Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19
THE RUSH FOR PARIS.
An Immense American Exodus h sum.
mer Probable.

An Immense American Exodus This sum.
mer Probable.
New York Graphic.
Regardless Of the scarcity of money and
the earliness of the season. there can be no
doubt that the travel to Europe. largely
drawn by the approaching Paris exposition
will exceed anything anticipated By the
ocean steamship companies. An unusually
large amount OF trayel had been anticipated
and some of tho steamship companies had
promised a reduction of fares in order to at
tract custom. Even these expectations have
been more than co~unterbalanced by the
early engagement of staterooms, some of
which are several months ahead, and in
stead Of its having been necessary 10 it,
crease accommodations in order to carry at
lower fares, no single line running from
this city has its rates. On the contrary,
some OF. them have been compelled to in.
crease the fares in order not to exceed the
first class carrying capacity of their vessels.
All the lines do a larger freight and pas
senger traffic in the summer than in the
winter season, and it has been customary to
increase the number of steamers and trips
during the warm months. But the probs-
bic demand for passages during the present
season has been SO much greater than was
anticipated, that it has become impossible
for any of the more popular lines to supply
it. The passage rates therefore, instead OF
being lowered, as the public had been led
to expect, Ipn considerable danger of being
largely Increased.
The inquiries st most of the offic es Of the
more important lines are two hundred per
cent over those usually made at This time of
the year, and indicate fully one hundred per
cent. over the amount of travel any year
since the panic of 1873. No, only is this
true, but there has been q very unusually
large number of staterooms engaged weeks
and months in advance, which shows that
the exposition has had a direct influence es.
peciaily among the older travelling commu.
nifty, which always takes care TO secure
such accommodations as 1t desires as far in
advance as possible.
The French and English have, however,
not been at all unconscious of the fact tina.
there is likely to be deluge of American
visitors u Paris. and special accommoda-
ions have been furnished for them, in the
matter of hotels. steamboat and rail trans
poit,tioD from England to Paris. A num-
Der of special parties, large in numbers are
also arranged between New York and the
French capital. 1t was rumored sOne time
ago in this city that American spectators
had been engaged in buying up hotel and
private apartments in the immediate neigh
borhood of the Champs de Mars and the
Trocadero. especially the latter, at fabulous
plices. They will probably meet with
much the same success, or rather failure,
that they did at the Philadelphia and vi
emit exposilions. Indeed. DO riding tickets
at the Grand Hotel can be bought a, the
rate of 81 per diem at the Bedford for 50
per diem, and 3, most IF the lesser hotels. !
where accommodations are good, for "a 80
and 81 per diem in gold. or course if per-
sons who are familiar with private hotels #
q still higher class. choose TO pay still high
er prices, .hey will do so. but there is 10
reason why any msn, simply because be %
an American, should be subjected to tie
outrageous ex,or,ions which were at,emp-
ted In Vienna in 1878. The transient vi.i.
tor who is posted a. all, can be enteit.in,d
al the Bretta Hotel. the Hotel LoRdres, the
Hotel St Petersburg, the London and New
York hotel. and q hundred others Of equal
grade, within three minutes walk OF the
Seine, and ten minutes drive of the cxhibi
ton grounds, at equally as low a rate re!a
lively ss lie could be IN any hotel Of the
same grade in America. There II no reas
on for being tieeced except the universal
reason thst the American likes 10 Dc fieeccd
provided il is dom 10 a gen,lemsniy way
II is simost Alusys dooe politely 10 fnpcc.
snd the aversge American does no differ
eatiaie (ss the Germans ssy) between PC
liteuess aud geL~i!snssiiness.