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THE WORLD’S EXPOSITION
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS.
EXPOSITION.
Reception or Articles Commences September 15th.
Reckption of Articles Ends November 15th.
Unoccupikd Space Forfeited November 29th.
Exposition Opens December 16, 1884
Grand Display of Fine Stock, December 10th to January 10th.
Grand Display of Fine Horses, December 20th to January 25th.
Grand Display of Sheep, Swine, and Goats, January 25th to March 1st.
Grand Display of Dogs, January 10th to 17th.
Exhibition Closes May 81, 1885.
Exhibits Must be Removed by August 30, 1885.
city.
Mardi Gras, February 17, 1885.
Fireman’s Parade, March 4, 1885.
A large number of prominent societies and associations will meet in New Orleans during the Exposition, among them, the American Medical Association, the Knights of Pythias, Masonic Conclave, etc. There will also be a Grand International Prize Drill, with Sham Battle, a Sham Naval Battle, and other attractions, such as Rowing Matches, Horse Racing, Cock-fighting, etc.
THE EXHIBITION GROUNDS.
HOW to reach them, and provisions made for the accommodation of visitors.
The Exhibition Buildings are connected with the whole United States, by the leading railroads entering New Orleans, and running into an elegant depot at the grounds.
They are also reached from Canal street, the Broadway of New Orleans, by six street railroads, and by an elegant line of steamers leaving the foot of Canal street, every thirty minutes. There are ten entrances to the Exhibition Grounds.
The hours of admission will be from ten A. M. to ten p. m.
The price of admission will be fifty cents, payable at any one of the gates; this charge admits the visitor to everything to be seen during the time he remains within the inclosure.
An Electric Railroad, THREE MILES in length, encircles the entire ground, and running trains every few minutes, will carry passengers at a small charge. This will be the longest electric railroad in the United States, and will well be worth taking a ride on.
Rolling-chairs will be found in the principal buildings, and at des-
*	ignated station's on the grounds for the convenience of invalids and
AND NEW ORLEANS.
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others who may desire their use, with attendants. The Cost will be seventy-five cents for first hour, and every other hour fifty cents.
Ordinary chairs and settees will be found located at convenient places in the buildings and grounds, free to all.
Soda-water fountains have been located at covenient points within the principal buildings, and in pavillions on the ground. Charge per glass, 10 cents.
Every convenience for the accommodation of visitors within the grounds has been made in the Public Comfort Building. Separate parlors for ladies and gentlemen, retiring rooms, shoe polishing, coat, and baggage rooms, wnere coats, small packages, and hand baggage will be checked and taken care of at a small cost.
The Telegraph and Telephone Companies will have a central office and several branches, on the grounds.
There are over four miles in walks laid out in the park in shell and asphalt
GENERAL TOURS THROUGH THE GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS.
The visitor will find it of the utmost importance that he should decide before leaving home, just what portions of the Exhibition he wishes to see and how he is to see it. To aid him in this most important work is one of the purposes of the Visitors’ Guide. If the visitor has sufficient time to enable him to examine all that the Exhibition contains, he can adopt the following plan.
1st. Thoroughly acquaint himself with the plan and arrangement of the grounds and buildings, by a careful study of the Visitors’ Guide before leaving home.
2d. On arriving on the grounds take a seat in one of the coaches of the Electric railway, which runs at frequent intervals, stopping at points of interest and at the front of the main building; the tour of the entire ground is thus made, occupying about thirty minutes, at a small cost. This will give one an excellent general view of the grounds and relative location of buildings.
3d. Make a tour of all the leading avenues of each of the five principal Exhibition Buildings, and the Mexican Building. This will represent about thirty-five miles traversed in the buildings and connecting avenues, occupying about four days for a rapid tour. On this tour the visitor will find places of refreshment ox all kinds, at any of which he can obtain anything he may desire, at a moderate cost.
4th. If preferable, he may take a rolling-chair instead of undertaking this general tour on foot. In either event he should provide himself with a note-book to make memorandum of points of interest to which he may desire to return for a more detailed examination.
This plan of rapid general tours and inspection of the entire ground* and buildings, and of returning to places of special interest,