The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-25

North State, arrived yesterday from the
Camden shipyards and will start Satur-
day on her, maiden voyage to Queens
town. London and Boulogne.
The United States Mail Lines entry
into the Atlantic passenger service at
the end of the summer season is re-
garded by some as a bit of commercial
daring, but the line seems 10 think that
the. venture will be Justified by results.
Their present bookings. while not large,
indicate that the travelling public Is go
ing to give them fair trial. On the ar
rival here of the Creole State now near
ing completion, the line will inaugurate
a weekly service between New York and
Europe. 1t shares in the hopefulness of
other lines in the coming of big boom
in the spring. Another big ship Is being
converted into an oil burner for the line
at the Todd Shipyards Corporation in
Brooklyn and soon will be delivered In
the spring, to help in transporting the
expected throngs Europeward. the
United States Mail will have thirteen
passenger ships in commission. including
the George Washington, the Mount YER
non, the President Grant and the Aga
memnon.
Spring Exodus to Europe.
Whatever the spring may bring in
unexampled exodus to Europe, the late
fsll and winter is surely going to break
al records in southwark seagoing.
steamship men declare. There are many
more lines In the West Indies and
South American trade than before the
war, their advertisements IN shipping
papers filling more than a page instead
OF mere column or so, and they are
al carrying Americans and Canadians
end folks Of other nationalities to the
Caribbean, Bermuda and the Bahamas
The White Fleet of the United Fruit
Company reports an unparalleled demand
fol berths, the bookings being filled 70 .
n solid month ahead. and still rushing
in. Hundreds are taking the twenty.
three day cruises to Cuba Jamaica. Pan
anna, the Canal Zone and Costa Rica IA
the newest and finest OF the fleet. the
UIua and the Toloa, and thousands are
booked by other ships for the oasis of
Havana.
There is a big tourist movement to the
west coast of South America by new
vessels of the Grace Line, which 60 d.
iect by way OF the Panama Canal, and
by trarshipment from other liners at
Panama. California Is also getting
tourists from the Atlantic seaboard. who
prefer the leisurely route by way of the
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Canal.
A big appeal to the lover OF semi
tropical and tropical life Is made by the
International Mercantile Marine, which
has taken three of its steamships from
the Atlantic route and is preparing them
for West Indies. Canal Zone and Span
ISL Main cruises. The announcement of
the ref1tting of the American liners New
York and st. Paul and the White Star
liner Megantic for this service brought
floods of applications for berths A
Chamber Of Commercefin middle West
city sent Immediately for accommoda-
lions for two hundred, and a group Of
prosperous merchants and fnanciers In a
Southern city were inspired to inquire II
they could not charter one of the liners
for at least one cruise.
1t is noticeable that few applications
fl, reservations have come from school
teachers. who have been numerous in
previous excursions to the tropics, and
that most of the parties that ask for
accommodations are made up exclu-
sively of males. which might indicate
that somebody prefers to do his drinking
apart from the women folk. The st.
Paurs point of departure for two cruises
of fifteen and twenty-five days, respec-
lively, will be New Orleans. which Is I'm
mensely tickled over the distinction. The
other cruises begin and end at this port.
the first starting ON January IL, with the
sailing of the New York. All three ships
ara having swimming poo1S Installed.