Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-04-10

What It will Cost You to oeo the Great
Exposition.

| Vhat It will Cost You to Bee the Ores
Exposition.
Corr. Providence journal.
Since my return from Europe, a lare
number of persons who contemplate
visit to the Paris Exhibition during tn
present year. have desired me to Civ
them some idea of the probable cost @
the journey. To each one a uniform n
ply has been given, and the first word
were, You can make it csst Just what
in reason, You like" And it is 20.
man can spend thousand dollars in
months travel, and another can sui
himself Just az we'll for one-iifth Of tn,
money. My own experience, based on ,
ten days visit to Paris during the Ex
position Of 1857, is that you can live re
markably cheap in that delightful city
During my visit in January last to ths
ca ,ital of France, I was careful to en-
quire as to the probability of an increast
in hotel rates. The answer was there
will be none. The Grand Hotel in Paris
known to be only second to the Hotel
Bristol, is a magnificent house in every
respect, aud for such place the charges
are remarkable reasonable. At that
place handsomely furnished, we'll
lighted room cost me six francs, $l.2O
per day; and dinner, including vin
0rdindire, q similar amount. But, n in
London, the better plan IL to take your
meal out, as the French people gener-
ally do. For ten francs 1.-TWO dollars)
per day, a man can live we'll. But to
give a clearer idea of the total cost of
such journey, it may be as we'll to start
out with the theory that we propose to
be absent for two months or sixty days.
Eighteen days of this will be spent upon
the ocean, and for the round trip, the
cost need not be more than 4l2O. 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 shillings with four
shillings added for omnibus and cab
fares, 800; from Liverpool to Manches-
ter, where two more days are spent at
the same rate; then directly to London,
the fare being $5, occupying portion Of
one day. In London there is multi
tude of sights OF interest to be looked up.
There is the Crystal Palace, British
Museum, Alexandra Park, Geological
Gardens, National Gallery, Houses of
Parliament, the Tower Of London, &c.
Here, to do the thing up in any kind of
way, a sojourn Of at least ten days should
be made. This involves an expense Of
$50 for living Git can be done for less and
we'll done, too), anu an additional $3.50
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 occupies from ten to eleven
hours, 40 that one full day
may be allowed in going and
coming. Then stay of fifteen days
should be made in Paris, and the Wis
itor, if he be prudent, can do admirably
as far as lodging and living upon $2.75
per day or $5l. 25, and adding to this ten
days to the exhibition, one franc each
time, brings $4325, with $40 added for
conveyances, brings Paris to cost $53.25.
During this time, if disposed, trip can
be taken to Geneva Lake, at cost of
$l5. 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 Queenstown, can be hastily
done at an average cost OF 81 per day, q
total of $77, and here we find ourselves
on board the steamer again without any
thing further to pay than the stewards.
This brings total of $34O, and allowing
the extravagant sum Of $50 for walters,
etc, ETC., the grand result is $400 for q
sixty days journey. This estimate 10
put at top figures, 80 that there shall be
ridiculous in its appearances;
but your readers may rest perfectly sat
isfied that trip to Paris, properly man.
aged, and an absence from home Of sixty
days, need not cost any single individual
mnra than &24l