The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-10-12


Travel over the Continent.
II is customary to estimate the average
bmount of money spent by Americans on a
"trip abroad at 81 900 Yet it ought to be
remembered by shallow pock eted and deep
Drained people who hunger for foreign trav-
ri, 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 a European tour with $50 and a
ferry ticket, like one Brooklyn man who
did so and has never regretted it.. Eighty
dollars is rather small al owance, 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
Il certain uncomfortable minimum of food
Perhaps it isn't worth while to travel un-
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
of six young men from Harvard who took
steerage passage in the Servia for vaca-
tion trip. They just filled one row of berths
in one of the big rooms, took turns at wash:
ing thSr 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 $3.50 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 SO, leaving as much more
| for shore expenses. Second cabin is per-
= l.. = r 4
with plenty of food and effective il 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 a short time Ina week
and in the close companionsbip 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 a short one,
sail TO Liverpool or Glasgow; return from
Antwerp or Amsterdam. If the trip is
longer and includss Switzerland and Italy.
sail to Liverpool or Glasgow tthe latter If
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.
An economically arranged tour ashore
will save time and money by being as direct
as possible. Railway travelling, always
/ class l..
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 as good
The economical traveller who has gone from
Glasgow to Edinburgh by the Trosachs,
seen Abbotsford aud Merose, 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 a detour from Paris in
which case Switzerland is entered by Schaff-
|
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
nicely iii perfect comfog, but not in 'style," {"
for 81. 80 day. Two, sharing meals and
rooms, can make 1t on $50 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 25 cents, IA lunch for 20 cents, lodging
and breakfast in the Latin quarter, the
pleasantest and most convenient part of
the city, for from 35 cents to so cents. Out
of 81. so allowance one can save a quarter
or so a day to use on the road where living
is more expensive, as in Scotland.
Ocean passage, with fees, by cheap lines,
Sll0 or upward; $500 miles of railroad fare
at cents mile $50; 90 days living at 81 30
day, 800; incidentals, whatever you like
to make them; guidebooks, in which one
should never economize, SIS; reserve fund,
$50. These are the chief essentials of a
splendid continental trip, includinga bit
of Scotland, England, Paris, the Rhine,
Switzerland Ton 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
4. and a total independence of hacks, which
is achieved by carrying ones belongings il
single light grip and striking out boldl!
for lodgings in every town by the aid of thu
guidebook's street map-John L. Heatol
In New York Recorder.