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Show VICTIM OF HIS OWN ERROR American Tourist Really Had No Right to Complain of Extortion, Under the Circumstances. "Ambassador Herrlck," said a returned re-turned tourist, "told me In Purls that good deal of the so-called extortion we tourists complain about Is due to misunderstandings. "He Instanced .he case of n tourist In Drussels who gut on n tramcnr to make the whole Jrurney round the exterior boulevards. When the conductor con-ductor asked him where he wanted to 1 go he said: "'Toute le Joutnee.' "He thought that this meant. The whole Journey,' but It really meant. 'All day long'; and so the conductor, puttlnir 1 1 1 1 11 down as nn ecientrlc, gave hint 15 tickets and charged him 15 francs. "Fifteen francs! What an extortion extor-tion I The tourist 'rom that day on couldn't knock Kurope and European grafters hard enough." |
