The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-25
CRUDEYANKEES ABROAD.
JAYS FROM JAYVILLE WORKING
HARD TO SEE EVERY SIGHT.

| ADOuCs anu InSy are 6OunO TO Get
Their Moneys Worth of Sights-Ex-
cursionists Whirled Through Europe
Like Express Parcels.
From the NelD York Sun
Now that the expenses of 6 trip to Europe
have been reduced 90 that a country school
teacher may spend three months abroad on
TWO years savings or less, one comes across
great numbers Of most surprising Ameri-
cans on the highways and byways of Eu-
rope. They are such persons as one sees ct
hons only in the scattered and most rural
towns or in the depths of the beckwoods.
J They are Of the sort that ventures upon
every railroad journey with fearful mis-
! givings, that sits alarmed upon the edge Of
the seat, with paper valise and bird cage
| tightly clutched. so that a bolt may be made
for the door at every station.
Yet here they are, thousands of miles from
| home and friends, perhaps set down in
country of whose language they know not
one word. And they are in flutter and
| cold sweat from morning until night. IL
must be that these honest. adventurous souls
have more courage than Columbus. or even
| than the first navigators whom Horace cele-
brates. For il a journey of twenty miles by
rail through their own country so alarmed
| them, think what il must have meant to
| take the ocean voyage and the railway
| Journeys where everything is unfamiliar,
| coaches, guards, languages.
So far as may be judged by the public
| appearance of these people they have made
no more preparations for this long journey
| than If they had been hitching up the farm
wagon to go for a weeks visit to their town
| relatives. In the strand and in the boule-
wards OF Paris you see Americans clad IN
such rustic garments es would make people
turn and stare on Broadway. There will
be man in butternut or jeane, with dusty
boots and paper collar, or beard thick
and unpruned, hiding en- absence of a COL
| lar. His hands will be as red aud knotted
| as If their palms were still warm from the
plow handles He may have a wild-eyed
Nebraska or q Kansas baby on his arm.
| And there will be a woman. a farmers
wife from crown to heel. in rustling cheap
black silk gown and smooth black kid
gloves, the acme Of Jaytown elegance.
A sight like this lit is not so rare as one
might think makes one feel that he is In a
trance, that he is not on the strand or the
Boulevard des Italiens, but in Jaytown, that
the market wagons are Just off the
street, and that these people are steering
different passage through the maze Of
Jaytown's one street in search of calico at
Z cents yard instead of u cents. And
II you fall into conversation with such
party-they would embrace an American
bunoo steerer even il they knew what he
was-You will be more amazed.
For the journeyings of most OF these peo-
pie the great European excursion compa-
mics are responsible. These companies have
sent their agents out to Iowa or Kansas or
Dakota and have made the bacEwoods ring
with stories Of Europe and European trips
They talk about the educating influences OF
these trips, about the cheapness and the
COp1fNrt nd bn rla A. har
get together large parties. who go under
the direction of a special guide or a series Of
guides. But few are melted to go who do
not want to join the parties, but think they
can travel more cheaply without
paying the company a commission
for taking care OF them. 1t
is these people that one sees drifting
helplessy about, looking as lost as would a
savage from undiscovered Central Africa
II suddenly set down in great city. Prov
idence has not endowed them with SIS much
cunning as they think, but they do know
one thing, and that ia now to keep a tight
clutch on the pocket book. And if they
only knew what perils of plumber and ra-
pacity they had avoided by simply holding
on tightly to their money, their self-esteem
would be vastly increased. 1t is these people
who get through Europe cheaply. They
are the horror OF the hotel keepers, the de-
spair of the professional guides and others
VINO live Oy lIloRltimaCS ices.
They are safer in Paris than they would
be in New York. They might unbend TO
spend little more money for "foolishness"
in New York, but being SO far from home
they feel a thrill OF terror each time little
money goes. So whoever gets even his just
dues from them must wrench it by threats
of the police. AS for getting high price
or a fee, it would be impossible.
There is no end to the books of travel;
there is no corner OF Europe that has not
been written about again and again. But
IL one of these people could tell his story,
tell OF Europe as he saw and heard and felt
it, few books or travel could compete with
that telling. One OF these persons dropped
down at the same table with fellow coun-
tryman from New York last summer. He
was from Nebraska. and his sole concession
to his idea of tourist costume was a huge
linen helmet that must have been second or
third hand when he bought il.
The New Yorker pressed him TO tell his
experiences in Paris, through which he said
he had been walking for four days. aud was
"niRh wore out from packin that fat baby
Of ourn." He said the thing that impressed
him most about "Perrusn was the mouse
trApe. 81 never see the like" said he. THE
whole place must be full o. mice an rats.
And l never see such big cages. | see half
dozen outside o. different stores as big as
a pigpen. an the wires so fur apart that
abreast He went on at great length about
these hsge mousetraps. without realizing
that they were merely advertisements.
| And, indeed. If you start with his premise,
that such cages were used to trap and retain
rats in Paris, his conclusion that the rats
| and rattreps of Paris are the most remarka-
ble things there is not only rational but nee
essary.
But these brave back woodsmen, who
travel alone through the TO them unblazed
wildernesses of foreign cities, are not SO
much deserving Of sympathy nor, indeed,
OF curious attention as the unfortunsteS
| who travel under the direction OF excursion
companies in herds Of 100 Of 200 even. The
life OF a transforming theatrical company
is a mad round OF pleasure beside the life
OF these herds. Suatched from rhe peace
OF quiet and happy village homes, they are
borne across the Atlantic. packed in state
rooms as tightly as the steamship companies
will allow.
They have paid all their expenses before
hand. The compapy's agents will do every
thing for them. Their route is laid out be-
forehand to the day, the hour, the minute
almost. They can read on the schedule Just
where they will be on any date, at such and
such an hour, or quarter OF an hour. They
know at just what hour they will rise, just
when and where they will eat, and almost
what they will eat, at just what time they