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Show t THE COST OF A - VISIT TO FAIRS iV r ' Where to Go and How What to h' See and What to Avoid at Y t, The Expositions. I ' $75.00 PER PERSON WILL DEFRAY ALL EXPENSES. W ' Mr. R. A. Thorley Gives Interesting E ''" Interview on His Visit to the ft-. California Expositions. lis,, Mr. R. A. Thorloy and party, con- sisting of four other members of his W family (Mrs. Thorloy and her three d daughters) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wil- iliama and Miss Mattic Gower, returned re-turned last Saturday from a visit to the California expositions. They re,-pot re,-pot havjng enjoyed the visit im- mensely. They were absent from a home about twenty days. ' Seen by a Record reporter Mr. ' Thorley talked very interestingly of his trip and made a lot of useful sug-P sug-P gestions in relation to the necessary expenses, the things to see, the best routes to take, and the grafts to be ' avoided. a "A lot of people have the en-one s' ous inea," said Mr. Thorley, "that it ft is impossible to sec tho expositions E for less than $100 to $150 per person. W This is all wrong. It is possible for K two persons to see the fairs very I satisfactorily for $75 each, particu-h particu-h larly if they are men. I do not ad-ji ad-ji vise large and mixed parties. Too I much time is lost in waiting for each l& f other. Parties of two or three not Wit to exceed four are most satisfactory. ll' Two men can see the fairs more "11 -.lufckly ani economically than if 'bmm' r -'womefi are"iricluded, fiecauso usually ' men will be more or less interested in the same class of exhibits, while i women will want to spend most of their time in other departments." Mr. Thorley's was a large, mixed y i party, and no especial attention was . J paid to economy. They took in pret ty much everything that there was to be seen, even to the trip through China Town, paid a visit to Tla Juana, Mexico, and visited practically all tho places of interest from San Francisco to the Mexican border, and ' their average expense was less than 1 $100 per person. m , Best Routes to Take. I Mr. Thorley advises the buying of i ft a Jocal ticket to Salt Lake, from which - I point a round-trip ticket can be pro- 2 cured over the Southern Pacific to I" San Francisco, thence by either boat 1 I or rail to Los Angeles and back over , i the Salt Lake Route to Salt Lake, or 1 Lund, for $35.00. From Frisco to 1 Los Angeles he advises going by rail, I us it affords better opportunity to bco tho country, and the trip ho suggests sug-gests affords sufficient opportunity for ocean travel to satisfy most landsmen. lands-men. From Los Angeles to San Diego, Die-go, he recommends the boat ride, and returning, the automobile route. This I trip is not included in the round-trip f ticket, but a round-trip ticket either 5 by rail, water, or automobile can be J had for $4.00. In going by water and ' back by auto, the cost is increased ! ono dollar. The automobilo trip of iMO miles on a beautiful paved road was especially delightful, and afforded afford-ed an excellent opportunity of seeing y tho country. The farms are large, ' and operated on tho most extensive fccale, Mr. Thorley stated. Ho saw ! one field of beans comprising 43,000 I acre, and all on one ranch. The t . - country, outside of tho irrigated dls- I toiits, said our narrator, is drier and vtwre desolate than any part of Utah. I i The Thorley party paid a visit al- so to the Catalina Islands, but he said ; I that the most of the pleasures of this 1 ' . trip are sacrificed if ono makes the r run out and back in one day. The submarine gardens, seen from the glass-bottom boats, are scarcely seen ' at all in the middle of tho day tours, y i ftp not wlH llmo W w fr ' make, tho re,guW rip and awpmo- t I date the. crfoyds, Thpse rejoining I an th $ftnd8. ;v rtm ca,n ?!". v a much mre jsctry tflp, i fto r. Th9riy id twt wh.il? thy toplt lierhs, qn the train moSt p( tflfi Ii timfl they proved to their satisfac tlon that it was quite as comfortable ' at this season of the year to pass the night in the chair car as to sweat it tte out k th stuffy berths. By riding the ckair car from one to two dollars can be saved each night. The lunch basket, also, he stated was more satisfactory sat-isfactory than eating on the dining car and would represent a very material ma-terial saving. Avoid purchasing full dinners within with-in the exposition grounds. The rates are excessive. A light lunch will suffice, suf-fice, and cooked meals can be eaten at the restaurants or cafaterias, where the prices aro only normal. A good steak or fish dinner can be had for from 30 to 35 cents each. . Good accommodations can bo secured se-cured at the hotels for one dollar a day, to be occupied by two persons, with everything neat and clean, and the linen changed daily, providing you insist upon these prices; but the hotel people will invariably tell you that all their cheaper rooms aro rented, rent-ed, at first, and try to put you in $2 to $3 roomsv Most of the side street shows give tho best part of their performances per-formances free, Mr. Thorley stated. The insido performance is usually a fake. There are many things aside from the expositions proper that ono ought to see, however, such as the great aerial elevator arm which lifts you hundreds of feet into the air and turns you around, giving you an excellent ex-cellent birds-eye view of the exposition exposi-tion grounds and the surrounding city and buildings, many of the sido trips, etc. By all means avoid tho trip into Chinatown, that is so blatantly advertised. ad-vertised. "This is the biggest fake of all," said Mr. Thorley. "We paid a dollar apiece to take the tour, and it was not worth ten cents. How to Sec The Expositions. The principal exhibits are at the San Francisco fair, Mr. Thorley said. But the buildings and floral effects at the San Diego fair are much finer and more beautiful. First of all you should so the main buildings at the Frisco fair, such as the various art buildings, etc. Sec the bigger ones fii-st,Mid.MrrThorieylr'and then if you havo to miss anything it will bo that of least importance. The great bulk of the fair is American. Next to the general buildings come the several sev-eral state buildings, in which, of course, the California building excels. Utah has a nice building and a good exhibit, but owing to the fact that its products are also scattered through tho main buildings, such as the educational edu-cational building, the mining building and others, the exhibit in the state building is not as large as it otherwise other-wise would be. Next to tho American exhibits, Canada has the best showing. Other foreign countries having good exhibits exhib-its are Australia, the South American Republics, Norway and Sweden, and China and Japan. These make up tho principal part of the fair, and if one sees these thoroughly they will not have missed much. A good feature at the expositions aie the picture shows advertising California Cal-ifornia that arc given in the exposition exposi-tion buildings daily, at no additional cost to the admission fee to the enclosure, en-closure, which is 50 cents daily. Owing to the permanent nature of the buildings at tho t San Diego fair, and tho vegetation that lends itself so readily to ornamental arrangement the artistic showing is extremely beautiful, and no one should pass up the San Diego fail. When the show is over the grounds are to bo used as a permanent park. The long automobilo excursions into tho country and tho dollghtful surf bathing woro two of tho thlng3 that appealed most strongly to tho Thorloy party. Most of those auto trips are very reasonable, rarely exceeding ex-ceeding two cents per mile. One of tho things that impressed tho visitor was the absence of Mongolians Mon-golians and other colored races. Al most all the labor seemed to be done by white peoplein contrast with conditions con-ditions a few years ago, when a great many Chinese and Japanese were in evidence. Mr, Thorloy advises against attempting at-tempting to make the trip by automobile. auto-mobile. He states that there seems to bo no end qj it-falls arranged fgr the, auto .ourist" and a number p Uta people have bqen held un", finen and harruased until they havo Tqecj) obliged p"c their machines, jn. flf? der tP gpt noney with vhjch t9 return re-turn ilfllflPi Thg s.ta,tetncnts, herein contained are npt given with thq idea of whet ting tho appetites of people who can not properly afford to make the trip, but with the idea of convoying correct cor-rect information to those figuring on seeing the fairs, and possibly with the result of saving them some mon- l,H"1"'1""1"""11"'1"' Wii ey and possibly adding to the pleasures pleas-ures of the trip. One of the first things that should be done is the securing se-curing of a guide book and the careful care-ful assmilation of it |