The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-20
TO PARIS FOR $3.50.
How to Make This Sum Suffice in
Paying the Cost of a Trip to the
Great Exposition.
Mary peckham slcicher in Lcslic's Weekly.

Mary Pcckham sleicher in Lcslic's Weekly.
Making the initial expense the cost
of a trip across the Atlantic, one be-
gins with the steamer passage. There
is such a thing as a very excellent sec
ond-class ticket, with good rooms and
really abundant fare. Many persons In
comfortable circumstances habitually
travel second-class on our great steam
ship lines, and save just about hair
the expense of the ocean journey. y
first-class round trip ticket costs $l5O
and upward. and the Canadian lines
and some of our slow boats will make
a rate of little less. This means the
lowest first-class rate on good boat.
The route to Paris from Southampton
or from London is direct, and 1t Is
easy to arrange to buy your railroad
ticket at a tourist agency in any OF
our great cities, If one does not speak
French and does not care to be both
cred with the purchase of tickets on
reaching England or France. Some
steam lines will book you through to
Paris at a reasonable rate. But $175
will take you to Paris from New York
and home again and pay your steamer
tips.
You can secure excellent lodgings
and three meals a day at thousands
of French boarding-houses, which are
known as pensions, where your expens-
| es need not exceed a dollar a day. A
number of well-bred American girls,
| studying French in this city, and liv-
| ing two in a room, with excellent
| quarters and as good a dining service
as any one need ask for, pay at the
rate of 1876 francs per month, which
| is twenty-seven dollars, and for this
they receive the use of their room,
their coffee and bread and butter in
the morning, a substantial midday
meal or dejenuer and an evening dim
ner lasting over an hour and com
| prising several courses. They pay ex-
ira for lights, fuel, and washing, but
this is not much. Many economize by
washing their own handkerchiefs and
smaller garments, but the expense Of
the laundry is no higher than it is at
home. These boardng-places, or pen
sions, can be found in nearly every
section of the city, and especially in
the Latin Quarter. A list of pensions
will be gladly given you at the Brook
lyn Eagle office, SO Rue Cambon; the
Lady Guide office, "a Rue Richelieu,
| near the lIOuNIp, OF at lIlb OlllCt OIL luG'
New York State Commission at the
exposition.
COST OF A CAB.
From your railroad station on your
arrival at Paris to your boarding
house, you will have to pay for the
use of a cab. BY the hour, a cab for
one or more persons costs two and one
half francs, or fifty cents. BY the trip,
or tour" it costs one and one-half
francs, or thirty cents, besides a tip of
five or ten cents for the coachman.
1t Will be seen that cab hire is as cheap
here as in London, and much cheaper
than it is in New York. The cost OF
admission tickets to the exposition var
les No tickets are sold at the en-
frances. All must be bought of the
venders outside, and if one is willing
to be little patient and not take the
first offered, he will be able to get a
ticket for fifty-five centimes, or eleven
cents but as soon as one OF these
ticket-sellers sees a foreigner he begins
to offer the tickets for seventy-five
centimes, so one must literally beat
, the seller down. Before ten in the
morning and after six at night the
admission requires the use of tive
tickets, and some days four or five.
Your expenses thus far, you see, will
not have mounted up much beyond the
cost of your steamship ticket anG
, steamer tips, and if you are prepared
after having seen the exposition, to re
, turn home after two weeks stay il
Paris, you will find that $3.50 will covel
! the entire expense. But a visitor
, would be unjust to himself or herself
! to limit a trip to Paris 10 a single weel
, or two.
, If possible, go up to London for an
, | other week. This can be easily don,
for twenty-five dollars. The fare in
, cluding fees from Paris is less than ter
| dollars, if you go via Dieppe. TIL,
, | short Calais route is more expensive
At the Girls Friendly Society or th
=. Young Woman's Christian association
, in London, girls can readily procur
a board and lodgings for five dollars
: week, not including the midday meal
: The former society has an Office il
Paris, where application may be mad
, for lodging in London, and everythin;
, arranged before the start is made from
| Paris. This will leave ten dollars 70
}. your extras in London, which will y
r ample for bus fares, as most of tn
= museums and places or interest ar
= open to he public in London as 4
:. Paris. one may see a good deal Il
e a week and still spend very littl
,. money.
n ONE WEEK IN PARIS.
: An etra weeks stay in Paris, in
u cluding an occasional cab hire an
more than an occasional 'bus-fare, nee
not more than double your allowanc
> while here, for twenty-five dollars wi
II be ample to cover IL all. OF cours
II if you visit the theatres and othc
: places of entertainment, your exper
:. ditures will be larger, but if you d
not care for amusement, and avoid tn
temptation to purchase the goods g
temptingly displayed in all the stores
large and small, and especially in tn
=, charming little shops along the Rue d
. Rivoli, you will not need to expen
er more than $3.50 for your entire tri,
t: including a week at the exposition an
week in and about Paris. Thi
, means strict economy, and with sti
:, stricter economy and second-cla.
~ steamer fare you can eliminate full
6ftU 1ollnrc from fhic fatal LIT