Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-03

an American Millionaire.
 BRISDIsI, April F. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
 For the information of all concerned l give yesterdays log with comments Bill. etc., at the Albergo Resle Della Pace, An coma, 1880 lire. This is for one nights lodging, with supper and breakfast. An Italian lire is of the game value as a French franc, twenty cents. The bill was there fore $366. The hotel is a perfect hole. The supper consisted of soup of hot wa ter, oil and some kind of grain. Though hungry, one taste was enough. Then came some small fish fried in oil; not half bad. Then piece of meat that tasted as If it had been warmed over lamp. Couldn't go that And that was all. For breakfast a concoction called coffee, insip able; and two small, very small, eggs. Bread and butter of course. Bread as hard as bread can be- The butter tasted as if it were made of rancid melted cheese. At seven was in the cars booked for Erin disi Ticket to Brindisi, distance 346 miles, 75 lire, s15. Stamp on ticket, .15. Paid for baggage 1865 lire. For car rying baggage, 50. For weighing bag gage, .25. Total for baggage, 14.40 lire $2.S0. Lunch at Castellamare, lire. Dinner at Foggis, 5 lire. Pourboirs, 1 lira. Total for the day, s23. .46.
 If you keep going, and take long rail road journey every day, it will cost you on an average twenty dollars day. The dis tance from Ancona to Brindisi is 346 miles, as already stated. We left Ancona little after seven and we reached Brindisi lit tie after eleven, going at the rate of about twenty miles an hour. This was an ex- press train. The ordinary train, by which you can travel for about twelve per cent. less, leaves Ancona at eleven at night and reaches Brindisi at half after six the next evening. The compartment in which l travelled was very comfortably upholstered and had seats for seven. Where the eighth seat would have been was passage way opening into the next compartment. The car itself was most uncomfortable. It shook SO from side to side that at times Oou SoAAo hob AocP yooh SSob AASAN- ing on. Looking out of the window mo- ticed that all the cars were shaking in the same manner. How we kept on the track is mystery. Of course you are liable to have all sorts of people in the same compartment with you. The question comes up which is the more uncomforta- | ble, having disagreeable party along side of you, as in an American car, or opposite to you, staring you in the face, over here. Over here too, it is almost impossi- ble to get away from him, and you have to | put up with him till you, or he, get out l If you have party and can have a com, | pertinent to yourself, there is no comparison. You are free to do as you please; to open | windows, or shut them; to turn the heat | on or off. In fact you are as if in car of your own.
 Of all places visited by travelling man, | Brindisi is the most uninteresting; and the | Brindisites are as uninteresting as their | town. There is but one street in the place | that has sidewalks. The others, narrow | and crooked, are as centuries ago Jeff | them. There is not good looking man ol house to be seen anywhere. The typical house is of two stories with windows only | in the upper one. Whether built of stone I or brick the material is covered with stuc co, and the stucco is invariably dirty. I'm. | agine the result. The people look coarse, | common, cruel. Their houses reflect their | character. There is no possibility of re- calling Horace's trip with MRcenas or the
 sad ending of Virgil's days. There are | circumstances under which the livelies.
 imagination refuses to respond, and will
 remain dull and unyielding. Perhaps Brindisi might be utilized as an asylum for would-be poets. The utter uselessness of attempting to move the muse in such an atmosphere might finally convince them they had no muse to move, and 60 restore them to economic pursuits. It must be in | the atmosphere. That is in the depleted | condition of the air. First were the abo rigines. They breathed out and used uI all the aboriginal clements of the air.
 Then came the Greeks. They exhausted the artistic and scholastic clements of the
 air. No man or woman is born in Brindi
 si to-day who by any possibility can spell
 his or her name. Then came the Romans
 They took away all power left in the ail
 for drilling troops and codifying laws
 Then followed the early Christian and tho lawless middle ages with their unrest and
 disquiet And now with all this handicap
 Brindisi would start anew and catch uI
 with civilization! It can't be done. Brin
 disi must be abandoned Primevsl forestl
 must again grow over its soil for centuries
 before its air can recover the power of ex
 citing, or even of nourishing, intellect
 The principle of substantial death befor'
 regrowth to higher development is but ,
 phase of Darwinianism. America ha
 proved it. Africa is about proving 1t
 rrindisi may prove it, but she must be ig
 nored, blasted out, forgotten, for centu
 ries before the process can have a chance
 for starting.
 To revert. The best way out of Paris i
 by Bale. It is shorter to Bale than to Ge neva, Cologne or Strsssburg; and the roat is better. Bedding in stone is beginninI to be understood and appreciated on tn
 continent. On the road to Bale stone bed ding is spreading. There is but Iittl dust. You leave Paris at $40 @. m., an, at 7;30 p. ID. you are in Bale. You go t
 the Hotel des Trois Rois, where you
 grandfather staid when you were 6 baby You are given 6 room overlooking tn , Rhine, and right of you have a new expe rience with which Paris has as little to as Pekin or St. Petersburg. One gres 3 charm of travelling in Europe Is that with | in twelve hours you can ohsnge your ms :, tionality ss completely as if you move from one planet to another,
 Just opposite my window Is moored } large steamer of the Psninsula and orisr