The evening world., 1894-07-18
A RUSH FOR EUROPE,
Gut in the Storage Rates Causes
a Scramble for Perths.
All Steamships Sailing To-Day
Left Many Behind.
" Cheaper than Staying Ashore, >
Was the Verdict.

| 1T 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
hallas; md stow away that class OF
passengers down in the bilges.
IL Is not often-in fact, 1t has never
before happened-that a passage TO Brit
| ish and Continental cities coul be Sc
cured for s1o. which Is the present quo
| tation, and which. as an agent in
formed an Evening World" reporter
| this morning. is likely to he sin fur
thcr reduced. unless an adjustment 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 clamor for satisfaction OF any
sort was never before experienced by
the clerks whose duty 1t is 10 handle the
Steerase tickets.
The whole trouble was that each YES
sells accommodations were oversold, and
more people held passage tickets than
could possibly be carried in the ordinary
quarters.
AZ the White Star dock the trouble
began last night when passengers be-
gan to swarm towards the pier to secure
oerths on the Germanic. which sailed
early this morning. Fortunately, the
Germanic,s Storage Is ample for $50
tickets did not present so great a prob
lem as on some other lines.
The matter was adjusted to nearly
every every ones satisfaction by taking Ss7
more to the Columbia of the Hamburg
American line. which is to sail at 6
o'clock, tomorrow morning. A few
next Wednesday. the White Stars next
sailing day
on the american line pier however:
there was far more serious trouble. and
The Paris. which sailed at II O'Clock
this morning. has Storage accommoda-
pros sI 'o voy az e had paTehased
tickets with the avidity of applicants for
free land grants.
A As one N youns I Irsh lima, said to an
sure, it's cheaper than staying home;
and | 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 corps OF assistants fenced
them from a bowling. jostling. crowd Of
steerage ticket holders, shriekinS loudly
fot passage or return Of their money.
In the tnrong were natives Of nearly
wildly ana adding to the din with per-
feet Eabel of mixed languages. French
families were huiiled together oil the
seats alongside of Films, Germans, Ital-
ians. Irish and Dutch. while pata fami.
lies by the score We're crowding around
the excited clerks AMI demanding pas
sage on the Paris
Added 10 this was the baggage of the
crowd, clothing. tin pans. bedding and
all heared upon the floor and guarded
by the flock that, waited open mouthed
strugglers should emerge. angry. per
spring and torn from the iostlng hurly-
burly at the long counter
one excited Irishman would not be
pac,fcl by the assurances of an at
right,
on that ship and no Dutch shin, dye
moind. " a man buys house and lot
V can't expect him to take COW for
Tbs was the universal sentiment of
the mass and nearly drove the agents to
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
on the Paris ss and d ha 10 Re
stamped with the 40. X" mark Of ire
COMPANY Hours before the Paris
than filled, and she finally lof: AZ II
o'clock, carrying $50 in her staarage.
| She left over $50 on the dock, to be
solaced b ythe transfer of their tickets
to the Columbia, with instructions u get
aboard cary tonight II berths were
expected.
iy 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 IL had been left of.
They were pacifioh 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 r. NJ. They
received this information with glances
| of half satisfaction 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.