The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-01
FAIR FRANCE.
Interesting Letter from a Salt
Laker.
RUE DE BAGNEAUx,
PARIS, May 81, 1883.


the medium of your endeavor b
one of Cooks personally (un) con
Quoted excursions" GiG Dover an,
Calais, the route selected by mysel
and fellow innocent, as being in ou
unsOphisticated and, as subse
quently proven iamentably de6cleD
| Judgment, the one most conducive
TO comfort and personal security.
" OuJd not be understood by this az
depreciating the utility Of Cook
continental excursions. nor under
ating the immense advantage pos
Sc. sed by the neophyte tourist who
adopts this systematic if not tho
rough system of sightseeing, III
preference to the hap-haZard anC
almost totally useless plan of going
it ON his own hook. No; simply
mean to suggest that in crossing
from London to Paris the traveller
cannot do better than go by way OF
Newhaven and Dieppe, which
though involving a sea voyage
longer by ten hours than the other
and therefore enhancing the liabili.
ties of NAL de mer, will be found, all
things considered, far superior to 1t
in point of comfort, convenience
and, ahem l-cost.
The English Channel, or from
personal experience to speak more
accurately-the Strait of Dover
is not always rough, as is sometimes
represented, nor was it on the night
myself and friend left London,
although pouring rain was
doing its best to make
things in general appear so,
while a no less energetic wind, after
blowing out every lamp in heaven
and shrouding all circumambisnt
objects in the blackness Of darkness,
was careering in wild glee over the
foam-creSted waters, causing all on
beard who had come too late for a
cabin berth, or voluntarily chose the
luxury of a cigar on deck to the
slckly Odor of the saloon below
(thOugh why on earth smokers
should be thus fastidious, heaven
only knows to forget everything
else besides their overcoats, UNI
brellas,and the immediate proximity
of the heat-Freathing engine house.
The rain, cuunteracGing the effects
of the wind, kept the waves COM
paTaLively calm, and sea-sickness,
that much dreaded malady, the
rarity of which is the one redeem
ing feature of this particular route.
If present at all was nowhere visible,
and within two hours from the time
OF leaving the milk-white cliffs of
Dover, our feet were p anted for the
first time on the soil of sunny
France. True. it wcS not very sunny
at the time, it being on the stroke of
midnight, with DRILLING lain,
every bit as wet as the one we had
left IN England. defending as fast as
its French pUllteness would permit,
Or the waller drops, Ike smugglers
from a foreign port, could elude the
lynx-eyed vigilance of the officials
Of the Calais custom house. Here
occurred a delay of five hours,
which we managed to while away
n various pursuits, such as
talking, eating, eleep-
ng, and studying mongrel |
French from the vocabulary fur
lished In our guide. books.
Ill the while wondering, as we
7aInly strove to establish some sort
If similarity in sound between our |
'Wn Crude deductions and the mex
isrgon going on around us, |
What particular part Frenchmen |
played at the Tower Of Babel to JUS
ify the terrible judgment which |
'nsued when they and their con-
Ounded language were transmitted |
o succeeding ages. Count de Coz
IurOy, | shall not fight you on this
Joint. You dent Harold Rout-
edge me-
at daybreak we were aboard the
Paris train-G board is good, for the
rain was all boards and nothing
lse-and were moving along, or
we're under the impression that we
we're, tow ards Amiens, the snail.
ike pace o. orr locomotive only
qualed by the unrelenting sOlidity I
Il the piece of timber we were sit
ing on. The former, however,
hUugh n connection with the latter
most decidedly unpleasant, was of
lsels a decided advantage-iu one
tspect at least. For it afforded
mple time in which to take in the
urrOunding country, which, though
the poorest and most un-
in all France, was interest
1g and attractive Notwithstanding,
nu improving with every mile pat
ltU the background; till finally, 1t
merged into one Unlnterru' ted
anOIama Of natural and artificial
Jyeliness. The scenery through
which we were passing, /
Tas almost about to say
was charmingIy al
orchards, gardens
meadows, hills, forests,
treams and fields, alternating in
leasing variety or presenting de-
ci0uS tour ensemble. with each
picture, ike a fashiona-
lie Paris bolle, endeavOring by dint
f ''all art Sield5 or nature can de-
Fee." to Outyie the charms of
IS rivalliug predecessor. Every
where the pedsantry were at work,
usy as bees, building, carrying bur
ems or cultivating the sOil-the
lue bloases of the men affording a
picturesque contrast 10 The white
APPS of the wonderland as we
ssned out of the window to enjoy