Programme of Cook's Second Educational Tour
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910 spy 1 D 910 .C8 Copy 1 PEOGEAM. j COOK'S Second Educational Tour* To Sail from New York, Saturday, June 20th, 1874, by Special \ Steamer, IN THREE DIVISIONS. TO EMBRACE PORTIONS OK Inland! Scotland f England, Belgium, The Rhine Districts, Bavaria, France, Switzerland, &c. WrTH EXTENSIONS TO VENICE, FLORENCE, ROME, &c, TO BE CONDUCTED UNDER THE ARRANGEMENTS OF COOK, SON & JENKINS, THOMAS-COOK & SON, 363 BROADWAY, L,IJDGATJi: CIRCUS, New York. A London. TOURIST AND EXCURSION MANAGERS. \ And personally conducted from New York by Mr. THOMAS; COOZ. Address all .Communications : COOK, SON & JENKINS, 232 BROADWAY, \ New York. N uwmrnU Messrs. Cook, Son & Jenkins desire to call the special attention of the traveling public to the above periodical, which gives every information needful to the traveler, with regard to How, When, and Where to travel, to all contemplating European trips, giving particulars as to routes, ex- penses, and the time necessary for any tour, with th/* fares, by any line of steamers, including the railway tickets issued by them to any part of Europe. It is intended to supply a want long felt in this country, and it therefore be the aim of Messrs. Cook, Son & Jenkins, through the will j columns of the Excursionist, to keep the public fully posted on all mat- ters of travel, both in this country and Europe, so that when the hot months approach, and the tired merchant, or clerk, or school teacher, who have a few days, or a few weeks vacation, wishes to get away for rest and recreation, they will only have to procure a copy of the Excursionist, which will suggest to them a hundred different tours of which they, per- haps, never heard. The Excursionist is publis'hed monthly during the Tourist season, sub- scription price 50 cents per year; single copies 10 cents. For further particulars apply to NEW YORK, 262 Broadway. LONDON, Fleet Street, E. C. MANCHESTER, 43 Piccadilly. LEICESTER, 63 Granby Street. COOK, SON & JENKINS, BIRMINGHAM, 16 Stephenson Place. PARIS, 15 Place du Havre. AND COLOGNE, 40 Domhof. COOK SON, BRUSSELS, 22 Galerie da Roi. TH0S. & GENEVA, 90 Rue de Rhone. 504 Corso. Tourist Offices, ROME, LIVERPOOL, 5 Carey Street. CAIRO, Cook's Pavilion. EDINBURGH, 9 Princes Street. GLASGOW, 165 Buchanan Street. VENICE, Victoria Hotel. All communications respecting Continental Tours and Excursions to be addressed to COOK, SON & JENKINS, I 262 Broadway, I ) Between Warren and Chambebs Sts, ISTETW YOUX. ITHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON | i n i "niaa EDUCATIONAL TOUR. -:o:- The complete succes*of the great experimental trip of 1873 has encour- aged the inaugurators of a system of School Vacation Tours to Europe to arrange for a second tour in the coming season. The arrangements for-the next tour will be constructed so as to meet the desires of various persons as to the extent of the journey and the districts and countries of Continental Europe which they may desire to visit, and the experience of the first tour has suggested various improvements which may be introduced into the details of succeeding trips. It is a source of inex- pressible satisfaction to the managers of the Tour of the past season that their most sanguine and anxious desires and expectations were fully realized. The number of the party was quite equal to the arrangements which they had made, and the ideas they had formed as to s whajfc provision might be comfortably made. One hundred and forty-eight passengers by the magnifi- cent steamer "Victoria," of the Anchor Line, gathered from 27 States of the Union, embracing a great number of the leading instructors from various sections, including professors of colleges, public and private school teachers, ministers, press representatives, and others engaged in various departments of educational work, constituted an aggregate such as had never before landed on British soil, and awakened in the public mind of Great Britain and Ireland sentiments of reciprocity and enthusiasm which were manifested towards the visitors in the most expressive and cordial manner. The Public Receptions accorded to them by the Lord Provost and leading citizens of Edinburgh, by the Mayor and many of the principal inhabitants of Derby, by the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury at the Gardens of Alton Towers, and by the leading men connected with the British and Foreign Sunday School Union, as well as their recognition by Mr. Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, all tended to show the high appreciation of their visit to Europe. These recognitions strikingly accorded with the anticipations formed by Messrs. Cook, Son & Jenkins in their at- tempts to promote international intercourse between England and America, and afforded evidence that under a system of mutual arrangement on either side of the Atlantic it would be possible to organize such arrangements as would tend to the development of those feelings of mutual concord and reciprocity which only required the opportunity for their development. It is matter of high satisfaction and gratitude that this large party was en- abled to travel through countries which were to some extent at the time affected by cholera, and also to visit Southern Italy at a time of the year when it is not usual for large parties to visit that country, and that the whole were enabled to accomplish the tour in the enjoyment of uninter- rupted health, and with the exception of some eight or ten who are now lingering in Europe for educational purposes, the whole reached their desti- nations in the States in the enjoyment of excellent health, and no disaster occurred to mar the pleasure of the tour. While Mr. Jenkins in New York gave his attention and months of labor to the inauguration of arrange- ments and the bringing together of the citizens from so many parts of the United States, Thomas Cook and Son sent over to New York one of their most attentive assistants to accompany the party, and at Moville Thomas 4: COOK S SECOND EDUCATIONAL TOUB. Cook and Son personally met the steamer, with a view of carrying out the first part of the arrangements for a visit to the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and for the conduct of the entire party through that part of Scotland included in the Tour. Their offers and proposals to the steamship company of the Anchor line, and to the railroad companies of Scotland and England, were met by most cheerful and hearty responses, and the very best services were rendered by each of the companies concerned in the carrying out of the arrangements, and after the party had reached London, where it became necessary to divide them into four sections for visiting the continent, Mr. Thomas Cook, the senior partner, gave his whole time and attention to the supervision of the arrangements, assisted by a staff of the best conductors in their employ. The complete success of the general arrangements has been attested in the most sincere manner by nearly every one of the pas- sengers since their return to America. As there is not in the coming season any special attraction like that of Vienna, involving a great extent of traveling between Munich and the capital of Austria, for the one purpose of seeing the Exhibition, the plans for the Tour now advertised will be framed so as to give the best possible facilities for visiting the most attractive parts of the Continent, and although the mileage distance may be somewhat less than that which was traveled last year, the programme will be better filled up in its details and several points which had to be omitted last year will be included in the next arrange- ments, which will more than compensate for the small addition made to the expense of traveling over the routes provided for. This advance is owing principally to the requirements of the steamship line, who were totally unable to quote so low a fare as last year, it being too low to ad- mit of that provision in the traveling accommodation which it is desirable should be realized. The conditions of the company last year required that the whole should return by four appointed steamers, and all who stayed beyond the limits of the time provided were required to pay an extra $25 for the privilege of returning at any time within twelve months from the time of departure. This arrangement has been modified very much to the convenience of the travelers for the approaching Tour. Instead of the passengers being restricted to three or four steamers they are allowed to return without extra payment by any of the steamers of the line within six months from the time of departure, and an additional six months is allowed on condition of their having to pay the sum of $10. This is an advantage which will be equivalent to a very considerable portion of the extra amount charged by the company, and will leave the passengers much greater free- dom in their choice of steamers for returning. Another deficiency in the former arrangement was the very limited tour made in Scotland, which caused regret on the part of many of the travelers, and some of them hurried back in anticipation of the return of the steam- ers, to get more comprehensive views of the interesting Highland district. It is arranged for the coming trip that the whole party shall have the opportunity not only of seeing the two chief cities of the country, the two or three principal lakes in connection with the Trossachs and Stirling, but that in addition to these attractions the arrangements will be made to embrace six days in the Highlands amidst the magnificent scenery.