New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-20
THE RETURN OF TIE NATIVES.
REVISIT THE OLD COUNTRY
THAN LAST YEAR

BY the end Of this week most of the American
tourists I'm Europe will have returned. and the
transatlantic passenger business will begin TO as
sumo It's winter proportions The close Of the tour
ist season and the approach OF the winter season
have shown themselves already in the passenger
lists of the incoming steamers Only such vessels
as the Oceanic the Kronprinz Wilhelm and the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse are coming IN with
crowded cabins
The business this year was not more than a
thousand passengers greater than IL last year.
II may be described a nOrma-normal meaning
between S50oo and 7O.Ooe direction. The
number travelling westward In the first cabin
always is slightly larger than that crossing in the
other direction. : a few immigrants come In that
cabin The coronation did not increase the traffic.
but started the eastward migration earlier. The
business up to June showed an increase over
that of the same period for the previous year of
about 15Oo. From that time forward there was no
increase over last year.
In the second cabin there the normal bust
ness AS In the FIRST cabin, the westward bound
steamers brought more in this cabin than the
eastward bound. and for the same reason
The interesting phase of the business this year
the increase in the number of eastbOund steer
passengers over last year. This was In the
neighborhood of 24000 This increase is ascribed to
the qualification of the desire of many aliens. par
ticuarly household servants TO revisit their old
homes The vacation season releases the services
of many servants for a few months and 1t Is al
5 economical for them return to the old
country for the vacation period as remain In
this country.
The causes for this annual migration and some
of the elements in the steadily increasing all the
year round business interesting. One does not
have to go far to find Of the chief causes
The prosperity of this country is responsible Tor
large share of the summer travel The amount OF
tlantc travel this for instance. was ar
least 50 13 per cent greater than in the panic times
of CleveIands administration There are many
American business men who, even II they cannot
spend the time themselves afford to send their
families abroad early in the summer and later go
over themselves for short vacation trip 70 bring
them home. The increasing number of International
marriages is a factor in the first class passenger
business. The exchange of family visits brings
many Europeans TO this country and takes many
Americans to Europe
The growing Importance of International re-
lations. both political and commercial is also
source of travel MANY make annual business
trips 10 Europe. our rapid expansion into all
channels of activity has attracted attention TO this
country and its resources. and result repre-
sentatives OF other nato1aities are visiting US to
for themselves what like Students or
commercial. sociological and educational problems
are coming 70 examine our systems Thearrlcal
troupes opera singers and students are constantly
going back and forth
The United States is more and more becoming a
lane of international travel. The number VINO
cross this continent their way to Europe from
Asia and Australia, instead of going through the
fastest and the most comfortable steamships in
the world run between the different countries or
traction out not the only one Ihere Is a sro"t ~
desire this country. The journey from the
Atlantic the Pacific now be made quickly
and in superbIy appointed trains. The temperature
Is much more comfortable than that or the Indian
between the orient ana tne OccluehI IN LllS Us
rection. The islands of the Atlantic, Mexico and
the countries of South America contriputs 70 the
stream Of eastward travel passing through tne
This great volume of oceanic travel greater than
that OF any other lane OF ocean travel on the
globe. has resulted in making the mouth OF New
York HarbOr the Convergtng point Tor more great
steamships than leave any other pert IN the
world.