Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-21
TRAVELLING IN EUROPE.
IT MAY AND SHOULD BE DONE ON
AN ECONOMICAL BASIS.

| bow English Dukes and Poor Americans
Travel Advantages of Maxim. Haste
! SlowIy-Cheap hotels and Their Induce.
| ments-A sample Journey.
The are many people to whom trip to
Europe is the dream of life, but to whom il
seems so tremendous an undertaking, SO cost
", SO unattainebie, that they give up the
idea in despair cherish il in hopeless silence.
How to live in Europe after you are there Is
So simple that one can scarcely believe ones
bank account. In the first place, however,
! one must decide to remain for some time in
| one place, as rapid travelling is always ex-
| pensive. There are three classes of foreign
| railway carriages or coupes, the cost Of the
third being about one-third the cost of the
| first, and that OF the second about half way
between the two. There are, however, no
third class carriages in the express trains;
in some, not even second. So in order to
save money it is well to make haste slowly.
Another disadvantage OF rapid tour is that
it necessitates living at hotels, as there is no
time to be lost searching for private apart
ments at much lower rates.
TRAVELLING III COMPANY.
Travelling alone is also expensive, as there
is always vacant seat in your carriage
which some one else might as well occupy and
pay for. You ure charged for the carriage.
not for the number Of persons in it. The OK
pense Of guide can also thus be divided, and
the larger your party the less each individual
share will be. The tips paid to the attend
ants at picture galleries, museums, cathedrals
and castles, 20 Porters at railway stations, to
conductors of trains that they may leave you
in undisGu-bed possession Of your carriage
and not attempt to put any one else in it, to
hotel clerks and walters, and to every one for
whose services there are no fixed charges, can
also be shared by the entire party. One fee
answers for all, one of the number usually
acting as cashier for the day, and the ac
counts being settled each night. When for
eigners have no friends or acquaintance with
whom to travel they frequently advertise for
one, as much to share the expenses as for the
companionship.
To illustrate: The last year / spent abroad
1 noticed during the autumn in one of the
Swiss journals the advertisement of lady
who desired to make the tour of Italy and
hoped to find another lady to make the jour-
icy with her. Her address was given and
correspondence on the subject invited. By
good fortune l happened to know woman,
who replied She was middle aged German
governess, who had spent many years in the
pursuit of her profession in England and was
longing for similar engagement in Italy.
This was her opportunity to reach Italy il
the advertiser were not too extravaganza in
her method of travel Asevents proved, they
were entirely suited to each other.
The response was prompt and satisfactory.
The writer was Prussian of good, though
not noble family, lived upon her rents, was
independent, but not rich. She preferred
travelling third class and living everywhere
throughout she tour as economically as posi-
BILE. Her position and means were 80 exactly
defined that could not restrain my approval
and admiration. With my own country
women it is often so sadly different; we so
often strive to seem better and richer than
We are and embarrass ourselves so sorely.
THIRD CLASS TRAVEL.
The tour was soon planned and days were
spent porting over an Italian time table to
search out the trains carrying third class.
Third class travel is made on bare benches.
with bare floors, but both benches and floor
are clean and the peasants whom you find in
them are always in holiday attire. As Amer.
leans have decided aversion to everything
not Of the best, and for this reason are the
principal patrons of the first class carriages,
it is necessary to explain that one is not in
any way disgraced by attempts at economy
in Europe, except among and by Americans
A certain English duke, who invariably
Travelled third class, when questioned about
it. replied: II would ride fourth class if
there were fourth"
The next thought Of our Italian travellers
was the luggage, which had to be stored into
valises or bags Of suitable size to be carried
into their car. otherwise every pound would
cost, Italy allowing nothing to enter the
luggage van free. Trunks can be sent where
they are necessary by slow freight, petite
viteSse, at very low rates, but they require
two and sometimes three weeks to make an
all days journey by express. This can all be
without the slightest Inconvenience
at the railway station. Hand luggage is car
ried to and from the cars for the merest triie
by pOrters who present themselves at the
door the moment the train stops.
Night can be spent at small, quiet hotels |
near the stations. These the porter can di- |
rect or lead you to, il you have no addresses.
Neat, pretty single rooms are sometimes as
low as two francs-forty cents a day-and |
double rooms, with two beds, sixty cents. |
The small hotels in Europe are as finished in |
the matter OF serving as the great houses; !
the food is also equally good; the walters as |
well dressed and as we'll hammered, the diff !
ference being principally in the fact that the !
proprietor is his own clerk and head waiter, |
the number of servants less and no attempt |
made at display.
On reaching large cities where prolonged |
stay is to be made it is well to remain at q
hotel only over night and next DAY begin the
search for apartments. There are intalli-
yence Offices containing every sort of infor-
nation concerning boarding and apartment
houses, fats and villas, but it is possible to
get along without them and pay less. Every
where are notices on the houses Of rooms to
De had within, and some of these rooms are
Is low as IRON s. TO IS a month, with serv-
ce OF course, lights and fuel are additional,
,ut they are paid for according to the amount
Ised, and you are at perfect Liberty to buy
hem for yourself direct from the dealer.
Your meals are furnished, if you WISH them,
NJ you can supply them yourself. Foreign
ITS carry with them spirit lamp and often
orange their own simple breakfast and tea
n their rooms, going out to C,oe of the nu-
ferrous cheap restaurants for dinner In or
Ter TO thoroughly learn ard know n city and
njoy the pleasure of discovery, 1t is well to
20 supplied with a Baedeier and follow this
Jude book explicitly .-Miss A. E. Ernen-
rout in Philadelphia Times.
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