The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-09

Ho7 Well some one else has, and how many
OF those 100000 who sailed this last month
do you suppose will be up against 1t within
the next few months?
Many, many more than you would think.
Through some cause or other they will find
themselves broke. IL won't seem funny
to them at the moment, but the stories
which they will tell on their return are sure
to furnish many laugh to their friends.
At least, IL has been so in the past
. The average amount of ready cash which
they will take with them ia about $500.
Some will have return trip tickets; some
a.. will not.
Some will go to London and intend to
run over to Paris for few weeks, then
back to the States. Others are going to
Paris, thence to Switzerland and down
through Italy, where they will sail for home.
Before you sail it is very easy to make
the tour on $500. BY the time you sight
the Statue of Liberty on your return you
p, realize that You are a very poor mathe-
mahcian.
Up in your Harlem fat out in Ohio or in
your den on Fifth avenue you all figure
IL out the same way You take your pencil
and piece of paper ard estimate that III
going to cost you so much to get to Paris.
Then Mrs. Jones. who was over last year,
gives you the address of a tension where
she was charged only six francs day for
everything.
You allow yourself six or ten francs
day Just to see things. When you have done
Paris, you figure, you are going to Lucerne,
Venice, Rome, Naples. You know just
exactly how many drinks, DC, you will al
low yourself in each town and how long
you are going to stay there.
That's the way you, who haVa only three
hundred to spend, look at it. Perhaps 1t
mover occurred to you that a man with
O half million or even a million dollars
"a liable on the other side to walk
the Corso, Inter den Linden or the
Strand, wondering how and where he
can get the price of a drink and thus enjoy
Q free lunch.
Why doesn't man ca BILE? Well. the cable
company is not charity organization.
Yes, you can ask lot Of puzzling ques-
tons, but you never know Just what 1t is
until you have tried it.
Just talk TO the stewards on any ocean
liner as she lies in dock, and tic will Let
you know Just how thiag- arc. They are
the financial barometer OF the high seas.
They will tell you that they never expect
30 much of Il tip on the Western trip as they
do on the Eastern.
Sorry" says one man to the steward, as
the ship nears Sandy Hook "but the truth
Is. haven't cent left. I'm expecting
letter on the dock, or I'll have some friends
there when get in, and we'll fix things
up them"
incidentally, let the reader take a hint
and never meet his returning friends at
the pier.
or course, it is not every traveller that
gets down to hard pan. but 1t certPinly
Ia surprising how many hard luck stories
one hears from persons who have been on
the other side. Here is a story told by
musician which proves thet the cable failed
to work for him when he was in Rome
last winter.
-There were two of us, college friend
and l." he explained. I'VE reached Rome
from the mountains with enough funds to
last us week. To economic, however,
while we waited an answer to a cable, we
determined to rent room and eat at res
taurants.
Tho cable was sent on Monday. On
Wednesday l went to look for the cash.
No answer. We made anxious queries the
next day and hurried off letters home.
by Saturday we found it necessary to
visit q. monte di JiEa-a mount OF pity
the very euphemistic name for a pawn
. shop. We parted with watch and then
decided that it would be a BIT frugal to
cook oaT own meals.
sWe visited tho office OF the express
company where we expected our money,
but the Italian official shrugged his shoulders,
looked suspicious, and CURLY said; MEME
dendro.' or the equivalent Of nothing
doing
} an two weeks, after daily calls, the
: italian gave us to understand that he
! would let us know when our money had
arrived. He gently suggested that we
4 must not bother him any more.
sIn desperation we called again at the
monte and left everything but two suits
OF clothes. At the end of the third week
We had one pair Of trousers and coat
between us. We took our daily walks
alone. Our diet consisted of bread and
onions, with the occasional luxury OF piece
Of cheese.
sFinally, at the end Of four weeks. while
fighting with the pangs OF hunger, we
vavered between the rash thought OF an
other visit to the express company and
4 call upon the American Consul, and de-
cided in favor of the company. The re-
ception which the official gave me couldn't
be called warm,
Il turned away in despair, and on the way
out ! stopped in front Of the paying teller's
desk Suddenly in a fit of desperation
grabbed up bundle of cablegrams, and,
despite the excited jabberng of the clerk,
ran hastily through them. There, to my
10y, found a cable which read, Pay to
the order of - the sum of $500
First I was so mad when / noticed that
the cablegram was nearly four weeks old,
that l couldn't demand an explanation.
I started to curse him out in emphatic
English.
@He started to explain wouldn't
listen. resumed my cussing with re-
freshed vigor and walked out, hungry
threatening suit, but on second thought
remembered my friend who was in the
room. wrapped in 4 blanket. ! decided
that I would wear once more my own
trousers, and finally returned to the Office
and got the cash. ..
'The officials could offer no good reason
whatever other than carelessness for hold
,av ba he