Connecticut western news., 1916-08-31

 | ies-Immigration Here Not Expected.
 Steamship passenger agents who have just returned to New York from a trip to the Pacific coast assert that from information obtained at their of- 1 fees in many cities the exodus to Eu- rope after @ declaration of peace will l reach a million persons. The agents ! say that 90 per cent of the men who thus leave the country will remain abroad to help restore the cities of their native land. About 75 per cent of this travel, which will jam the liners sailing from New York, Boston, Phila- delphia and Baltimore for several months, will be steerage and the bal ance second cabin.
 Thousands of Slavs, ,Hungarians, Poles, Austrians, Lithuanians. Bohe- mians and Germans among the labor 1 ing classes all over the United States have paid small deposits on their pas sages and have money ill bank so that they can start for Europe as soon as 1 the war is over to see what has become l of the relatives they left behind.
 
 1 steamship agents say, to see their na- | tive land that when the news was | printed in the newspapers about the Deutschland returning to Germany there was rush to the steerage ticket offices in aJl the principal cities by men and women anxious to book passage on her. They did not know or care what kind of craft she was and did not inquire whether the Deutschland travelled above or below the surface so long as she landed them in Europe. Few First Class Passengers. There will be limited number of | first class passengers to German and | Austrian ports after the war, it is ex- | pected, but not a great number of casual sightseers if the public health service in Washington has its way. To head off such tourists officials intend l issuing warning to Americans not to visit the battlefelds on account of the l bad sanitary conditions. Moreover. the inhabitants of the countries which | have been devastated by the war will not be eager to have strangers walking
  | the ruins of their homes.
 The North German Lloyd, Hamburg ! American and Austro-American Steam l ship companies are keeping their crews on the ships in American ports busily employed in painting and cleaning so | there will be little delay in getting ready for sea when peace has been de- clared. The two big German lines will have ten new passenger ships to put on the New York and Boston service from | Hamburg and Bremen, of which five will be more than 35,0OO gross tonnage each.
 The Cunard, White Star and French lines will be handicapped by having lost steamships like the Lusitania, Ara bic and Provence and also because Of the majority of their finest ships of the l Olympic, Aquitania. Mauretania and l France class having been chprtered by the allied governments for use as aux l Hilary cruisers, transports and hospital ships, which has necessitated the re- moval of all their expensive cabin fit- 1 tings.
 l Officials of the British and French i steamship lines in Liverpool and Paris ] assert they have received assurances from their respective governments that 1 clause will be inserted hn the peace | treaty prohibiting German steamships from calling at any ports in the allied countries for a certain number of years. This prohibition will embrace Australia, India. South Africa, Canada l l. q stood also that in the event of Ger many's having to beg for terms steam ship companies of the allied nations expect to receive a quid pro quo for the ships which have been sunk by submarines-for example, the Vater- land for the Lusitania, the Kaiser Will helm II. for tie Provence and the l President Lincoln for the Arabic.
 Big Business For Holland Line.
 The company which has its passen- ger and freight steamships in perfect working condition and will reap the greatest benefit for the first year or two after the war is the Holland | America line, as the vessels have been in operation steadily right through and earning from 90 to 80 per cent in divH | dends.
 The steamship agents generally do not believe there will be a big west ward rush of aliens when peace is de- clared because the governments will not allow any ablebodied men to emi- grate from European countries. For the 100000 or 3,OOO,OOO of disbanded soldiers in Great Britain arrangements are already being made with Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and other colonies to give the men l plots of land to prevent them emigrat- ing to the United States. They will also receive a sum of money to enable them to start farming on a small scale.