Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-04-03
Cost TO Visit the Paris Exposition.


The Paris correspondent of the Providence
Journal gives the following very excellent
statement of the cost of visiting the Paris
Exposition, which we reproduce, with great
pleasure " Since my return from Europe
large number of persons who contemplate a
visit to the Paris Exhibition during the
present year have desired me to give them
some idea of the probable cost of the jour
ney. To each one uniform reply has been
given, and the first words were, You can
make it cost just what, in reason, you like
And it is so. man can spend thousand
dollars in months travel and another can
suit himself just as well for one-fifth of the
money. My own experience, based on ten
days visit to Paris during the exposition
of 1867, is that you can live remarkably
cheap in that delightful city. During my
visit in January last to the capital of France
| was careful to inquire as to the probability
of an increase in hotel rates. The answer
was, there will be none. The Grand Hotel
in Paris only second to the Hotel Bristol, is
a magnificent house in every respect, and for
such a place the charges are remarkably
reasonable. At that place handsomely
furnished, well-lighted room cost me six
francs Zone dollar and twenty cents) per
day, and a dinner, including Yin ordindise,
similar amount. But, as in London, the
better plan is to take your meals out as the
French people generally do. For ten francs
(two dollars) per day man can live well.
But to give clearer idea of the cost of such
a journey it may be as well to start out with
the theory that we propose to be absent for
two months or sixty days, Eighteen days
of this will be upon the ocean, and for the
round trip the cost need not be more than
one hundred and twenty dollars. On ar
rival at Liverpool the docks and other places
! of interest have to be seen, which will oc-
cupy two days, the cost of living per day
being ten shillings, with four shllings added
| for omnibus and cab fares, seven dollars
| from Liverpool to Manchester, where two
more days are spent at the same rate then
| directly to London, the fare being five dol
lars, occupying portion of one day. In
| London there are a multitude of sights OF
interest to be looked up. There are the
Crystal Palace, British Museum, Alexander
Park, Geological Gardens, National Gallery,
Houses of Parliament, the Tower OF London,
etc, etc. Here, to do the thing up in any
kind of way, soiourn of at least ten days
should be made. This involves an expense
of thirty dollars for living Gt can be done
for less and well DONE too,) and an addi-
tional seven dollars and fifty cents for ON
nibus hire. Then comes the trip to Paris.
The return ticket from London to Paris will
be, in American money, eighteen dollars and
seventy-five cents, and is available for one
month. The journey to Paris usually occu-
pies from ten TO eleven hours, so that one
full day may be allowed in going and
coming. Then stay of fifteen days should
be made in Paris, and the visitor, If he be
prudent, can do admirably, as far as lodging
and living are concerned, upon two dollars
and seventy-five cents per day, or forty-one
dollars and twenty-five cents, and adding tc
tulS bcu uhln thll dicN W bht tAHlbllluu
one franc each time, brings forty.three dol
lars and twenty-five cents, which, with ter
dollars added for conveyances, brings Paris
to cost ffty-three dollars and twenty-five
cents. During this time, if disposed, a triI
can be taken TO Geneva lake, at a cost OF
fifteen dollars. This brings us back t.
London with eleven days to spare. A tril
to the Isle of Wight, run to Scotland, ant
thence down through Ireland, joining tn,
steamer at Queenstown, can be hastily don,
2 at an average cost of seven dollars per day
! a total of seventy-seven dollars, and here W
I find ourselves on board the steamer agail
' without anything further TO pay than tn
e stewards. This brings total of three hun
t bred and forty dollars, and allowing the ex
e travagant sum of sixty dollars for walters
$ ETC., the grand result is four hundred dollar
o for sixty days journey. This estimate
4 put at top figures, so that there shall b
9 nothing ridiculous in its appearance, bu
e your readers may rest perfectly satisfied tina
n a trip to Paris, properly managed, and a
d absence from home of sixty days, need nc
e cost any single individual more than tire
hundred and forty dollars"