The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-10

camp, and the name would be deserved
if there were only opportunity to be-
hold the marble palaces with when it
abounds. But nine-tenths of the
streets are from seven to twenty feet
wide, and it is painful to look up to
the sixth story when you are standing
five feet from the cellar-way. Our
Hotel stands in the center of a ten-foot
street, and the omnibus which brought
US from the depot almost grazed the
buildings On both sides. I do not see
how wheeled vehicles ever pass each
other-probably there is some munich
pal order that all shall travel one way.
Sidewalks there are none, or :ather
the streets are all sidewalks, the pave
ments being composed of large square
flags of stone. On entering the house
you ascend two flights of marble stairs
to the ground floor, where there IS a
court, and a fountain surrounded with
tropical flowers; two flights more bring
you to the dining rooms. and still en-
other long flight to the bedrooms. The
space between floors is from twenty
five to forty feet. Our bedroom is th'r-
ty-two feet square, and such an as
semblage of incongruities as it pres
ents was surely never beheld elsewhere.
The furniture is quaint, some portion
being built in the walls. others being
light, cheap, and unfit for third-rate
boarding house. The frescoes upon the
high walls are in massive devices of
gilt and marble; the figures of gilt
cherubs in the corners are as large as
real babies. The windows are in lace
drapery, and there are two immense
sofas draped in white. Who knows
what is underneath? There are two
satin-wood dining tables, with ghostly
rickety chairs at head and foot. There
are two immense marble dressing
tables, with plate-glass mirrors, mas
sive and glittering in golden leaf and
vines, alongside of which are wooden
washstands which no self-respecting
Bridget would tolerate in her room.
There are beds canopied with lace, and
covered with crimson satin quilts,
spread on cheap iron bedsteads. The
carpet, like almost every other carpet
have seen in the hotels in Europe, is
poor, faded and filthy. but it covers
floor of solid marble. The holdings and
Iintels, and cornices, and door frames
of this inharmonious place are of poll
ished marble, and the thick walls are
covered with ten cent paper.
And for all this grandeur, together
with excellent and well-served meals,
wax candles, soft water, good beds and
dress coated servants, the price for
two persons is two dollars and twenty
cents each per day. No wonder that
Columbus in behalf of workers was
anxious to discover some other coun-
try Genoa prices are the lowest we
have yet met. You can purchase for
fifty francs an exquisite embroidered
handkerchief that would cost as many
dollars at home; and for about thirty
dollars YOU may buy a full set of deli
cate silver filigree, jewelry, consisting
of bracelets, necklace, earrings, pin and
hair ornaments. Similar goods on
Broadway are offered at one hundred
and fifty dollars.
The cost of travelling in Europe is
over-estimated. The best way
is to purchase at London or Paris
book Of hotel coupons of Gaze" or
Cook" There is a red coupon which
calls for a table d'hote dinner, green
coupon for bedchamber, light and ser
vice, and a white coupon for breakfast
of coffee and bread and butter with
meat or eggs. You pay for set of
these coupons eleven francs. They are
good at any hotel in Europe on the list
furnished you. The houses are general
ly first-class. The coupons save all dis
cussfon as to terms, and you know ex-
actly what your expenses are to be- 10
this eleven francs per day, add five
francs for washing, carriage hire, omn1-
buses to and from depotS, and fees to
servants and guides-art galleries and
gardens are usually free-and you have
the necessary expense of living in Eu-
rope. The railroad companies issue
tickets of itinerary or circular tour
For about four hundred francs
you can buy circular ticket good for
two months from Paris to Paris, via
Lyons, Marseilles, Nice, Mentone,
Genoa, Turin. Milan, Verona, Venice.
Bologna. Florence. Rome, Naples, Pisa,
Modane and the Monte Cents tunnel
back to Paris. with the privilege of
stopping at any and every point on the
list. A two months tour of the CONT
nent from Paris may be thus esti-
mated: Hotel coupons six hundred
and sixty francs; railroad fare, four
hundred francs; extra expenses, three
hundred francs: total, thirteen hundred
and thirty francs or two hundred and
sixty-six dollars. Passage from New
York to Paris and return two hun
dred and thirty dollars-in all five hun
dred dollars for the round trip. All
these estimates are for first-class fares,
and I would advise no person to travel
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