The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-09-05
TAKES MONEY TO
CROSS OCEAN
Yet Demand Far Exceeds
Supply of
Vessels.
BOOKED WAY AHEAD
Many Conditions Must BE
Fulfilled Before Pcrmis-
sion Is Given to Sail.

NEW YORK. sept 4 Tho slogan
NJ "ships' shlpei and stll more
fhips," 80 effectively used during
tho war TO speed up Amcrlcaa ship
building program as a defiance of
tho submarine campaign otill ~
heard IN American H"aporh. II
conca. however. not go much from
those having freight for transit aa
IL doca from those who desire 10
make Trims 90 foreign chores ON bus
moss or pleasure.
steamship Accommodations Tor hli
landp. despite moro than "a doubllhB
Of prc-wa gtimo tariffs, and rigid re-
strictious as TO puH"purts are AZ
premium. Representatives in NOW
York and other terminals or pnsHon-
ger-carryinE lines say that All avail
able accom- modauung are booked az
far aA three months ahead. the un-
fortunate uuaincea man faced with
the need Of making an unexpected
trip abroad, is forced To depend on
poNilblo cancellations OF previously
engaged passage on the part OF some-
ono who at the last moment ta pre-
vented from smiling. on many ships
thlrd-claaa Accommodations hold men
ana women who arc financially able
TO travel in the best that the ship al
fords II 10 no infrequout occurrence
for stnid banker. or wealthy head
Of largo business house TO bo found
booked with the humble allen laboror
returning to tho land OF his birth
for n visit
II was recently said by the hond
OF a largo llno In speaking OF tariffs,
that In 1914 "A man could purchase
a tourist ticket including rail fares
and hotel accommodations for trip
half way around tho world for the
Same sum that ne Is now compelled
to nay for "a ono-way ticket from
New York to "A Mediterranean port
Records OF departures and arrivals
~ kept hero by the Steamship Mems
association show that dcapite tho
very apparent rusS, travel IN only
about half ms TO number OF paRscn-
gers, what 10 was In 1914. In May
and Juno Of that year thoro sailed
from American to trans Atlantic
ports 10000 persons OF whom moro
than 100000 were claUcd aa third
class. In tho same monthH OF 1920
tho outgoing total was S0.323 OF
whom $4,000 were third class.
or incoming passengers in one
month of 1914 there were 10b. 100
persons. rne corresponding month
this year showed 45.l2o person ar
rivals.
The rush this year and the ditfi-
Guilty In getting accomo odatlons " Ac-
counted for by the fact that there
is needed "Shlps, Ships and More
Shipsl" OF the passenger carrying
class. Available tonnage, due TO the
rnvages OF the war, is greatly de-
picted. Tho North German Lloyd and
the Hamburg American lines. which
prior to the war carried largo per-
centaRe OF the transatlantic travel.
do not exist. In addition, many OF tho
big liners OF allied flags are gone,
as for example tho Lusitnnia, Almost
the entire prc-war fleet OF another
large British limo were submarine
victims, Other ships were OF "a ncces-
sity laid up for periods OF more than
a year for roconditioning due to their
Accommodations having been ripped
out with axes to mako them into
troop carriers. An example OF this IL
the huge olympic, which but recent
ly was returned to hor passenger
carrying trade.
or tho former German liners. al
though taken over by tho United
States and other countries, but cam
parativo fcw are yet I'm operation.
ono of these is the Leviathan. the
largest ship afloat, which In lying
idle at her dock In tioboken--a ship