The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-22
THE EXODUS TO EUROPE.


Five Thousand Pleasure-Seekers Cross ing
the Atlantic Every Week.
AT least l25,0Oo passengers from the
Uuited States will have crossed and re-.
crossed the Atlantic by the end OF October
next, said a leading steamship man To a 70.
porter for the Mail and Express. "Couniing
the season at twenty-five weeks the number
OF tourists, then, for each will be, an aver.
age, o,OoO. THE sum total about three
lltths take the stere0typed tour 10 the
SWISS lakes; Others don't get quite so far.
preferrlng rather to locate in London and
run over 10 the Continent as their fame,
shaii ulclate. Some, again, go to the North
Cape, Russia and Poland, but the percen.
tage very small.n
Does the expense attendant upon such
an extended tour deter them?"
ION, dear, no; quite the contrary. Eu-
rope can be done in the best of style on 81
per day. and, as a rule, extended tours cos,
much less than occasional trips, for no
ground is retraversed on them. The sew.
eral exhibitions now open in London and
on the continent have done much toward
influencing tourists to extend their travels
inasmuch as they have brought the people
ana products OF the more remote points
prominently before them. This is es.
pecially true OF the Dutch International
exhibition at Amsterdam and
the nshery exhibition at London
Inc Ascot races have attracted many
Americans to Europe this summer. as ha,
also the Handel festival, which occurs nj
the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London, on
Friday next, and the great temperance fete
OF the Band Of Hope, which occurs on the
10th of July when a choir of 10, 900 children
will sing appropriate music. Many persons
visiting Europe in the latter part of July
will proceed 10 Norway and Sweden and
the Russian Empire, in order to attend the
great fair at Nijui Novgorod, which will
be held in August. This famous
fair is usually attended by 100000 people
from all parts OF Europe and the east 1t is
said that $S0000,O00 often changes hands
during the few weeks that this fair lasts
The travel over the English lake distr,c,
promises to be we're large this year, as well
as the Scotch and Irish tours. Tray,
through Ireland will be more general than
ever before, consequent upon the agitation
of the Irish question, and the exhibition o.
manufacturers, arts products and indus
tries that occur in Cork dlring the month";
of July, August and September
| gentleman but recently returned frcm
a tour around the word sub equently said
to the reporter, with reference to the Euro
peau exodus. ITO make the continental
tour all that it should be there is but on,
thing necessary, and that is the abolish
ment OF tie neiarious system of tipping ser
wants. 1t prevails only on the continent anc
the steamers crossing the Atlantic, wher,
it partakes really of the nature of robbery
| understand that the saloon and bedroom
stewards of the transatlantic steamers, be
sides serving for little or no pay, give
bonus of from 81 to fl0 to the chic
steward for the privilege of comm,
out in that capacity. They rely on tn,
gullibility of the American people-thougl
generosity is the word they use, believe
and the tips for their wages, which hav
been known TO reach 500 on a single trip
| The usual tip to The steward is from halt
sovereign up, with like sum to the boots.
This latter named individual is the execu
toner for the steward, and If the passenge
has failed to remember them as they thinl
they deserve, on the day of making por
the chances are that his boots are eithe
missing Tor time, or but one of them /
ready to be put one, The steward usual,
brings order out of chaos, for whicl
he receives the consideration OF tn
tourist in the shape of the mucl
coveted tip The barkeeper, one OF tn
most important officers of the vessel, Will
he has no direct income from tips, has
habit Of ''aving no change and like sub
teriuges, which always succeed in DRAWN
the much coveted gold from the American
pocket. Five dollars per day will see
man through nicely, except he falls int
the hands of She Philistine servant, who's
service depends largely on the size of tn
'ip,' and then So a minute would be TO
little. What the steamship companie
should do now is to look to this system {
robbery perpetrated upon their patrons
aud its correction here will soon open tn
eyes of the tourist to the abuse of the prat
tice abroad, and the thing will get its gu
: etus. IN. y. Mail and Express.