New-York tribune., 1901-02-03
PARIS EXPOSITION.

PARIS EXPOSITION.
There were a number of somewhat exceptional |
causes affecting transatlantic travel last year. !
The British lines took off a few OF their ships |
foI South African military service. There was a !
slight advance in the rates for first cabin pas
scngers 10y of the routes. The Paris |
Exposition while constituting attraction for
some people, acted as a deterrent with others. |
mere particularly with persons who had already
been abroad and feared that the international
show would 50 crowd the steamships to be
source of Inconvenience. The prospect of be-
ing compelled 10 share a cabin with other pas
s,ngers is not 50 pleasant that of having it
all L. ones self Still further the somewhat un-
favorable reports which came from Paris in
May concerning the Exposition itself may pos
sihy have discouraged few who had visit to
Europe under consideration
In spite of these real and imaginary draw
backs the total number of cabin passengers
from NcW-York O31 SD was nearly twenty
five thousand more than the average for the
last eleven years still il exceeded both in
1890 and in 1891 Gii.11S and 15O023 respec-
t.vcly). From 1891 To 1S9s the total ranged
from Soo00 to 1Oo.00O, the falling off being due,
p" doubt, to the hard times Of that period The
f2ures here given are taken from Engineer
iu-," and represent the arrivals this port. not
the departures Iiut it is q fair assumption that
these were practically equal So far cabin pas
s,neers were involved OF course there would
Joe no such parity between the outward and in
ward bound storage passengers
Iuasmuch as the two Z, rnau lines have added
record breakers t. th,ir fleets III the last two
years. while the two leading English lines are
tritie behind the times in this respect and as
the former had scmi-w,ekly service during a
Part of the year il is easy 10 understand why
they carried the largest number of passengers.
" is remotely possible too. that tn, practice af
touching at Chorhoura has given the Nost' ,i-r-
man Lloyd Hamburg and American lines "a l.,tl..
Continental patronage tina othrrw-- would haN.
n by way Of ,lue,nStoNu AND Liverpool IT,
would not be SAT-. t. draw con, ,iu-lous from q
single year, perhaps. and Tho larger number ot
ships in service mi=ht alone account f.r ih-
ascendaney Indicated hy statistics II.t.,.r p
this may l'. h,I, AZ thu figures -i..u los -i..-
rin'erius' fer tho principal lines last year, ,a-
data r-pr.~,rt.re only first aud second cal %
PASSENGERS. N"r,h Grrmau Llo,I -G-@51 Cu-
naIl .::'-'1 Hamburg America. 2t"uu. Afu.e.- .
can. IL 10 White STAR Hos Trn,h N1.5
ANA Anchor. 1'at; Now. while The av-ra-. RATES.
a. Increase over the year before hy All '.u.. aas
2>i- pr cent. that Of Ia, British l.u.s oa- auly
r. Ter cent and Of th- other lines -.
Incidentally it may h- remarked that while
~" number Of st,~raE- PASSENGERS arritirs az .
N.w-l"rk hy most Il a., lines just ul, i,i.-i is
between three and four times as great 4- that /
of cabin pass, n;ei~. the American Lin. has car
rl-d fewer people ia the st-.ragr than boo the I
cabin IN the last three years. althou-h the, diff
ference is trin-u-- II is curious fact thou.h /
that whereas in lN:S and 1N'9 the IIamIu,-, line /
had tArce times as many Storage as cabin pas 1
F"ngers. The former diminished conspicu,usly In !
l'"". and tAe t"o classes were practically equal. |
The British lines took about - per cent n the |
cabin passengers arriving at Ncw-York last |
year but only :" per cent of the st,vrage.
Averages for The humber of passengers car !
ried on "A voyage are Interesting. though far from
satisfactory. because the range from minimum
t. maximum IS very great. In the winter time /
travel ls light, ana sometimes there is scarcely |
more than score Of people in thu cabin Ia
IN" summer the pendulum swings To tn, other
extreme. Engineering does not furnish any
Information on this latter point. 1t confines it
self To- averages. From these il appears that the
cunard Line was at the head of the list with
80 first class pass, ngers voyage last year
the American Line previously led the procession
for several years. but dropped 10 second place
y l.Hn its average being :i.:: Then came the
White Star. with @s', the North German Lloyd
with - the Hamburg American with l.2 the
Anchor Line from Glasgow. 1?l; the French
Line. lI1 and the Red Star, H. Including all
glasses of travel. th- White star Line averaged