The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-08-04
RUSH TO EUROPE BEGUN
BY THOUSANDS OF FOLKS
.,,,rMER PILGRIMAGE TO OLD
WORLD BY AMERICANS is
ppEAKING ALL RECORDS.
SPEND 500 MILLION DOLLARS

SneuderS OF Money
More than 100000 Americans will
visit Europe this summer, leaving be-
lind them when they return home
s5OOOOOO00.
Never before have so many Ameri-
cans gone to the Old World to play
for tbe summer. Tourist agencies say
thew never nave seen anything like
the 1925 rush. Every ship is crowded
and thousands of tourists have made
reseryations for trips not to be made
until September or October.
Europe Extending Welcome.
Europe is greeting the Americans
with extended arms and hands. Amer
& ;can dollars within the next few
months will strew every known coun-
4 trv and every highway and byway.
\ Catering to the American tourist has
& become an immense business in Eu-
rope
Americans on tour are not purse
i bound. Rather, they are excellent
snenders. Each tourist, striking an
4 average. leaves between $500 and
Il 81 $50 in Europe. OF this about $500
i goes to the steamship companies, and
i the rest is spent upon hotels, railroads
and for the many incidentals.
London. Rome and Paris-Paris es-
E peciallv-are the great attractions for
American tourists in Europe. Every
tour arranged by agents includes these
4 cities Paris is most popular, though.
4 because living there is less expensive,
and its boulevards possess an unrlval-
4 ed color and romance.
The tourist traffic brings up the in
i teresting subject of foreign exchange
+ and its relation to the tourist pocket
j book. Foreign moneys, forced down in
: value by the tremendous financial up
4 beava OF the world war, have not yet
4 readiusted themselves to their old val
ues
Money Below Par.
The French franc, the Belgium
4 franc and the Italian lire, normally.
4 worth a little more than l9 cents, are
quoted at four and half in the first
q two cases and at four cents in the last.
q This means that an American gets
4 about 81 worth OF money for 81.
A demoralizing state OF affairs Tor
The American, but not for the Euro
& pean.
4 The American imagines he has an
4 advantage. 1t may have been true IN
the past, but not now. The Europeans
{ have fixed things so that the advant-
ages OF exchange are equalized. Thus.
& while a tourist may obtain hotel
room for So day. it takes nearly ST.
8 worth OF francs to pay the bill.
Just how does the average tourist
spend his money?
After steamship bills are paid about
q 5000 remains of the average tourist 5
budget. OF this half or slightly more
than hall is used TO pay hotel bills
q The rest of the money likely will go
for railroad travel, shopping tours
: tips. and by the thousand and one
other ways that one can spend money.
Paris gets the biggest slice OF the
whole sum. Fully two-thirds OF all the
tourists will spend at least several
days in Paris They will leave millions
OF dollars in the tills OF the hotel own
ers and shopkeepers, and particularly
the dressmakers.
Travel Not So Expensive.
European travel in 1925 is not near
ly so expensive as it has been in past
summers. The third-class cabin is en-
abling vast throngs of tourists to go
across the sea despite the tact thai
they do not have the average sum TO
spend. They get along well, tom
fact they see as much, if not more
than the more wealthy travellers.
For SIS a day these tourists are able
to live and travel-indeed, several OF
the steamship companies map out
tour showing exactly how this can be
done. In one case the tourist pays sou
and all expenses for a tour OF three
weeks are paid.
There is another innovation this
summer. Steamship companies are car
rying college students instead OF I'M
migrants in third class cabins. Ships
Offering this kind of tour are Jammed
Last week the Majestic sailed with
1850 passengers, only to be eclipsed
the following day by the Leviathan
with ZOO
Thus far only the tourist OF moder-
ate means and the student tourist nave
been mentioned. There is still another
ciaSs-that of the rich travellers ano
their families.
Rich Folks Touring Too.
The money they spend runs well IN
TO the millions. Some OF them go on
tour e9ur that cost anywhere from $50 to
$50 day.
When it comes to spending mons
can eclipse these rich Americans on
70 e, Europe to play. Seeing is having
nat Is the way they travel.
Inc European shopkeepers and no.
lei owners are not the only ones VINO
Proht by the tourist rush, however
2teamship companies are getting rich
from each European traveller they
,aNe a toll, whether it be great OF
The tourist rush across the Atlantic
now at its peak 1t will continue SO
'ol several weeks Then the tourist
Mlu begin returning-and in Europe
sllIgs will be made ready for the next
le"Son with its millions of dollars
TtLeapng up to such giant proportion
1-lal several wartime debtors OF the
SSnted States could pay their obhga-
i I'm asd still leave some Yankee dol
' eulterlng on the pile.