The evening world., 1894-07-18
MANY LEFT BEHIND.
Storage Passengers for Europe
Were Kicking on tho Piers.
More Tickets Sold Than There Was
Room for Passengers.
Cut In Prices Caused the Rush and
the Trouble.

II the Storage cut-rate war continues
| outgoing ocean steamships will be COM
PEELED to have extensions added to them.
or to jettison several hundred tons OF
ballast and stow away that class of
passengers down In the bilges.
1t Is not often-in fact, II has never
before happened-that a passage to Brit
ish and Continental cities coull be Sc
cured for $40, which is the present quo
tation. and which, as an agent in
formed an Evening World reporter
this morning. is likely to he am fur
Their reduced, unless an adgreement is
soon reached by the rival lines
The scenes on the docks of the steam
ship lines whose ships sailed to-day
were tumultuous to an extreme, and
such a clamor for satisfaction OF any
sort was never before experienced by
the clerks whose duty 1t is TO handle the
steerage tickets.
The whole trouble was that each YES
sells accommodation were oversold. and
more people held passage tickets than
I could possibly be carried In the ordinary
AT the White Star dock the trouble
started last night, when passengers be-
gan to swarm towards the pier to secure
early this morning. Fortunately, the
Germadc's steerage is ample for $50
passengers, and the $50 who had
tickets did not present so great prob
lem as on some other lines.
The matter was adjusted to nearly
every ones satisfaction by taking 631
aboard and Transferring nearly nifty
american line. which is to sal at s
o'clock tomorrow morning. A few
elected to remain In the city, until
neXt Wednesday. the White Stars next
.On,th American line pier, however,
therc was Tar more serious trouble, and
mat mat tiers RS ~, were not SO easily arranged
this morning, has steerage accommoda-
lions for about 500. Being a fast ship.
prospective voyagers had purchased
free land grants.
As one young. 1rIshman said to an
Evening World reporter:
and l can, &c, across and see the old
folks. while l am waiting for job
that's promised me. for less money than
Inside the Office on the pier was Agent
Lederer and corps of assistants fenced
In by a wire grating, which eepara ted
them from a bowling, jostling crowd of
for passage or return of their money.
In the throng were natives of nearly
every every, country in Europe, all jabberins
feet Babel OF mixed languages French
families were huddlel together ON the
seats alongside Of Films, Germans. Ital-
ians., Irish and Dutch. while paterfami.
the excited clerks and demanding pas
sage on the Paris.
cr AIDED to hs wa s the Of the
all, heaped upon the floor and guarded
by the flock that waited open mouthed
or fearful for the verdict when the
strugglers should emerge, angry, per-
spring and torn from the jostling hurly
burly at the long counter.
One excited Irishman would not be
paclfled by the assurances OF an at
tendant that everything would be all
right" -
on that ship and no Dutch ship. dye
moind. If Il man buys house and lot
ye can't expect him to take cow for
his money"
This was the universal sentiment Of
the mass, ard nearly drove the agents 10
distraction for lack Of an argument to
offer. one Italian kicked so persist
tractedly. that his money was refunded
to get rid OF him.
Each of the, tickets offered called for
stamped with the 20. Is" mark OF ire
Company; Hours before the Paris
than filled, and she finally lof: a. II
o'clock, carrying $50 in her stearage
sac left over $50 on the dock. to be
sultceu ny iHt lTdHSltE VI lItlT tlCkelS
to the Columbia with Instructions u get
aboard early tonight ii berths were
expected.
By this time. passengers for the
Noordland. of the Red Star line. which
docks at the same pier, began to arrive,
and. fearful lest their experience should
be that of the others, took up the din
where II had been left OFF.
They were pacitied as well as could be
done by the assurance that there was
plenty of time for them as the Noord-
land was not to sail until p. NJ. They
received this Information with Slances
OF half satt' action and sat down, eager
and eXpectant, watching the hands of
the big clock as they moved slowly
around the dial, and wondering where
they would finally bring up II the Noord-
land, too, should be crowded.
In the mean time the clerks were wres-
Ting with the Infatuated holders of Paris
tickets. offering to such passengers as
were bound for Continental ports a pas
sage to Antwerp by the Noordland and