Visitors' Guide to the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial
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The Centennial Anniversary oL#&t.ton Exportation. /\V cri> ' . ' V\ f 1AM/J 1005 j LOUISVILLE^. KT. / COUBIEK-JOUKNAE JOB l'Kfx^Co-. 1884. Oo , v- K x TLCONTENTS. ^ - Introduction Act of Congress. Proclamation of the President of the United States Officers of the Exposition. Programme of Events. Exhibition Grounds. General Tours through Grounds and Building . Ground Plan. Main Building. United States and State Exhibits. Horticultural Hall. Art Gallery. Factories and Mills. Annexes.. State Commissioners. New Orleans. Information for Travelers by Rail. Tariff Rates for Public Pleasure Vehicles. Ferries. Steam Railroads enter New Orleans. Information for Travelers by Sea. Steamship Lines. New Orleans Pity Railroads. Street Railroad Lines and Routes.. Numbering of Houses. Names of Streets. Hotel Customs and Hints. Hotels . .. Common Names for Currency in daily use .... Steamboat Lines. Currency and Banking Rules in United States . Banks and Bankers.. Standard Coins .. New Orleans Post-office. Telegraph and Telephone Service. Public Buildings and Institutions. Places of Amusement . .. Financial and Commercial Associations. Science and Art Associations. Hospitals, Infirmaries, Asylums, and Dispensaries Libraries and Reading-rooms.. Colleges ... New Orleans Newspapers. Express Companies. Consuls and Consular Agents. Cemeteries.. Parks, Squares, etc. Churches. Tourists’ Trips from New Orleans. THE WORLD’S -A-HSTID itew s. INTRODUCTION. The visitor to New Orleans and the World's Industrial and Cot¬ ton 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, an I how to reach them. 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 com¬ merce of cotton, by holding in the year eighteen hundred and eighty- four, in some city of the Union, to be selected by the Executive Committee of 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 4 THE WORLD'S EXPOSITION culture and manufacture, will be the chief exhibit, but which is designed, also, to include all arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and mine; and, "Whereas, Such an exhibition should be national and interna¬ tional in its character, in which the people of this country and other parts of the world, who are interested in this subject, should partici¬ pate, it should have the sanction of the Congress of the United States; therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, That a World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition be held in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, under the joint auspices of the United States Gov¬ ernment, the National Cotton Planters’ Association of America, and the city where it may be located. Sec. 2. That the President of the United States may, upon the recommendation of the Executive Committee, of the National Cotton Planters’ Association of America, appoint six United States Com¬ missioners, and upon the recommendation of the majority of sub¬ scribers to the enterprise, in the city where it may be located, may appoint seven United States Commissioners, who, together, shall con¬ stitute a Board of Management of said World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition. Sec. 3. That the President of the United States may, upon the recommendation of the Governors of the various States and Terri¬ tories of the Union, appoint one commissioner, and one alternate commissioner for each State and Territory, whose functions shall be defined by the said Board of Management. Sec. 4. That all the said commissioners shall be appointed within one year from the passage of this Act. Sec. 5. That said Board of Management shall hold its meetings in such city as may be selected for the location of said Exposition, by the National Cotton Planters’ Association of America, as aforesaid, and that a majority of said Board of Management shall have full power to make all needful rules and regulations for its government. Sec. 6. That said Board of Management shall report to the Presi¬ dent of the United States a suitable date for opening and closing the Exposition; a schedule of appropriate ceremonies for opening on dedicating the same, and such other matters as, in their judgment, may be deemed important. Sec. 7. That no compensation for services shall be paid to the commissioners or other officers, provided by this Act. from the treasy ury of the United States, and the United States shall not be liable* for any of the expenses attending such exhibition, or by reason os i the same. a Sec. 8. That whenever the President shall be informed by the! a said Board of Management that provision has been made for suitable buildings, or the erection of the same, for purposes of said Exposi¬ 1 tion, the President shall, through the Department of State, make tl proclamation of the same, setting forth the time at which the Expo¬ P sition will open, and the place at which it will be held, and such ol AND NEW ORLEANS. 5 Bonrd of Management shall communicate to the diplomatic repre¬ sentatives of all nations copies of the same, and a copy of this Act, together with such regulations as may be adopted bv said Board of Management, for publication in their respective countries.