The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-08-27
TO EUROPE AND BACK
THE COST OF A FOREIGN TOUR FROM
THE UNITED STATES.
One Man Started Out With $50 and Perry
Tioket-Economicai People May See /.
Good Deal For sIOo-For $500 One May
Travel Over the Continents.

Tioket-Economicai People May See t.
Good Deal For sIOo-for $500 One May
Travel Over the Continents.
II Is customary to estimate the average
hmount Of money spent by Americans on q
trip abroad at 1900. Yet II ought 10 be
remembered by shallow pocketed and deep
Drained people who hunger for foreign trav-
ri, yet have not the thousand dollars. that
most satisfactory trips can be taken for
much less than half that amount
There may be few who are willing 70 set
ont upon a European tour with $50 and
ferry ticket, like one Brooklyn man who
did so aud has never regretted IT, Eighty
dollars Is rather q smell allowance, but
here is what it will do: Passage 10 Liver
pool and from Amsterdam or Antwerp,
Hteerage in both cases, railroad and other
transit through Scotland and England, 20
Paris and through the Low Countries and
certain uncomfortable minimum OF food.
Perhaps IL isn't worth while 10 travel I'M
der such deprivntions. A man under .
years Of aye will vote yes probably. Older
than that, mon care more for creature com
forts.
Yet even such economy can be made moro
epdurable by numbers. l know of a party
of six young men from Harvard who took
steerage passage In the Servia for vaca-
ton trip. They Just filed one row Of berths
In one of the big rooms, took turns at wash
ing their tin dishes and had lots Of fun.
The whole trip need not have cost each
more than 800 for two months absence.
A woman who has saved $50 can, If she
finds another woman of like mind and
purse, take o rather extensive trip abroad
by travelling Second cabin" at a round
trip expense OF go, leaving az much mora
for shore expenses Second cabin IS per
fectly clean, comfortable and respectable,
with plenty of food and effective If not al
ways deferential service. Most Americans
viii, however. prefer TO travel first cabin in
q cheaper boat rather than take passage
either ia the second cabin or steerage. The
absurd European distinctions Of Glasses"
are good joke for q short time. In week
ind in the close companionship Of ship
board they become uncomfortable
The necessary cost Of first cabin passage
10 Liverpool and return is not less than
800 and may be much more, 10 which add
Dearly 10 per cent for fees. A great many
dollars may be saved, however by taking
outward and homeward passage by differ
emit lines Thus, If the trip IL a short one,
sail 10 Liverpool OF Glasgow; return from
Antwerp or Amsterdam. If the trip Ia
longer and includes Switzerland and Italy,
sail TO Liverpool or Glasgow (the latter If
Scotland IL TO be visited; return from Ma
pies or Genoa, Variety Of interest as well
as economy Is secured by this plan. The
cost Of tho passage from Genoa or Ilavre is
somewhat greater than from Liverpool, but
the economy in time and travel ashore
more than makes the difference.
An economically arranged tour ashore
will save time and money by being as direct
es possible Railway travelling, always
third class, will cost about cents a mile
and may be reckOued up before starting
with o reasonable approach TO accuracy. II
points Of interest do not lie near the line Of
route, omit them. There are others as good.
The economical traveller who has gone from
Glasgow TO Edinburgh by the Trosachs,
seen AbbotsfOrd aud Molrose, stopped in
Shakespeare country and seen Oxford, Is
ready 20 proceed to London, with whatever
cathedral towus have happened to lie in his
path-say Durham and York 80 md from
London direct 60 tho continent. not TO re-
turn.
From london TO italy by Newhaven,
Dieppe Paris, Geneva. Lucerne, Venice,
Rome Naples 10 a route reasonably direct.
II omits the Netherlands and the Rhine,
which ought not to be omitted. They can
be included by O detour from Paris, In
which case Switzerland Is entered by Schaff-
hansen and Zurich. In either case-in any
case-the journeys widest separated points
should be the seaport Of arrival and depar-
ture II possible OF a trip not including
Italy the port Of return may be Hayre or
Rotterdam. In this case one goes south by
the Low Countries and the Rhine return
ing north to Paris, or vice versa
Food and lodging are much cheaper on
the continent than In England. On the
average an energetic traveller can get along
nicely ia perfect comfort, but not in "style,"
for sl.j0 day. Two sharing meals and
rooms, can make it on $50 q day, or even
less with extreme economy. In Paris a
dinner, filling" in quantity and really not
so very dreadful in quality, can be bought
for 25 cents, lunch for 20 cents. lodging
and breakfast In the Latin quarter, the
pleasantest and most convenient part Of
She city, for from 90 cents TO 80 cents out
OF @ l.50 allowance ono can save quarter
or so a day TO use on the road, where living
Is more expensive, as in Scotland.
Ocean passage. with fees, by cheap lines,
gll0 or upward; 1900 miles Of railroad fare
at 2 cents a mile, $50; co days living at $3.50
day, $50, incidentals whatever you like
to make them; gIidebooks, in which one
should never economize SIS; reserve fund,
$50 These are the chief essentials of
splendid continental trip, including bit
OF Scotland, England, Paris, the Rhine,
Switzerland ION FOOT and bit Of Italy
without the Low Countries, or the Low
Countries without Italy, going by Glasgow
and returning from Naples or Amsterdam.
Altogether $500 should cover everything.
Such a trip involves some walking in
mountain regions, patronizing cheap ho-
tells. which ore often the most homeilke,
and total independence of hacks, which
IS achieved by carrying ones belongings in
a single light grip and striking out boldly
for Lodgings in every town by the aid OF the
guidebOok's street map.-John l.. Heaton
Ia New York Recorder.