The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-30
no EUROPE AND BACK
THE COST OF A FOREIGN TOUR FROM
THE UNITED STATES.


Ono Man Started Out with $50 and Ferry
Ticket-Eeonomical People May Sec .
Good Deal For s1oo-For $500 One May
Travel over the Continent.
It is customary'to estimate the average
amount of money spent by Americans on
"trip abroad at $1,000 Yet 1t ought to be
by shallow pocketed and deep
Drained people who hunger for foreign trav-
ell, yet have not the thousand dollars, that
most satisfactory trips can DO taken for
much less than half that amount.
There may he few who are willing to set
put upon European tour with $50 and a
ferry ticket, like one Brooklyn man who
did so aud has mover regretted 1t. Eighty
dollars is rather n small allowance, but
here is what it will do: Passage to Liver
pool and from Amsterdam or Antwerp.
steerage 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 it isn't worth while to travel I'M
der such deprivations. A man under 25l
years of age will vote yes, probably. Older
than that, men care more for creature com.
forts.
I Yet even such economy can be made more
endurable by numbers / know of party
of six young men from Harvard who took
steerage passage in the Servia for a vaca-
tion trip. rhey just filled 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 500 for "A two months absence
woman who has saved $50 can, If she
finds another woman of like mind and
purse, take a rather extensive trip abroad
by travelling second cabin" at a round
trip expense of SO, leaving us much more
for shore expenses Second cabin is per
fectly clean, comfortable and respectable,
with plenty Of food and effective If not al
ways deterential service. Most Americans
will, however, prefer to travel first cabin in
q cheaper, boat rather than take passage
either in the second cabin or Storage. The
absurd European distinctions of GLASSES
are good joke for short time. In week
and in the close companionship of ship
board they become uncomfortable
The necessary cost of first cabin passage
to Liverpool and return is not less than
500 and may be much more to which adj
nearly 10 per cent for fees. 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 Qhe latter II
Scotland is to be visited; 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 Havre is
somewhat greater than from Liverpool but
the economy In time and travel ashore
more than makes the difference.
j An economically arranged tour ashore
Will save time and money by being as direct
as possible. Railway travelling, ALWAYS
third class, will cost about cents mile
aud may be reckoued up before starting
with reasonable approach to accuracy, II
points of interest do not lie near tile 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 route reasonably direct
1t omits the Netherlands and the Rhine,
which ought not to be omitted. They can
be included by 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 If 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
j nicely in perfect comfort, but not in .'style, -
! for Sl.50 day. Two, sharing meals and
rooms, can make it on s.. SO 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
Ipleasantest and most convenient part of
the city, for from IS cents to 50 cents. Out
/ of a 81 80 allowance one can save n quarter
or so day to use on the road where living
/ is more expensive, as in Scotland.
! Ocean passage, with fees, by cheap lines
$40 or upward; $500 miles of railroad fare
at 2 cents mile, $50 60 days living at q. so
a day, 500; incidentals, whatever you like
to make them; guidebooks, 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 trip involves some walking in
mountain regions, patronizing cheap no
tells which are often the most homelike,
and total independence of hacks, which
is achieved by carrying ones belongings in
single light grip and striking out boldly
, for lodgings in every town by the aid of the
guidcbook'5 street map.-John L. Heaton
in New York Recorder.