Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14
EXCURSION RATES
TO EUROPE CHEAP
TRAVELLER MAKES CONTRAST
WITH AMERICA
Climate Makes One Appreciate Los
Angeles, He Says-Interest Taken
In London's OIympian
Games

After spending summer in the British
isles, such as the last summer has been,
one is in good state of mind to appre-
ciate to the full the rare charm and
beauty of our California climate. Not in
over thirty-flve years has there been such
miserable weather in Europe as in the
summer just passed. Months of dark,
dull days. with lowering skies and fire.
quent rains has been the order, and not
until September did the weather ap-
proach anything like a summer atmos-
phere.
Notwithstanding adverse conditions.
however, holiday traffic was very heavy
and the cheap rates at which one can
travel both in England and on the con-
tinent during the summer months would
surprise Ca,iforians, whose opportunities
for cheap travel thanks to the rail-
roads, are very limited. A few exam
Pies will be interesting. You can travel
from Liverpool to Amsterdam, Rotter-
cam, The Hague or Antwerp for five
days trip, including good hotel accom-
modations during that time for about
$3.50; from Liverpool to Paris for six
days, including rail and boat fares, six
days hotel accommodation in Paris. three
days drives In latter city, for the re-
markably small round trip fare of $25.
During the Dublin exhibition the City
Of Dublin Steamboat company carried
well do the railroads cater to the public
round trip for $3.50, first cabin, and $125
second cabin, a days run each way
These are merely examples from a be-
wildering list of similar excursions, so
we'll do the railroads cater to the public
In regard to travel In the old country 1t
is of interest to note that many weekly
periodicals like Tit Bits, Answers. Pear
sons Weekly, CasselPs Magazine, ETC.,
carry insurance coupons by which the
passenger is insured against death by
accident in a sum of from $1,000 to $50OO
the cost being simply the price of the
paper, cents.
Wages Are Low
European countries certainly pay very
much smaller wages than obtain in
America, but the disparity is not so
great when the prices of the necessaries
of life are taken into consideration. Take
the case of a man earning $40 week
In England he can get very fair house
for $1.75 a week, his provisions will cost
him about 30 per cent less than in the
United States. clothing one-ha,f the cost,
good taior-made suit from $12 to SIS;
furniture much cheaper than here; you
can get very nice derby hat in England
for about So cents; all the minor ex
penses are lighter too; shave cents,
hair cut 6 cents, car fares usually 2
cents, and most other things at cores
pondingly low prices.
On Saturdays mills, offices, works, ETC.,
are closed at noon, the rest of the day
being devoted to football, cricket, out
door bowling, or else in taking wheel
ride out into the country, which is very
popular form of recreation over there
owing to the magnificent roads. Football,
however, holds the leading place, one
journal in England in commenting on the
game declaring 1t to be disease render
ing the youth of the country unfit for
the more serious duties of life.
Work is scarce in the United Kingdom
at the present time. Perhaps the free
trade fetish with which England handi-
caps her workers and the free and un-
restricted immigration of foreigners have
much to do with this condition. One of
the music hall songs of the period is en-
titled you're All Right in England If
You're Not an Englishman" In all the
stores large proportion of foreign-made
goods are on view things which could
easily be made by home workmen.
Drinking on Increase
The drinking habits of English work.
men are very deplorable. Cheap beer, cozy
bar parlors, handsome barmaids bright
open fires all play their part in and have
decided tendency to~keeping patrons
tarrying longer at the shrine of Bacchus
than is the case In the American system
of dispensing liquors; drunkenness,
squalor and misery are sadly too evident
everywhere. 1t is a deplorable fact that
drunkenness among women is much
on the increase and, strange enough a
woman addicted to drink seems TO be
vastly more incorrigible than a man.
Why this is so Is conundrum, but 1t is
well attested fact nevertheless.
Socialism is springing up all over Eng
land today in way that 1t has never
done before. and socialistic schemes that
would have heen declared, reasonable,
almost. decade ago. are now openly
discussed. What the outcome will be It
is hard to say. 1t Is the writer's opinion