Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1904 — COST OF SEEING THE WORLD’S FAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COST OF SEEING THE WORLD’S FAIR.

the state and foreign buildings there are public retiring rooms, many of which are provided with wash basins. Scattered throughout the grounds will be a number of separate structures for similar uses. Provision will be made whereby for a small fee the visitor may have toilet accommodations with water and towels. As to drinking water the teetotaler need have no fears. An arrangement has been made with a concern that will bring pure clear water from a famous spring at De Soto, Mo., to be piped over the grounds from large tanks, refilled twice daily and supplied to the visitors at attractive booths for a cent or so a drink, which means as many glasses as one may require to quench the thirst Filtered water from

For ths Majority of Visitors It Will Bs Lsss Than Railroad Transportation to 8L Louis and Rstum Would Cost In Any Othsr Ysar. From any point within 300 miles of St. Louis a person may travel to the World’s Fair this year, view the wonders of the Exposition for three days and expend less money than in any other year he would pay for train fare alone. This may seem an astonishing statement, but it is a fact. Railroad men have practically determined that “one fare for the round trip” will be the rate during the seven important months of 1904. Public announcement of this only w r aits the passage of certain legislation concerning “scalpers’ ” tickets and formal indorsement by the various passenger agents’ associations. With this fact in mind a clear demonstration of the statement in the opening paragraph can be made. The fare from Chicago is $7.50, or sls the round trip. So under the new schedule $7.50 will be put down as the railroad fare from that city to St Louis and return. If you are economical, your per diem expenses in the World’s Fair City need not exceed those given in this table: Breakfast $0.26 Car fare to grounds 06 Admission to grounds 60 Dinner on grounds 36 Car fare downtown 05 Supper 25 Night's lodgings 1-00 Total i $2- <6 Multiply $2.45 by 3, and yo.u have $7.35, the sum total for three days’ sightseeing. Add to this the $7.50 railroad fare, and you have a grand total of 15 cents less than the car fare alone would cost you in any other year. For this money you have thrown open to you the thirteen grand exhibition palaces, the forty and more state buildings, the fifteen and more foreign government structures, the ten great stone edifices acquired temporarily from Washington university, including the Hall of Congresses and the Physical Culture Hall, with its adjoining Stadium, the Filipino Village and many other pleasant places. Should you desire to remain longer than the three days you can do so without a greater per diem expenditure than given above. But, supposing that you have plenty of money to spend and desire certain comforts and even luxuries, yet are not

extravagant, what will the figures be? Less than $5 a day! Breakfast $0.50 Car fare 05 Admission .50 Admission to one or more Concessions on the Pike.... 60 Pinner 75 Souvenirs and extras .60 Supper .60 Car fare .(6 Hotel room 1.60 Total per diem— .$4.85 Suppose you desire to remain six days. In that time you can devote a morning to one main building, an afternoon to another, and so on, from Monday to Saturday, inclusive, passing the evenings on the Pike, and the grand total of the week’s expenditures will be j $29.10. •

ONE OF THE AIRSHIPS WHICH WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE GREAT AIRSHIP TOURNAMENT OF THE WORLD’S FAIR.