A Tramp Trip: How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a DayThe first-class tourist may see the beauties of a country's landscapes and scenery from the window of a palace-car, but his vision goes no further--does not penetrate below the surface. To know a country one must fraternize with its people, must live with them, sympathize with them, win their confidence. High life in Europe has been paid sufficient attention by travellers and writers. I was desirous of seeing something of low life; I donned the blouse and hobnailed shoes of a workman, and spent a year in a "Tramp Trip" from Gibraltar to the Bosporus. Some of my experiences have been related in letters to the New York World, the Philadelphia Press, the St. Louis Republican, and other American newspapers, and in my official report to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., on the condition of the laboring classes in Europe. While the following pages contain some of those newspaper letters, the greater portion is now in print for the first time. -- Preface. |
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... great foe of work- ingmen's prosperity in whatever country it is practised . LEE MERIWETHER . HONOLULU , SANDWICH ISLANDS , November , 1887 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE STEERAGE TO NAPLES CHAPTER II 12a PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION .
... great foe of work- ingmen's prosperity in whatever country it is practised . LEE MERIWETHER . HONOLULU , SANDWICH ISLANDS , November , 1887 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE STEERAGE TO NAPLES CHAPTER II 12a PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION .
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... NAPLES CHAPTER II . THE HOVELS OF NAPLES .... CHAPTER III . .......... PAGE 13 21 A NIGHT ON VESUVIUS , A NIGHT IN POMPEII , AND A NIGHT IN JAIL CHAPTER IV . .. 25 THE CROOKED STREETS AND HANDSOME WOMEN OF CAPRI ..... 31 CHAPTER V ...
... NAPLES CHAPTER II . THE HOVELS OF NAPLES .... CHAPTER III . .......... PAGE 13 21 A NIGHT ON VESUVIUS , A NIGHT IN POMPEII , AND A NIGHT IN JAIL CHAPTER IV . .. 25 THE CROOKED STREETS AND HANDSOME WOMEN OF CAPRI ..... 31 CHAPTER V ...
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... NAPLES . -FLOUNDERING IN FRENCH . - WHY PARIS IS MAGNIFICENT . - THE THIRD NΑΡΟ- LEON . - PATRONIZING PARIS THEATRES TO AVOID BUYING FUEL . - A FUSSY ENGLISHMAN CHAPTER XXVII . ... FACTORY LIFE IN ENGLAND . -THE SPINNERS AND WEAVERS OF ...
... NAPLES . -FLOUNDERING IN FRENCH . - WHY PARIS IS MAGNIFICENT . - THE THIRD NΑΡΟ- LEON . - PATRONIZING PARIS THEATRES TO AVOID BUYING FUEL . - A FUSSY ENGLISHMAN CHAPTER XXVII . ... FACTORY LIFE IN ENGLAND . -THE SPINNERS AND WEAVERS OF ...
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... NAPLES . ENTERING the office of the Florio - Rubatino Steamship Line in New York one Saturday morning , I inquired the rate of passage to Naples . " One hundred and thirty dollars , " replied the polite young man behind the desk ...
... NAPLES . ENTERING the office of the Florio - Rubatino Steamship Line in New York one Saturday morning , I inquired the rate of passage to Naples . " One hundred and thirty dollars , " replied the polite young man behind the desk ...
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... I lay studying an Italian grammar , the dude said to me in his bland- est manner , " Ah , my good fellow , parlate Inglese ? " ( Do you speak English ? ) I gave him a blank stare , shrugged my shoulders : 15 THE STEERAGE TO NAPLES .
... I lay studying an Italian grammar , the dude said to me in his bland- est manner , " Ah , my good fellow , parlate Inglese ? " ( Do you speak English ? ) I gave him a blank stare , shrugged my shoulders : 15 THE STEERAGE TO NAPLES .
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Page 158 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
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