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Their inception was obscure, ak most accidental. In 1841 Thomas Cook, a British lecturer and writen on temperance, decided to lead a large party from Leicester to a temperance society convention at Loughborough not far away. Coaching would be difficult and confusing. Travel on the new Midland Railway was considered...
The success of this first excursion led to others. Thomas Cook opened all England to the provincials. Scotland had no direct railway connections those early days. So he organized an excursion by train and boat. For $5 each, 350 people traveled 800 miles. At Glasgow guns were fired in their...
Before Thomas Cook instituted an excursion, he tried to cover the territory personally. He was a great diarist, noting down the beauties and historicities of locales. In 1872 he pioneered the first annual tour around the world. Now the organization which he left in charge of his only son, John...
Costa Rica. High aloft the great Varilla River is spanned by a railroad bridge. Out upon it puffed an excursion train. The excursionists chiefly farmers and laborers, had purchased their tickets at a high price, most of which represented a charitable contribution to a home for the aged, sponsored by...
The only other incident of note centred about a military excursion sent by Super-Tuchun Feng, the so-called "Christian protector of Peking," against General Li Chingling, the Civil Governor of Chihli, with headquarters at Tientsin.