THE MIDWAY Housing the machine in a convenient and well-appointed stable for automobiles, we were reminded of the fact that we had arrived in Buffalo at no ordinary time, by a charge of three dollars per night for storage, with everything else extra.

But was it not the Exposition we had come to see?
and are not Expositions proverbially expensive--to promoters and stockholders as well as visitors?
Then, too, the hotels of Buffalo had expected so much and were so woefully disappointed.

Vast arrays of figures had been compiled showing that within a radius of four hundred miles of Buffalo lived all the people in the United States who were worth knowing.
The statistics were not without their foundation in fact, but therein lay the weakness of the entire scheme so far as hotels were concerned; people lived so near they could leave home in the morning with a boiled egg and a sandwich, see the Exposition and get back at night.

Travellers passing through would stop over during the day and evening, then go their way on a midnight train,--it was cheaper to ride in a Pullman than stay in Buffalo.
We might have taken rooms at Rochester, running back and forth each day in the machine,--though Rochester was by no means beyond the zone of exorbitant charges.

Notions of value become very much congested within a radius of two or three hundred miles of any great Exposition.
The Exposition was well worth seeing in parts by day and as a whole by night.