Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-25

AbEOADs
The New York Tribune of the 22d inst.
says: "Msy, June, and July are the
months in which our nomadic population
pours across the Atlantic. The Summer
sOlstice is The favorite SESSION for the te m
p0rary migration of the travelling Ameri-
can. This year, it is said, the number of
people who are resolved to edo" Europe is
about 81 900. Even this number is not the
whole truth; it only comprises the migra-
ton which is fixed for the three favored
months above named. More will 60 later,
when thu vulgar rush and the Vienna
Exposition hurry over" This large exodus
to Europe viii not surprise the reader SO
much when he learns that trip across the
sea costs only about as mucha rs trip across
the continent in this country. For instance,
here is what Scribner,S Monthly for May
gives as the probable cost of two months
tour in California:
-seThe price of ticket to San Francisco.
and back over the Union Pacific and Cen5
t5al Pacific roads is little less than three
The expenses of seven or eight days meals,
averaging three dollars day, also the addi-
tional expense of a compartment in Pull
man car. Without this latter the journey
would be unendurably tatiguing; with it,
it is surprisingly comfortable. Upon the
margin of the long railway map furnished
to travellers we read that sleeping berth
from New York TO San Francisco can be
procured for eleven dollars, which certainly
sounds remarkably cheap. But this does
not mean section, or even half q section;
it refers to the minimum of space, that is,
half of one of the berths, upper or under,
three other persons occupying The remain
der of the section. Now few persons can
be really comfortable with less than s whole
section-certainly no lady travelling
alone could be-and a whole section
casts forty-four dollars. 1t will be
seen therefore that a compartment
in the P. p G. is considerable item in the
expenses of the trip. Hotel charges in Cal
iiornia are not SO high as with us, being
three dollars-sometime two dollars and
half-a day. Carriage fares are exceed
iDgly Gear, stage fares less than in the East,
on the White Mountain roads for instance.
The Yo Semitic excursion is an extremely
costly one, No one should undertake it
without an allowance offrom ten to fifteen
days (at leas) in time, and from one hun
dred and thirty TO one hundred and fifty
dollars in money. 1t will then be easily
seen that il is safe to estimate the expense
oftwo months of travel in California to vary
fom seven to eight hundred dollars, &C
cOrding as the traveller is or is not an econ
omist. To reckon it at less would be to
'nislead. And this, observe, is in gold, and |
does not include any Of the longer excur-
sions-Southern California, the Columbia I
river, Puget Sound; all of which furnish |
points OF great interest and beauty well |
worth an additional journey to see."
a two months tour in Europe would |
cost very little if any more, while the tour
list would see so much more to amuse and |
interest him. That explains why so many
people go to Europe. If trip to Califor-
MIA did not cost so much, the number Of |
tourists across the plains to that land of |
wonders would be greatly increased.