Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

not appreciate or understand. But even IL
Americans adhere to this rule which most
OF them do not their outlay In tips ana
ices amounts to pretty penny in the
course of a season.
The tipping on shipboard varies accord
ing to taste or WILL out on a land tour
through Europe the fees to walters. por-
ters. guides to public buildings ana a horde
CT unnecessary officials need not he large
twenty-five dollars for each traveller is n
meager allowance. hut at this estimate IL
adds S5eo0oNb to the bill paid by American
visitors to the old countries.
Another Five Million.
Another item that reaches to about the
same figure is The money expended for
souvenirs. Every American who goes
abroad brings home a number OF little
gifts for his or her friends and this outlay
is seldom less than SIS for each traveller.
The custom of shopping abroad has fallen
off considerably OF late. on account OF our
rigid customs inspection and the national
PRIDE in our own products. But every wo-
man who goes to Paris spends from ST. to
SD" for the perfectly lovely creations OF
the Partisan shops. Thus another item Of
millions is ADDED to the account.
From these figures ii win be seen that by
conservative estimate $lJo.Nu,su will be
spent this sumner by Americans who ara
going 70 foreign countries. and at least
Sloo~pooO of this amount viii be spent
abroad. The compromising return from Eu-
ropeans visiting America is too small to be
taken into aC ,ount.
1t is almost a certainty that the close
of this season will give Americans the
right to claim the distinction OF being the
greatest Travellers on earth. This honor
has been claimed for them before. and for
years they have been second Only to the
English. but row they bid fair to outrank
their Anglo-SaXon cousins as well as the
rest Of the world.
Perhaps there is no better index of for
egn travel than is afforded by Paris for the
reason that almost every person who tours
On the continent visits the French capital
Inasmuch the Partisan police department.
keeps a record of the number OF travellers
stopping in the city il is possible to gain
some reliable information from their sta
tisttcs.
Americans I'm Paris.
In 1885, according to the reports a lit
tie more than 10000 Americans visited
Paris. while the number of English visitors
was $4,000. In 1895 the number OF Ameri-
cans had increased to -, 600, while Of En-
glish there were 5000, and of Germans
$4,000. During the coming season, estimat-
ing the increase of Partisan visitors from
the probable increase in the number Of
Americans going abroad, the number
corded by the Partisan authorities will be
more than 6Doo0. while the English and
Germans are hardly likely to approach the
10000 mark In the amount of money spent
and the distances traversed divergence be-
tween lhs Europeans ana Americans is
even more striking.
Putting together the total distance COW
cred by this American army of foreign &C.
cupation, and it cannot be less than $780,
&"."o0 miles, or enough for round trip
excursion to the center of our solar sys-
TEN, with side trips to Mars. Jupiter and all
the intervening planets. If a party Of 100
persons set ont to cover the distance trav-
ersed in a single season by the Americans
who go abroad they would each be COM
PEELED to travel 200 times around the world,
task which would keep them busy at the
highest speed they could attain for a mat
ter of fifty years, lifetime of activity.
About 10 per cent of those who go abroad
travel by some one of the numerous sys-
TENS of personally conducted tours. This
method of sightseeing is not so much in
favor as formerly for the cheaper kinds
of touring. but is coming to be adopted
by those who demand all the luXUres OF
modern travel with none Of its inconven-
fences 1t is being generally adopted for
trips to distant places and to points of the
beaten track of the ordinary tourist. such
as the orient, Australia, northern Spain and
South America