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

II the steerage cut-rate war continues
outgoing ocean steamships will be COM
PEELED to have extensions added to them.
or to tettison several hundred tons of
ballast and stow away that class Of
passengers down In the bilges.
1t 10 not often---in fact, II has never
before happened-that a passage TO 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 attn 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
such a clamor for satisfaction of any
sort was never before experienced by
the clerks whose duty It Is to handle the
steerage tickets.
The whole trouble was that each YES
sells accommodat lions 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. he he
passengers. and the $50 who had
tickets did not present so great a prob
lem bs as I on some other lines 70
every ones satisfaction by taking 627
aboard and transferring nearly nifty
more to the Columbia. OF the Hamburg.
o'clock tomorrow morning. A few
elected to remain In the city until
next Wednesday. the White Stars next
ON fbe mer,c,p I'm. MIR bowsyer
there was far more serious trouble. and
mat ters were not so easily arranged.
The Paris. which sailed at Ii o'clock
tions for about 500. Being a fast ship.
prospective yoyagers had purchased
tickets with the avidity of applicants for
free land grants.
Evening World" reporter:
Sure. It's cheaper than staying home
and l can go across and see the oid
that's promised me, for less money than
can stay here and pay me board"
Inside the, office on the pier was Agent
hederer and u corps Of assistants assist, fenced
them from a bowling, jostlinS crowd of
steerage ticket holders, shrieking loudly
for passage or return OF their money.
In the throng. were natives OF nearly
every country in Europe, all jabbering
wildly and adding to the din with Il per-
feet Babel of mixed languages. FRENCH
1afnll1eS were nulQleu tOSetneT On lne
seats alongside Of Films, Germans, Ital-
ians, Irish and Dutch. while paterfami-
las by the score were. crowding around
the excited Ger ks and demanding pas
Added to this was the baggage OF the
crowd, clothing. tin pans. bedding and
all, heaped upon the floor and guarded
by the flock that waited open. mouthed
strugglers should emerge. angry. per
spring and torn from the jostling hurry.
burly at the long counter.
One excited Irishman would not b.
pacit1ed by the assurances of an at
tendant that everything would be al
Snff' have paid for a berth OH tn,
Paris" he shrieked, and / want TO 60
! on that ship and no Dutch snip. dye
moind II man buys a house and io
ye can't expect him to take a COW fol
This was the universal sentiment o,
J the mass. ard nearly drove the agents &c
distraction for lack OF an argument. &c
| emily and howled so dismally and pro.
ttractedly, that his money was refunded
Each of the tickets offered called for
passage on the, Paris. and had. to be
stamped with the %, X" mark OF TIE
Company. Hours before the Paris
than filled. and she finally l"f: a. II
O'Clock, carrying $50 in her ste a"aGe.
She left over $50 on the dock. TO be
solaced by the transfer OF their tickets
to the Columbia. with Instructions 10 ge,
aboard cary 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 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 r. NJ. They
received this informal ton 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.
In the mean time the clerks were wrcs
Ting with the Infatuated holders OF Par'f
tickets, Offering to such passengers as
were bound for Continental ports a pas.
sage to Antwerp by the Noordland and