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CONTENTS.
Introdnction  ...................................................................	8
Act of Congress...........................................................! ! ! !	8
Pn>clamation of the President of the United States....................I III'.	5
Officers of the Exposition......................................................*	7
Programme of Events........................................................!.!!!!	8
Exhibition Gronnds............................................!.!!!!*!!!	8
General Tours through Grounds and Building............................!!!!!!	0
Ground Plan...................................................................]	J2
M«in Building...........................................................!!!!!!!!!	13
United States and State Exhibits......................................!!!.!!	14
Horticultural Hail....................................................! . 1 ! !	15
Art<*allery...........................................................I I I I I I	16
Factories aud Mills.....................................................!!!!!!!!!	16
Annexes................... ...........................................!!!!'	17
State Commissioners...............................18
New Orleans.....................................................................*	19
Information for Travelers by	Rail...........................!!!!!!!!!!	20
TarifT Rate* for Public Pleasure Vehicles.....................................*	21
Ferries..........................................................................	22
Steam Railroads enter New Orleans................................................	23
Information for Travelers by Sea.................................................	24
Steamship Liues...........................................................Ill	26
New Orleans ' tty Railroads...................................!.!!!!!!!!	25
Street Railroad i,ines and Routes.............................................I	I	26
Numiiering of Houses........................................................*..!!	82
Names of {Streets.............................................................|	*	32
Hotel Customs and Hiuts.......................................I , I . I I I . .	82
Hotels....................................................................! ! ! !	84
Common Names for Currency in daily use...........................................	34
Steamboat Lines..................................................................	35
Currency and Banking Rules in Uuited States...................I I I I I I I I I I 85
Banks and Bankers................................................................	36
Standard Coins...........................................................!!.!!!!!	37
New Orleans I’oRt-olfice......................................!..!!!!!!	38
Telegraph and Telephone Service...............................................*	I	39
Public Kuildings and Institutions.....................................! . . ! !	39
Places of Amusement.........................................................! ! !	40
Financial and Commercial Associations.........................................Ill	41
Science and Art Associations...................................................II	41
Hospitals, Infirmaries, Asylums, and Dispensaries.........................! ! !	41
Libraries and Reading*rooms...................................*..................	42
Colleges.......................................................................II	43
New Orleaus Newspapers...........................................................	43
Express Companies.........................................................[ * * ’	43
Consuls and Consular Agents......................................................	44
Cemeteries.......................................................................	44
Parks, Squares, etc....................................................... I I \	45
Cburche.H . . . ................................................................]	47
Tourists' Trips from New Orleans...............................................II	48
THE WORLD'S
Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition
-A-ISrjD
UsTIEW ORLEAUS.
INTRODUCTION.
The visitor to New Orleans and the World s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition should fully acquaint himself with the character and extent of the city and Exposition before leaving home.
He should select the most agreeable and pleasant route, either by water or rail, for reaching the Crescent City.
The visitor should fully acquaint himself with the names and locations of the prominent New Orleans hotels, their charges, ani how to reach tbem. He should know fully just where the grounds are located, and the best manner to reach them, and if his time is limited, should select the features that he is mostly interested in, and see them. He should fully post himself as to the points of interest in or near the city, historical and others, and how to reach them.
The “Visitors' Guide” is especially intended to meet all these wants, thus enabling every visitor to know, before coming to New Orleans, what to see and how to see it.
ACT OF CONGRESS.
Creating the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition.
An act to encourage the holding of a World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
Whereas, It is desirable to encourage the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the production, manufacture, and commerce of cotton, by holding in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, in somn city of the Union, to be selected by the Executive Cnmmitteeof the National Cotton Planters' Association, of America, an institution for the public welfare, incorporated under the laws of Mississippi, a World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, to be held under the joint auspices of the United States, the said National Cotton Planters’ Association of America, and of the city in which it may be located, and in which cotton, in all its conditions of