Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17


ton to Havre by boat and thence by rail tc
Paris, which you may take and which also
lands YOU in the Care st. Lazare station,
These routes may be divided into as many
categories-that is to say the quickest, the
best and the cheapest. IF you voyage bJ
the Red Star Line-they have two or three
steamers which are excellent and all the
captains are staunch Americans, although
the vessels sail under the Belgian flag
you land at Antwerp, whence you come
through Brussels by rail into the Care du
iNord; and if you come by the French line
direct, then you land at Havre and arrive
here in the Care st. Dazare already men
toned. Whether you had better travel
first. second or third class 1 shall not pre-
sumo to give positive advice; the question
of railway travelling greatly depends on
ones pocketbook, but 1 must admit that,
for comfort and convenience, frst-class is
preferable to any sort.
Speaking of railway carriages, the lines
in England are more comfortable than those
of France, yet travelling in both countries is
dearer than it is in the United States. As
to the system of dividing cars into compart-
ments, whether it is preferable to ours or
not is matter of personal opinion. Should
you secure compartment to yourself you
will find it very agreeable, but when you
are forced into one with strangers and ba-
bies, it is not at all desirable. In Europe
you have to pay lot of money for extra
baggage. All luggage is weighed and you
are allowed only 90 pounds, but you may
take as manv parcels as you like into your
compartment. By doing this you save
money, but you impose seriously upon your
fellow travellers.
LOOKING FOR DYNAMITE.
From Southamton special train leaves
at once for London, as soon as your baggage
has been examined-and rest assured that
it will be searched-in hopes, 1 suppose, of
discovering dynamite, silverware reprinted
English books on spirits, all of which are
contraband to British inspectors. They go
to the bottom of everything, and are tar
more strict than the Custom House officers
in the docks of New York or Boston. The
better way is to let them do Just as they
please, answer their questions. open your
boxes ana smile while they rummage. They
will do it thoroughly, and no amount of
grumbling on your part will prevent them
from doing it. Mind you do not attempt to
bribe them; for, while the British Custom
House officer is no saint, nor better even
than the rest of his countrymen in England,
he will not permit himself to be bribed or
tipped for doing his duty. Later on the same
man, if be does you a service out of the line
of his business, will be willing to'take
small piece of money, and have seen them
grab it quickly.
If you arrive in London from Southamp-
ton your terminus station in London will
be the ChariDg Cross or the Victoria depots,
and these, with Cannon street station and
for the continent Your stay in the metropo-
lis at an end, start for Paris by one of the
routes already designated
1t is lovely ride through Kent if you go
by way of Folkestone, quiet town with
steep gabled houses of red or gray sand
stone and shining slated roofs, and there
you will find splendid boats to carry YOU
across the terrible channel. The cliffs
banks are of chalk and stretch away north
ward to Dover, where high up sits the
famous old castle whose earliest foundation
is ascribed to Julius Caesar. The channel
is wider between Folkestone and Boulogne
than it is between Dover and Calais, the
distance by the former route being about
30 minutes more than by the latter, but the
boats are much better and the cost is about
81 less.
ENTERING GAY PARIS.
The Newhaven and Dieppe route is much