Watermans Illustrated Album Of The Worlds Columbian Exposition Classic Reprint

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ISBN 13 : 9781332213498
Total Pages : 26 pages
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Download or read book The World's Fair Tourist (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The World's Fair Tourist Every one wishes to visit Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition. Of the sixty-two million of people in the United States a very considerable proportion will do this. Visitors from abroad will number hundreds of thousands. Those who have sojourned in large cities in times of great crowds understand how difficult it is to obtain comfortable lodgings and proper attention, and visitors at the Centennial and Paris Expositions recall many sad failures in their efforts to obtain the absolute necessities of even a brief stay. Those who have never had such experiences will bear in mind that whoever depends upon his own unaided ability to secure lodgings and attention will be most likely to take up with poor accommodations, extortion in all kinds of service, and a loss of nearly everything that goes to make a pleasant time. Even advance orders will be at the mercy of strangers and the pressure brought about by such enormous crowds. While new hotels are being erected in Chicago, it is known that at all World's Expositions accommodations are engaged long in advance, and, as a matter of fact, there are thousands of rooms engaged at hotels and boarding houses of the better class and paid for at this date. On September 7th, 1891, Col. Elliott F. Shepherd, of the New York Mail and Express, engaged at the Auditorium Hotel a suite of sixteen rooms, with board, for six months during the Fair, at a contract price of twenty-five thousand dollars. In all such times prices are doubled and accommodations are diminished; extortion cannot be prevented by visitors, and the avarice of hotel and lodging-house keepers frequently makes of what should be a visit of pleasure a time of hardship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.