Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-16
SOME LONG VACATION TRIPS.
Where Man May Go in Six Months and
What IL VIII Cost.

From the New York Times
IL man has three to six months az his dis
posal which he is willing to spend in a vacation
there are a number of long trips he may take
from New York which are pleasant and not as
expensive as many persons suppose. OF course,
there are long rail trips, as 10 San Francisco,
the City of Mexico or Vancouver British CO.
lnmbia and rail and water trips, as to Alaska,
and there are short ocean trips. as TO Europe
10 New Orle ans or to the Bermudas or 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 be-
yond the reach of the mails. where kilograms
may not come and where business cares are
only matter Of recollection and not OF daily
growth and newperplexities.
II 1t is early summer, say. and the proposed
vacation is q matter of three months, there is
q delightful trip TO Greenland. Passenger
traffic between the United States and the breed
ing place Of icebergs is not heavy enough 70
warrant the estabIlshment of q line of ocean
greyhounds TO the north. and even the con-
scienceless subsidy hunters have not ventured
10 suggest government aid 70 that end But &C.
commodations can be secured in sailing vessels
going from Philadelphia 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 vay, and the ships remain q
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 day. or,
say, s2o0 for the round trip. There IL almost
certainty OF storms and a fair prospect OF being
present at the birth of an iceberg from q
Greenland glacier: so all in all IL would be a
rather interesting trip.
In the opposite direction and about half as
far again is Rio Janeiro. ThIther one may 20
IN steamship at cost OF sl60 each way The
trip each way takes about twenty five days. To
add interest to IL the Tropic of Cancer and the
equator are each crossed twice in this trip.
IL sailing into southern waters should prove
attractive there are two other trips in that d.
rection. One is q water. rail and water VOYAGE
to San Francisco by way Of the Isthmus OF
Panama, taking a steamship for the ocean
yoyage. This will cost only $50 each way and
consume about twenty-eight days to go or to
come. Thus Is a really inexpensive trip and 10
is said by those who have made it to be pleas
ant one. The other trip to the south is 70 San
Francisco around Cape Horn. This takes about
100 days and costs $500. IL is one of the long,
est straightaway trips out of New York, per-
haps the longest. One can get 20 Calcutta in Q
sailing vessel in the same time. 90 Zanzibar IN
about 100 days, TO the Cape OF Good Hope in
eight weeks. and Alexandria, Egypt, in less
than a month, in Q sailing vessel in each in
stance.
There is another trip that ought TO be pleas
ant one, because IL is a mixture Of rail and
water, and because there 10 line with regular
summer and fall" service. 1t is to Yokohama
aud Hong Kong by way OF Vancouver. A first
class passage to Yokohama from New York
costs S26O. exclusive OF q sleeping car berth
and meals to Vancouver. The berth will coet
s22 and meals ~. 50 or so q day. To go on to
Hong Kong will cost about s25 more. A sec
ond-class passage for the trip costs about ESQ
less, and steerage passage wall cut the cost
down to a little over Sl00 to Yokohama or
Hong Kong. From Vancouver 20 Yokohama
takes sixteen DAYS and to Hong Kong nine days