Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-16
SOME LONG VACATION TRIPS.
Where Man May Go in Six Months
and What 1t Will Cost.
From New York Times

From New York Times;
Ii a,man has three to six months at
his disposal which he is willing to spend
in asvacation there are number of long
trips he may take from New York which
are pleasant and not expensive as MANY
persons suppose. 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, and there are short
ocean trips, as to Europe. to New Or
leans or to the Bermudas or to Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland, but the real
vacation trips are not OF that kind
There are ocean voyages where weeks
may be spent beyond the reach of mails,
where kilograms NAV not come and
where business cares are only matter
of recollection and not of daily growth
and new perplexities.
III it is early summer, say, and the
proposed vacation is matter of three
months, there is delightful trip to
Greenland. Passenger traffic between
the United States and the breeding
place of icebergs is not heavy enough to
warrant the establishment of a line OF
ocean greyhounds to the north, and even
the conscienceless subsidy hunters
have not ventured to suggest gov
ernment aid to that end. But
accommodations can be secured in sail
ing vessels going from Philadelphia to
Ivigtut, on the southern coast of Green
land, or in April or May as far as Uper-
navik. 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
ten weeks and the cost will be about IS
a day. or, say, 5000 for the round trip
There is almost a certainty of storms
and a fair prospect of being present at
the birth of an iceberg from a Greenland
glacier; so all in all it would be a rather
interesting trip.
In the opposite direction and about
half as far again is Rio de Janeiro.
Thither one may go in a steamship at
cost OF $3.50 each way. The trip each
way takes about twenty-five days. To
add interest to fit the Tropic of Cancer
and the equator are crossed twice in
this trip.
If sailing into southern waters should
prove attractive there are two other
trips in that direction. One is a water
voyage to San Francisco by way of the
lsthmus OF Panama, taking steamship
for the ocean voyage. This will cost
only 500 each way and consume
about twenty-eight days to go and
to come. This is really inexpensive
trip and it is said by those who
have made it to be pleasant one. The
other trip to the south is to San Francisco
around Cape Horn. This takes about
120 days and costs $500. 1t is one OF the
longest straightway trips out 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 Alexandria, Egypt, IN less
than month, in sailing vessel in each
instance.
There is another trip that ought to be
a pleasant one, because it is mixture
OF rail and water, and because there is
a line with a regular summer and
falP' service. 1t is to Yokohama and
Hong Kong by way of Vancouver. A
tirst-class passage to Yokohama from
New York costs $3.50, exclusive of sleep
ing car berth and meals to Vancouver
The berth will cost 500, and meals $3.50
or so day. To go to Hong Kong will
cost about $25 more. A second-class
passage for the trip costs about $50 less,
and steerage passage will cut the cost
down to little over 500 to Yokohama
or Hong Kong. From Vancouver to
Yokohama takes sixteen days, and to
Hong Kong nine days longer.