Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-08
THE SIGHTS IN MILAN
Glimpses of the Striking Features
of the Old Town and Its
Famous Cathedral.
TRAVELLING In EUROPE ALONE
Gives to the Tourist a Measure of Free
dom Not Permitted Parties
Personally Conducted.
TIE STORY OF A CELEBRATED SAINT
Who Dared 10 Shut The Gates of a Church in the
Emperu's Face.
TIE STORY OF A CELEBRATED SAINT
Who Dared 10 Shut The Gates of a Church in The
Emperol's Face.
,coRRrsPoxpENcE OF THE p1sPATcH.i 1

and making no blunders. Without this
trio of counsclors, the wayfaring man,
though he might be many removes from a
fool, might easily err therein. Especially
if he were acquainted only with the tongue
in which he was born. 1t is true that
travelling is made very easy nowadays. AT
every considerable hotel there is q porter
or concierge who knows how to speak hotel
English, and whose business it is to meet
and greet the English or American guest,
and to attend to his wants during his stay.
Still, with ali this he who travels without
q Boedeker under one arm and 4 Bradshaw
under the other, runs great risk of losing
his way. As for Brown, Shipley & Co., or
some substitute for that excellent banking
institution, the tourist cannot make his
pilgrimage at all without them, unless he
carries his money in some sort of uncom-
Portable money belt about his waist, and
lives in daily dread OF robbery.
OF course, there is Cook or Gaze. The
traveller may, if he chooses, put his journey
into the conduct of an agent, join a party,
and so escape all responsibilities, all ankle
ties all need for casting up accounts and
reckoning change in some half dozen differ
emf kinds of money, all necessity even for
thinking. He may make his journey with
out paying any bills, or feeling any walters,
or wondering even for a moment where to
go next and how to get there. He may be
personally conducted.
DISADVANTAGES OF THE PLAN.
Now, for people who like to be personally
conducted, being personally conducted is
Just the sort OF thing they like. No doubt
it does save multitude of minor worries
But for people who do not enjoy seeing
Things in a crowd, and who like to linger
and look twice, and who have a fancy for
occasional solitude, the personal conduct
plan is not pleasant one. We saw a good
many parties under charge Of tourist agents
They visited the whole of Westminster
Abbey one day-a personally conducted
party did-the whole of Westminster
Abbey from the Poets Corner 10 the Shrine
OF Edward the Con lessor, while we were
looking at two or three monuments in the
nave. 1t is bad enough to be shown about
by a verger and to have to listen to his
sonorous oratiOns but to take two months
OF that kind of penance, day in and day
out must be wearying. The personally con-
Quoted seldom looked as if they enjoyed it.
As for the idea that by going with party
you can travel more cheaply than by going
alone there is nothing in it. You can 60
from London back to London, taking in the
best part o Europe, visiting Antwerp, Co.
logne Heidelberg, Nuremberg, Munich,
Innsbruck, Venice, Milan, Lucerne, Inter-
laken, Berne, Geneva, and Paris, and buy
your own tickets. and pay only about $50
for them. And YOU can go Systematically
10 the best hotel in every CITY and never pay
so much as So per day, except in Paris.
Travelling on the Continent is not expensive.
And as tor the notion that q Journey from
Antwerp to Geneva is so very much more
complicated or difficult than journey from
PlttSburg to Boston, there is no foundation
for H. You may have to change cars some
what oitener, but you cannot make 4 miss.
Everything is made perfectly clear. 1t is a
good thing, however, to get tourist tickets
from Cook or Gaze. If you know where you
want to 90 you can buy all your tickets be-
forehand aud save yourself that bother But
as Tor the personal conduct part, that is best
left for those who like it.
RELIABLE CONDUCTORS.
Boedeker and Bradshaw are the best con-
ductors. Bradshaw gives the time tables of
every railroad in Europe. In this compact
volume, printed in small type on thin paper,
but quite plain enough, and arranged in the
most accessible way you can tell exactly
when your train starts, what are the stations
on the line, where you change cars, and at
what hour you are to get to YOUR destina-
ton. Upon folded map at the beginning
OF the book is laid down every line of rail-
road. with numbers referring to the page OF
the book where the time table of this road
and that are to be found. Not only this,
but Bradshaw will tell you just how far one
place is from another, and exactly how
much the fare is.
And everything else that you want to
know is TO be found in Boedeker. The wise
tourist never ventures out of doors without
q Boedeker in his pocket. Boedeker will
tell you what the hotels are in the place
where YOU are TO stop, setting star
against the names OF those which
be can especially recommend. He will tell
YOU Just where the hotel which YOU choose
is, and what their charges are. Ii the town
is one Ct Importance he will give YOU a map
OF the streets, so that you can stroll about in
1t as Il You had been born and brought up
there. he will tell you where the postofice
Is, and the best restaurants with their rates,
and where you must go to get the best photo
graph Of the town, and where to find the
American consul, or even the American
dentist, who is an important and esteemed
functlonary over here. If YOU are bibu-
lously inclined he will direct you to the
finest beer. If you smoke be will tell YOU
where you can get cigars. Whatever at
fractions the place has. Boedeker will re-
count them, tell you just what YOU want to
know about them and where they are. and
at what hour they can be seen, and what
you ought especially to notice and what the
ices are.
AN ACCOMMODATING GUIDE.
If there are picture galleries he will give
you q plan Of them, and instruct you how to
ind the 20 or 80 pictures which you care
especially to see. II there is a cathedral he
viii tell you all its points of interest and
beauty. The brevity Of the descriptions,
which are at once concise and ade-
quate and answer precisely the questions
which you wish TO ask, and the completeness
and thoroughness of the whole work are
matters Of daily wonder to the pilgrim, and
OF daily gratitude With Boedeker and
bradshaw a journey through Belgium or
Austria Is even easier than a Journey
through Pennsylvania or Ohio or New
York
From Venice to Milan. The first thing
is tue Milan Cathedral. Ssch a vast reach
o. stone hOor, such height of great col
umns and OF arched roof! Milan Cathedral is
larger than Cologne, out it lacks the two
nne spires which make the German cathe-
dral glorious and wonderful The roof is
beautiful and elaborate beyond comparison.
Cologne Cathedral is nothing to it in its
magnificent details. But the lack of great
spires makes it look low. Still when YOU
climb up and get out among the sculptured
spires you have no wish to criticise-even if
you had breath. From caves 10 topmost
pinnacle tie great marble roof of Milan
Cathedral Is covered with the most delicate
carving. Spire after spire rises up, vast