The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-31
GUSTAVH. THVAB RECOVERED
RETURNS FO Town on mrs WAY
TO MIAMI. FLORIDA.

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Ten Msaahs Abscacc-Taiks On ths
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ship asssiness's Future In This Poet.
Gustav X. schwab. who gave up busi-
ness suddenly last spring owing to q
nervous breakdown and who has sinos
been absent from the numerous CONNER
cial and civic activities In which he has
long been q leading figure. arrived In
New York yesterday from his country
place at Scarborough. y. Y. and left dur
ing the afternoon for Miami. Fla, where
he will spend the winter. Mr.. Schwah
expects to return to New York In the
spring and actively resume his duties
a. head OF the general agency for the
North German Lloyd Line and OF an
exporting house.
Mr.. Schwab has been at Scarborough
for some time. following a long rest
He has been taking an abundance OF
exercise. has gained weight since last
spring and looks very we'll. but his fam
lily will not think OF his tackling his bust
ness again until he has been away Tor
q full year In his absence from New
York. however. Mr.. Schwab has kept up
with what has been going on. and he says
the only way for a man to appreciate the
speed with which New York is going
ahead is to ytay away from II for few
months and then take a look.
y do net suppose the average busy
man OF NeU York ever stops to think how
fast the city changes said Mr.. Schwab
yesterday. In the almost ten months
have been away those who have been
in New York have seen the new Penn
sylvania station opened. which has now
become such matter OF course that New
Workers wonder how they ever did with
on, II. Then the Greeley Square station
of the Hudson River tubes has brought
the heart Of the city nearer Hoboken and
metropolitan New Jersey. The old Grand
Central Station has almost completely
disappeared. The Public Library has
advanced considerable stage toward
completion. and new buildings have
sprung up everywhere. hotels. Office
buildings. warehouses-in fact IL takes
only a few months nowadays to make a
Rip Van Wrinkle.
Il have been some what amused at the
revival Of what I should call the Montauk
Point bugaboo. with which the port OF
New York has been threatened before
now. In my opinion il il only bugaboo
II will he some time before people who
come from Europe will want to be landed
at the eastern end Of Long Island instead
of AT the port OF New York itself.
notice that the War Department has re-
fused TO permit some OF the North River
piers TO be heightened to permit tho
docking OF bigger ships than those now
plying across the Atlantic. imagine this
| il due to fear on the part Of the Depart
ment that IL il permitted hundred fee,
10 be- added on to a pier in any one instan CO
there would within a few years be re-
quest for adding another hundred feet
~ ships grew larger. and the reeult would
be q continual narrowing Of the water.
way concornitant with a lengthening OF
ships until there would not be room "a
turn around in.
In my opinion the speed limit Of ship.
| has been reached for several years for the
reason that 90 get even one knot Of in,
creased speed requires not only an enor-
mou-ly increased outlay at the sAr'
bat means enormous increase in the cost
OF operation. But Of course the sizs
OF ships ia likely to keep on increasing
that q regular service Of fast express
steamers. with one leaving each side oi
the Atlantic every week. would he ideal
and IL has proved so. and the public ha,
shown its appreciation.
AT the same time there have beer
other ideals which have also proved right
in practice. and IL is likely there will
continue to be- so long A. the travelling
public keeps growing and different people
will approve different prices and different
kinds of accommodation. for our slower
and smaller boats and the big new Geor ge
Washington do their share OF business
or course the growth Of commercial
relations between this country and those
OF Europe has increased commercial
travel across the Atlantic for the number
OF buyers and statesmen who travel from
one side 20 the other increases every year
bat this IL a mere drop in the bucket
compared to the increase IN the number
of persons who travel for pleasure. With
in the last twenty five years Americans
have become the greatest travellers Of
the world and the records for this year
show that more Americans have travelled
than ever before The Mediterranean
cabin passenger business. which was
once looked upon as q negligible quantity.
has grown until with every company en-
gagged in IL it ~ a very important con-
sideration and the trade has required dur
ing the last few years the service Of fine
fast new steamships A. present the
outlook is for an exceptionally large cabin
passenger business TO Europe next year
"RIGOLETTO" At THE OPERA.