The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-25
EASTERN EUROPE HARD HIT BY
 TRAVEL FEVER

Budapest, Aug. 25.-The desire but inability of once wealthy people to travel westward to European seaports and on to the United States, owing to passport and money difficulties, is one of the results of the war to be noted in Central Europe, the Balkans and far into Asia Minor.
 The intenseness of this desire was registered recently by Admiral Hor- thy, Regent of Hungary, who said: why, I wake up nights thinking of the sea, and in my dreams hear the sound of the. sea. Consider I have sailed the world around and now I can't even get a glimpse of blue water. I'm seasick in Q, new sense."
 ''How I envy you in your travels" said Queen Marie of Rumanda to the travel-weary correspondent. Think of the glorious freedom of going somewhere, far away"
 "If it were not for my duty to my country" said Mustapha kemal Pasha, the national leader, one hot, breathless night in Sivas, Turkey, "I should be tempted to board ship and steam away, anywhere, so long as it. went westward. No one but ourselves can realize how tired and numb the mind becomes, out here, through the loss of contact with the countries and people we knew in happier days"
 Women, wives of teachers and pro- fessors, of formerly ywell-to-do farm CTS, who have been so sorely hit by the war, suffer especially from the lack of the cheap holidays they were once accustomed to take in Switzer- land, the Italian Riviera, Paris or London, where they saw the old sights anew, the styles in clothes, brushed up their acquaintance with languages and came home content to await next years trip.
 1T really believe many of us shall fall sick if we are not able to satisfy this travel fever" said Mrs. R. Vam- berry, wife of the Hungarian criminol- ogist, who was a great traveller as was his father before him.
 'TIave pity on we poor travellers. To think that now I can't buy new dress, I who once had the money to roam where I would."
 The ministers of foreign affairs in these countries are beSieged by ap- plicaltions of their fellow citizens who want to go away as diplomatic repre- sentatives or consuls and many near important men at home are willing to accept positions as clerks abroad merely for the chance of travelling.
 This fever is not limited to the for merly well-to-do. Recently a notice was published in a Budapest paper that any able-bodied man or woman wishing to work in the United States would be furnished with a. ticket and $50 expense money by the Americans That same day the American Commis- sioner, U. Grant-Smith, had to request the military authorities to keep away the mob from his office in the An draSSy street
 The railways in Hungary, in Ru-
 
 worn out by the war, are always crowded, with people clinging to the roofs of the coaches, thick as flies summer and winter. About the sta tions are big crowds of men, womer and children, swarming up and down waiting whole days and nights fol train
 "Where are all these people going tor" the correspondent asked a con- ductor at Bucharest.
 He stared a moment in aStonish- ment- ''Why, anywhere, nowhere ht answered. "They are just taking z ride. They're travel ma:d.''