Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
ENORMOUS SUMS PAID
FOR EUROPEAN TRAVEL
Figures for Seven Months In
dictate Present Year a
Record Breaker.

NEW YORK. October 22.-Figures of
transatlantic passenger travel for the
first nine months of the year assume
large proportions and are far ahead of
those for 1909 The number of first cabin
passengers from the beginning of the
year up TO September % was 16S,42O and
promises to break all previous records.
The entire number of passengers carried
both eastward and westward across the
Atlantic TO September 23 was 1876, 153,
the travellers having spent about 5000
900 for their journeys.
At present the rush back from Europe,
which began August l, is in full swing
and in all probability will last until the
end of October There is considerable con-
sestion and many a tourist who is COM
PEELED to hurry home has to content HIM
self with third class accommodations.
East and West Bound.
Comparative figures of first cabin pas
senger travel eastbound and westbound to
September 2S of this year are as fol-
lows:
Eastbound. Westbound.
1910 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $3.50 1901
1909 Observation-Disclosures. ~. 4f,i III. All
Increase Observation-Disclosures. 10000 $40
Second-cabin passengers returning from
Europe To date number 1919. an in
crease over the same period in the pre-
vious year of :S;91:1. and third-class pas
sengers numbered S21.9O1. an increase of
100, 700. In eastbound traffic second-cabin
passengers numbered !2.?54, an increase
of IL ,SS1, and third-class passengers 80 =
15:i, a gain of ~. 129. But while the third
class passengers eaStbOund show an in
crease over those for 1909, they are still;
which was due to the passing of The
panic period, when the interna tional
labor market adjusted itself by an eX-
odus of laborers to Europe.
Travellers Pay Enormous Sums.
The rush Of travel to Europe began
about the middle of May and reached .ts
climax June ~, with the departure of
about 5000 cabin passengers on boa rd
twelve steamships 1t held until August.
when the tide of travel turned and Ameri-
can tourists swarmed back to the home
country. Now the eastbound travel is
about noi NAL l.696 first-cabin passengers
going abroad last week and !, 100 secon l.
cabin passengers.
The total cost of travel across the great
ocean highways to Great Britain and
ports in the north of Europe and in the
Mediterranean, when estimated on an ay-
erage basis. shows the immense sums
spent for transportation across the wa
ters Shipping authorities yesterday esti.
mated that first cabin passengers goinp
to and returning from Europe had so far
this year spent about SIG, 500 for their
accommodations and transportation on al
transatlantic lines.
The same authorities placed the amour,
of money spent on second class passage
at about $13, 7i3. 600, and on third class
massage at 81, 1880. This sums up to
$50 GS4, 100 paid to the transatlantic steam
ship lines SO far this year for trave
across the Atlantic.
Experts hesitated about making an esti.
mate as yet of the total business of 1910
but they believed that it would be greater
than in 1909 the increase being shown
more particularly in first and second cab
in travel.