Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-26
Special Announcement

Il is customary to estimate the average h
mount Of money spent by Americans on .
kip ahro.a al 81 ,o0o Yet it ought to be
By shallow pockesed and deep Il
Srain,si people who hunger for foreign trav-
n We, have not the thousand dollars, that II
most satisfactory trips can be taken for
much les, than half that amount.
There NAV be few who are willing to set 1
M, ufsoa . European tour with 50 and q
ierry ticket, like one Brooklyn man who i
In 50 and has never regretted ii. Eighty I
aol,ars is rather u small allowance, bat /
Aere is what it will do; Passage to Liver
ppol and from Amsterdam or Antwerp, 1
S,eerayu in both cases. railroad and other /
transit through Scotland and England. to /
Paris and through the Low Countries and 4
I certain uncomfortable minimum OF food.
Perhaps il isn't worth while 10 travel I'M
Der such deprivations, A man under - |
Sears Of age will vote yes, probably Older /
Than that, men care more for creature com /
forts.
! Yet even such economy can be made more |
tndurahle by numbers. l know OF party |
III six Young men from Harvard who took |
stesrags passage in the Servia for a vaca- |
hon tri:,. They Just tilled orr row OF berths |
b. one af the big rooms, took turns at wash |
hx their tin dishes and had lots OF fun |
rhe whole trip need not have cost each |
more than Si0o for "a two months absence.
I A woman who has saved $50 can, If she
Ind, another woman of like mind and
,urse. take a rather extensive trip abroad
IN travelling second cabin" at a round
rip expense of so. leaving as much more
Lr shore expenses. Second cabin Is per
'tctlv clean, comfortable and respectable.
With plenty of food and effective If not al
says dcferentiai service. Most Americans
siI however. prefer to travel first cabin in
1 cheaper boat rather than take passage
Either ia the second cabin or steerase. The
Ihsurl European distinctions of Glasses
: re n good joke for u short time, Ina week
nd in the close companionship of ship
parSi they become uncomfortable.
The necessary cost of first cabin passage
: b Liverpool and return is not less than
iD0 and may be much more, TO which add
early 10 per cent for fees. A great many
ollars may be saved. however, by taking
\ aitward and homeward passage by diiier'
MT lines Thus, if the trip is short one,
Vii to Liverpool or Glasgow; return from
antwerp or Amsterdam. If the trip Is
onger and includes Switzerland and Italy,
:, nil To Liverpool or Glasgow (the latter II
}cotland is TO be visited(; return from Ma
lies or Genoa. Variety OF interest rs well
) economy is secured by this plan. The
asst Of the passage from Genoa or Havre Is
pmewhat greater than from Liverpool, but
he economy in time aud travel ashore
more than makes the difference.
d An economically arranged tour ashore
viii save time and money by being as direct
5 possible. Railway travelling, always
4 bird class, will cost about 9 cents mile
7 Ind may be reekoned up before starting
l&th a reasonable approach to accuracy. II
5Aoiuts of interest do not lie near the line OF
quite, omit them. There are others rs good.
HE economical traveller who has gone from
ilasgow to Edinburgh by the Trosachs,
zen Abbo,sford aud Melrose stopped in
shakespeare country and seen Oxford, is
tady to proceed to London, with whatever
fttheiral towns have happened to lie in his
hih-say Durham and York and from
london direct to the continent, not to re-
Yarn
From London to Italy by Newhaven,
feppe, Paris, Geneva, Lucerne, Venice,
.oine, Naples i. IA route reasonably direct.
onits the Netherlands and the Rhine,
'hich ought not to be omitted. They can
4 included by Il detour from Paris, in
4 ausen and Zurich. In either case-in any
nse--the journeys widest separated points
hotrld he the seaport Of arrival and depar
nre il possible OF trip not including
ialy the port of return may be llavre or
rotterdam. In this case one goes south by
Die Low Countries and the Rhine, return
Mig north to Paris or vice versa.
4 Food aud lodging are much cheaper on
L.. hnn in I.pDiun1 hp
tverage an energetic traveller can get along
,icely in perfect comfort. but not in style,
or 81 30 Il day. Two, sharing meals and
looms, can make 1t ON $50 day, or even
ess with extreme economy. In Paris n
Inner, "filliug' in quantity and really not
10 very dreadful in quality, can be bought
or - cents. a lunch for 20 cents, lodging
md breakfast i'll the Latin quarter, the
,leasantest and most convenient part OF
be city, for from - cents to 80 cents. Out
ii 81 81 allowance one can save quarter
Ir SO "a day to Use on the rond where living
3 more expensive as in Scotland.
EOcean passage, with fees, by cheap lines,
a10 or upward; $500 miles of railroad fare
4 . cents mile, so 60 days living at 81. 80
{ day, 800: incidentals, whatever you like
omAke them; guidebooks, in which one
wlhould never economize, sl5; reserve fund,
$50 These are the chief essentials of a
plendid continental trip, including II bit
I Scotland, England, Paris, the Rhine
- Mitzerland ION FOOT and bit of Italy
Without the low Countries, or the Low
Ibuntries without Italy, going by Glasgow
pd returning from Naples or Amsterdam
dtogether $500 should cover everything.
Such trip involves some walking In
eorlntan regions, patronizing cheap ho
d.. which are often the most homelikc,
Whd total independence Of hacks, which
,te saclIievel by carrying ones belongings in
.seipgle light grip aud striking out boldly
Dr. lodgings IN every own by the aid of the
nidehooks street map-John l.. Heaton
New J ork Recorder.