Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-04-11
Foreign Travel

New York Observer.
At this season of the year we receive
many inquiries in regard to foreign travel,
and we are often requested by those going
abroad to mark out for them a route, by
which they may see the most, at the least
expense of money and time. We may
answer the wishes of many besides those
who have written to US, to give the results
Of our own observation within the past
year. At another time we may furnish,
as we have often done to friends, an out
line of foreign tour.
One man will spend ten dollars when
and where another gets as much for five.
1t is quite impossible to measure, for every
one, the expenses of travel at home or
abroad
If we were asked ''What does it cost to
live in New York 20 the answer of course
would be, cit depends altogether on the
style in which you live" House rent,
provisions, wages, clothing, and all other
things, may be more or less, as your taste
or means require. TO lay down a tariff
of prices is out of the question.
So it is in foreign travel. You may
cross the ocean for thirty dollars or one
hundred and fifty as you prefer, and at
various prices between these sums. And
when you are on the other side, you have
the choice of first, second or third class
railroad cars, and hotels of as many grades
and prices, as in the United States. TAX
ing the average of travellers, those who go
abroad for improvement and healthful
pleasure, wishing to be treated as genteel,
respectable people, without fuss or pre-
tense, it may be safely said that there is
no great difference between the cost of
travelling in Europe and in the United
States
Railroad trains are not run so rapidly
in Germany, for example, as they are in
the Eastern and Northern States at home.
And the fare is at the rate of a dollar an
hour. Thus, for $50 miles, the fare would
be six dollars, and it would take 6 hours.
We go from New York to Albany, $50
miles, tor three dollars; and to Boston for
five. On the continents of Europe bag
gage is paid for by the pound. What we
carry on the rail without charge in the
United States or in Great Britain, costs
enormously on the continent. From
Frankfort to Berlin the time is twelve
hours, the fare is $12, and the baggage
was four dollars for each person, making
SIG for a days travel, that in the United
States would cost, at the outside, not more
than eight.
From Berlin to Dresden the time is less
than four hours; the fare is four dollars
and half, besides the luggage. The
same rates of fare are paid in Switzer-
land and Italy. These fares are in the
| tirst-elass carriages. By the second class
the fare is about 30 per cent. less. If you
can put up with the rougher seats and the
smell and dirt with which you come in
contact in the second class, and more of
the same sort in the third, you can get on
as fast and save money. A man travelling
alone has no difficulty in finding comfort
able apartments in the second class, and,
if he smokes, he is quite as well off as in
the first class. He has also the advantage
of mingling with the under classes of the
people, and, if he speaks their language
or is curious to observe their habits, he
has better chance in the second or third
than in the first. A distinguished English
clergyman told us in Italy that he always
rode second class, that he might converse
with the people of the country. He spoke
italian fluently, and went about doing
good. 1t was not for the sake of econo-
my, but to be useful to others, that he put
up with the garlic.
1t is more common now for all English
and American travellers to 90 first class
than it was ten or twenty years ago. Few
of them travel any other way on the con-
tinent. If a party is large enough, six or
eight, to fill an apartment, it is quite as
well to take the second. Then disagree
able people can be avoided without telling
a lie to keep them out. It is very COM
mon in the United States for man or a
woman to say s'this seat is engaged, -
when it is not; and the same kind of ly-
ing is practiced all the world over. This
world is given to lying.
Hotel prices on the Continent are much
higher now than they were ten years ago
1t was practicable then to live handsom-
ly at good hotels at lower rates than in
America. 1t is not so now. The average
Is nISuSE- buJ IueEC IS LnlS OllCGSIlce IL
favor of the European plan: the prices
range according to the rooms you TAXI
and the dishes you order. You can thu!
regulate your expenses, even at the mos
expensive hotels. Extra charges are
made for everything net bargained for
In all the chief towns there are hotels oi
respectable character that receive guests
at fixed price, ten francs, to two dollars
day. For this a decent room is given
and three meals a day, with service ant
lights. At the Grand Hotel in Paris, tn
A advertised price per day is four dollars
But the rooms will be the least desirable
e At the best hotels the price is from thre
to six dollars day, according to tn
e rooms taken and orders given. At pen
sion, or boarding, the terms vary frou
!, two to four dollars. In Switzerland ther
are nice pensions at one dollar day.