The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-08-12
He and His Wife Were Absent
Nearly Six Mont hS, at an
Expense of $1,000
Each.


sand | do not believe a happier party
ever started out on an excursion. Not
one of us was SEX from the day we
left until the day We returned, and not
an accident occurred until We got
back into Illinois, when a railway
wreck delayed vile and / about three
hours.
81 met some few people on the
other side whom | had met before,
but no one from Sedalia. Many per-
SONS inquired of us in regard to Mis-.
souri,, and nearly all with whom we
conversed knew considerable about
the larger cities of the state.
II wss amused ON more than one
occasion, though. We would be asked
what the capital of the state was, and
when We answered Jefferson City,"
the reply would be, i never heard of
Che place."
W GLOW long were you absent, Mr..
White?' a.ked the reporter.
1--WE left Sedalia the night of Feb
ruary 18th and returned the 9th of
this mo ita, 50 that We were gone
nearly Fix months"
eff the question be fair one, what
did the trip cost your"
IA little .he rise of 1000 each
for wife and myself; but do not re
greet the expenditure of The money!
10 fact, think it was we'll spent"
Tell me something of your trip,
please"
well, as / told you. we left here
BAT mi might Of February 18th and
went direct to New York, where We
were lined by DR.. Hays and the re.
Fnsiuder of our party. We sailed |
from there tie 10Th IF February and
lin due time arrived at Liverp ,ol,
from where We went to London and |
Paris, 10 both of which citirs We !,
made short visits.
Leaving Paris, We next visited !
Swift and travelled through the
eountry from northwest to southeast.
We were on sight seeing trip. you
will remember, so moved around in
daytime only, and at night put up at
the best ho'els We could find.
"Leaving Switzerland, We next
visited Milan, Italy, where
che principal attraction is the great
cathedral, which is beyond any pc yer
20 describe. This is the seat of
pusical learning, too. From Milan
ne proceeded to Geneva, thence to
Rome, where we spent week most
pleas ntly.
''Our next stopping place Of interest
was Naples, where We visited the
ruins of Pompeii and also Mt. Yes
uvius, which is in constant state
of eruption and grand and frightful to
gaze upon.
Alexandria, Egypt, came next en-
route 1t was the latter part of
March when We reached there, but it
was m;d-hsrvest, and to us it seemed
strange. indeed. Leaving Alexsn-
dria, We travele to Carlo, where we
iarried Two weeks End to,k frequent
rides on the Nile.
"The natives resemble our home
aegro;s very little. There they are
livery no'sy-much more so than here
and superstition is their stock in
trade. The hotels are all run by Eu-
ropea s, and they are kept in man.
ner that IT would be hard to improve |
upon. The rates are pretty steep, |
though.
"We next made a trip to the Red
sea, proceed d by steamer up the
Suez canal to Jappa, where We pro-
cured horses, tents, etc, for a thirty
three days ride through The Holy
Land to Palestine. The sights We there
beheld were simply wonderful, and to
give anything like a de: cription would
require several issues of the BAzoo.
"Bt the conclusion of one visit
khere We took steamer FIR Smyrna,
In Asia Minor, thence to Athens,
Greece, and thence II ConstantinopIe,
a truly wonderful city. In'o the
Back sea was next on the pragamme,
aroun.t the Golden Horn, thence by
train t. Vienna, a pretty wide-awake
city. Dresden ard Berlin csme next,
then to Frankfort on the Main, then
to the Maycnca and down the Rhine
to Cologne. From Cologne we travel
ed t. Bel2ium, where we walked over
the ground where the battle of Water
loo WAS fought.
"From Brussels we went TO Paris.
and London, then made a tour
! of Scotland and Ireland. At
Cork We Intercepted The vessel on
which our baggage had been shipped,