Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-04-29
EUROPEAN Travel
HALTED BY WAR
As a Result S275,OOO,OOO
Stays In America.
OCEAN PATHWAY DESERTED.

Great Passenger Liners That Formerly
Carried Thousands Back and Forth
Now Doing Duty In the War or Tied
Up at Their Piers In Neutral Ports.
Statistics Show Loss to Europe.
New York.-A quarter billion dollars
of good American money will be kept
in this country this year on account OF
the war. There will be at least that
much saved by the inability of the
public to travel to Europe Last year
the steamship companies received in
fares alone approximately $S3,OO0OOO.
carrying eastward and westward more
than 100000 passengers. conserv-
ative estimate fixes the amount spent
by this travelling army at close to $l92,-
100000, making the total amount spent
for European travel $275,O00,O00.
There will be no exodus to Europe
this summer, however. The Great
Green Way Of the Atlantic is as lone
ly as New Yorks Great White Way
| on a summer Sunday night. This is
the time Of year when the rush across
the ocean begins. The tide of travel
! sweeps east across the Atlantic from
May till August and back again from
August till the middle of October. But
this year the tide hasn't set in and it
won't set ill.,. Uncle Sam is holding
back the tide by refusing to issue pass
ports, and on the other side Of the
ocean the kaisers submarines prove
an obstacle
Nobody is going away who can't
prove to the satisfaction Of Uncle Sam
that he or she has business in Europe.
| Doctors. Red Cross nurses, reserves.
continue to go, but even their number
is dwindling.
From all ports of the north Atlantic
there left for Europe last year in four
months just 27,727 passengers. Dur
| ing the same four months of this year
f, the number of departures was 4,19S, Il
| falling off of 1889 The westward
sailings were 1862 for the same pc
riod last year and this year 4.674.
deficit of 1896.
The arrivals and departures at New
| York last year from and to Europe to-
tailed an army of more than 100000
| Of this number 14S,3SO Travelled first
| class. 241, $40 in the second cabin and
| 1874 in the steerage. The grand to-
| tai to and from all north Atlantic ports
was: Eastward-frst class, S3.261: Sec
alo ctr
Westward-frst class. 90,S40; second
class, 23S,347; steerage, 631 1862.
The average first class fare across
the Atlantic on little ships and big
ships is $12O, second class $50, and
third or steerage $35. That means
that last year $2O,892, ,12O was paid
the steamship companies for first class
passages, $17, 100000 for second class
and S44, ,892, 12O for steerage, total of
$S3, ,O55, ,7SO.
Placing the amount of money spent
during the season in Europe by the
first class traveller at $1,000. the sec
ond class at $500 and the steerage at
$10O, a pretty good average of Ameri-
can contributions abroad will be the
result. Computed by these figures the
amount spent in Europe last year by
the American travelling public would
have been $191. .726,70O. That these
figures are by no means overestimated
will be realized when one stops to re-
feet that $4,000 for the season would
be no money at all for each Of 5000
American families to dissipate. This
would alone mean $5O,O00,000.
At a modest calculation there was
spent last year by people from america
on European travel $27S,664, 500; $780,
100000 would be. perhaps, nearer the
mark. 1t is safe to say that the war
has cost Europe $3.50, 100000 of Amer
ican tourist money this year. That
much cash in hand would do strange
things. It would do wonders for the
unemployed of the country. It's the
ransom of a king and no bagatelle
even to Rockefeller. There will be
just that much more money remaining
in the United States this year.
The click of glasses and the clink of
wealth are hushed. The stewards tips
dE0 IulSSlug. Lie JULIUS VI dIt
silent. The S10O00O00 Vaterland Of
the Hamburg American line is eating
her head off at the dock in Hoboken.
The S1O.OOO.OO0 Imperator Of the same
line is Il hospital ship at Bremen. The
$1O,000,OO0 ship Aquitania of the Gu
nard line is a converted cruiser. and
the $1O.OOO,OOO Olympic of the White
Star line has also been impressed by
the British government. The France.
the beautiful SS.O00OOO queen of the
French line fleet. is doing government
duty for France. The North German
Lloyd's KronprinZessin Cecilie. Kaiser
Wilhelm H. and KronprinZ Wilhelm
have figured in the war.
More ships on the average are arriv
ing here today than ever before.
Steamers whose names are unfamiliar
to customs men and shipping men have