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Show I , I flow to See the World's Fair ! I j For a Moderate Expenditure j Special to The Tribune, ( f T L,0UIS June 11- Seeing thp ' W World's fair can be made te 3 ,east expensive or luxuries K judgment Is used In the matter of Kli -;r)t'ndlture. It requires only odonoml- Hr -T rxrv V-eop a visitor's dally ex- H" voi'ifc'i down to the minimum cost of Br living In any American city, with a few centy added for admissions and the pur-' pur-' chase of souvenirs. As in every city and under all clr-y clr-y cumstances the cale of hotel prices In , St. Louis has a wide range, but the visitor has only to determine what price he wishes to pay and reasonable nc-commodatlons nc-commodatlons are easily procured, un 1 the European plan these rates run from 50 cents to 55 a day, and meala can be 1 procured at a cost of from 15 cents up. Boarding-houses, where both room 1 and meals can be had at from $5 to ?iu 1 a week, are abundant In the most ae- slrnble residence district o St. Lotus, j More than fifty temporary liotele, n- eluding the mammoth lneidc Inn, wmcn has a capacity of G0OO guests, have been completed, and with these Mled the total number of guewts would be 1 nearly equal to an average days ai- tendance at any previous exposition, showing that St. LouIs'b hotel facilities are ample to take care of all .perrons who come. -List of Boarding-Houses: For the convenience of visitors and to prevent Imposition by unscrupulous 1 landlords, the World's fair management 1 has compiled and published for free dls- 1 trlbutlon a complete list of reliable hotels, and reputable boarding-houses where accommodations may be had. .i There are more than 150 established hotels in the city, and all of these have I entered Into an agreement with the e-x- ; position not to rals their rates. . Up to this time this contract has been 1 faithfully lived up to , and with the Immense capacity of all these hotels 1 combined the prices of private board- Ing-houses have been satisfactorily regulated. It la now not only possible ' lo get accommodations of most any j kind, but at the most reasonable figure. With restaurants the World's fair city H" and the exposition are both well pro- Hj vlded, and as the visitor Is mostly upon l the go while In St. Louis, these are found more convenient than the pre-H pre-H tentlous dining-rooms of hotels and prl- vate homes. Prices are no higher at ' first-claes restaurants than those ordl- 1 narily in force in St. Louis. , For the purpose of ascertaining at I what minimum figure a persons could ' keep his expenses and not deprive him- self of any necessities or lose any fea-lure fea-lure of the exposition, here is taken from the notebook of an economical visitor an Itemized list of his expendl-' expendl-' ture for a day: , Expenses for One Bay. To begin with, a breakfast of toast and coffee at a lunchroom near the ' hotel, cost of 15 cents. Five cents more was spent for rlreet car fare to the ex-oosltion ex-oosltion grounds and 50 cents for ad-Hf,. ad-Hf,. minion, A good dinner was secured in- U side the World's fair, with a score of j 1 places at the price to select from, for H j -JU cents. Half a dozen attractions on i the Pike were seen at a cost of $1, and for 25 cents a sumptuous supper was M, secured. Five cents more was paid for car fare, and a home-like room in a prl- vate residence was secured at a cost of 1 50 cents, making the total day's ex- 1 pendlturcs $3.20, or less than the cost of l room and board for a day at the current 1 rate of a first-class hotel In New York, San Francisco or New Orleans. At this rate the cost of a week's stay at the World's fair would be less than ?20, and with excursion rates on all rall-roads rall-roads a trip to the exposition should be u lthln the reach of all. From Kansas 'j City, Chicago, Cincinnati or Little Rock i the total cost of a week's visit vould be , lepy than $30 with railroad fare In- Hii eluded. From Galveston, Denver, Mll- waukee, Pittsburg or Atlanta, the cost would not exceed $-10, and for from fo to $25 more one could come from any noint In the United States. , Low Bail road Bates. Because of the favorable excursion rates granted by the various railroad companies a visit can be made to St. Louis and all living expenses paid with J a sum much less than the regular rail- i road rate. Especially is this true In cases where the visitor conies from ' points at' a great distance, for the con- cession In the matter of rates Is then ' much greater. jt There Is plenty to buy as well as to' see at the exposition und it requires a Hj food amount of judgment and will to Hj prevent one's expense account running over the estimate. It is In extravagant purchases that the sightseer spends his Hi largest portions and he who does not i restrain himself seldom can boast of H more than belongs to the economical visitor who has distributed his money It requires more work than money to take In this oxposltlon, and the person who gets over the ground and sees H things will have more to talk and think about than the one who has enjoyed .some of the expensive luxuries and who has spent his money without discre- No city Is more wealthy in arlslocra-tic arlslocra-tic appointments than St. Louis. It has the most palatial of hotels, the swell-1 swell-1 est of clubs, the fastest of automobiles I and the best of everything conducive to the tastes of the rich and fastidious. I But it is not everybody who Is rich and fastidious, and It is for the benefit of those who are not that this informa- tlon is offered. Many honeymoon trips have been i planned with a visit to the World's fair Included and out of curiosity an expense list was secured from one of " the happy bridegrooms, showing the u cost of a day's sightseeing under "dlf- f flcultles." The list proves the young i' married man to be a sensible indlvl- ' For Brids and Groom. i For breakfast, Mr. Benedick ordered ; toast, eggs and corfce, and she with the 1 I blushes took "the amc."' They arc guests at the highest-priced hotel in St Louis and their checks read 60 centH Hi each. No street cars for "birdie" and l an auto trip to the World's fair grounds cost E0 cents apiece. Each left another 1 half dollar at the gates, and for CO j cents they enjoyed a tour of the main picture In a roller chair with a young man to push the vehicle and point out ' places of interest. i When overcome by the delight of see- j Ing, the honeymoon party proceeded to 1 the most select eating place inside the grounds and for 75 cents each a lunch-, lunch-, eon was served with which nothing Hhort of a duplicate of the menu would 1 compare. After a pleasant afternoon among the flowers and sculpture, great buildings and splendid landscape, un appetite was aroused that required a $1 dinner to appease it and the eating features were over. A dollar each covered the cost of a nxerrx ho.uc.pn, pho. JPJkaiiJtteR njfiht- fall, and for another half dollar the pair were returned by automobile to their r hotel. One of the best rooms In the hotel was theirs, and when the bridegroom's bride-groom's cigar account and the "Incidentals" "Inci-dentals" had been Included, the amount expended was less than $10 each This Is the other extreme In the matter of World's Fair expenses. |