The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-18
MANY LEFT BEHIND.
Storage Passengers for Europe
Were Kicking on the Piers.
More Tickets Sold Than There Was
Room for Passengers.
Cut in Prices Caused the Rush and
tho Trouble.

II the steerage 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-ln fact 1t has never
before happened-that passage 10 Brit
ish and Continental cities could 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 be still fur
ther 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 satisfact 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 accommodate tons were oversold, and
more people held passage tickets than
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
berths on the Germanic, which sailed
early this morning. Fortunately, the
GermaniS.s stee5Tase is ample for $50
tickets did not present so great II prob
lem as on some other lines.
The matter was adjusted to nearly
more to the Columbia. of the Hamburg
american line. which is to sail at q
e eeesed to remSn IN fhe city u fs
next Wednesday, the White Stars next
sailing day.
on the American line pier. however.
t1,ar fat ~tftta $3.50, h tr av,I
mat ters were not so easily arranged.
The Paris. which sailed at II o'clock
this morning, has steerage accommoda-
lions for about 500. Being a fast ship:
prospective voyagers had purchased
tickets with the avidity Of applicants for
, free land grants.
IS Gns X oqnF r lrshman said to a"
Sure It's cheaper than staying home;
and l can go across and see the old
folks, while am waiting for job
/ can stay here and pay me board"
Inside the. office on the pier was Agent
Lederer and a corps of assistants fenced
in by a wire grating. WHICH separated
them from bowling. jostling. crowd of
steerage ticket holders shrieking loudly
| for passage or return Of their money.
every country in Europe, all jabberins
wildly and adding to the din with a per-
feet Babel Of mixed Languages. French
Families Were h nS nrs toSssner on the
ians.. Irish and Dutch, while paterfami-
las by the score We're crowding around
= the excited clerks and demanding pas
Added to this was the baggage of the
crowd clothing tin pans. bedding and
all. heaped upon the floor and guarded
or fearful for the verdict when the
strugglers should emerge. angry. per-
spring and torn from the jostlng hurly-
burly at the long counter
| One excited lrjShman would be
pacifed by the assurances of an at,
tend; that Everything would be all
have paid for a berth ON the
on that ship and no Dutch ship. dye
moind. II a man buys house and lot
| his money"
This was the universal sentiment of
the mass, ard nearly drove the agents to
distraction for lack of an argument to
| offer. one Italian Kicked so persist
entity and howled so dismally and pro-
tractedly, that his money was refunded
passage on the, Paris, and hal TO he
presented at the pier office to the
Company, Hours before the Paris
sailed her accommodations were more
than filled. and she finally lof. ~ II
! she left over $50 on the dock, to be
solaced by the transfer of their tickets
to the Columbia. with instructions II get
aboard cary tonight IL 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 pacified 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 T. NJ. They
received this Information with glanCeS
and eNpectant, 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 IA pas
sage to Antwerp by the Noordland and