Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-10-26
ESTABLISHED 1856
: AROUND TIE WORLD?
WHY NOT
Writer Says II Can be Done for Little
Over $500

1t was the second of May and Messrs.
Neff. DamsOn and | were riding on the
Italian state ferrO via iron waSl from
ChiassO on the Italian border, 10 Eur
ich, where we were to separate. | had
my photo taken to be pasted on Is
day ticket costing 50, on which could
ride on all Swiss government eisen-
bahns (iron roads,. 1t was a balmy
spring day when we rode along Lake
Como. The cars were clean and good.
As on the plains of LombarCy the land
was planted to elm trees set in rows
one rod by two rods apart and these
trees were topped seven feet high. |
was told they were planted to keep the
soil from washing. The fence posts
along the railway were of granite and
wire was attached to them. The for
ests had been pruned and the brush tied
in bundles and housed for fuel. We
passed Lakes Maggiore and Lugano.
Lugano is Il lovely village with snowy
mountains on three sides. 1t has doz-
ems of pensions well kept and waiting
for the tourist We pass men, women
and girls with triangular spades pre-
pairing the soil Tor planting. A large
part of the cultivated land in Italy is
turned over by the spade in the hands
of men end women AS we go north
we hear German spoken more often; it
is growing colder. The roofs of the
houses are shingled with fiat stones;
there are Tills everywhere. There is a
shrine by the wayside. We are near
ing St Gotard Pass. We lunch on
sandwiches, cakes, apples and choco-
late. Fir trees cover the hills. We go
higher. The fir belt is below, the Alps
above. There are rills and rivulets
coming down six hundred feet There
are lovely girls with rosy cheeks We
are seventeen minutes in st. Gotard
tunnel. We come out into a binding
sno~ storm. There is snow here all
the time. The snow storm lasted an
hour and then we came into a rainy
country much colder than sunny Italy
had been. saw a small glacier high
up in the mountains. We had gone
through fifty tunnels today. Along
Lake Lucerne fruit trees were in bloom
and the scenery along Lake Zurich was
beautiful. IL was supper time when
we rolled into the spacious bahnhof of
the Swiss state railways. Several wo-
men bootblacks were at work outside
the station. Across the Limmat river
we found nice little hotel, the Linn
matquai, where Damson engaged big
room with three single beds for five
france. A thin downy feather quilt
adorned each bed, and every bed | had
until left Paris for London. We went
down TO dinner. Neat, robust. Wely
German girls waited upon US in ad of
the men walters we had had in Italy
and Egypt. For seventy days | had
been living with inferior cooks. The
boys had had a longer seige. know
we all felt like blessing that food that
night and felt like blessing the German
housewife and her mother and the
whole race of women who had made
housekeeping fine art.
Mr.. Nef tells us how he would go
around the world on 1925, third class.
Here II is: Leave Chicago on Union Pa
cifc. for San Francisco, second class
and tourist sleeper, $50. (You can go
for almost half that sum now). Thence
Yokohama via Honolulu, European
steerage, $50; or intermediate steamers
from San Francisco to Y Yokohama every
three weeks, Sl05. Almost as good as
first class. Small steamer equals first
class accommodation at second class
price. This is the Pacific Esail S. s.
Co, 8 line. Spend two weeks in Japan,
make trip in country, S25 for every
thing. Can travel for So per day rail-
way and board. Next, ship by North
German Lloyd third class to Naples
from any Japan port, and second class
across Atlantic to New York from Ma
pies, Genoa, Bremen or any European
port for $3.50. Can lay off at Shanghai
or Hong Kong two weeks and take trip
in country for $25. A 600-mile trip up
Yang Use Kiang river and back first
class, Chinese, a weeks boat trip, costs
SO. Stop off at Colombo or Ceylon two
weeks and make trip in south India of
2, 600 miles at cost of $l2 railway fare
and 81 day expenses, or $50 in all.
A four weeks trip and travel of five
thousand miles costs $50 Sail for Port
Said. Make trip to Cairo and back,
$40. A week in Jerusalem for $50.
Port Said to Athens, deck passage via
Alexandria, expenses $40. North Ger
man Lloyd steamer from Athens to Ma
pies on original ticket, no expense ex-
ira. Ten days in Italy, $25. Twenty
days in Switzerland, Germany and
France, $50. New York to Chicago,
$40. Incidentals $25 Total, Chicago
round world to Chicago, $525. Time
required: Chicago to San Francisco, 5
days; across Pacific II days; in Japan
ID days; days to Shanghai; Ia days in
China; 26 days, Shanghai to Port Said;
stop in Colombo Ii days; Cairo days;
Palestine 10 days; to Athens 5 days; to
Naples days; Italy Switzerland, Ger
many, France, 80 days; 8 days TO Chi
cago. Total time, l53 days. Mr.. Nef
would leave home the middle of Octo-
Der and get to Japan the third of No
vember, a big holiday. the Emperor's
birthday 1t is delightful in China in
November and December. Many lad
les travel third cabin on the Pacific. A
lady should figure on hundred dollars
more han gentleman for such trip.