The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-22
THE RUSH FOR PARIS.
An Immense American Exodus This
summer Probable.

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summer Probable.
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Regardless of the scarcity of money
aud the earliness of the season, there
can be no doubt that the travel to Eu.
rope, largely drawn by the approach
ing Paris Exposition, will exceed any
thing anticipated by the ocean steam
ship companies. An unusually large
amount of travel had been anticipated,
and some of the steamship companies
had promised reduction of fares In
order to attract custom. Even these
expectations have been moro than
counterbalanced by the early engage
ment of staterooms, some of which are
several months ahead; and, instead
of its having been necessary to increase
accommodations in order to carry at
lower fares, no single line running
from this city has reduced its rates.
On tho contrary, some of them have
been compelled to increase the fares,
in order not to exceed the first-class
carrying capacity of their vessels.
All the lines do a larger freight and
passenger 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 probable demand for
passages during the present season has
been so much greater than was an
ticipated that it has become impossible
for any of the more popular lines to
supply it. The passage rates, there
fore, instead of being lowered, as the
public had been lead to expect, run
considerable danger of being largely
increased.
The enquiries at most OF the Offices
of the more important lines arc two
hundred per cent, over those usually
made ut this time of the year, and
indicate fully ono hundred per cent
over the amount of travel any year
this true, but there has been an
unusually large numbers of berths and
state rooms positively engaged weeks
and months in advance, which show
that the Exposition has had direct
influence, especially among tho older
travelling community, which always
takes care to secure such accommoda-
tions as it desires as far in advance as
possible.
The French and English have, how
ever, not been at all unconscious of the
fact that there was likely to be deluge
of American visitors to Paris, and spe
cial accommodations have been fur
nished for them, in the matter of hotels
steamboat and rail transportation from
England to Paris. A number of specia
parties, large in numbers, have also
been arranged between New York anC
the French capital. 1t was runoret
some weeks ago, in this city, tina
gagged in buying up hotel and private
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borhood Of the Champs dc Mars ant
the Trocadero, especially the latter, Il
fabulous prices. They will probabl,
meet with much the same success, o.
rather failure, that they did at tn,
Vienna and Philadelphia exhibitions
Indeed, boarding tickets at the Hote
Grand can be bought to-day in New
York ut tho rate of 81 per diem; at tho
Bedford for $3 per diem and mt most
of the lesser hotels, where accommodate
tions are good, for $3.50 and 81 per
diem, in gold. OF course, if persons
who are familiar with private hotels
ola still higher class choose to pay
still higher prices, they will do SO
but there is no reason why any man,
simply because he is an American,
should be subjected to the outrageous
eXtortions which were attempted Mt
Vienna in 1873. The transient visitor,
who is posted at all, can be enter
tanned at the Bcretta Hotel, the Hotel
Londres, the Hotel st. Petersburg,
the London and New York Hotel, and
hundred other hotels of equal grade
within three minutes walk of the
Seine, and ten minutes drive of.the
Exhibition grounds, at equally as low
rate relatively as he could be in any
hotel of the same grade in America.
There is no reason for being fiecced,
except the universal reason that "thc
American likes to be ficeced, provided
it is done in a gentlcmanly way" 1t
is almost always done politely in
France, and the average American does
not diffcrentiate Gas the Germans say)
between politcncss and gentlcmanliness
VanICS OE THE CAnINET