ON THIS DAY IN 1876, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle said, “The cheap rates of travel this Fall will enable hundreds of people to have a holiday who have not usually had the opportunity, and the Centennial Exhibition will be the objective point with nearly all of them. There is a warning to be given to such as go there regarding the dangers their own imprudence will bring upon them, and unless it is heeded, the cheap fares on railroads will in the end be the most expensive that could be paid. There is danger from three causes in going to the Exhibition, and the first of all is exhaustion of the system from exertion and want of proper nourishment. Then there is malaria arising from the newly disturbed earth and from defective drainage, and again, the water drunk on the grounds, or even in the city, is not healthy. It might be, were the systems of those using it in their normal conditions, but they are not, and added to all this the mental strain and excitement, and the hurry and foolish indifference to bodily wants, renders sickness almost a certainty. Therefore is cheap travel made dear, and the end of a trip the beginning of a long and costly illness.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1898, the Eagle said, “The first thorough test of New York’s public school system as modified and amplified by the makers of our new city charter is about to begin under conditions of so favorable a character as to insure a fair and impartial trial before any attempt to measure its full success or failure. The system about to be launched in its entirety has already had a partial and successful trial for the past half year, which may be taken as an augury of a completer success in the future. Some of the conditions, however, in the few months just gone by had the effect of preventing the full force of the changes and modifications from being felt. These conditions have now disappeared and the new school year will begin without a cloud upon the horizon.”…