New-York tribune., 1922-11-28
New Liner Rates
Are L4OWer. and
More Elastic
Passenger Will Get More
Nearly Kind of Service.
That Is Paid For Than
Has Been Case Before

The cut in transatlantic passenger
rates announced yesterday as the re-
suit of the conference in Brussels Of
all lines in the Atlantic service will be
accomplished by the reclassification of
the liners now plying between this
country and Europe and the assigning
Of standard fare for each class, il
was said yesterday. 1t is expected that
the effect Of this move will be to lower
fares from 10 to 20 per cent. The pur-
pose is to increase tourist travel
The new rates have not yet been
made public. but schedules are now
being prepared and will be issued TO
steamship agents in the United States
at an early date.
Under the new arrangement there
will be a greater elasticity of rates.
shipping men say, and the passenger
will get more exactly what he pays
for than has been possible in the past
Shispers say that on the monster ships
the plan is to reduce fares only
slightly, while on some medium-sizea
ships the cut will be quite pronounced.
The general tendency of the new rates
is TO make a wider gap between fares
or the luxury liners" and on more
modest ships. The moderate sized
Is held.
The reductions and adjustments will
apply particularly TO first and second
cabin.
Every effort is to be made by steam
ship lines, it was said yesterday, to
promulgate the new rates without loss
of time in order to give persons now
planning their next years trip ~
Europe the benefit Of them, and it is
expected that a considerable stimulus
to tourist travel for 1923 will result.
Steamship men point out that the
Forthcoming adjustments are in line
with present-day tendencies, but add
that steamship rates were never ad-
yanced in proportion to the advance of
operating costs resulting from the war.
PARIS, Nov. 27 (By The Associated
Press ).--The representative Of q Paris
steamship company who attended the
North Atlantic conference in Brussels
minimizes the Importance of the de-
cisions taken there. The reductions in
first and second class passenger rates
will amount only to approximately 5
per cent or SO, he said, and are not
intended to stimulate the passenger
traffic, as at first announced, but
merely TO adjust the prices of the
various companies.
Two other points discussed were
the observance of the American i'm
migration law. limiting the number of
emigrants from European countries,
which requires much careful teamwork
among the steamship companies, and,
second, the general emigration situa-
tion. The companies are said to be
eagerly anticipating the day when
Americas need for manual laborers
will force her to let down the immi-
grafton bars.
LONDON. Nov. 27.-While the Brus
sells meeting agreed to reduce passen-
ger rates, the shipping companies ap-
parently have not got down to details
yet. They will reduce first and second
class rates and rates on what are called
cabin ships, but they have not decided
how far the reductions will go. The
secretary OF the conference announced
to-day the reductions will be made
before the spring tourist traffic begins
and will be sufficient to encourage
travel. Shipping companies admit
many persons have been deferred from
travelling by reason of the high fares,
but they say these fares have not been
excessive in view of the greatly in
creased cost to operate ships since the
war.
FROM The TrfbHae's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-Reclassifi-
cation of passenger vessels in the north
Atlantic lanes, made by the conference
In London last week, will have the
effect of benefiting American tonnage in
lis trade, it was said to-day at the
Shipping Board Offices
While only neager information has
come to the board on the conferences
action, it was disclosed the Emergency
Fleet Corporation had recommended
the reelassitication of all tonnage in
the north Atlantic because of the vari-
ance in the age, speed and accomm oda-
tions of the vessels involved.
1t is expected a revision downward
Sc1 the passenger rates will follow, but
3n the lower rates to be ordered Ameri-
ecan vessels will be more generously
benefited than competing tonnage.
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