The total for the first four months
this year leaving this country was 133,
000 and last year was 125,000. but the
big gain was In steerage travel. The
number coming to America by steerage
has doubled in that period over last
year.
Considering the facts that there now I
arc only about 100 first class passenger |
steamers on the water highways, as ?
compared with 175 in 1914, shortly be- j
fore the war broke, and that the cost i
ot travel is fully double what it was |
at \that time, the big travel now in ;
progress Is regarded by shipping men as |
remarkable. In 1914 and again last]
year tourist travel was exceptionally j
heavy in the springs and summers.
All the big steamships are booked
full for the next few weeks. The dozen
b.g ships of the International Mer
cantile Marine, the eight passenger
-nips of the French Ltue, the Cunard
ships, those of the Holland Dine and j
of the score of other lines operating
from one to three steamships are all |
doing heavy business. There are now
rwenty-aix companies operating. The;
Olympic is sold out through June, the
Adriatic up to her first July trip, the j
?""edrlc and Celtic through June and,
the others are about the same. The
bookings generally are for returns after
relatively short stays on the dther side.
The actual count of passengers travel- I
ling both ways In 1914. last year ana
this year shows how steady is the In
ternational traffic. The outgoing traffic !
for these three years from January 1 to i
May 8 each year In first, second and
third class accommodations was as fol*
lows;
1921. loco 11*14.
