. How to Find Lodgings. 1 The question Of finding a temporary domicile is now the all-absorb-ing one. There are any amount and all varieties of hotels near the business center, but high charges and great ciowds go along with them. There are, too, near the Fair grounds, new and large hotels which charge only $3 per .lay, or, where four room together, only sz; $7 boarding-houses, $1 lodgings, and. even 20 cent restaurants. The advantage gained, however, by be-

ing just at the Fair gates all the time are somewhat visionary. There is turmoil, rush and discomfort. Many of the new hotels are frail structures, many of the lodgings and restaurants are overcrowded, and the sensible visitors will find quite as reasonable rates and far more home-like ac-

commodations away from the heterogeneous throng that will continually crowd the immediate vicinity of the Pair. The Fair grounds are some seven miles from the business center. Between these points are numerous quiet,

pretty streets, where arrangements for board and lodging may be made, and in the North Division, just across the river, still more reasonable charges prevail. The West Division, however, comprising the largest section of the city, broad as it is long, affords a still better choice. It embraces a majority of the homes and population, is less crowded, and the visitor making it his objective point for a temporary residence, will probably be more speedily and satisfactorily suited than elsewhere. With this section in view as a prospective place of residence, he will find many hotels which are quite reasonable in their charges, and furnished rooms without number. Taking Madison street as the central line, and proceeding, say, half-a-mile west of the river, north and south are safe, quiet residence streets, well built up. Here a person can secure almost any kind of accommodations, from an elegantly furnished suite of rooms down to one apartment with two beds in it. For a pleasant, comfortable furnished room, the charge should not exceed $1 per day, or $5 a week, and with board in the same house, about double that

amount Rooms quite comfortable are to be found as low as $3.50 per week, and as restaurants are numerous and good on many West Division business

thoroughfares, the visitor may get a 25-cent substantial meal, and add trimmings for a dime and a halt additional. Ten dollars a week ought to cover the board and lodging, and cover it quite satisfactorily. Some iff&y make an objection to lo-

cating “so far” from the World’s Fair grounds. Distance, anywhere within the city limits, is a trifling edhsideraticn, however. The seven-mile rides to and from the Fair should be a pleasure instead of a bugbear, as they afford the visitor daily the choice of a delightful journey by land and water.

THE UNION DEPOT.

THE NORTHWESTERN DEPOT.

GRAND CENTRAL LEPOT.

MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DEPOT.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL DEPOT.