The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-20
OCEAN TRAVELS
HEAVY THIS SPRING
Indications of New Transatlan-
tic Record This
Season.

transatlantic lines say that this
month and next promise to break the
record for the number of passengers
who will cross the ocean. From the
gentleman who saunters on board
with a wife, six maids, two nurses, a
governess, a chauffeur, two automo-
biles and fifteen trunks. to the emil
grant whose troubles are ended when
he gets on board with one wife. six
T children and a feather bed, almost
everybody Is seized this year with
wanderlust, apparently, and the
steamship lines are bringing in har-
vest
This month promises to be one of
the heaviest there has ever been for
immigrants said Deputy Commits
sioner of Immigration Hurley at
Long wharf Between the 4th and
the 9th of May there will have been
5,524 aliens landed here in Boston A
fair estimate for the rest of the
month viii bring up It's total probably
TO 10000, gain Of almost 5000 over
last Mays record. May is always a
popular month for immigrants, and
this should almost reach the record
Of the tremendous year of 1907, when
NE had 1900 come to Boston in May
alone, and the total number of immi-
grants into the United States for the
whole year was 1855 49, which did
not include those who had ever been
in this country before.
"They say the high tide of immi
grafton augurs prosperity; that the
news of good times is caught and
spread b. the laboring classes to their
friends and relatives across the sea
before it has spread throughout this
country. 1t is the truth tina. before
every prosperous year we have had
big increase in our lists. When
hard times came in the panic of 1908
less than half the number of the year
before were added to our population,
while 100000 who were here went
home again From all indications,
then, this should be a big year of
prosperity.
ITO give an idea of the way the
tide of immigration fluctuates, here
is the list for Boston for the past five
years: In 1905, for the entire year,
that is, from January to December,
we had 1855 aliens; in 1906, 1853;
in 1907, S0,241. In 1903 it shrank
TO 1858, and in 1909 it touched 3d.
161. Reports from Washington prom
lse a million new citizens for this
year. OF this number, only Z per
cent Will have TO be deported for va
rious causes
Practically every Mediterranean
boat is full for all May and June now,
Tor the incoming third-class passen-
gers. The exodus doesn't begin until
The holy days, as the Italian immi-
grants call them, or about Thanks
giving and Christmas time. Italian
Iaborers can live more cheaply in
Italy during the winter than here,
where there is no work for them until
the next spring, when they return
We don't count them in our list OF
immigrants, though, unless they have
been away from this country over
two years. There is a small class of
emigrants who leave here in the sum-
mer months. which is the duh season
for steerage in outgoing boats, and
chat class is made up of servants, who
go back to the old country for brief
visits
The steamship agents tell the same
story of the immigrant inspectors
for first and second class passengers
This year is to be unusual for Euro
pean travel Everybody is going
school teachers, professional people,
families and tinid people who are
suddenly discovering how easy travel
is, after all
The increase in Mediterranean
travel is what we have noticed most
in this years annals said the agent
for one of the largest steamship lines
,
a berth on any steamer sailing to the
Mediterranean ports. Our Liverpool
lines are no less full than usual. hut
the Mediterranean traffic never was
so heavy as now
There are prOpably a number OF
reasons for this increase. Italy is be-
coming better known year after year
The notion that travel is impossible
in Italy during the summer months
has been exploded. People can trave
as comfortably there as anywhere, Il
they take the proper precautions
What gave Italian travel a bad name
was the greediness Of our tourists
They would see everything and dc
everything, getting up at sunrise anC
keeping at il till late at night, car
Tying out the most fatiguing program
day after day, without resting ever
in the heat of midday. They would
have been exhausted at home If they
had followed the same plan.
Italian hotels have improved. New
ones have been built and they are
more sanitary than they once mad the
reputation of being That may be one
reason Tor the increased travel il
Italy. Then the route while not mCcF
longer than the northern, makes {
perfect holiday excursion in itself, Will
its stop at the Azores and Gibral.
tar, and the view Of the Italian shore
for the last few days.
All the lines have had to build new
Mediterranean boats to accommodate
the demand, and I don't believe there
are more than d few scattered berth:
left on any lines way up to July.
There is more money to spend,
suppose, but there hasn't vet been 81
much prosperity as to account wholly
for tie rush 1t began earlier thar
usual. and promises to be one of the
heaviest in years. You see. the cos
OF living has greatly increased here
and many well-to-dO families have de
cided TO make the crossing for econ
omy. 1t isn't necessary in Europ.
to keep I'D as large an establishment
as at home, if one is travelling anC
besides. living IS still cheaper abroad
than here. They can close their homes
here and live very unpretentiously il
Europe without exciting comment.
"Oberammergau is one of the at
fractions that probably has much t
do with this years rush. said al
agent of another line. Naturally
everybody who visitc Europe intend
TO see the Passion play, and many ar,
going over especially because this il