Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-05
Hotels Good, But Expensive.

Hotels Good, But Expensive.
The hotels are comfortable. with
large rooms. we'll furnished. good
meals well served. During the summer
months the tables are placed on the
lawn. a practice which the managers
Of the hotels at our summer resorts al
home might adopt TO the comfort OF
their patrons. instead OF feeding them
In hot. close. dining rooms. blazing
with light.
In the heat OF midsummer a dinner
will be relished a great deal more il
ii is served on q lawn, under the shade
Of a tree in the soft twilight. than In
q superheated dining room.
The charges are high. quite as high
as they are at any OF our fashionable
resorts. but that Is to be expected. Eu-
ropean hotel people have discovered
TO their profit that tourists will pay
whatever is asked. and there are no
more ten-franc -a-day stopping places
on the continent.
The lighthouses are not so large nor
SO good as ours. and comparatively few
people battle. The women are afraid OF
spelling their compilations and the men
find more sport In other diversions.
Drives Around Yalta.
There are lovely drives in every di-
rection from Yalta, and waterfalls
gorges, highly decorated gardens
dense groves. observation towers. res
taurants and all sorts OF attractions
scattered along the slopes OF the noun
tains, which rise $500 or 5000 feet be
hind the town. I am told that there
is an average OF about $500 visitors al
Yalta daily the year around. for In this
climate, like that Of Monterey and
Santa Barbara, Cal. one month is as
pleasant as another. Hence. people
from the north OF Russia come in the
winter. and people from the south OF
Russia in the summer, and the hotels
are always filled.
There is no railway. although they
are talking Of one to connect with the
trunk lines that run between Sebasto-
pol and Moscow. Everybody has &c
come on the steamers from Sebastopol
Odessa. Nicholaief. Rostov, Batoum and
other ports on the Black sea.
The visitors from 81. Petersburg. Moscow
and other northern points take train Ia
Sebastopol and then come around by
steamer in four hours. or by carriage
over a wonderful mountain road. a ten
hour drive. The steamers are not COM
Portable, because the staterooms are all
below the water line. so that the port
holes cannot be opened, and there 10 no
ventilation. but the voyage between Yalta
daytime. In order to give passengers an
opportunity to enjoy the magnifcen,
mountain scenery along the coast. and
they keep well In toward the shore for
that purpose. ! do not know of any
other sea voyage that will equal 1t for
scenery.
Road to Sebastopol.
There is a roadway around to sebasto-
pol from Yalta cut out of the side OF
the cliff on q level. avertins three OF
four hundred feet above the water. and
often running az high as a thousand
feet. on the slopes of the precipices
which was built by the late Prince wor-
onzoff II IL one Of the most delightful
and picturesque drives you can imagine.
You leave 6ebasto at 0 o'clock in The
morning. lunch at the Gate of Baidar
which Is the water shed. spend the nigh,
at Aloupka, and drive over to Yalta In
time for luncheon the next morning
snere 10 q daily procession OF carriages
&C AIDED with tourists, going both ways.
FOR nearly the entire distance o wall OF
rock rises from one thousand to -four
iousand feet almost abruptly from thu