Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-24
Letter From Paris.

Frank Gallagher who is pleasant,
remembered by many of our readers as
the brother of Miss Maize Gallagher
is visiting his uncle in Paris, and write.
from there, under the date of Aug. 9Th
as follows. Franks many Emporium
friends will be pleased to read his inter.
ing letter:
Nice, Aug. 8, 1899.
DEAR UNCLE ToM-No doubt you expected tc
hear from me sooner, but have not had a
minute to spare. We are doing everything on
the American plan, that is, on the hurry plan.
havenow seen London and Paris. Both are very
fine cities and both England and France are very
fine countries, but they need few of the Penn.
sylvania r. R., officials to show them how to
run their railroads.
We spent four days in London and saw every
thing worth seeing The railroad system is
sbominable in the above named city. They have
fine engines and that's about all. The cars are
of the first, second and third class. The first
class cars carry the British nobility and Ameri-
can fools who know no better. The second
carries the middle class and the third carries the
working class In the baggage department they
have no check system, as in America IF you
tion pretty long while, then you have a slip
pasted on your bag or trunk, giving the name of
your destination. For this you must pay
quarter. At the end of the journey you must
again be ON the jump and pay a porter to help
you look for your baggage. During all this you
are mentally saying cuss words against the
whole system
Notwithstanding all this, / say again, England
Is hne country, and the English fine people.
The climate is neither too hot nor too cold
During the day it may be rather warm, but not
uncomfortably SO and towards night it becom es
quite cool.
After quite nice stay in London we crossed
the English channel from New Haven for France
Our first stopping place in this latter country
Parls. This great city was quite change from
London; In manners. language and everything
else. The pictures of the greatest painters in
the world were here. We made a weeks stop in
Paris with the weather much hotter than in
Philadelphia.
There was five hours difference in the time be-
tween Paris and New York and l found it very
hard to get to sleep at my regular time and to
get up before eleven in the morning. The eat
ing is perfect in France, the people do nothing
but eat and drink.
suppose you have heard a great deal of the
automobiles of Paris. The fact is they have
very few running by electricity. There are any
number of small ones-trcycle shaped-operated
by ga4olne. They are very heavy, clumsy look
ing and make more noise than locomotive by
their pulling. They go through Paris at about
fifteen miles an hour and the smell of gasoline
coming from would knock you down.
We saw everything in Paris and uncle met
great many people that he knew. Sunday night
we started for Nice and must say we had a fine
car and big. speedy locomotive. None of the
locomotives either here or in England have bells.
When they start they give that shrill whistle that
the American engines used to have. l think it
must be nearly 900 miles from Paris to Nice and
on the way we stopped at Avignon and Marseil-
les. We arrived in Nice this morning The
scenery down here is beautiful. 1 am told it is
like that of Florida and California Fig, olive,
palm and divers other tropical trees abound.
The people just seem to swim in olive oil. 1t is
too hot to be comfortable, but we leave in day
or two for Italy, by boat.
must be closing now, as they serve all the
dinners in courses and would not miss course
for the world. 1t takes a couple hours to eat.
Give my love to all.
Your affectionate nephew,
FRANK