Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-05


leading London hotel. In recent
year 1t entertained 5000 American tour
lists, and when it came to cast up their
accounts it was found that $3.50 each
was the average. Like examinations
of hotel accounts at other points have
borne out the experience of the Lon
don hostelry. Even the humble Tip
wears a lordly air when taken as a
whole. 1t has been estimated that the
railway guards of England get $l,5OO'-
900 year in ito insure promptness.
An experienced tourist agent has f1g-
ured out the financial end of the tour
list business with a great deal Of care.
His conclusions are that the average
American travelling abroad leaves pc
hind him $780, hard cash. That means
these tourists spend total of $22S,OOO,-
600 in addition to the cost OF steam
ship tickets, which would add at least
$50, 5000 more. He concludes that the
average letter of credit carried abroad
by the American calls for $4,000, rang
ing from a few hundred dollars up to
SIS, 900. He is of the opinion that the
American women travelling abroad
spend So, 000,0 900 in Paris gowns, and al
most as much more in Partisan milli-
merry.
The American has taken his place at
the head of the list of globe trotters.
line QaY Was WueH JUN Dull was ~
greatest traveller in the world. Ills
business and his pleasure took him to
the ends of the earth. His familiar
figure was seen and his peculiar accent
was heard more than those of any
other nationality. But that was before
Uncle Sam had grown rich enough to
play the globe trotter. He has since
reached the period of comfortable ar
fluenee, and can spend money in way
that makes John Bull only second IN
the race. The result Is that one sees
two American suit cases where he sees
one English Gladstone bag.
The mechanism of travel has been
developed into that high state OF per-
lection that astounds him who is un-
acquainted with it. 1t was only in lS41,
the year "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too"
assumed the reins of the United States
government that the first excursion
train was run. 1t was an English VEN
ture and ran from Leicester to Lough-
borough to attend a public meeting,
and the excursion was conducted py
the father of the worlds greatest ex-
cursion business. His successors can
now issue a few stamped pieces of
pasteboard which win be honored for
a dinner on the Nile or a lunch In
Siberia, which will settle for a ride on
an African camel or for being carried
by Chinese coolies. 1t Will carry one 10
the next town or bring him around the
world and back again. 1t Is the
triumph of twentieth century travel.
One who has not sailed every sea can
scarcely realize the vast arrangements
that have been made for the accommo-
dalton of the tourists, and how the
tourists are continually demanding
more and greater accommodations.
London. a generation ago, was not
much of a hotel town. It's hosteleries
were always disappointing to Ameri-
cans. Then came the trail of the tour
ist. He woke up the hotel man. He
wanted better accommodations and he
did not rest until he got them. The
result is many superb hotels standing
as monuments to the American traveller
who wanted the best switzerland
built twenty-six electric mountain rail-
ways to satisfy the cravings of the
traveller for new thrills and sensations
and every one has proved more than
a paying investment. Switzerland has
schools in which guides are trained and
supplied with that strange admixture
of history fact and fancy which makes
such a pleasing tumble for the tourist.
Other schools teach the art OF hotel
waiting, and in short there is a school
for every branch Of the industry of en-
PERTAINING travellers, and incidentally of
parting them from their CON-
France is perhaps the most fortunate
OF all countries in the matter ofAenter-
tanning the tourist Besides. her full
quota Of ordinary tourists, good roads