The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-30
SOME LONG VACATION TRIPS.
Where Man May Go in Six Months and
What 1t VIII Cost

Where . Man May Go in Six Months and
What 1t VIII Cost
# q man has three to six months at his
disposal which he is trying to spend in a
vacation, there are number of long trips
he may take from New York which are
pleasant and not as expensive as many
persons suppose, says the New York
Times. OF course, there are long rail
trips, as to San Francisco, the City
of Mexico, or Vancouver. British Columbia,
and rail and water trips. as to Alaska,
ope, to New Orleans, or to the Bermudas
OF to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, but
the real long vacation trips are not of that
kind. There are ocean voyages where
weeks may be spent beyond the reach of
mails, where kilograms may not come and
Of recollection and not of daily growth and
new perplexities.
II 1t IL early summer, say, and the pro-
posed vacation il matter of three months,
there il delightful trip to Greenland.
Passenger traffic between the United States
heavy enough to warrant the establishment
of line Of ocean Rreyhounds to the north,
and even the conscienceless subsidy hunters
have not ventured to suggest government
aid to that end. But accommodations can be
secured in sailing vessels going from Phila-
delphia to Ivigtut on the southern coast of
Greenland, or in April or NAV as far up as
Upernavik. The trip takes about four
weeks each way. and the ships remain a
fortnight at the Greenland port while taking
on cargo of oil and other products of the
country. The entire trip will take about
ton weeks, and the COST will be about g q
day, or. say, $500 for the round trip. There
prospect of being present at the birth of an
iceberg from Greenland glacier; 80 all in
all it would be rather interesting trip.
In the opposite direction and about half
as far again is Rio Janeiro. Thither one
may 60 in steamship at cost of $50
twenty I've days. 70 add interest to Il the
Topic of Cancer and the equator are each
crossed twice in this trip.
II sailing into southern waters should
prove attractive, there are two other trips
in that direction. One is water, rail and
of the 1sthmus of Panama, taking
Q steamship for the ocean voyage.
This will cost only $50 each way, and
consume about twenty eight days to 90 or
to come. This is q really inexpensive trip
and 1t II said by those who have made it to
south u to San Francisco around Cape
Horn. This takes about 40 days and costs
$500. It ID one of the longest straiQhtaway
trips ont OF New York, perhaps the longest.
One can get to Calcutta in sailing vessel
in the same time. to Zanzibar in about 100
days, to the Cape of Good Hope in eight
weeks, and to Alexandria, Egypt, in less
than . month, in q sailing vessel in each in
stance.
There il another trip that ought to be Q
pleasant 0ne, because it il . mixture of rail
and water, and because there il -''Sum-
mer and Falr' service. II 10 10 Yokohama
and Hong Kong by way Of Vancouver. A
drst-ciaB passage to Yokohama from New
York costs e2G0, exclusive Of . sleeping car
will cost ga and meals $2.5O or 20 a day.
To 90 ON 70 Hong Kong will cost about e25
more. second class passage for the trim
casts about $50 lesa, and . steerage passage
will cut the cost down TO little over el0O
to Yokohama or Hong Kong. From VAN
coeysr TO Yokohama takes sixteen days and
10 Hong Kong mine days longer.