THE OOLOG-IST. 



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If one takes notes on points of merit 

 then at any future time, we may turn 

 to the remarks on a particular nation, 

 or exhibit and there recall all the 

 features of interest. As a boy I attend- 

 ed the Centennial exposition and fol- 

 lowed this plan, and I have to-day notes 

 on each of the many nations, and anc 

 refer to it instantly. It may l>e that a 

 few outsiders will read this ai'tiele; if 

 so, it will not come amiss if the general 

 advice is taken as to notes, for anyone 

 attending this grandest of aggregations, 

 canuot fail to reap benefits by a proper 

 use of pencil and note book. 



To return to the matter of expenses, 

 a subject in which many of my readers 

 are interested. The following schedule 

 of prices will give an idea of the daily 

 average of a sight-seer's expenses who 

 is limited as to means: 



Lodging 50 



Breakfast 20 



Crate entrance 50 



Incidentals, street car fare etc 20 



Lunch bought outside of grounds. . . .10 

 Supper 25 



$ 1.75 

 At these figures a boy can spend a 

 week, that is Monday to Friday in- 

 clusive, five days, riding to and from 

 on Sunday and Friday nights, for $8.75 

 exclusive of railroad fare. Moreover, 

 as can easily be proven, if a man wants 

 to exert himself, this figure per day 

 may be cut down quite an amount. 

 For instance, street car fare may lie 

 lopped off, if a boy wants to walk and 

 save funds. And, too, a plentiful sup- 

 ply of staple provision may be brought 

 from home and kept iu a satchell. 

 Crackers, dried" beef and bologna, 

 together with hard boiled eggs and 

 cheese keep well, aud are filling and 

 suitable, if not delicasies. Remember 

 you are goiug to absorb information 

 and not to fill your stomach. 



There are thousands of persons who 

 will attend the Columbian Exposition 

 -who will "blow in" a lot of money. 



Many of them can afford it but there 

 are a great many who can't, who will 

 try to cut a swell; and then iu the end 

 they will not have a better time than 

 you, and ten to one will not learn half 

 as much as the boy with the note book. 

 The following will give a rough idea of 

 the expense of going to the Fair in 

 style. 



Hotel per day $ 5 00> 



Hack to and from ground 3 00 



Lunch in grounds 2 00 



Theatre in evening 2 00' 



Incidentals 2 00 



Per da.v total $14 00- 



Thousands will spend this sum daily 

 aside from the figure of railroad fare, 

 but they cannot learn any more than is 

 possible for you on $1 75 a day. 



Now boys I want you all to come to 

 the Fair, if if*is possible, and I take this. 

 means of asking your parents to let you 

 come, and to assist you to visit Chicago' 

 in 1893. Self reliant boys will find 

 some means of paying expenses, and 

 there are very few who live within one 

 or two hundred miles of the Fair who 

 will fail to visit it. In 187(5 I worked 

 all summer in order to visit the Centen- 

 nial, and took my hard knocks iu the' 

 harvest field and at other kinds of hard 

 work, in order to accomplishmy object 

 and I have never been sorry. At the; 

 Centennial I necessarily lived cheaply,, 

 for I had about 2,000 miles of railroad 

 fare to pay going and coming, and so I 

 had to cut down expenses. I secured 

 lodgiugs at Philadelphia at *25 cents a. 

 night, aud to this day I have never been, 

 sorry that I went. 



Some may think that this article is 

 written up to advertise the Fair — and 

 they are right. But in no sense is it 

 intended to puff auy particular institu- 

 tion or department. I have no axes to- 

 grind, aud have merely written this for 



•"These lodgings were cheap and poor enough,, 

 tout answered the purpose. Equally poor and. 

 cheap lodgings can toe found in Chicago 



