The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-09-15
TO EUROPE AND BACK
THE COST OF A FOREIGN TOUR FROM
THE UNITED STATES.

Ticket-Economical People May See n
Good Deal For s1OO-For $500 One May
Travel over the Continent.
II is customary TO estimate the average
amount of money spent by Americans on
trip abroad at 81 600 Yet it ought to be
remembered by shallow pocketed and deep
Drained people who hunger for foreign trav-
FL 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 to set
out upon European tour with $50 and a
ferry ticket, like one Brooklyn man who
did so and has never regretted it. Eighty
dollars is rather a 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
certain uncomfortable minimum of food.
Perhaps it isn't worth while to travel I'M
der such deprivations. 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. | know of party
]
steerage passage in the Servia for vaca-
ton trip They just filled one row of berths
in one of the big rooms, took turns at wash
| ing thor tin dishes and had lots of fun
The whole trip need not have cost each
more than 500 for a two months absence.
A woman who has saved $3.50 can, if she
! finds another woman OF like mind and
purse, take rather extensive trip abroad
| by travelling second cabin" at a round
trip expense of SO, 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
a cheaper boat rather than take passage
either in the second cabin or steerage. The
absurd European distinctions of classes
are good joke for q short time. In week
and in the close partnership of ship
board they become uncomfortable.
The necessary cost of first cabin passage
to Liverpool and return is not less than
800 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 short one
sail to Liverpool or Glasgow; return from
longer and includAs Switzerland and Italy
sail to Liverpool or Glasgow (the latter II
Scotland is to be visited); return from Ma.
Piles 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.
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
and may be reckoned up before starting
with 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 route reasonably direct
1t omits the Netherlands and the Rhine
which ought not to be omitted They car
be included by detour from Paris, II
which case Switzerland is entered by Schatf
hansen and Zurich. In either case-in an.
case-the journeys widest separated point
should be the seaport of arrival and depar
ture if possible. OF a trip not including
Italy the port of return may be Havre o.
Rotterdam. In this case one goes south b,
the Low Countries and the Rhine, return
ing north to Paris, or vice versa.
Food and lodging are much cheaper oil
the continent than in England. On tn
average an energetic traveller can get alonl
nicely in perfect comfoE, but not in ''style,
for $3.50 day. Two sharing meals ant
rooms, can make it on $3.50 day, or evel
less with extreme economy. In Paris
dinner, filling in quantity and really no
for 25 cents, lunch for 90 cents, lodgin