The Bessemer indicator., 1893-02-11
AMERICANS In EUROPE.
SOMETHING ABOUT OUR IN
NOCENTS ABROAD.
working to Soc Every sight-Troubic of
the Personally Conducted Tourists
-In Reality Animated
baggage.

! Now that tho expenses OF trip to
Europe have been reduced so that a
| country school teacher may spend
| three months abroad on two years
savings Or loss ohe comes across
great numbers OF most surprising
Americans on the highways and by
ways OF Europe. They ars such per-
sons rs ono sees at home only. in tic
most scattered and rural towns or in
| the depths OF tho taclswoods. They
are OF. tho sort that ventufes upon
every railroad journey with fearful
| mlseivings- that sits alarmed upon
,he edge Of tho scat with paper va
lise and bird cage tightly clutched
so that bolt may be made for the
door ut every station.
Yet here they are, thousands of
miles from home and friends, perhaps
set down in country Of whose Ian
guage they know not ono word. And
they are in luttcr and cold sweat
from morning until night 1t must
be that these honest adventurous
souls have moro courage than Column
bus or even than that first navigator
whom Horace celebrates. for il
| j5urntt of twenty miles by rnil
through their own country SO aidrr sd
them. think what it must have meant
to take the ocean voyage and the
railway journeys whore everything is
| nfamiliar!-coacheS guards Ian
guaSes.
But these brave ba kwoodsmen.
who travel alone through the 10 them
unblazcd wildcrncsscs OF foreign
countries are not so much deserving
| OF sympathy nor. indeed. OF curious
attention as tho unfortunates who
| travel under the direction OF eXcur-
sion companies in herds OF fifty 100
OF 200 even. The life of barn
storming theatrical company is mad
round OF pleasure beside tho life OF
these nerds says the New York Sun.
snatched from the pcace of quiet and
happy village homes they are borne
across tho Atlantic, packed in state
rooms rs tightly rs the steamship
companies will allow
They have paid all their expenses
beforehand. The company's agents
will do everything for them. Their
route is laid out beforehand to tho
day. the hour. the minute almost.
They can read on the hedule just
where they will be on any date. at
such and such an hour or quarter OF
an hour. They know at just what
hour thcy will rise just when ard
where they will oat and almost what
they will eat. at just what time they
will be released to get some sleep.
All this for month. two months or
three months according TO the length
OF trip paid for. They are continually
being packed and urpacked not as
TO their Luggage. OF which they carry
very little. but as TO their own per-
sons in relation to the other person.
a tiles composing the herd or drove.
AS soon as they are unpacked
from tho steamer they are packed
into hired hacks or omnibuscs 10 do
Liverpool. They are unpackel
from these at various points listen to
a hasty dime -museum-like lecture as
they stare about and are herded and
squeezed in again. After several
hours of this they arc unpa kcd from
the omnibuses and packed into so
many compartments OF u railway
train. When they reach hotel their
weary bodies are packed into so
many beds fora few hours OF cramped
| sleep. AT II certain early hour OF the
day thoy are unDackcd from bed TO bo
pa: ked ut tables for breakfast. And
the routine begins agaiu. 1t is con.
tinued without variation. except as to
the locality. until they arc packed
again into the steamer at Livl crp 90
You sec these melancholy drov es
everywhere IN Europc-not Ameri-
ans alone but English. Scandinavia
ans Germans. even sometimes French.
men. although they travel but little.
Tie faces of men and women are worn
and sad .aThey carry the red backed