The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-16
OCEAN TRAVEL.
The lIegira 10 EurOpe---T Thousands of Ameri.
cans Flying from the Wrath TO Come
at Cur Watering Places.
Passenger Traffic to France, Eng
land and GERMANY.

The month Of June seems to have been chosen as
the month in which foreign travel must be begun.
Americans learning that American watering
places are swindes plain and simple. gentleman
with an income Of $4,000 year wishes to give his
wife and daughters pleasure ana fresh air and rec
reation when the hot days Of July and August open
If he has four Ave In the family and If there are
a couple of girls in the domestic circle he Is driven
by their entreaties to Newport, Saratoga or Long
Branch. The dresses which his daughters will Call
for, the diamonds carriages and dinners that he
will be compelled to give, will take at least five or
six thousand dollars from his income. II he has
son Of twenty-five or twentythree years of age the
hope OF his house will perhaps borrow q thousand
dollars from the hard-workcd father to pay his
gambling and racing debts, and at the end of the
season the father returns to his business In the
month Of September, inanimate and Disguised with
the watering place life, and driven to despair to
know how he may make both ends meet For New
Years Day must come and by the time that he has
cleared of the result OF his daughters folly and his
sons reckless expenditure it is then time for him
to provide for more extravaganza.
There is not in the whole world such people
as the American people in these instances.
But they are learning some things to their
COST and one thing they have learned we'll
4 that is that it Is cheaper TO go to Europe
ana make trip OF three months than
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insolence of the hotel keepers and the dishonest
charges that made by the people who control
seaside or watering-pace caravansaries have be-
come too intolerabe. Then there Is another thing
which is almost unbearablc. Gentlemen who, with
their wives and families, visit Long Branch or Sara
toga--it Is not noticeable az Newport the society
there being more select-cannot he pleased at the
sight of the impudent and overbearng hotel clerks
who huge paste diamonds, who unac-
auainted with their business, and who are ant,
n
to accost him as II he were familiar friend. For
concelt and emptiness there Is nothing to compare
with the American hotel clerk.
Finding this evil incurable, Americans who have
means are each year setting their faces In the III
steamers outward bound over the sea have their
decks crowded with passengers OF the best class,
their wives and children clustered around them,
and their faces beaming with happiness at the
prospect OF voyage TO foreign lands
The voyage over the Atlantic Ocean In itself Is q
treat II is heathul. inspirtng and braclng to the
nerves The weared man taken from the court
room, from the desk or from the slang and noise OF
the Exchange Is another man when his room Is en-
gagged on board Of an ocean steamer. All the tur-
MOL and trouble are forgotten.
Yesterday the docks from which the French, Gu
nard Inman, Anchor, Bremen, Hamburg, National
and White Star lines Of steamships take their
departure were crowded with passengers bound
for European ports. There are between ninety
and one hundred steamships plying between this
port and England France and Germany today. One
line has thir tylve steamships In active service,
another has sixteen first class vessels another has
twelve eviathans going to ana iro, ana u thlrd mas
The Hamburg line sends steamer on Satur-
day and an extra steamer generally on Thursday.
The Germana took out yesterday, Captain lebich
i'm command, seventy cabin passengers ana large
number In the steerage Since the close OF the war
between France and Germany great number OF
our German fellow citlzens are anxious anu eager
to visit the Fatherand to look ut the battle fields
which have been made memorable by the conquer
ing bravery OF their countrymen, and the steamer
Holsata, which sailed on Thursday OF last week,
took out sxty-hvc cabin passengers. beside mu.
titude in the stcerage. Generally the steamers OF
this line take on an average 100 steerage passen-
gers. The firm OF C. b. Richard h Boas are the
agents OF this line and are very courteous in giving
The St. Laurent steamer, OF the French Transat-
lantic line sailed yesterday, with 81 cabin passen-
gers One week ago a steamer OF this line sailed
with 3l5 cabin passengers and the agents say that
oil their steamers are engaged six weeks ahead by
cabin passengers This line does not carry steer
passengers.
The White Star line steamer Atlantic was towed
from her dock by the tug Seth Lowe, having on
board nnety-four cabin passengers. The steamer
Baltic of this line, took l53 passengers week ago,
and the week previous the Adriatic took 2S3 pas
sengcrs In her cabin.
The Inman steamer City OF Brooklyn took out
yesterday Ito cabin passengers, and the CITY OF
Washington, Of the same line, carried fortytwo
cabin passengers to Europe on Thursday. These
two steamers also carried large number OF steer
age passengers. 80.
The Europa, of the Anchor line, carried ninety,
five cabin passengers, and the steamer Wcn sai h
on Wednesday of last week took twenty-slx caon
passengers The agents of this line refused TO
give the number OF steerage passengers lor nuropo
on the ground that the agents OF the other lines lines
told so many lies that il would be unsafe for them
| to state how many steerage passengers they hai,
| ali of which IA duly chroncled. All the places are
| taken for the steamers olympia and Anglia, Oh this
| line 49,. ,.. ,,,,,,ho,.
! of passengers to Europe yesterday
II il ONLY necessary to visit the docks TO get an
idea of the exodus to Europe in these hot summer
davs Tbe Algeria, OF the Cunard line, took
vas,tordav nearly two hundred cabin passen-
geps aii bound for sunny France, England,
s.ermany the Mediterranean and the Baltic.
! n il calculated that 100000 Americans will
| vsit Europe this summer and the increase OF ocean
travel progresses each year at such rate that II Is
believed that at distant day the watering places
will be deserted wholly, and none will be sorry but
the hotel keepers. And. furthermore II Is only
right that 10 should be remarked that IL IL almos5
impossible to obtain any Information whatever at
the offices OF ocean steamship companies In regard
TO the passenger tralc II the proprietors OF these
companies could only understand or witness tho
impudence and surliness OF their clerks and EN-
ployes when information Is asked OF them they
would speedily put stop TO IL and make their en-
ployes more lorbearing, courteous and obliging
those who seek Information. At present the steam
ship clerks are only to be equalled In insoence by
their prototypes, the watering place hotel clerks,
who are mainly to be blamed Tor the act that their
hostelries are now empty and barren as the Dessrs
OF Sahara