Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-30
OFF TO EUROPE.
The Tide of Summer Travel Across the
 Ocean and Return.

The Tide of Summer Travel Across the
 Ocean and Return.
 Gath writes: Steamships are still poor thing. Nobody has been to work at them to make anything better out of them. They consist of one great room
 the width of the shIp filled with tables for eating, and there run two doleful penitentlary corridors between the en- zine and the state-rOOms. The people are put in without regard to prIyacy or acquaintance, at least two to a room,and
 when Cooks or Jenkins tourist parties
 go out they put about four in @ room
 Living on these steamers IS very plain and all the scraps are utilized. From
 the moment the passenger leaves his
 native shore he has tO take English food
 English cooking and English drink. As a general rule the average of the pas sengers IS not as respectable to look at as the same number of persons on Broadway. The fare in round figures to Europe IS Sl0O each way on the best ships, though sometimes an extra 80 SJO, or even SlOO IS paid to secure a full room, or one of the officers rooms. The officers Ot these ships are generally allowed to sell out their rooms. There are steamers which take passengers out for as low as Sj5, S65 and S75, and oi5 some of these lines passage can be had tO Glasgow or London and return for about Sl0O to Sl2O There are fees to be paid on all of these vessels. however. which bring the figure up considerably. As a general rule 1t costs S2jO to 20 10 Europe and back, and. take 1t all in all. lt IS very cheap expenditure of money for man worn out in business and needing real rest aId health. It takes about eighteen days to go to Europe and back, notwithstanding the adver- tsenents of seven and eight days pas- sages. These passages are counted moi between port and port, but between light and light. They count. fo, IDS auce, from the time of Ieay- Ing the bar, twenty miles below New York, tn making Fastnet Light Tn Ire land. It often takes four hours to 20 down the bay, and, after passing Fast net, nearly another day IS required to reach Liverpool Numbers of people 20 out on these steamers merely for the voyage, ant come back on the same ship, having five or six days. sometimes eight or nine days, to spend ashore. which lets them run down to London. and some go as far as Paris
 The steamship business IS taking new and 1 would not be at all sur prised one of these days to find a regu- lar line of steamers from our ports run ming direct to Gibraltar and the Suez canal, and through to India. There are plenty of people in New York who have already been Tn India. among them h. lies. know one lady and her daugh- Ter who went two or three years ago from New York to Glasgow direct, and l were then trans-shipped to a steamer of l -he same line at Liverpool, which took | them t0 Gibraltar, Malta. and through | .he Suez canal to Bombay. They re- | turned to Egypt by the same vessel. ard ! then joined one of Jenkins excursion | parties for the Holy land, and saw also | Turkey. the iOuial islands and Greece. The ladies then came through Italy | done, and through France and Germany, md made the thorough tour of the British islands alone. The same couple vent abroad a few weeks ago, striking l irst for the Low countries, and they are TOW taking the sea passage along the Norwegian passage, and expect to go 70 he North cape, then to Sweden and l hence to Russia, and next year pass trough Poland and the south of Europe 1 O the south of France and Span, where l hey will winter. They expect to spend l bout Slj a day between them on this Juruey.