Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-01-27

II may be useful 10 some OF your
( readers contemplating a visit to Europe
/ 10 know the prices OF travelling and other
expenses. X win take the trip, COM
mencinR Mt New York, on the highest
vessel, ANY SI30 In gold In Ireland and
Scotland the hotel expenses viii be about
e. 90 day for each person. From Cork
via the Lake OF Killarney 10 Dnhlin
costs $40 ditto 10 Giants Oanaeway via
Belfast, $40; SO 10 Glasgow, el.50 20
Loeb Lomond. Sl.50 % Edinburgh, "
10 Stirling, sl.50 10 Melrose. These are
merely samples 10 show the relative
expense OF travelling certain distances.
The actual railroad fare TO thoroughly
rAnsack Scotland would not exceed 575.
A ten-houra' travel in an express train
from Edinburgh or Glasgow 10 London
costs SlT.50. In London ID In decidedly
better that a family should take mpart-
ments rather than 90 10 q hotel The
keeper OF the lodgings hires these fur
nished rooms at prices varying according
10 location as well - the time OF the
year. During the fashionable season,
from February 10 the first % August. the
prices are tally Atty per cent higher.
But 10 take my own case For SIS a
week, commencing the last Of August.
had a nice parlor and three bed-roona
In the season the same would have been
s25. For all the necessary supplies Of
provisions, which ordered myself. for
cooking, fuel. lights. groceries, attend
ants, etc, my total weekly bills amounted
to $50. This does not of course, include
.m..s..wnm -. kt.ma&wA@ akm uwhfr3s
amount always in proportion 10 the taste
OF the individual. I had everything that
/ wanted and lived as well as mt home,
and better and more satisfactorily than !
could have done at the hotels. which
would have charged me double, if not
three times, the amount. This WINS for
a family of four adults and two children.
A family can live well in London mt the
rate OF ~ each per day, handsomely for
50 each, and ldxnriouAly "a each person
per day. In many Of the country towns
the prices are Of course even lower.
Every article Of clothing is below our
standard Of prices. Ladies silks. far
superior 10 anything e7en seen IN Louis
vile, sell at So yard. and magnificent
silk velvets at 81 Dressmaken in Lon
don charge s. for making dress. and
in the best shops Of Paris SO. Trim
mings that would cost 500 in the United
States can be easily bought here for 80.
On the Contine mt ID costs Won less, as
N rule than i'm England The railroad
fare from London to Paris in ont nf view
under the present circumstances. I'm
Belgium and Germany, as general rule,
So her head win cover the daily hotel
expenses. Only half the amount Of bag
gage, ia allowed in comparison with
England. and the extra baggage Ia heavily
taxed and promptly collected. The
allowance is fifty-six pounds each In
Switzerland nothing. In peace tunes
there is q peflte ritesse express which
carries luggage everywhere at far less
thar, our institutions do and at about the
regular freight rates ruling between
Louisville aud New YORK. Three heavy
trunks for instance, say FIVE hundred
pounds, cost S2.25 for distance of one
hundred and sixty miles 30 no old
travelerw win think OF carrying his trunks
around with him, but ships them from
place to place. In Switzerland the cost
Of living Ia cheap, and the hotels will
average about 81. 90 dav. From Lon
don. via Brussels. Cologne. Coblentz,
Mayence, FRANKFURT, Heidelberg, Carls-
ruhe, Basel and Lausanne, 30 Geneva.
the railroad fare per head is about S35
The railroad fare 10 ransack Germany IN
every direction would not exceed $50
each. and not over S75 for the whole OF
Switzerland. From my experience in
Europe would say that il requires
sixteen months 10 make a proper and
satisfactory trip. And for party Of
four adults il would cost about $40. 600 l
for the necessary travelling expenses, 4
with every comfort. -Fre'ach Correspond
raor Louisville Courier Journal