Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-09-08
By s. Y. LEIGH. d. ID.

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Before ] lrst went to Europe a gen
tleman who had been across the At
lantic several times said % me, aBe-
yond Paris use either Cooks or Gazes
hotel coupons The Swiss and Ital-
ian hotel keepers, with hardly an ex-
ception, oYercharge Americans. So
on both Of my trips had The coupons,
the 1899 ones being purchased from
Thomas Cook x Sons and the 1900
ones from Henry Gaze 4 Sons. They
each have several different first class
hotels in ali European cities and towns
that accept them as cash. They cost
81. 3 cents for each day. They are
three in number. The breakfast one
costs sixty cents. The second is for
the evening table d'hote dinner. The
third is for a comfortable bed room
with lights and attendance. The
midday luncheous tourists secure at
restaurants. | wanted TO be away
from Paris nearly three weeks. The
several | had left on reaching Paris
were redeemed at 10 per cent, dis
count. Thus we avoided any contro-
versies rs to overcharges and thus we
secured elegant apartments in order
TO ind uee US not to go TO some other
hotel in the future. | heard an
American gentleman at Milan quar-
rel about his heavy bill. The man
wanted to go on our train to Venice.
The manager removed his baggage
from the top OF the omnibus and said
la 4 h. al IL
YOU have settled your bill. > The cou
ions prevent such wrangles and ena !.
BILE tourists in advance To accurately
know what their expenses will be. We
hal at London, purchased TWO spe-
eial rate sixty day tickets at sixty
dollars each. They In e1uded Paris,
Iucerne, Milan, Venice, Bologna, Flor
ence, Rome, Naples, Pisa, Genoa,
Turin, Lyons, back to Paris and Lon
don, with the privilege Of stopping
over at any other cities or lakes on
the circular routes.
As illustrative OF the propensity OF
Italian hotel managers 10 fleece
Americans permit me TO recall an in
eident. At Naples we stopped at an
elegant hotel that | will not name,
as | will dono injury to its reputation.
At dinner one day the waiter asked
us if we would have cups of coffee as
he saw that we drank no wine. We
responded in the Affirmative and they
were brought When we settled our
bill we were charged three francs for
the coffee, sixty cents. | told the
manager we had not requested coffee
and we supposed the cups were part
Of the dinner. He replied Coffee is
extra It did not become minister
to quarerl over SO small sum. He
changed the figures to two francs and
we paid him. The waiter had put ice
in our goblets of water and at this
hotel we were each charged half
franc forj ice on each occasion. No
wonder that DR.. S. Il. Strong said
a born robber." Plentifnlly supplied
with Gaze's protective hotel coupons
and splendid luncheon we left Paris
at 9 a. M. for Lucerne which city we
reached at 8 p. III.
The trip was beautiful throughout.
France was cutting her harvests and
we passed thousands of farms where
women and boys were cutting grain
with little sickles. while the farmers
smoked pipes and superintendent the
jobs. Towards supper time our bag
gage was examined at Basic in Swift
zerland an historical city of thirty
thousand population. We were trav-
cling with hand baggage only. The
old question was propounded Have
you any spirits or tobacco?" We an-
swered in the negative. / noticed on
the cars that some men were placing
TASKS in their hip pockets and cigars
in their breast pockets. as the officers
do not examine clothing on the person.
After we entered Switzerland the sub
lime grandeur Of progressive mountain
scenery opened on our vision for sew
enty consecutive miles-Alp on Alp
rayine after ravine--cascade after
cascade-old battle fields here and
Landscapes. valleys and charm
ing villas On every hand. The TWEEN
ty-two states or cantons comprising
Switzerland are all glorious with en-
trancing natural majesty OF scenery.
Many tourists regard Lucerne as the
most charming place in Europe. The
magnificent lake is the finest ON the
continent. For thirty miles each
shore is fringed with snow capped
Alps. Cars climb up Mounts Rigi and
Pilatus, on opposite sides OF the lake.
We were two hours making the ascent
by rail Of Rigi; but after passing a
number of hotels located at different
attitudes, the locomotive stopped on
the supreme crest, in front OF the
! finest hotel 5000 feet above the lake.
in every direction the view was en-
chanting and the panoramas glorious
beyond description. We faced old
Pilatus where tradition tells US Pom
| titus PLATE abode after his Danish
ment BY the Roman Emperor. In one