Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-02
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don't know good thing when see it,"
THE EUROPEAN EXODUS.
Inc annual rush TO Europe has begun.
IL began earlier this year than usual be-
CAUSE The season is from two weeks TO a
month earlier at the North this wear than
usual. Going abroad is not now what IL
formerly was One eau spend three
months in England as cheaply as he can
IN this country, the only increase in the
expenses being the ocean passage, and
mat IS not so great sum as is generally
Thought. As 30 many are interested In
the tour let me outline little of the plan
usually followed by the scores who 20
across the OCEAN every year or two for
rest and recreation. Let us suppose one
has three months to spare. That Is a
good long time for seeing Western
Europe. Bear IN mind that 1t is very
small in area, aud 10 time need he lost
as in this country in railroad travel
You can procure a firsf-class passage to
Liverpool and return for 500, or yon can
get m almost equally good passage TO
Glasgow aud hack for $50. There are
some fashionable lines where the fare
will cost you $l45 TO $3.50, but you will
cross In scarcely a day less time, will
have no better fare or stateroom, and
will stand chance Of being far more
crowded, especially during The months
from May I'll October, when the fashion
able rush is on. give these points only
after having tried nearly an the Atlantic
lines, both hlgh-priced and cheap. The
two Atlantic passages will take three
weeks Of the time from New York. You
viii have left nine weeks, or siXty-three
days. You can live well in arst.class hotels
Tor 81 a day. You can get a ticket from
Liverpool TO Rome, taking IN Stafford.
on-Avon, London, Paris, Geneva, Pisa,
Florence, Milan, Venice, modest tour
in Switzerland, Strasburg, the Rhine
country, Cologne, Brussels and Antwerp,
for $50. 1t will be second class on all eX-
cept the steamer lines, where it wIll be
dfst. Second class is the proper one, be-
cause first class in Europe corresponds
with our palace cars. Europeans say
that nobody IN their country takes FIRST
class passage but princes, fools and Amer.
leans. So you will have for total Of
three months, for absolutely necessary
expenses, S2S6 from New York. And you
VIII have made very long tour, but you
have unless you care to make a special
study of something Bear in mind that If
one sets out In this country and keeps on
the go for nine weeks ne eau see great
zeal, spend considerable money aud get
over big expanse of territory. Your ex-
penses beyond those named will he Just
what you care to make them. The fee
system In Europe is not half so expensive
NJ. ha. Id.
much difficulty in getting back through
our custom-housps on your return with
the little purchases you may have made
In Europe. The best way is TO declare
anything you may have that you think
dutiable, and the chances are ten TO one
you won't have 10 pay cent. IL is poor
policy, anyway, for gentlemen TO purchase
abroad. Europeans can neither
cut nor make a garment as stylish or
as satisfactory as American cutters
and in ninety cases ont OF
hundred YOU will find
that when you get there the same goods |
that you are in the habit of buying here
YOU win pay equally as high a price for
them. The only reason European goods |
are in some cases cheaper than American /
jnes Is because they use and wear cheaper |
ualeildl' III tlAHtI tdos NOu Etb JuhA /
about what yof pay for. That Is q rule !
that holds good the world over. nave
given the foregoing facts as 10 fares and /
prices from personal experience, end /
Iavy seen many others who have found |
hese estimates substantially correct
There can he no pleasanter way OF
pending few weeks than In some Of the
central counties Of England There ~ IS
much Of interest there as on the CONT
nent. The most beautiful part OF Eu
.land during the months Of july aud Au-
,ust are ia the vicinity of bennington
nd Coventry, in Werwickshire. Il Is
imply perfection as country scenery,
nd any one who can 20 there aud spend
month Is 20 be enyiad