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 ci

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