Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-09-04
A TRIP TO EUROPE.
From London to Paris the Best
Way.
Many Points in Railway Travel in the
East That are Preferable to 0urs-A
Delightful Place to Stop in Paris
The Famous Cab Service of Paris
Points of Historic Interest That
Every Tourist Should Visit.
By S. V. LEEeH, d. D.

London TO Paris he has choice Of
four excellent routes. The distance
is 256 miles. He may cross the billowy
English Channel at Dover and land
at Calais. He may cross at Folke-
stone and arrive on the French coast
at Boulogne. He may take steamer
at Southampton and touch the soil of
France at Hayre or he may take 1.-THE
Picturesque Route" via Newhayen
and Dieppe, which was the one we
| selected.
The London, Brighton and South
Coast Railroad Company run rapid
and elegant trains from Victoria Sta
| tion down to Newhayen, and they
sweep past villages and battle fields
replete with interesting historical as
sociations. Before he steps on the
steamer for France the passenger en-
tiers room called 1.-THE Money Ex-
change" in the depot and exchanges
his British coin for French money.
! Returning, he may exchange his
French cash for English currency.
Newhaven is seaside summer resort
and to this place came Louis PHILIPPE
and his queen Maria Amelie, incogni-
to, when they were driven, fifty-two
years ago, from the French throne.
! Luckily, for our stomachs. the day of
our embarkation was magnificent
1 one and the cool, lovely sea was as
! smooth as mountain lake as for
/ four hours we sailed for the French
town of Dieppe. We had the same
delightful experience on our return
passage over the waters. We entered
a swift train after our hand baggage
had been examined at the custom
house. Our registered trunk was 60
be opened at the custom house at the
Care Lazarre in Paris.
In our country we have to climb
up high steps from the ground to en-
ter railway car. 1t is not SO beyond
| the Atlantic. The floors of the cars
are on a level with the railway plat
forms and exit and entrance are much
like stepping from one room into an
other. 1t is shame that our rail-
ways do not have easier and lower
stairs to their coaches. The country
from Dieppe to Paris is beautiful.
Tho distance is ia miles. After run
ming thirty-four miles we passed
through the historical city of Rouen,
and towards sunset we reached Paris.
A French cab soon placed US at the
door Of the splendid pension or board
ing house of Mademoiselle Wood; at
q on the great Avenue de la Grande
Armie.
Three months before we left Nor
gantown we wrote to the pastor of the
English Presbyterian Scotch Church
of Paris, and to the pastor of the
/ Wesleyan Methodist Church TO write
US concerning first class boarding
houses for English people. Both re-
piled that we would he elegantly en-
tertained if we could secure accommo-
modations at the Pension of Miss
/ Wood, Presbyterian lady from Scot
| land, whom we found to be one of the
| foremost Protestant ladies Of Paris.
We found the residence located only
block from Napoleon's great Arch of
Triumph and on the finest residen-
tial Avenue of the French capital.
Thirty English and American ladies
were there during our stay of days go
ing and two returning. A number of
these were ministers. We paid her
$25 each,--in all fifty dollars
for apartments, breakfast, evening
dinner. lights and attendance for the
ten days and we were well accommo-
dated. She has grace said at meals
and public prayers in the parlor twice
daily, and an extra evening tea at bed
time which were all thrown in, for
good measure, without charge. Now
we are not more devotional in our
Morgantown residences and that
was creditable in gay, beautiful, SEN
suous Paris. In Paris there are 20, 900
cabs and seventy lines of omnibuses.
The cabs for two persons, cost but 40
cents OF our money per hour, and the
tops of street cars and omnibuses but
two or three pennies per passenger.
So we ''did up the city OF two and a
half millions of people and had many
charming cab rides, through parks,
the eleven great boulevards and
through suburban avenues.
Nobody should visit Paris without
first reading up the history OF the city
from the time OF Labienus who con-
quered it for Julius Caesar two thous-
and years ago. The development OF
Paris under Charlemagne, the Charles,
Louis, Catharine de Medici, and the
thrilling records OF the great capital
from the date OF the French revolution
10 the close OF the nineteenth century,
are profoundly interesting to careful
student OF history.
There are so many attractive places
and ediflces outside OF the Exposition
grounds that it is difficult to deter
mine just what an American ought
to see. But no tourist should miss