Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-04-28
For the Freeman.
All Aboard for EurOpe!

Our citizens have finally come to the
conclusion that travelling is one of the best
means of recreation and culture. Nor do
they wish to confne their experience to
the new world. The old world, with its
great cities, antique ruins, mountain
grandeurs, picturesque landscapes and
famous resorts lends its appreciative
charm The vast improvements in modern
travel not only make such visits possible,
but render them luxurious and compara-
lively inexpensive.
A look at the prospects for foreign travel
during the excursion season of 1880
reveals wondrous light and satisfaction to
persons gazing eastward. Perhaps no
rarer opportunity was ever offered to
Americans than DR.. Tourjee's grand edu-
cational excursion TO Europe and the Holy
Land during the coming summer and
autumn.
Asa number of Vermont people con-
template joining this party, perhaps a few
words of information to the readers of the
FREEMAN would not be amiss. All the
plans and most of the details of this pop
ular undertaking have been arranged and
published and accounts state that tickets
are being rapidly taken.
The name of the manager, DR.. Eben
Tourjee, most genial, vivacious, nspir-
ing companion, loyal Methodist and
director of the New England conservatory
of music is sure pledge of the character
and responsibility of the project. DR..
Tourjee undertakes this third excursion at
the urgent request of hundreds who ac-
companied him oD his two grand cxcur-
sions of rs and 20.
The fact that that body of travellers
(some six hundred ip alD was conveyed, in
each case, twice across the Atlantic ocean,
through Great Britain and over great
portion of the continent of Europe-ten
or twelve thousand miesAsafely and
happily, without single accident or de-
tention. with the detailed programme
originally announced fully executed, and
in not II few places its provisions exceeded,
is conclusive evidence that every iota of
promise will be fulfilled.
Europe promises to be of unusual at
tractiveness to American travellers this
year. There is to be celebration ia
England of the centenary of the establish
ment of Sunday schools; and in connec-
ton herewith great international con-
vention of workers and friends is TO be
held, beginning June 28th, to which rep
resentatives from all parts of the world
are invited. A bronze statue of Robert
Raikes of Gloucester, the founder of
Sunday schools, is to be unveiled in that
city.
The tours have been extended this year
to include all the great cities of Europe
London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome.
Naples, ETC.. also the most picturesque
regions, and the places of the greatest
Biblical and historical interest in the
Orient.
There are four chief tours. and several
supplementary ones. The short tour.
starting from New York June 10Th, in
cludes journeys through Scotland, En-
gland, Holland, Belgium and France, with
stops at the principal cities of each. This
will allow nm entirn wool apd tu,o SoL
baths in London at the time of the great
Sabbath school convention.
The marvelously cheap price of this
tour is $2S5,00, round trip. This covers
all necessary expenses, such rs for hotels,
hacks, concerts. sightseeing, fees, lunches.
ere. These expenses are borne on all
tours.
The long tour includes. besides the
above, Germany. Austria, Switzerland and
Italy. The short oriental tour embraces
Naples, Alexandria, Cairo, the wonders of
Egypt and Palestine. The long oriental
tour gives moro time in the Holy Land.
This trip will occupy eighty.nine days
from New York to New York, and the
price is S66000
These excursions have been priced so
low that any who intend making trans
Atlantic tours can be accommodated.
Every one who has been with DR.. Tour
jee pronounces his management first.class,