Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-10
ADVICE TO TOURISTS.
Always Take More Money Than You
Think You Will Need

Now that the European season for trav-
cling is about to open for Americans. let
me give those of the capital who are con-
templating voyage abroad a word or two
/ of friendly caution" said a WASHINGTON
giobe-trotter this morning in an uptown
| hotel.
"A good many department clerks and
other WashingtoniaEs go abroad annually
on their vacations, and what L say applies
especially to the tourist Of small or mod
crate means who has set aside A specified
sum for expenses.
In brief, take with you i'm your letter of
credit raore than you had contr-lDlatsd
would be sufficient for your trip. If Won
have allotted $500, take 500, il 81 opl take
$l,Joo, ana other larger sums in proportion.
III you have never been abroad. you can
not gauge to dollar the sum YOU will
spend. though You think you may while
on this side of the water. There are hun
dreds of minor and trihing expenses which
amount to a large sum I'm the aggregate
of which you have no conception here
neither have you any idea what IL means
to be abroad broke, as was once my case
though you may have plenty of money at
home. The amount which you set aside
Tor fees will be tripled in actual exp, ndi-
lures, as you will find that YOU mus. fee
everybody, or suffer in annoying way
or another. All OF your preconceived ideas
as to what is right in this direction will
be Knocked into cooked hat. as all de
tails Of life abroad radically different
than in the United States IL you think
that you will limit yourself 20 So n day
you will find that il will cost YOU $40 and
If the latter sum be your allowance il
Will quickly be expanded into So You will
almost at once find that unless YOU can SIC
that which should be seen European trip
is not worth the taking, and one of your
first acts Will be to write home for an
other draft upon Paris or Loadon. You
will find, whether you be a man or woman,
that it will be impossible to resist the
temptation to buy clothes. trinke5s ard
souvenirs. You will learn that the mod
crate priced hotels do not come up to your
expectations and that the higher priced
ones are costly.
Good seats in such minor PLACES of
amusement as the London music halls are
expensive, costing from s1.s7 to 30 each
and. being AN American you will not take
second choice. 1t is dip your hand down
in your pocket from early morning when
you tip boots at your hotel until you leave
25-cent tip in the shape of an English
shilling on the table of the restaurant when
you supped at midnight. Where you would
ride In Washington In the fine electric street
cars for five cents, you will pay the cabby
In London from a shilling up. or the Paris
1ehu thirty cents. and you will thus ride
three and four times a day. because il is
so cheap for such luxury compared
with the cab service in the United States
but which viii also be found to make large
holes in your allowance If you become
unexpectedly broke 1 did in London,
you will find that 1t will cost from S. to
SIS for cable tolls and bankers commits
sions to pull you out of the hole your lack
of foresight tumbled you into.
You will find that you cannot borrow
country's consul in every city Will turn you
down because he is obliged to make a cast
iron, double-rfveted rule not to respond to
your request for "a couple of hundred. you
know. He knows all about it. and 70 will
you. but only when you have gore through
the experience. During an hours visit at