The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-06
GOING 10 EUROPE?
SIMPLEST, PLEASApTeST AND MOST
ECONOMICAL WAY CT MAKING n.

SIMPLEST, PLEASApTEST AND MOST
ECONOMICAL WAY CT MAKING II.
A Tour In LIMITED Time Described by One
Who Has Made It--Not Recommended
For 1nvaiids, Int Those In Reasonably
Good Health Are EQUAL to 1t.
What will it cost to go to Europe? Not
80 much as many people think. The steam
ship passage over and back need not ex-
coed $50. That will provide good berth
on the largest and swiftest boats and a
better one on the slower vessels. Many ex-
perienced travellers prefer the longer pas
sage. The real pleasure Of an ocean voyage
begins for most people after the third day.
The first three days are period of much
uncertainty and little appetite. To be OF
not to be seasick is the problem which Il
debated with much anxiety. The third
day, for most people, settles it in the mega
tive Thereafter tie journey between
shores is a voyage of delight There are nc
distractions, no mail, no kilograms. nc
ringing of the telephone no morning
newspaper. tranquility reigns supreme
Early rising, much brisk walking, six
meals day and sound sleep make up the
programme of the voyage. In the faster
ships one misses much of this You nc
sooner get accustomed to the sea than you
come in sight OF land.
Once on the other side, expenses vary
much with the locality. 1t costs good
third more to travel in England than il
does upon the continent. But even at the
most the economical traveller may set
down an average OF not more than 50
day as his probable expenditure That in
cludes railway fares and hotel bills and
some purchases.
Places are near together on the other
side, and the cost of travelling is proper
tionately less. One instance may suffice tc
prove this point. / bought tickets for
journey which 1 had planned out to in
clude the following places: Liverpool, Ches-
ter, London, Harwich, Antwerp, Cologne,
the Rhine to Mayence, Heidelberg, Nj
remberg, Munich, Innsbruck, Venice, Mi
Ian, Lucerne Interlacken, Bern, Geneva,
Paris, Canterbury, and so back to London
for $50. At the hotels in these places
except Londou-the bills averaged less
than SO day, and some often no more
than s., and / went always to such hotels
as were pronounced first class in Baedek-
er's guidebook. That Will give an idea of
the cheapness with which one may see
Europe. For $500 one may spend two
months in the old world, counting his fare
from New York and back, and may live az
well as most people deserve to live, perhaps
better.
After the items of expense the next nec-
essary thing is method. If the happy tour
n STl a q IL or
tial to make plans in detail But if there
is but two months time, then it is best to
make out an itinerary Let us settle be-
forehand just where we expect to be on
certain days.
One convenience of such an itinerary is
that you are thus enabled to buy your tick
cts for the round trip. You thereby save
money and much trouble. You are not
compelled to make change at railway sta
tons in foreign coin, nor to converse with
ticket agents in unknown tongues.
You can go to the office of one of the
great tourist companies in New York or in
London and tell where you want to go
and get the tickets for the whole trip.
The first journey abroad is the most de-
iightful and the most difficult. The ele-
ment of difficulty comes from desire to
see the whole planet in six weeks. The
next time you are content TO settle down
in pleasant places and rest and invite your
soul 1t is best on the first journey TO
make d wide circuit, to carry few letters of
and not to present those, to
devote oneself to seeing as much as posi-
Bile. l venture to map out here two
months journey-from New York back to
New York-which may offer some sugges-
tons to the uninitiated tourist.
We will leave New York upon q Satur-
day and arrive at Liverpool by the follow
ing Saturday at least. We will spend Sun
day in Chester, at the fine old cathedral.
On Monday we viii see Warwick and Ken
llworth; on Tuesday Stratford-on-Avcn,
which is close by; get a glimpse of Oxford
ON Wednesday, and SO TO London, where
we will settle down for week.
The following Wednesday we will spend
IN Canterbury, and thence, by Dover and
Ostende, to BTuges, and Friday night we
may spend in Client and Saturday and
Sunday in Antwerp.
The next week we may take a run up
into Holland TO Rotterdam, to The Hague I
and Amsterdam, coming down to Brussels /
md to Waterloo battlefield, and so 10 CO. /
ogne for Sunday.
Then Rhine Journey to EhreD hreitstein |
md Mayence, a glimpse at Heidelberg and /
and Bale, and two days, one Of .
hem Sunday. in Lucerne.
At Interlacken we viii see the Jungfrau, /
he fairest of the Alps, and then TO Bern, /
md by way of Dion TO Paris for five days .
Between Paris and Calais is Amiens, (
where we must see the great cathedral, and .
hen to London for day, and UP to York .
md 20 To Edinburgh for Sunday.
Then through the 1rossachs by coach
md over Loeb K2trine and Loeb Lomond /
q Glasgow and thence, with a break at the
english lakes. TO Liverpool, again arriving |
N Friday, and setting sail on Saturday
afternoon for home.
This trip is not recommended to inva-
ids, hut people in reasonably rugged
lealth are quite equal TO it. There are no
ong railway Journeys in it, as we count
ength. The trip might be made more
comfortable 10y leaving out the Scotch part
f it and staying longer in some of the
ontinental towns
Ali this. however. will serve only as
rst suggestion. The wise traveller viii
rovide himself with guidebooks, and
nth these experienced counselors he Will
lap out his own journey in his own way.
hat indeed is one of the chief delights,
Or one of the most interesting parts of
very we'll planned European trip is the Joy
f getting ready -Pittsburg Dispatch.
Irrcpressible.
There ale ludlcrous as well as pathetic
Incidents IN courtroons, as Mr.. Joseph
Of