St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-01-24
Tourjee's Second Grand Excursion to
Europe.

Those of our readers who followed
travels with the Tom ice party through
Europe, last summer and fall, will he
interested to learn that DR.. TouIjee has
arranged il second grand tour of the
Old World for the coming summer.
The coming trip will have many add
vantaGeS over the last since the route
will he more extended and the incl
dental features increased. The party
will leave New York in one of the
largest and most elegant steamers of
the Anchor Line, June 2Stl. During
the voyage there will he concerts, lee
lures, readings, etc, to relieve the
monotOny of the trip, the musical eX
erciseS being under the direction of
Carl Zerrahn, and the literary depart
ment under the supervision of Prof. o.
b. Bruce, of Binghainton, n. Y. The
details of the journey through Europe
are to he arranged by the we'll known
firm of eXcm sion managers, Messrs.
Henry Gaze q Son. There will be two
grand tours, one of eighty days tor
for 800, the ticket in each case cover
ing tirst-class travel, hotel accommoda-
tons, sightseeing fees, carriage drives
in the principal cities and several i'm
portant side-excursiOns, for the entire
period of the tour. The chief tour will
include visits TO the following among
many other places: In Scotland -Glas-
gov, Loeb LomOnd, Loeb Katline, the
Trossachs, Stirling Castle and Edin-
burgh in England-Coventry, kenil-
worth Castle, SlrattOrd- Avon, Lon
don, etc; in Rotterdam, the
Hague, HARLEM, Amsterdam, etc.; in
Germany-COlogne, up the Rhine by
day-boat from that city to Biebrich,
Wiesbaden, Frankfort, Heidelberg,
Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg, and Munich ::
in Austria-KufsteIn, Innsbruck and
the romantic Tyrol in Italy-Ver0na,
Padua, Venice, Bologna, Florence;
Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Mount Vesu-
vius, Pisa, Genoa, Milan and the beau
tiful Italian Lakes in Switzerland
Brieg, Martiguy, Vernayaz, the Gorge
du TRENT, and the Tete Noire Pass
(having previously crossed the Bremen
Pass from Austria into Italy, and the
Simplon from Italy into Switzerland):
III French Savoy-Chamouni, Mont
Blanc, Sallauches and Bonneville; in
Switzerland again-Geneva, the Lake
of Geneva, Castle of Chillon, Lausanne.
FrlbOurg, Berne, Thun, the Lake of
Ihun, lnterlaken, Lauterbrunen, Grin
delwald, the Lake of Brienz, the Falls
OF Giessbach, the Brunig Pass, the Lake
of Lucerne, the summit of the Righi.
Fluelen, Lucelne and Basic in France
agaIn-Paris, Versailles, st. Cloud.
Rouen, Dieppe, etc. Excursionists can
go through Belgium instead of Holland.
If they prefer, and on returning to LON
don may proceed either direct to GIas-
gov, or through Ireland to London
derry. The shorter tour will be the
same as the other as far as Heidelberg.
thence southwark via Baden Baden.
Basic, Lucerne, the Righi, ETC., over
the st. Gotthard road to Audermatt
thence over the Furka Pass 1892 feet
hlgh) to the Eggischhorn, then down
the Rhope Valley to Martiguy and Yer
nayaz, over the Tete Noire Pass TO
Chamounl' and subsequently, through
switzerland as far as InterIaken as in
the other tour. returning to England
via Neuchatel, Paris, etc. DIR. Touriee
has arranged for special organ concerts
at the Royal Albert Hall, London
! lwh'ch possesses the largest organ in