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attendance at the Fair from first to last, and the means 
of transit were excellently looked after. 
I had my first glimpse of the White City on the morn- 
ing of May r1th, fromthe train in which I had journeyed 
from New York. There was a rush to the windows, and 
the white towers, turrets, and domes glistening in the 
light of that bright, crisp spring morn formed a welcome 
as well as interesting and piéturesque sight. It denoted 
the near approach of the termination of a long over- 
land ride of well nigh a thousand miles. The “ Exposi- 
tion Flyer,’’ covering the distance—g6o and odd miles, 
to be somewhat more exaét—in 1g hours, had not 
been put on by the New York Central at that early 
stage in the history of the Fair, and both by that 
and the Pennsylvanian route 25 hours was about 
the average time taken by the expresses—enough at a 
stretch to make one feel desperately glad at the end, 
despite the much-vaunted comforts of railway travelling 
in the States. The New York Central and the Pennsyl- 
vanian R. R. Companies were working conjointly and 
into each other’s hands, wherefore tourists westward 
bound could book by either route with the alterna- 
tive privilege of returning by the other. But the 
sole advantage derivable was that of seeing the country— 
on the P.R.R. you traversed the mining distriét of 
which Harrisburg and Pittsburg are the centres, and 
away up in the hills you saw that triumph of American 
railroad engineering, ‘‘ The Horse-shoe Curve’’: on the 
N. Y.C., you had the opportunity of travelling through 
the whole of the immense New York State, of seeing a 
little of the Erie Canal, the whole of the lovely Hudson 
River scenery, and Niagara from a Canadian as well 
