Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-25
TO EUROPE AND BACH
THE COST OF 4 FOREIGN TOUR FROM
THE UNITED STATES.

THE UNITED STATES
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II is customary TO ultimate the average
amount Of money spent by Americans on q
Grip abroad at 81 600. Yet II ought to be
remembered by shallow pccketed and deep
Drained people who hunger for foreign trav-
I'll, vet 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 to set
out upon European tour with 80 and .
ferry ticket, like one Brooklyn man who
did 50 and has never regretted 1t. Eighty
dollars is rather a small allowance, but
here is what it will do; Passage to Liver
pool and from Amsterdam or Antwerp.
storage in both cases, railroad and other
transit through Scotland and England. TO
Paris and through the Low Countries and
a certain uncomfortable minimum of food.
Perhaps il isn't worth while to travel I'M
der such deprivations. A man under .
Years ba tSc Will N0ef w. 'hOtNt'is. ~tNsA
than that, men care more for creature com
forts.
Yet even such economy can be made more
endurable By numbers. l know Of party
of six Young men from Harvard who took
steerage passage in the Seryia for vaea-
tion trip. They just filled one row of berths
in one 81 the big rooms, took turns at wash
ing their tin dishes and had lots of fun.
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more than 500 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 $50, leaving as much more
for shore expenses. Second cabin is per
fecyly clean, comfortable and respectable,
with plenty of food and effective If not al
ways deferentiai 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. Ina week
and 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
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, il the trip is n short one,
sail TO Liverpool or Glasgow; return from
Antwerp or Amsterdam. III the trip is
longer and includes Switzerland and Italy,
sail to Liverpool or Glasgow (the latter if
Scotland is To be visited; return from Ma
l,,ta. q i.tN s,f i'm as psi
rs 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 aud travel ashore
| more than makes the difference.
An economically arranged tour ashore
will save time and money by being ms direct
as possible. Railway travelling. always
third class, will cost about 2 cents a mile
and may be reckoned up before starting
with reasonable approach to accuracy. If
points of interest do not lie near the line Of
route, omit them. There are others Ms good
The economical traveller who has gone from
Glasgow to Edinburgh by the Trosachs,
seen Abbotsfori 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
|
London direct to the continent, not to re
turn.
| From London TO Italy by Newhaven,
| Deppe, Paris, Geneva, Lucerne, Venice,
Rome, Naples. is IL route reasonably direct
| 1t ouits the Netherlands and the Rhine,
which ought not to be omitted They can
| lie included by detour from Paris, in
which case Switzerland is entered by Schaif-
/ oh In .sit h.r fsnss n nm y
case--the journeys widest separated points
should be the seaport of arrival and depar-
ture If possible OF 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 81. 80 a day Two, sharing meals and
rooms, can make it on $3.50 a day, or even
| less with extreme economy. In Paris Il
dinner, "6lling' 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 81 cents to 80 cents. Out
| of II l.5o allowance one can save n quarter
| or 50 IA day 10 use on the road, where living
| is more expensive, as in Scotland.
| Ocean passage, with fees, by cheap lines,
| Sii0 or upward: $500 miles of railroad fare
| at cents mile, $50; 90 days living at 81 30
"A day. $50; incidentals, whatever you like
to make them; guidebooks, in which one
| should never economic. sl5; reserve fund
| so These are the chief essentials of n
splendid continental trip, including a 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
,nd returning from Naples or Amsterdam
| Altogether 500 shonld cover everything.
| Such trip involves some walking III
| 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
a single light grip and striking out boldly
| for lodgings in every own by the aid Of the
euidebook's street map.-John l.. HeatoH
| in New i DrE Recorder