The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-07-28
Travels Third
Class In France
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maze some nOuFS away 1ioin 1 air !
that the peasantry begins to get on,
and what a good time thew are soon
having among themselves cutting
with large knives into huge loaves
of bread held against their chests,
slieing long musty-skinned sausages,
munching great sandwiches of fried
chicken or rabbit. and washing down
all With copious draughts of red
wine.
The dining car waiter comes
around with pink tickets in search
of prospects for lunch but he ex-
poets so little bushes that he mere
ly picks his way up the cluttered
aisle and makes no attempt to offer
them. To get one you must call him.
have also brought my lunch;
whole VII a bread, Roquefort
cheese, bananas, and oranges.
Asane lunch you'll say. But for
the next three days | wonder why
| castor oil was invented.
Travel Light
Arriving at Bordeaux I dodge the
host of porters and runners who
want to carry my bag or to take
me to hotels, expensive or otherwise,
and checking my bag at the con-
signe go out in search of lodgings.
I have but a single bag-in Eu-
rope it's best to travel light-as for
some reason or other, trunk in the
long run costs as much for trans.
portation as a human being.
Not far from the hotel l find
nice, clean room with hot and cole
running water for IS cents a day
which includes ten per cent for ser
, vice-the same price would pay il
, Paris for the same kind of room.
This is in the provinces, and
insist | ought to have it for Sc, blu
am tired and it's raining hard, 81
, without further argument I take
4 for 62-Pve saved franc, which i
; money in these parts. For fran
q one may get twenty small coins
:, For a half a franc-two cents-on
~ rides on the French street car, Pari
, excluded.
- Blacks of Bordeaux
Il Bordeaux struck me as being
,r rather sleepy town even at tn
height of the business hours. 1t
rather old-fashioned in appearance
| with stony streets and miles of docl
to which come large numbers {
ships from Africa, with the resu
that a considerable number of N
groes are to be seen there.
While looking at the monumel
the Girondins-one of the most r
markable | have seen anywhere
made the acquaintance of a color,
merchant, M. Lesueur, from Il
French West Indies, who was
his way to the birthday party of
colored girl from his country, W
- has a good position in the postoffi
= and he was kind enough to take +
II along.
II In this way | was able to me
several of the colored people a
their white friends. In this tow
as in other parts of France, there
no color-line.
Among the interesting sights
Bordeaux are some of the old T
man ruins, the old gates of
town, the Art Museum which /
some fine paintings, and statue
Louis XVI. which weighs 500
pounds and is screened from vie
$50 This statue was made in Paris
= 1921, and YVES to have been put
there but the people refused it a
it was sent on here. The guide 81
in visitors to see it for a small CT
sideration.
II There is also an immense and
cathedral, and square with flo
of pigeons Already here one beg
to feel the Spanish influence AM
saw many Spanish newspapers
sale, among them, the great
lustrious daily-A. BE- was p
ticularly interested in this num-
because on the front page was
picture of William Allen pointing
the spot where the Lindberg b;
was found.
In my next I go to Biarritz ;
the Basque country.