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to its credit. I had heard much of extortionate rates for rooms, board, meal&y 

 etc., but after a week's stay I can candidly say that I have found nothing of the 

 kind. The hotel charges remain as formerly, from five dollars a day down to twa 

 and one-half, according to style, location, etc. No one need pay out more than 

 three dollars per day for very comfortable living, with room to himself and meals 

 at a French restaurant. With economy and by doubling up in rooms, this figure 

 can be considerably reduced. One can go out to the exposition grounds — four 

 miles — on a steamboat at twenty-five cents for the round trip, landing at the. side 

 entrance to the grounds, or on the street cars for five cents each way, getting off 

 at the main entrance. He can ride out to Lake Ponchartrain on the steam cars 

 by two routes, five miles or more, for twenty cents the round trip, or he can, if 

 he is as lucky as the teachers of the northwest, take an excursion to Mobile and 

 back, with a stop at Jeff. Davis' place, Beauvoir, and a fish dinner at Pass Chris- 

 tian, for two dollars ; or he can take a steamer down to the Jetties and back with 

 a sail on the Gulf, for six dollars, including berth and meals on the boat for 

 twenty-four hours; so that you see the rates are not so very exhorbitant after all. 



As to the city, it is much like all other cities. Among its curiosities are the 

 old French town and the French market, the levee with its shipping from all parts 

 of the world; its cotton exchange, its shot tower, cathedral, etc. 



Now for the Exposition. So much has been written about it that one hardly 

 knows what to say that will be new. Everybody knows that it is located on the 

 flats above the city, and that one hundred and seven acres are inclosed for its 

 uses and purposes; that the main building covers thirty-three acres of ground, 

 and that about two millions of dollars have been expended upon it and the other 

 buildings. These things are well known and yet the people who know them may 

 not realize how large this main building is. It might astonish some of them to 

 appreciate the fact that it is as large square as from 8th to 12th Street in Kansas 

 City, or that the music hall, large enough to seat 11,000 persons on one floor, 

 may be passed unnoticed day after day, although nearly in the center of the 

 building, if you happen to enter by any other than the grand front door. Con- 

 structed of glass and iron, it is both light and strong, and as a grand architectural 

 work it is an admirable and marvelous success. It, as well as the government 

 building, is the work of a Swedish architect named Torgerson. 



The management of the whole affair, from its conception to the present day, 

 has been concentrated in the person of Major A. E. Burke, editor of the Times- 

 Democrat, of New Orleans. He has done in less than one year and with $2,000,- 

 000, what the Philadelphians were glorified for accomplishing in four years with 

 more than three times as much money. He has put his whole soul into it and, 

 for that matter, his body too, for he has worn himself out more in these few 

 months than he would have done in ordinary business in. as many years. As a 

 man who knows something about expositions, in a small way, I pronounce the 

 management of this New Orleans affair a wonderful success. The delays and 

 hindrances are less noticeable than usual, in proportion, and are due far more 

 largely to the lethargy of the citizens of the city and of the people of the South, 



