The number who travelled "Tour-age," as the popular version of 'Tourist Third Class" goes, can hardly be estimated, but certainly overwhelming majority. Some two or three years ago an enterprising young Harvard student, God bless him, went steerage to Europe. He found' this transportation by no means impossible, but his executive brain devised an' improved method. The next year he signed on a large! number of his fellow students for a similar trip and induced one of the large steamship lines to give him that entire class and to make some special concessions on but most of the group were those who had to consider budgets even on_holidays.
The management furnished comfortable reading, writing, smoking and lecture rooms—the last crowded with earnest seekers after knowledge. There were orchestral concerts twice daily, dancing every evening, a programme of deck sports, and, best of all, a swimming tank with fresh ' sea Water constantly flowing through. Another item thoughtfully included was perfect weather anda full moon for Italy, so little more Jcould have been ed. The eagerness and zest of these young people, their reaction to famous scenic and historic spots was re {reshingly contrasted with the more conventional attitude of some of the first classers. One of the latter was heard to confess: "Yes, like Europe well enough. One has to go somewhere in the summer, But my sixteen-year old daughter just despised it. She eloped last winter and I really think half of it was to escape being dragged through cathedrals on this tei Of course if one has the game' one must have the name. "Tourists; we were unmistakably, overrunning towns in hordes, raising the local prices everywhere we want. joined the general shore excursions we were herded about like the "dumb driven cattle," Longfellow. In Algiers our Arabian account of the large number guide, driven to frenzy by a member booked. Not only _impecunious of our detachment who had a studertts and Europe-hungry, small- pos ive genius for straying away salaried professional folk saw from tke rest of the party, finally, the advantages of the arrange-expressed himself on the subject of ment, but the shipping ecomwandering sight-seers in such fluent panies themselves were quick to and adequate English curses that appreciate its possibilities. This tone hesitates to imagine how he summer practically every _immust have apostrophixed her portant line and many smaller ones Still, on the whole, it are making special inducements to good crowd to be massed bring persons limited means with, a jolly, larking lot that slid] abroad by providing pleasant if) down the mountainside of Madeira not luxurious accommodations for people of congenial tastes. on wooden sledges which were manceuvres over the cobbled road-
Conditions differ widely. The, charge for "Tourist Thieds" which gilt-edged, is more—expensive than the usual third, and the, special cruises are somewhat in advance of both. It was the Mediterranean cruise of a large liner, that the writer tried out, to her ' everlasting astonishment receiving so much for so small an investment. The good ship Lapland sailed from New York at, ht—which seems the favour-hour these nights—with, tremendous throng to see it) properly launched.
The ship was} divided into two divisions, the First, for those paying the usual first class passage and the Second and, Third Sections given over without distinction to the "Tourists," as dubbed. The sheep and entered by different gangways, but one noted that just many evening frocks, Tuxedos and orchids congregated about the Tourists as about the more exclusive Firsts.
Tourist Treatment The quarters provided varied considerably, from the choicest second class quarters, which compared well with those of the first class in crowded travel, to the third class quarters, which were a deck lower, but marvellously cool and airy. The second class dining room where all the tourists ate, in two sittings, were adequately furnished, and if one were tempted to' lift supercilious eyebrow at the paper napkins in place of linen and deplore the fact that there was only one table steward to nine passengers, the thought of the small passage fee checked any grumbling. The personnel of the travellers was unusually congenial. The majority' were undergraduates of American universities, including two large parties of "over a hundred each, The remainder were classified as "professional" and teachers, artists, social workers, ministers and clerks availed themselves of this obviously wealthy enough to have] paid the first class passage _without impairing their bank balances way by the trained guides—with and 8 merry' throng. that devise costumes for masquerade ball.
How It Feels to be a "Cookie"
Then, too, one could always evade the multitude and slip off, alone to marvel at the exotic charm of Madeira's " humeing-bill beaut dropped in a sea of deepest azure, covered with flaming—poinsettias purple bougainvilleas, mauve facarandas, rambling roses _and magnolias, or Linger in Funchal's market place in the shadow of the Cathedral, so operatic that one expected the villagers to burst into the opening chorus of the local opera. "Te was easy to slip away by oneself picturesque Algiers, and under pretence of visiting a little old curio shop, to slide along dark, dirty alley-ways in the Arab section, to Grink black coffee in some un-sacrosanct dive, and to shiver deliciously at the lea of being lost' in the native section.
In Naples the greater part of the group deserted the ship and scattered in various directions, reappear in the mysterious depths of the Blue Grotto, at Pompel Vesusius, the museums, or even Rome and Florence. It was easy to sight-see in Napoli for the townsfolk were quick to interpret one's scanty stock of Italian words, and if they could not explain a direction would often act as unpaid guides, so that the fragrant memory of kindnesses lingers along with the blue of sea and sky, palaces,|f and is. A last glimpse of the beautiful town from Bertolini's Palace on the hill-top ona witching night and then the panorama changes to the Straits of Messina, and Venice the|$: next morning. Venice, a dream ity, lightly poised on the Adriatic Fike' a beautiful, iridescent bubble, almost too beautiful to endure. Venice, vocal with chiming bells, the songs of the gondolas, the cooing of the fluttering pigeons in St. Mark's Square, and always the lap-lap of the water.. The Lido, perfumed breath of luxury, con-the sturdy sea-breezes and the tanned—bodies of real bathers. Sails, as patched those on Chiness Tonks, skimming the millions and millions of little tables on the pavements, filled with people who seem to have the whole day to sip. their tiny] cups of coffee or thei wi Colour, vivid, unrestrained, unbelievable colour everywhere—even bright green Trieste, and the snowiest of oxen harnessed to carts. Impressi blurs colour, form and sound—a new earth, if not a new heaven.
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