The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-06
RUSH OF room TO EUROPE.
Storage Rate Makes 1t Cheaper to
Go Than to Board.
From the New York world

| From the New York World.1
There was trouble and turmoil on the
| DOCKS of the ocean steamship lines yes
terday. So many steerage passengers
had taken advantage of the rate war to
ger pack to Europe that the ships could
| NOT accommodate all those to whom pas
sage had been sold. Hundreds could not
| be taken aboard even with the croWdine
| OF the Steerage quarters to the utmost
Oh1y once before, in 1873, has there been
an opportunity to get a steerage passage
from New York to Europe for SO That
Is me rate now, and it is likely to be
further reduced unless an agreement is
soon soon reached r by the rival lines.
| On the White Star dock the trouble
really began, on Tuesday night People
arrived on the pier in droVes to secure
| passage on the Germanic, which sailed
early yesterday morning. Her storage
sengerS. Seven hundred and fifty Sc
cured passage. Everybody with a ticket
insisted on going. Finally So of the
superfiuous 100 were crowded in with the
$50, and the rest were transferred to the
| Hamburg-American liner Columbia
which is to sail this morning.
There was much more serious trouble
on the American line pier, The Paris
which sailed at II o'clock yesterday
| morning, has steerage 'accommoda tons
| for 500. Being a fast ship. and one on
| said to be very good, prospective voy-
! ayers had taken passage on her with the
same haste that, small boy will ruch
for front bench at circus. Many of
| these were prosperous looking people,
[ One, young Irishman, said: 'I am out
| of work and have got to wait two
months for a job. 1t is cheaper for me to
go home and see the old folks than it is
| to pay board here
| Agent Lederer and his corps of assist
ants, fenced in by wire netting; were
surrounded by shouting, crying and
they would cross on the Paris or must
| have their money returned. All Ian
guages were to be heard in the general
| funded, but the majority did not want
| their money back when it came to di-
| rect choice.
| When the Paris sailed at II O'Clock she
! left over 150 sad and weary people on
| the dock, all holding tickets calling for
passage on her They were transferred
to the Columbia, too.
By the time that the Paris had left,
the steerage passengers for the Noord-
| land of the Red Star line, which docks
at the same pier, began to arrive. They
knew of the experiences of the ticket
holders on the other ships, and at once
| began to shout for berths. The ship was
| not to sail until p. m. Passage on her
| was offered to some of those who had
| been left by the Paris, but they wanted
| to go to Southampton and not to Ant
wefp. One little English woman with
| three children was crying because her
| baggage had gone off on the Paris and
them until the Columbia, to which she
| had been transferred, should arrive at
| Southampton.
ct is all well enough to transfer us to
the Columbia said John McAllister, a
six-foot Scot, but l came 600 miles from
Ohio to sail on the Paris. 1 paid SIS each
! for these four tickets. and today I coulS
| buy them here for $40. Who is going to
pay me for the meals have to buy for
four people while 1 am detained? 1t is a
| shame
Although the Noordland's steerage ac-
commodities only 150 she was not over
| crowded when she sailed. At the. White
| Star line office it was learned that the
| company had been obliged to stop book
ing steerage passengers for the Teu-
tonic, which does not sail until next
Wednesday. Over 900 third class pass
ages have been sold for the ship. Agent
| Certes OF that line said he was very
sorry, as were all the agents, for the
overcrowding, and that they were doing
| the best they could under the circum-
stances