Evening journal., 1893-08-29
TO EUROPE AND BACK
THE COST or FOREIGN TOUR FROM
THE UNITED STATES.

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Good Deal For sIoc-For $500 One May
Travel over the Continent.
Il is customary to estimate the average
amount Of money spent by Americans on a
"trip abroad at $1,000 Yet it ought TO be
remembered by shallow pocketed and deep
Drained people who hunger for foreign trav-
el, 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 20 set
out upon a European tour with $50 and
Terry ticket. like one Brooklyn man who
did 50 and has never regretted il. Eighty
dollars is rather a small allowance, but
here is what It will do: Passage TO Liver
pool and from Amsterdam OF Antwerp,
fteerage in both cases, railroad and other
transit through Scotland and England, TO
Paris and through the Low Countries and
q certain uncomfortable minimum of food.
Perhaps IL isn't worth while TO travel un-
der such deprvations A man under %
years of age will vote yes, probably. Older
than that, men care more for creature COM
forts.
Yet even such economy can be made more
endurable by numbers. I know Of a party
of six young men from Harvard who took
steerage passage I'm the Servia for n vaca-
tion 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, IL she
finds another woman Of like mind and
purse, take rather extensive trip abroad
by travelling second cabin" at round
trip expense of $40, leaving as much more
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
will, however, prefer TO travel first cabin in
cheaper boat rather than take passage
either in the second cabin or steerage. The
absurd European distinctions Of Glasses
are a good joke for q short time. In Ia week
and in the close companionship of ship
board they become uncomfortable.
The necessary cost of first cabin passage
70 Liverpool and return is not less than
500 and may be much more, to which add
nearly 10 per cent for fees A great many
dollars may be saved, however, by taking
outward and homeward passage by differ
ent lines. Thus, if the trip is a short one,
sail to Liverpool or Glasgow; return from
Antwerp or Amsterdam. If the trip is
longer and includes Switzerland and Italy,
sail TO Liverpool or Glasgow (the latter if
Scotland is to be visted); return from Ma
pies or Genoa Variety of interest as well
as economy is secured by this plan. The
cost Of the passage from Genoa or davre is
somewhat greater than from Liverpool, but
the economy Ia time and travel ashore
more than makes the difference.
An economically arranged tour ashore
/ will save time and money by beingas direct
as possible. Railway travelling, always
third class, will cost about cents a mile
and may be reckoned up before starting
with a 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 Melrose, stopped in
Shakespeare country and seen Oxford is
ready to proceed to London, with whatever
! cathedral towns have happened to lie In his
path-say Durham and York - and from
London direct to the continent, not to re-
turn.
From London to Italy by Newhaven,
Dieppe, Paris Geneva, Lucerne, Venice
Rome, Naples, is a route reasonably directl
It omits the Netherlands and the Rhine,
which ought not to be omitted. They can
| hN AAAAAAANN ny ~ MtNOuI lIOin INIlN. IN
which case Switzerland is entered by Schaff-
hausen and Zurich. In either case-in any
case-the journeys widest separated points
should be the seaport Of arrival and depar-
ture il possible. OF a trip not including
Italy the port of return may be Havre 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 in perfect comfort, but not in "style. -
for Sl50 day. Two, sharing meals and
rooms, can make 1t on $3.50 a 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 % cents, lunch for 20 cents, lodging
and breakfast in the Latin quarter, the
pleasantest and most convenient part Of
the city, for from 35 cents 20 80 cents. Out
of Sl.50 allowance one can save a quarter
or so day to use on the road, where living
is more expensive, as in Scotland.
Ocean passage, with fees by CHEAP lines.
SllO or upward; $500 miles Of railroad fare
at cents a mile $50; 60 days living at 81 so
a day 500, inoidentals, whatever YOU like
TO make them; guidehooks, in which one
should never economize, S15; reserve fund,
$50. These are the chief essentials of a
splendid continental trip including bit
of Scotland, England, Paris, the Rhine.
Switzerland ION FOOT and a 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 are often tho most homelike,
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
, guldehook's street map-John l.. Heaton
in New York Recorder.