The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-29

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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 count of
the war. There viii 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 $50, 100000.
carrying eastward and westward more
than 100000 passengers. A conserv
alive estimate fixes the amount spent
by this travelling army at close to $780,
100000, making the total amount spent
for European travel $275,0OO,OOO.
There will be no exodus to Europe
this summer, however. The Great
Green Way of the Atlantic Is as lone
ly as New York's 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 1t
won't set in. Uncle Sam is holding
back the tide by refusing to issue pass
ports, and on the other side of the
ocean the kaiser's 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
the number OF departures was Abs. a
falling off of 1889. The westward
sailings were 1862 for the same pc
riod last year and this year 4.674. a
deficit of 1895.
The arrivals and departures at New
lOlh ta0l JNdA anu W GuAVlh W
tailed an army of more thar 100000
or this number 14S,3S0 travelled first
class, PAL $40 in the second cabin and
3d. 43 In the steerage. The grand to
tai to and from all north Atlantic ports
was: Eastward-irst class. S3,261: sec
ond class, 121,0S5; steerage. 479,232.
Westward-irst class. 90.S40; second
class, 23S,347; steerage, 631,S62.
The average first class fare across
the Atlantic on little ships and big
ships is $500, second class $50. and
third or steerage $50. That means
that last year $20.S92, 100 was paid
the steamship companies for first class
passages, $17,720,OOO for second class
and $44, S92, 40 for steerage, a total of
$50, 055, $50.
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
500. 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, 700. 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 . 100000.
At a modest calculation there vas
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 $25O.0O0,0O0 OF Amer
lean tourist money this year. That
much cash In hand would do strange
things. 1t would do wonders for the
unemployed Of the country. It's the
ransom OF a king and no bagatelle
even to a 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
are missing. The bands Of music are
silent. The $10,OOO,O0O vaterland Of
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. line is eating
her head off at the dock in Hoboken.
The $~10.00O,O0O Imperator of the same
line is a hospital ship at Bremen. The
$lO,0OO,O00 ship AQuitania Of the Gu
nard line Is a converted cruiser. and
the $10.00O.0O0 Olympic Of the White
Star line has also been impressed by
the British government. The France.
the beautiful 100000 queen Of the
French line fleet, Is doing government
duty for France. The North German
Lloyd's Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Kaiser
Wilhelm III. and Kronprinz Wilhelm
have figured I'm 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
reached the port In the past six weeks.
sometimes as many as ten a day. They
come here under charter or looking for
a charter to carry away American
goods. All kinds of freight Is being
slowed away In their holds, all kinds