Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-16
WHAT It COSTS TO TRAVEL,
oHEAPER TO GO ABROAD THAN TO
THE sEAsHoRE.
1Ers. Frank Leslie Gives Some Hints to
Travellers How to Spend Thousand
{ Dollars TO Best Advantage-A Great
Deal May Be Enjoyed for That Sum.
tCopyrieht. 1889. by American Press Associa-

AlFX ~ ~ N>Zs---- WV
\ | WAS good deal amused
4 the other day by the re-
- marks of a dear honest
~ fellow, friend of mine,
just returned from one OF
those hop-skip-and- jump excursions to
s.the other SIDE" now SO commonly sub.
stituted for the old summer vacation
at some watering place, where one sim
ply repeats in a very inconvenient and
tiresome style the laborious pleasures Of
the winter in great city.
And just by way Of parenthesis, let
me commend the new fashion to all my
compatriots who have not yet tried it
and who have the means to do SO.
suppose no individual can spend q
season at Long Branch, Newport, Sara
toga and thevWhite mountains for less
than thousand dollars, and of course
there are opportunities for spending con-
Ederably more if one is SO inclined and
has it to spend. do not address the
larger class who, as am informed,
manage to incur charges of q thousand
dollars or over and get away without
paying them. If there are any such
persons among my readers, cannot ad-
wise them to Ego across" instead Of pat
roniIng trustful and aimable landlords
at home, for the simple reason that they
could not do it. A Cunard tickets acash
article, and the wandering American
abroad must pay as he goes, and if he
does not disguise his nationality must
pay about double the price French
man OF German would be charged.
In fact, the American abroad or, as
one might say from the European land
lord standpoint, the American innocents
abroad have almost supplanted the Eng
ishman, who used to be the type of
wealthy folly and ignorance of the value
Of money. To be sure, great many
Europeans of the landlord class confuse
the two nationalities and call all Eng
lish speaking people 'sMilor Anglais," /"
without needing the exact meridian
whence they spring. The golden goose
is as valuable if it come across the high
seas or only across the narrow seas, and
is as sure to scatter its golden eggs with
careless profusion in the one case as the
other. But like the goose, my own
proper goose quill is wandering from its
subject, and that subject is the recon-
mending you, my dear reader, to spend
your next spare thousand dollars in get
ting at least cursory view of the older
countries, which of course, we all agree,
are not half so good as ours, but still
have merits of their own worth few
weeks study at least.
If You intend to travel en- prince, ride
in first class carriages, stay at first class,
or rather at fashionable, hotels, buy
everything you see, move about from
place to place like the restless and ener-
getic American you are, the thousand
dollars won't last many weeks, and you
will do well to put aside a hundred dol
lars with your return ticket so that when
your last bill at Meurice's is rendered,
and your hair stiffens in horror upon
your head, and your careful French
completely fails to convey your sense of
indignation and astonishment, you may
still have the means of getting home,
eadder hut a much wiser man than
when you left it.
If, however, you have the wisdom to
accept the experience of those who be-
fore you have "done the grand tour"
as it used to be called, and have them
selves been done charmingly brown by
the money gamers of foreign lands, if
you will read, mark and inwardly digest
the warnings and the advice so plenti-
fully printed in books, and now once
more proffered for your consideration,
you may make your Thousand dollars
spread over many months, and perhaps
year, including Of course the passages
across the Atlantic.
In fact, I know gentleman who,
wishing to pursue certain studies in the
cathedral cities Of England, went there,
staid q year, and returned, all upon
$500; but it is not everybody who. could
or who would care to do as much as
this, but mention it to show what may
be done by man devoted to his art and
careless Of his bodily comfort. But
upon the basis of $1,000 a great deal
may be seen and done and enjoyed.
In the first place, the second saloon on
q large ocean steamer is perfectly COM
Portable and respectable, and l have
known many persons of larger brains
than purses who have taken their tick
cts intermediate" and survived to tell
the tale with great satisfaction, notably
clergyman Of my acquaintance whom
royalty has been pleased to honor when
once he had arrived in England, and
who is always recommending his friends
to 60 and do likewise. Then, having
reached England, France or Germany,
according to which line you select
and here I will mention that the
German is the cheapest, the French
most amusing and the English the
most luxurious-your first business is to
find lodgings and get yourself out of the
hotel whittier you at first naturally
make your way, unless, indeed, you have
been provident enough to ask some
friend Of experience to recommend you
to q good lodging, and to make bar
gain for your time there. Then find
out what is to be seen and discover how
much of it is within walking distance.
Don't employ valets de place or cicerones
! II you want to save both your money
and your temper, but employ your Eng
lish tongue (if you are in England1 and
your American wits, which are at least
as keen as those of any other nation
ality.
II you use carriages find out the proper
and legal charge and have it clearly