The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-06-23
Transatlantic Traffic.

The transatlantic steamers daily leaving
this port are crowded with passengers from
our wealthy and wcll-to-do classes, who go
abroad TO visit the Paris Exposition, pass
the summer at French and German water
ing places, climb the mountains OF Switzer-
land, walk through the Austrian Tyrol, and
wander around Europe generally. Some
body curious in statistics has estimated at
thirty thousand the number Of Yankees
who, for business or pleasure, will pass the
next four months abroad, at 81 600 per head,
including passage money to foreign trans
atlantic steamship companies. They will
take $50 600 out Of the country. This j.
not pleasant for the rest Of us and we some
times speak of it as loss Yet it Is. in fact,
money well spent, and will bring more than
its equivalent to each particular individual
and the whole community in renewed health,
enlarged ideas, and an intimate knowledge
of the habits. customs, wants, productions,
and manufactures Of other peoples.
Four-ffths of our wealthy men are more
or less connected with trade, and when they
go abroad they not unfrcquently combine
business with pleasure. For several years
the hard times deprived our people OF the
ability to run TO and fro across the Atlantic
as they were won't and the restlessness
which is SO pronounced "A characteristic Of
American civilization mot with, 1t may be- a
wholesome restraint. This summer, how
ever. the stream of foreign travel bids fair,
from present appearances. to exceed any
thing yet known. We believe fifty thou
sand, rather than thirty would more COR
rcctly represent the number Of Americans
visiting Europe this summer.
Leaving out business ansactons, It Is es-
timatcd that, since May /, letters OF credit
to the extent of over SiO,00O,OO0 have already
been issued 10 European travellers from the
cities of New York. Boston. Philadelphia.
Baltimore. and New Orleans alone.
While cabin passengers crowd outgoing
steamers, steerage passengers swarm on
the incoming ones. At Castle Garden the
clerks are kept almost constantly busy re-
ceiving, forwarding. and attending TO the
wants Of throngs Of cmigrants who daily
arrive, en- route for Iowa Minnesota, Wis
cousin, Dakota. Nebraska, Wyoming. Mon
tana. Idaho, and other Western States and
Territories. While our people 60 abroad for
few months. these very welcome emf
grants come to make their future homes in
this country.
The Germans. Scandinavians. and Rus
sian Mennonitcs are for the most part pro-
vided with money wherovith 10 buy land
On arriving they Immediately inquire FOR a
short cut west and are OF by the, first train.
The ioval Hibernan, ON the CONTRARY, Is not
much given to developing the agricultural
resources Of the countrv;' he crowds into a
corner In some overstocked tenement and
takes his chances OF becoming an Alder
man. The business OF emigration. which
declined so rapidly from 1873 to 1877, is once
more on the increase. Every week adds a
large number Of foreigners to our agrcul-
tural population. and there Is no probability
that the incoming movement will cease.
During the first eight days OF June 4.3is
Storage emigrants arrived at this port
alone an unusually large number. For the
first five months Of the present year end
ing on May 81, 2sl45 steerage passengers
were registered, of whom 6,gOs came from
Germany, iG55 from Ireland 1896 from Hun
gary, l,4J9 from italy l,7i9 from England
/ ,i67 from Sweden, 5i7 from Russia, andI the
rest scattering.
The total arrival Of emigrants thus fan
exceeds the number of arrivals for the cor
responding period last year