Posted on 10/20/2017 4:18:45 PM PDT by NRx
With practical tips for the ocean voyage for European tours and a practical guide to London and Paris. Over 500 pages! Well illustrated. Tons of information including railroad schedules and the best hotels. Guides to booking and crossing on an Atlantic liner. A must read in the event of being caught in a time warp and landing in the first decade of the previous century. Or alternatively, if your a history nut like me.
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Very interesting.
I just saw where transporting a cat on a transatlantic steamer would cost $5, but staying in what was essentially a bed and breakfast in England would cost $1.50 over the weekend.
I wonder if the bed and breakfast in England would charge extra if you brought your cat?
And on what cruise line today would anyone be allowed to bring their cat?
Fun so far. Page 3 talks about how safe ship travel is and yet this was 2 years before Titanic.
They have pictures of t he RMS Olympic but I couldn’t find any of her more famous sister ship Titanic.
Nice find!
Book was published before the titanic was built.
They do talk about the fire fighting equipment on the Lusitania, so that sound like a safe ship to travel to England on.
BFL
And thanks for posting; looks very interesting.
Bkmk
She was under construction but hadn’t been launched yet.
Within the last two or three years steamship and railway companies have done much to annihilate space; it is now possible to make a complete circuit of the earth in 38 days, or less than one-half the proverbial 80 days of Jules Verne. The trip has been made from London to San Francisco in something less than ten days. It is possible to leave New York Wednesday morning and reach London Monday night in time to connect with trains which land passengers in Paris very early on Tuesday morning....It is too early as yet to prophesy what may be done in aerial transportation of passengers, but from the various schemes which have been proposed and almost carried out, it is possible that the next five years may see important developments along this line [airplanes].
Marveling at leaving NYC Wednesday morning and being in Paris the following Tuesday for breakfast!
Re the last paragraph above, why, yes, I do think some important developments occurred in air travel after 1910.
OK Check out the Temps on page 6.
I checked a few and they are all Higher back then.
So much global warming. haha
The earth is cooler now than in 1910.
In "Union Scale of Wages and Hours of Labor," page 75, Table II, the 1910 Cement Worker - Finisher earned $880 per year (I allowed for 2 weeks vacation - not sure if they got that). A trans-Atlantic ticket was $60, about 7% of his annual gross salary.
Today, I just found NYC - London round trip for $600. BLS says "Cement Masons earn a median salary of $61,930 per year. Salaries typically start from $32,570 and go up to $99,000." So a ROUND TRIP ticket is 1% of pre-tax gross salary or 0.5% of a one-way ticket.
Just shows how we live like royalty today compared to a hundred years ago.
In real terms, it costs 1/14 to travel across the Atlantic NYC - London as it did 100 years ago and today you do it now in several hours, not several days. Wow.
Good points. Re paid vacation, that would have been extremely rare for anyone below management level before the Second World War.
I too would’ve been dead over ten years ago, of an ailment that would’ve killed anyone 100 years earlier. Thus, we don’t simply want “quality medical care” for ourselves (as Hillary would have it), we want continuous improvement for our grandchildren to have as much better health care than we do, as we have better than our grandparents. And that, socialism can scarcely even pretend to deliver. Socialism is all about limiting inputs and spreading the resulting misery equally.
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