Tourists Abroad

J.ne amount ot money expended by tourists in Europe has, if official records abroad are to be accepted as authentic, increased enonnously of late years. There has been recently flled with the Swiss minister of finance and customs at Bern a aetailed statement of hotel receipts in that country, from which it appears that the gross receipts of Swiss hotels rose from 52,800,000 francs in 1880 to 114, 338, 000 in 1894. The entire j annual expenses of the Swiss republio amonnt in a year tobetween 80,000,000 and 90,000,000 francs (the budget for this year is given at the latter figure), and it would seem, theref ore, very much as if the hotels of Switzerland take in in a year more than the government iteelf does. The Swiss figures are not the onlv ones fnrnished in Europe recently on this point A Prench record shows that every year there are 270,000 f oreigners who pass from a fortnight to a whole winter on the Riviera. Every person is supposed to expend on an average 1,000 francs, or 200, iu the country. In other words, the foreign visitors spend in the country every winter the smn of $54, 000, 000 The English are put down as contributing one-third of this amount; the French theniselves contribute another third; Ciermaiis. Belgiaus, Dntch, Russians and Atuencans contribute the remainder. From being a poor country when it was anuexeci to Fr;uice in 18C0 Nice bas beeome oue of the richest departments ot' the tvpublic. Sonie figures recently compüed of the revenues to hotels from tonrists in Paxis .show the average nuniber of foreign visitors to be 60, 000. It is customary to estimate at 10 francs, or 2, a day the hotel bilis of strangers in Paris. Estimating at 82 a day each the hotel bilis of 60, 000 tourists and at about as much more their other outlays it is to be seen that tourists in Paris can be put down for an expenditure of neaxly $250,000 a day. The total sum espended by tourists in Europe in a year is probably not very far from 1700,000,000, and a very considerable portion of this comes from tho pockets, the purses and the bankers' balances of Americans, who are proverbially the most liberal among travelers. Russians come second, Brazilians