Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-08-23
TOURISTS START
RUSHBACK TOU. s.
II Liners, Loaded to Capac'
ity, Sail in One Day-TotaI
Spent Exceeds Billion.
Ry Consolidated Press.

BY Consolidated Press.
NEW YORK, August 23.-Having
laid something more than a billion
dollars in the lap of Europe, the
great American tourist horde is
Seventeen liners have sailed with
in the past "a hours from Cherbourg,
Southampton and other European
ports, bearing the returning van
guard of the greatest force that
America has sent to foreign soil
since Pershing took his eXpeditionary
soldiers across.
Next week and the succeeding
three will produce in New York Harbor
scenes comparable only to those that
occurred under the old migration
rules, when liners jockeyed for posi-
tion in the lower bay and dashed up
the river to unload their cargoes and
return for more.
25,000 Coming.
Principal interest centerS of course,
in the arrival of the Berengaria,
which is bearing the Prince of Wales
and as many other passengers as
could be packed between her bulk
heads. Three hundred manageable
girls, all Americans, some school
teachers, some heiresses, are aboard
her.
The fleet accompanying the Beren-
garia is bringing $4,000 persons, only
n smattering of the 265,000 who have
gone over since the first of May to
pay tribute at Shakespeare'S shrine
on the Avon. to gamble at the bac-
carat tables at Monte Carlo and at
Deauville, or to indulge in the milder
sport of visiting the cathedral towns.
This years armada to Europe was
the greatest in the history of the
country. Steamship officials profess
to see no special reason for it. 1t is
true that the Sulgrave Institution
made a pilgrimage; that the Bar AS
Sociation and the Associated AdVer-
Using Clubs of the world held their
annual conventions there, and that
some of the big lines, particularly the
Cunard, turned the third-class ac-
commodations over to school teachers
and students exclusively, but these
constituted only a small part of the
crowd that went out of American
ports Besides that 265.000 approx
mately. at least 10000 Americans
went out of Canadian ports.
Spent s..OO0,GOO Daily.
The only reason for it is that the
Americans could afford it this year.
The London Association, a sort of
chamber of commerce, issued a state
ment this week that 10000 Americans
were passing through London daily.
either for sightseeing or en- route on
tours through the provinces. These
10000, the London Association said.
have spent an average of 100000
daily in London since the rush began.
on that basis, shipping men figure,
the American tourists have left some
thing like S644.000.000 in the English
city in the past three months.
The tourist rush started the first
week in June, shortly after the vaca-
ton period began. The average of
outgoing passengers in May had been
something like 10000 a week. 1t
jumped suddenly for the first week in
June to 90 geo, and held that for a
month. July was also unusually
heavy. The West bound rush begins
today, and lasts about month.
The new accommodation for school
teachers and students has made
travelling so cheap for them that ac-
Communications might be had for as
low as $3.50 a round trip. On the
other hand, suites may be had up to
$4,000.
Mountain Resorts Suffer.
Mountain resorts of New England
have felt the pinch of the ION to
E,urope" movement. y New Yorker
who returned from the White Noun
tainS recently brought the story that
a hotel that can accommodate 500
guests had only 80 registered. The
beach resorts have been similarly hit,
depending chiefly upon the nearby
trade.
No estimate of what the tourist
Summer costs is available, of course