The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-04
TO EUROPE BY S7EERAGE
EXPERIENCE BY Il NEW H1TENER
WHO HIS JUST RETURNED.
The Trip As "a Pleasant One and is Very
beneficial to tho Heaith-Thc Daily
Routine OF the Steeras &c Passenger.

A we'll known New Haven man, who
recently returned from Europe via
1.-THE Storage route on a big American
liner writes that while the trip has not
|all the advantages that first class
passage would have, there Is nothing
disagreeable in it and thai it is very
beneficial to the health, The gentleman
signs himself mark Fubbs' and writes
as follows
To Europe and back by Storage does
not signify in this year of 1900 with it's
rush of travel mans stability or
bank account, for an American when he
gets ready to go goes. When leaving
America only get aboard and don't go
near first and second cabin passengers
and you will be let alone in every re-
spect. But third class passengers are
always looking for something and they
get it-something plain and wholesome,
named sea sickness, Soup, herring
and cheese with good bread is the menu
| in the steerage, Going over I found all
pationalities, and most all spoke Eng
| lish fairly we'll, and as third class pas
sengers are supposed to be birds of a
feather they flocl1ed together at differ
! ent times on deck when the weather Is
pleasant, and are always ready to tell
all they know. I found out the ms and
outs of Europe sometime before land
| ing, which proved as I afterwards
TO 10
food was good, but the way was free
and easy, there being not much law and
order about. You wash your own dishes
and wet below deck and other things
similar. But everyone was in the best
of spirits as the largest part were going
home to their fatherland, having been
in America from one year on up to
thirty, and some more than that. | in
tended to come back to the States one
grade higher than | landed In Europe
after twelve days as steerage passen-
ger, but circumstances alter cases, as
my trip to Amsterdam, to Berlin, CARTS
bad, Vienna, down the Rhine (where
every native knife has a cork screw,
Paris, London, etc, should. l was left
in London with 5e 10 s. for Storage
ticket home on the steamship ST Louis,
and a balance of ia 3d. and three Eng
lish pennies and ore half-penny. We
pulled out of Waterloo station at $50 ..
m. bound for Southampton, where we
arrived on time with only steerage pas
sengeTs, who went through with the
usual form that such are subjected to,
and aboard We're about 500, The steam
ship st. Louis of the American line
that flies the Red Star. was leaving the
dock prompt at ~ o'clock as advertised
In the mean time / had spoken to two
men about finding a room for myself |
One had picked out what he thought |
was his grade and he wanted us to do |
the same. AS we We're old men and |
meek looking we were allowed to find a
place in the family quarters in the |
stern of the ship forward Of midships. |
There were portfolios and the room was
very airy and comfortable. Men in this |
life forget that they are for the time |
being mortal, and only when hunger |
says stop do they realize that they are
of that kind But those that have |
charge of the steerage passengers know |
from experience when to deal out the
soup which was generally not far from
2 p. m The soup was so good that it
one of home and better times,
and the general opinion was that every
thing was good. BY supper time all
had, I should judge from appearances,
found a place and were contented with
it for the journey to America. For sup
per we had tea. meat and potatoes, with
green gage plum sauce and good butter
and bread. The bugle meant that the
sailors wanted to clean up for inspec-
ton. Up I got and followed men, wo-
men and children on deck. That was
the first law and order rule which prov
ed very essential as the things below
were put in ship shape fashion for the
inspection by officers that came around
before the noon day meal, After inspec-
ton we We're allowed to go to quarters
and prepare for dinner.
The air from the briny deep, which
has no malaria or microbes, proved a
very good tonic, and every day
we had the same medicine which
proved to be the proper thing
as all landed in New York in
the best of health. 1t has been
said since 7 came home that the steer
age passengers on the steamship ST
Louis We're not treated we'll / will say
hat the discipline on the ship did seem
'ather ovetbearing at times, especially
going before the doctor, etc, but a con-
'iderate observer could see that it was
Ill for the best in the end that it
should be go.
Mark T would say that there is no =
Medicine found to date that will cure |
eas1ckness or political fever, much less
/ kicker, and think he is right. But
Mr. Fubbs has voted In his mind. with
nut being bribed or by advice of politi-
al friends, that If time and circum |,
tances should require that he should
lave to cross the ocean as storage i,
passenger be would sti pom the Aneri-
an line, knowing that his health would
'e benefited and those around him also. :,
t you want to live and learn 20 in the
teerage on the American line by way i,
f New York and SOUTHAMPTON, and
ice versa, is the advice of
Mark FEbbs.