Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-02

his hotel he had had to supply so many details about himself.
 Photographed at St. Marks.
 Through the famous Brenner pass he crossed to Insbruch on the Austri
 an frontier and then continued down through the Tyrol to Verona in Italy.
 He saw the house there where the present Pope was born. In Venice he
 saw the impressive sight of a funeral procession on canal, gondolas serv- ing as hearse and coaches, and he had | a photograph taken of himself feeding the doves in front of St. Marks Rome did not come up to his expectat i5 and he retraced his steps noriA a | to Milan. Through the maryelrds ..n-
 nels of the St. Gotthard hass he jour neyed into Switzerland .,ssssing scenes
 of surpassing beadly. From the snow
 capped peaks the Alps he could | look down 10 the green pastures and
 fruitful vineyards of the valleys
 Lucerne, with it's famous lion. i'm
 pressed Mir, Plaut as another thor
 oughly modern city, and he enjoyed himself crossing Lake Geneva to Bern and Lausanne.
 European Sleeping Cars.
 He journeyed from the last named l T
 be the finest sleeping train in Europe.
 At the conclusion of the trip MT. PIaut felt sincerely sorry for ali Europeans
 who travel by night In the middle of l the night he was walked up by French inspector on. the border and not only was his grip examined, but his bed had to be pulled to pieces in the search
 for smuggled articles. Matches are an especially hard thing to get into
 France, as matchmaking is a govern
 ment industry and competition is dis
 liked. Brussels appealed to MT. Plaut
 as it does to most tourists. more ia
 vorably than did Paris. One of the
 reasons why little Paris" as it is call
 ed, is so popular with Americans is
 that the hotels are good and they are
 not robbed, as In almost all other Flu
 ropean cities. The portable bathhouseE
 at Ostend were interestingly described
 by MT. Plaut, who was also struck by , the big betting there at the races. } Women Employed by Railroads. A European characteristic that i'm pressed him was the general lack O respect for the womne. The mel ! would take off their hats to other men but not so to women. And he fount women brakemen on the trains, wom en gate tenders, women doing mos anything
 The Last Leg of the Trip. l Crossing the channel, to Dover MI 3 Plaut inspected the mammoth fortifi f cations there and then continued t London, where he saw quite little 0 l royalty and of the taxes that it place 3 on the English people. He met man, } Americans in the metropolis, which h l left on July 21 for Southampton, iron f which port he sailed at 10 o'clock tn ] same night for home. The Genera l Grant carried 2,022 passengers, S16 0 ] them being emigrants. It was a roug ] voyage coming back.
 Wireless from Fellow Citizens. . In mid ocean MT. Plaut was cheere . by the receipt of marconigram Sun 4 day night from Joseph Boylan an 1 Morgan Cronin, who were passing O a their steamer bound for Europe, an e a few minutes later he sent back ' reply. By the daily newspaper print
 ed on board ship MT. Plaut kept 1 4 touch with the ball games and got tn a news of the political world Withou . delay Both on the way over an 2 back MT. Plaut had a share in al P ranging a concert for the benefit ( = the widows and orphans of the Titani a disaster. Three deaths occurred 0 S the trip and thrice the great shi U stopped at night for the solemn burii ,t at sea, Fog banks were encountere one after another and made the vo5 V age slew. The famous racehorse Uhla ' was on board the boat with a doxe q others of c. K. Billings stable. ar e was insured for ss0,000 before beir n shipped The horses occupied the er r tire steerage dining cabin of the shi 2 MT Plaut arrived in New York We( q nesday night at o'clock