Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-04-03

WHAT IT WILL CosT To VISIT THE
PARIS EXHBITIoN.-Since my return
from Europe IA large number of persons
who contemplate a visit to the Paris Exhi-
bition during the present year, have de-
sired me to give them some idea of the
probable cost of the journey. 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. A man can spend thousand
dollars in months travel, and another
can suit himself just rs 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 re-
markably cheap in that delightful city
During my visit in January last to the
capital of France, was careful to enquire
AS to the probability of an increase in bo
tel rates. The answer was there will be
none. The Grand Hotel in Paris, only
second to the Hotel Bristol, is q magnifi-
cent house in every resi- ect, and for such
u place the charges are remarkably rea-
sonable At that place handsomely fur
nished, welllighted room cost me six
francs, $l.20, per day; and a dinner, in
cluding Utn Ordandire, u similar amount.
But, as in London, the better plan is to
| take your meals out, as the French people
generally do. For ton francs ($2) per day,
u man can live we'll. But to give clearer
idea of the total cost of such II Journey, it
may be us we'll to start out with the theory
that we propose to be absent 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 $l20. On
arrival at Liverpool, the docks and other
places of interest have to be seen, which
will occupy two days, the cost of living
per day being ten shllings with four shil-
lngs added for omnibus and cab fares, 81
from Liverpool to Manchester, where two
more DAYS are spent at the same rate; then
directly to London, the fare being SIS. oc-
cupying n portion of one day. In London,
there is Il multitude of sights OF interest to
be looked up. There is the Crystal Palace,
British Museum, Alexander Park, Zoolo-
gical Gardens. National Gallery, Houses
of Parliament, the Tower of Lonoon, etc.,
etc. Here, TO do the thing up in any kind
of a way, IL sojourn of at least ten days
should be made. This involves an expense
of $50 for living Gt can be done for less
and well done, too) and an additional
81. so for omnibus hire. Then comes the
trip to Paris. The return ticket from Lon
don to Paris will be, in American money,
$lS.75, and which is available for one
month. The journey to Paris usually ecru-
pies from ten to eleven hours, SO that one
full day may be allowed in going and
coming. Then n stay of fifteen days should
be n AIDE in Paris, and the visitor, if he be
prudent, can do admirably as far as lodg-
ing and living upon 1915 per day Oh
S4l 25, and adding 10 this ten days to en-
trance the exhibition, one franc each time
brings $42 % with $40 added for convey
} ances, brings Paris to cost $53.25 During
/, this time, if disposed. Il trip can be taken
TO Geneva Lake, at IL cost of Sl5. This
brings us back to London with eleven days
TO spare. A trip to the Isle of Wight, a
run to Scotland, and thence down through
Ireland, joining the steamer at Queens
town, can be hastily done at an average
cost of 81 per day, Il total of SIT, and here
: we find ourselves on board the steamer
. again without anything further TO pay
than the stewards. This brings II total o.
, $34O and allowing the exIravagant sum
J of $50 for waters, etc., the grand result is
$500 for sixty days journey. This esti
, mate is put at top figures, SO that there
, shall be nothing ridiculous in its appear
ance, but you readers may rest perfectly
. satisfied that trip TO Paris, properly
managed, and an absence from home O
sixty days. need not cost any single indi'
uidual more than $340.-Cor. Providence
Journal.