Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-03-03
GOING TO EUROPE.

Principal G. G. Parlin has been en-
gagged by the Chatauqua Tours Co. to
conduct a party of tourists through
Europe this summer. The party will
sail from New York by steamer Italia,
of the Achor line. Stopping briefly at
the Azores and Gibraltar. the party will
be due to reach Naples, July 8.
From Naples, side trips will be taken
to the famous Blue Grotto of the Island
of Copri and the remarkable city OF
P0mpeii. Then the party will travel
northward, visiting Rome, six days;
Florence and Venice, each four days,
and Milan one day. Especial attention
will be given to historic ediices and
ruins as interpreters of life past, to the
art galleries as portraying the evolution
of art and presenting vivid representa-
ton of life. la all. twelve of the world s
finest art galleries will be visited.
Social and industrial conditions will
also be given attention to illustrate
life present In short, study of life,
not antiquarian research, is to be the
aim of the party.
Especial attention will also be given
to the scenic. An effort will be made
to spend Sundays quietly in some scenic
spot, Q. g.: nine days, including two
Sundays, will be spent on the Italian
lakes and in Switzerland. In Switzer-
land, Lucerne, with its beautiful lake,
will be explored and a night spent on
the Rigi. From Interlaken, an excur-
sion will be taken out to the foot of the
Jungfrau, and Bern, with the quaint ar
caded streets, curious clock and innum-
cradle bear signs, will be visited.
Then day will be spent at Heidle-
berg from the castle will be learned
something of medieval life, and from
the university something of modern
student life. A night will be spent at
Mainz, where Gutenberg gave the
world its most valuable invention.
printing, and the trip will be made
down the Rhine through all the scenic
portion of it to Cologne. The Rhine,
too, will be interpreted as rich in evil
dences of life and toll of generations
past and present.
After day at Cologne, the party will
60 to Brussels, from which side trip
will be made to the battlefield of
Waterloo.
A week will be spent at Paris with a
side trip to Versailles, after which the
party will proceed to London for four
days visit. Thence trip will be made
through England and Scotland with
special reference to seeing the most
beautiful places and visiting the regions
associated with the literary geniuses of
the English race. They will read Gray's
"Elegy" in the graveyard at Stoke
Poges; will view the grave of the i'm
mortal bard of Avon at Stratford. on
Avon; viii visit beautiful lake Winde-
mere with its rich memories of Words
worth, Aye, immortalized by Burns;
Edinburgh, the Trossacks and Abbots-
ford, SO dear to Scott Oxford will be
visited and castles will not escape at
tention, Windsor, Warwick, Kenilworth'
Chester, Dumbarton, Edinburgh will be
viewed. Some fine cathedrals, such as
Lichtieli and even more interesting
ruins, such as Melrose Abbey, will be
seen. Altogether, ten great gothic
cathedrals and the two greatest Rennais-
sance cathedrals will be visited. Glas.
gov, with its immense ship yards, will
be the last stop whence the party will
sail Aug. 20 reaching Montreal, Sept. 5
and New York, Sept. 6.
The price for the tour, is s46O and
this includes first class steamer berths,
railroad transportation, corresponding
to American first class, good hotels,
all fees on land and evening excursions.
All arrangements, for transportation
and hotels will be made by the COM
pany.
Mr.. Parlin will not have any response
bility in this respect but it will devolve
on him to conduct the party to the
sights and to interpret for them the life
represented The position was Offered
Mr.. Parlin without any solicitation on
his part, and since this work is usually
done only by college men, the offer is a
compliment to his scholarship and per-
gonality.
The party has not been fully formed
as yet and Mr.. Parlin hopes some Wau-
sau people will join the same.