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THE WORLD’S EXPOSITION
INFORMATION FOR TRAVELERS BY SEA.
CARRY AS LITTLE BAGGAGE AS POSSIBLE.
Travelers should procure from their banker circular letters of credit and avoid carrying much money on their persons. It is, also, advisable that they should exchange the funds of the country they are in for the funds of the country to which they are bound at the place of starting.
As a rule, purchase tickets only to the point of embarkation.
Travelers will find their coir.fort enhanced if they purchase and take with them chairs for their personal use during the voyage.
The Captain exercises absolute authority on board ship. Travelers desiring information should apply to the purser.
Cabin passengers are allowed on any part of the vessel. Intermediate and steerage are not allowed aft the smoke-stack. Smoking allowed only on the upper deck and in the smoking-room.
Seats at table on shipboard are usually attended to by the steward, and should be selected before leaving port.
Lights are usually extinguished in the saloons at 11 P. M., and in staterooms at 11:30.
Travelers who are inconvenienced by sea-sickness will be benefited by sucking an orange or lemon in their berths before rising in the morning. A little good brandy or whisky is very beneficial. An experienced surgeon is attached to each ship, and medicine and attendance furnished free.
On all steamships it is customary for cabin passengers to pay a gratuity of from $1 to $5 to the stewards, according to the amount of attention received.
Do not leave articles of value lying loosely about in your stateroom.
Do not play cards for money without you have a good supply to lose.
' Divine service is generally held on Sunday, and is open to every person on board, but no one is compelled to attend if he does not wish.
Before arriving at an American port, the traveler should procure from the purser a form of baggage entry, from which he can ascertain what article* are dutiable. The baggage entry should be filled up and handed to the custom officer, who will examine the baggage and collect the duties upon the arrival of the vessel in port.
Do not offer to pay fees to Cu'tom-honse officers.
By complying stnctly with custom regulations travels are safe from annoyances.
In cases of trouble or dissatisfaction the traveler should apply direct to the General Office of the Steamship Company.
At all American poits an authorized agent of a transfer company will meet the traveler upon arrival, and attend to the delivery of baggage to any of the depots, hotels, boarding-houses, or residences. Careful directions should be given the agent to prevent mistakes.
Travelers taking cabs or hacks should read the printed taritfwhich is pasted in all public vehicles, and sea that they are not imposed upon.
AND NEW ORLEANS. STEAMSHIP LINES.
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	Bailing Between.			
Name of Company.			Sailing.	OrncEs in N. 0.
	To.	From.		
Cromwell Lice ....	New York .	NewOrleans	Wednesdays	41 Carondelet.
Morgan Line		New York .	<« «i	“	Magazine A Natchez.
	Corp. Christ	MorganCity	Mondays .	
“ ** 		Braz.Santia		Wednesdays	<« tt
•« 		lndianoia .	ii <i	Tuesdays. .	i< ii
Florida Steamship Co.. French Commerc 1 Line	Cedar Keys	NewOrleans	Saturdays .	91 A 93 Magazine.
	Havre. . .	“ “	Weekly . .	163 Common.
i< >i ••	Antwerp. .	“ *♦	Semi-M’th y	“ “
•• «i ««	Bordeaux. .	«« ««		14 11
North German Lloyd .	Bremen . .	«< i«	Blonthly. .	42 Union.
Mexican Gulf Line . .	Bremen . . Hamburg . Glasgow . . London . .	“	Semi-M’tliy Monthly .	198 Gravier. «« ti
N. 0. A Cent. Am. Line	Bluefield . .	ii i«	Semi-M’th y	32 St. Teter.
“ “ “ “	Greytown .	ii m		ii ii
«• <( ii «<	Span. Hond.	c< <i	ii ««	ii ii
N. 0. A Guatemala Line	Guatemala.	“	Monthly. .	82 A 34 Gravier.
Campa. A. L. De Valoree	Livingston.	ii <i	Semi-M’th y	bl Carondelet.
Belize Royal Mail . . .	Belize . . .	ii ii	Weekly. . .	129 Decatur.
Oteri Pioneer Line . . .	Truxillo . .	ii ii		23 A 25 South Front.
Mexican Transatlantic.	Liverpool .	•I ii	“ ...	173 Common.
N. Y. A Rotterdam. . .	Rotterdam.	New York...	i<	19 Camp.
Austrian Mail		Trieste . .	NewOrleans	Pemi-M’th y	41 (.'arondelet.
Morgan Line		Galveston .	MorganCity	Semi-W1 kly	Magazine A Natchez.
Special rates of passage will be given by all lines of steamers to New Orleans during the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennia Exposition.
NEW ORLEANS CITY RAILROADS,
WITH EXPLANATION OF ROUTE OF EACH LINE.
STREET CARS Run on the Street and In the Direction Given Below.
On Canal street, at the junction of St. Charles and Royal streets, stands Clay Statue, from which (as the central land-mark of New Orleans) all the street railroad lines radiate, except two:
Jackson Railroad Depot Line.
French Market & Fair Grounds Line.
Jackson Railroad Lepot Line (Red Cars) marked “Jackson Railroad and Pontchartrain Railroad Depot,” st»rt from the station on Magnolia street (two squares from the New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad Passenger Depot), passing entirely across the city from south to north, crossing Canal street, going down town, one >quare from Clay Statue, enters Bourbon, through Bourbon to Esplanade, thence to the station on Elysian Fields street alongside of tha Pontchartrain Railroad Depot. Returning to th« station on