, 1892-08-27

the gigantic undertakings of the pioneer of
tourist travels. The personally conducted
trips to Palestine were commenced i'll 1868,
and later came the Indian tours and the voy-
age round the world. The Prince Of Wales's
two SONS travelled in the Holy Land under
arrangements confded s.to Messrs. Thomas
Cook and Son; while in the military expedi-
lions in Egypt inestimable public service was
rendered by the firm. When the relief OK
petition was despatched to Khartoum in the
vain hope Of saving the heroic Gordon,
Mes srs. Cook were entrusted with the duty of
conveying troops and stores, and in the &C.
complis hment at his task they had twenty
eight steamers running between Egypt and
England, thirteen thousand railway trucks.
at their disposal, twenty seven steamers aud
six hundred and fifty %sliling vessels on the
Nile. They had also in their employment five
thousand fellahs in Lower Egypt.
Thus, then, in peace and war, was yeoman
service done to the State rs we'll as society
BY he veteran father of constructing now
zone to his reward. it may be said, lkcwise
that in the outset Nj. Thomas Cooks ardu-
GUS and onerous efforts in the cause of civil
Bation had to be performed in evil az well as
in good report. An extraordinary attack was
lLlHu0 upon MS byblGLH IA ClO "AAAn "
we'll known Edinburgh magazine by Charles
Lever. who at the time had q Consular ap-
pointment in Italy, and who, for some unex-
planned motive, objected to Cooks personally
conducted pilgrims coming between the wind
and his nobility. The firm of Thomas Cook
aud Son have long since lived this petty OPP
position down. After all most of the detrac-
lion arose from the ignoranceof their censors Of
the real benef is which could be conferred on
every class Of the society by the operations
of the firm. At present Cooks tourist tick
cts ale almost universally used by travellers
visiting the Continent, Palestine, and Egypt,
and the sensible globe trOtter who designs to
make q tour through British India will DO
well directly he lands at Bombay or CalcWt-
ia, to call at Cooks tourists ofices aud pur-
chase a bundle of tickets for railway travel
throughout the three presidenues; while he
can also obtain rom Cooks agent en intelli-
gent and thoroughly trust worthy Indian boz
DIV servant who can speak enough English for
the tourists needs. There is not the slight
est cnmpul9ion to take hotel coupons as well
as railway tickets. Those who ART provit cd
with coupons can reckon on very comfortable
accommodation, aud, il they are destitute OF
even Il ruCimental acquaintance with foreign
languages they will find the Interpreters on the
personally conduc.t I'd tours OF the great est use
to them. Travellers tastes. whims, and prcju-
ices in the matter Of hotels differ to an amazing
extent. while old travellers who happen to be
l|inguists know well enough to which hotels to
resort but IRE still glad to save time, trouble
and expense by taking their railway tickets
from Cooks Office in the cities whence they
may he beginning their Journeys. and patro-
niging such hotels Ms suit their taste or their
...; "a, varv lar.ro nrODnrtlOu nf thu
pleasure and the comfort and c~heapnrss IF mo-
dem travelling isundeniably due to the ener-
ey. the integrity, and the reSoulcefnlness of
the late Mr.. Thomas Cook and he will long
be remembered as an upright, single-minded,
publics pifitrd citizen, whe, SO far as his or
ganiSation of travelling il concerned, may be
pronounced to have been practically a man
of genius.