The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-10
STEAMSHIP ACC CORPORATIONS TO
 FOREIGN SHORES AT PREMIUM
 DESPITE INCREASED TARIFFS

in American seaports. It comes, however, not so much from those having freight for transit as it docs from those who desire to make trips to foreign shore for business oI pleasure.
 Steamship accomodations for all lands despite more than doubling oi pre-war-time tariffs, and rigid res trictions as to passports, are at q premium. Representative in New York and other terminals of the passenger carrying lines say that al available accomodations are booked as far as three months ahead The unfortunate business man faced witt the necessity of making an uneX pected trip abroad, is forced to de pend upon cancellations of previous ly engaged passage on the part of someone who at the last moment is prevented from sailing. On many ships third class accommodations hoid men and women who are financially able to travel in the best that the ship affords. It is no infrequent oc currence for a staid banker, or 9 wealthy head of some large business , house to be found booked with thS humble alien laborer returning to the ] land of his birth for a visit.
 Transportation Rates Up 1 It was recently said by the head | of a large line in speaking of tariffs
 that in 1914. a man could purchase a tourist ticket including rail fares and accommodations for trip hail
 way around the world for the same 1 sum that he is now compelled to pay for a One-way ticket from New Yorl to Mediterranean port
 Records of departures and arrivals
 as kept here by the Steamship Men's i Association show that despite thS
 very apparent rush, travel is only
 about half, as to the number O.
 passengers, what it was in 1914. II
 May and June of that year, theit
 sailed from American to trans-At
 lantic ports 164,3OO persons of whom
 more than 100000 were classed a.
 third class. In the same months O : 1920 the outgoing total was S0,323 O
 whom 50000 were third class.
 Of incoming passengers in ont
 month of 1914 there were 5,1Ot
 persons. The corresponding mont
 this year showed 45,12O persons ar
 irving.
 The rush this year and the diff.
 culty ill getting accomodat:ons !.
 accounted for by the fact that there
 is needed Ships ships, and yet
 More Ships!" of the passenger car
 rying class. Available tonnage. duo
 to the ravages of the war. is grea. ly depleted. The North German LloyC
 and the Hamburg American Lines which prior 10 the war carried {
 large percentage of the transatlantic
 travel. do not exist. In addition
 many of the big liners. of the Allied
 flags are gone, as for example tho
 Lusitania. Almost the entire pre-
 war fleet of another British line
 were submarine victims. Other biz
 ships were ol a necessity laid up fol
 periods of more than year for re
 conditioning due 10 their accomoda
 tions having been ripped out witt
 axes to make them into troop car
 riers. An example of this is the huge Olympic, which but recently was returned 10 her passenger carry ing trade
 German Liners Laid Up Of the former German liners, al though taken over by the United States and other countries, but com paratvey few are yet in operation One Of these is the Leviathan. tho largest ship afloat. which is lyinl idle at her dock at Hoboken-a shiI