The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1912, Page 17

Poy imeem gt meee Soe NSR RTS oR World Daily Ma = ne, wesday? “April 3 | 0. zi AN IN YER BAGK— BY GouLys \THis TANAS ME BACH To pre ora Nit WINS THE Europe Fears Yankee ®eee8 @ © @ ®@ Dollars Will Be Few ® @®@ @ ®@ @ @ @ Abroad This Summer RAYMOND G. CARROLL, (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) London, April 18, % NCE the sinking of the Titanic there has been one question upper- » most in London, Rome, Paris and the other centres of population ra —“‘Will the American now stay at home?” Merchants shiver in rarest (Copyright, 1912, by Bobbe-Merritt Company.) _BrxOrms oF PREGRD NG CHAPTERS, ot fear of a diminished rush to Burope from America, Many hun @reds in Paris would go bankrupt if the annual crop of purchasers from the other side of the “herring pond” did not turn up. Dressmakers and mil Mners are growing gray from worry. The following estimate of eastbound North Atlantic traffic booked for the period between the Titanic disaster and the end of the high season, Oct. 1, prepared for The Evening World by a London maritime official, gives a rough idea of the immense volume of business annually done by the various * seseelyenl companies: Meee ‘i j Estimated Bookings © Sailings F for 1912. From Sames of Steamship First Cabin SecondCabin Americar “ian acre ene Ports. plot. mt coating himest , A junare 6 24,200 ve rive the vhite St 18,000 ot | | SSSA RAK CA HEP LK VO EaLRLRaES|smee me aes he =~ French ... 5,500 ri Hamburg-American 13,200 46 CHAPTER } x Vial. American ... 4,400 5 Mra. Chedsoye 2 Has Her Doubts foland-Americ: 6,600 23 ‘TE, nedther has been in ble Bed Star... + 4,400 34 Toom eind® Yesterday. If you North German Lloy + 18,700 4 want my opinion, it is thie, Miscellaneous, including Allan, Ley- Pepe Asahi rteltsipeed be and, Anchor, Fa>re, Scandinavian, Ty ath, sleiolng carr te e jowhere , Atlantic Transport, Italian and nlaht of 1 4 erties 76,600 35,500 “Ho has run away with Fortune!” ha ae sitet. ‘Her expression was tragic, : @ couldn't have told whether it ‘Total eee eeee ease eumees eee ++ +0165,000 204,600 ass: to hon eeomnaiee pe opem thc or to Horace’s defection. “Did he not threaten?” “Sh! Not so loud, Kate.’, ‘ s i “The Uttle simpleton a. That dude could sit @ whole eve-| tentay and dectared es, Walaa ieee me.” Oho!" The Major fingered his tm. Derlal. “That puts a new face to the subject, But Jones! He tims not turned up. We cannet move till we find out what has become of him. I know, Il! jump into a carriage and ; fee If he got as fur as | var, |, Mts. Chedsoye did not @o upstairs, but paced the lounging room, the end Panthorish. Frequontly she paused, as if examining the nn in the huge carpets. She entered reception. room, came back, Wandicce, off into the ballroom, stopped to inspect. the ans Nouncement ¢ Total number of Americans (not including steerage) scheduled to leave home eastbound for Huropean ports between April 15 and Oct. 1, 1912, He hadn't the brains of a radbit, whlch wasn't as dad as Ais hadit tho had brains— 369,600 souls. . Of showing how very little he knew dy every word he said, every turn he'd |One who knew something fo talk about, According to the same authority, 334,915 first and second cabin pas- do. ning without sengers, as well as 510,565 steerage, all westbound, were landed at the port Movida aa ssa too Mere ‘ Of New York alone during tle twelve eee ord to any amount; such men will ne'er be of any account! months of 1911. This is not an est!- mate but an actual count, In short, 945,510 human beings passed through * the principal gateway of the New World, out of which only 19,841 were aboard the boats of the American line. ‘Phe rest paid tribute to foreign companies, rode on foreign boats which flew) when things grow stupid infatuation wanes; Bessie now wished for a man foreign.fiags and were manned by foreign crews. The year 1912 promised @ grand total of 500,000 eastbound passengers and 1,000,000 westbound passengers for tho twelve months, As the average harge for a passage one way 1s about $35 per passenger, it can be seen that $52,500,000 was the harvest of dollars, principally American, to ‘be reaped by the competing steamship companies. Is it a wonder that to reach into pile of gold records were tried for and luxuries were heaped up and boatage cut down as a bid for the public patronage? But will these promised figures materialize? The feeling in London is ‘that the bottom will shortly fall out of the eastbound ocean traval, { * ,. Only just returned to London from a trip through Italy and Austria, France, Switzerland and Germany, the writer was amazed to discover every- where the importance of Americans abroad to the life of these countries, 1g every community the inhabitants were busily engaged in whipping their old stock of goods into shape for the expected tourist rush of 1912. Before May 1 the Alpine peasant wears orniinary clothes, and it is not until the oy Her impatience came near to explosion when, lacking in every emotion, Millions Paid by the United States 3] He sat smiling and dumb, stif-dacked and mum, A college professor—that's the plan! A college professor is the man. lo Foreign Steamship Lines.$! For Bessie considered this dreadful bore @ brainless loon, nothing Icss—| Age matters not, He may have a bald spot; if he only has breins nothing more, That henceforth is the main, by far most important quality In finding THE KIND OF A MAN FOR ME! ELEANOR SCHORER, ) #@ By Dwis is Them Was the Happy Days #% (asieintisr rr Weuio amwad” Wea snuaT s You Gov TAAL LITTLE REO WAGON Pua Bow? flat RAL freee uimlons occupations but a single thought busied her mind: what could & man like Horace sce in @ obtt tke Fortune? Tt was an hour and @ half before the Major put iu an appearance. He was 4 4 i { [ion nT «T Fune Hor A_UTrLE REO WAGON Wi REMIND You OF THE out of Dreath and temper, nPPIEST OATS OF YOR “Come up to the room.” Once there, he fat down und bado her do likewise. Heddy to the top of his bent. So fer learn, Fortune ana Hoddy napped by this Mahomed, ne carried ow into the desert, headed God knows Where! Now, don’t get excited, Take it easy. Luck ts with us, for Hoday lett wil the diagrams with me, W him, but not so much that we oat ope on without him. You ee, these Arabs are Ike the Hindus; touch anything that coneerna their religion, and they'll have your halr off. low Fortune got {nto tt I can't im- agine, unless Mahomed saw her with Hoddy and jumped to the conclusion that they were lovers. All: this Ma- homed wants Is the rug; and he is going to hold them till he gets it. No use notifying the police. No one would know where to find him, None of them will come to actual harm. Anyhow, the coast is clear, Kate, there's a bix thing tn front. No nerves, We've got to go to-day. Tine ts everything, Our butler and firat man cabled this morn- they had just started In, JO WD Ha’ and | DumPep Yoo out OF IT Ano Wreneo ey Gost To TB TED A BEL Te Wis Tan — HO HO! AMD Gwe Wim A KICK ‘Sa THeme WAONT ENOUGH LEFT OF THAT SaGor To McK YouR Teele vill fa HA’ save “Yoo 50 SKK You HAD To 4 Go To BED ~ Rememps wile Tua "we WASHED DLL Tue Fences im THe MENGuMORUCOD Te GET OMe, ty fy I THe UM feo, wna y ineibenT « Wa HA! I was against start, but now im Feverishly r the Journey Chedsoye prepared She was Irritable to r ) ists.come that he dons his ploturesque apparel and begins to yodel, ' gurea, show that one-fifth of these visitors are from the United States. your 600,000 persona altogether went sight-seeing to the Alps. “In Vienna two of the principal hotels on the Ringstrasse—the Imperial " and Grand—are in the hands of an army of artisans, rushing work on the construction of private baths for thelr rooms, as the American always in- sists upon having abroad what he| the Influx of Amertcans.} thing, In the suburbs of Vienna the new manager of the Park Hotel) Schonbrunn, who formerly ran a hotel In Hoboken, N, J,, has ordered an American bar because, he says, “I was hired to increase business here, and Mf we are to pay dividends we must have American guests.” » To study the tastes of Americans in their home cities a son of the proprietor of a string of Swiss and Italian hotels is now in the United States, His father told the writer that he owed every dollar he had in the world to his American guests, He graded Americans first as the best, patrons a hotel could have; then came the English, Germans and the French and Italians in the order named, } . Lontion has become a vast language schoo! for walters from France and Switzerland, Germany and Italy, After picking up a smattering of English 4n the restaurants and hotels of the British capital they return to their homes jeyous, well equipped, they think, to serve the rich American and | Brow wealthy upon his generous tips, Paris is nothing but @ show staged for At ans after dark, eit that the American may take it into his head to visit his own coun- try thigpammer 1s causing grave concern in London, Paris and Rome, If he to the eVitable 's athe I presence of Jones Would counteract any | infiuence Horace might have gained over Fortune. That the three of them p fas A WCRATH. a” " 1,|1one a6 the Major had the ot that id] bim greater Theda S5 was something myeterious in the the Boget | ad boon did, there is a certainty that next year his coming would be attended by! nigat suffer unheard-of miserles never » precaution as to boatage in ocean travel, and some adequate return in | formed Spuait a fae. Bat a hl sideration of his tmportance to trade would be rendered to him when he dpedneeraan Binihaed il ded Apon this side ofthe ocean, greeted effusively by W yoo a nae ll the bulbous were; qud lls 7 > first inquiry was of 7 be Major tola him 9 that infernal rug; but, Hodty wae: waye eet in his daredeVil schemes, “He told me that nothing Would give fit into. the frat bag ef yelewstore way he used to chuckle z tls ‘The Major admitted that it te did not ad that Fortunes or il-fare was little of his, The little spitfire li no bard A down to her cabin, rived? Had be AT tl if steamersroll lay fherwoyy on "I poly Just opened it," she. byt ad = ret of looking into ba iy bas “Why, it's that damned | Yhioréest”* exclaimed *e he = Major . “What (e care te it doing in Foewse’ “That ie what I should Itke to know. 2a Te théy have been kidnapped tn onder to recover whatever come of them ay And Mrs. Seats touched the rug with her tact, ateentty. cleverly spon os Trstey age ‘The way’ known to the Inspectors, @ scandal of the nations, A emooth-faced young al proached them from out the crows “Ie this Major Callahan?" ‘! ‘You, ‘This must be Mr, Reysoid, fe exen'?" ont “Yes. Everything is for occupancy. Your butler and @vet have everything have turned over to you Mr, “Not at all, not at if ‘ Mejor, “They would ve Seen strangers to us and we to chem@ur own servants are best.” “You must be very @ood friends of - ‘ known him for " said Mra, Chedaoye pg te 4 aw at his own suggestion that we tae the house over for the month. He really insisted that we should pay him nothing;*but, "of course, such an arrangement could: not be thought of, Oh, good-by, Mr, Wel- ." tolerantty, “We hope to eee you again some day, Wallace, taking up bie role ence more, tipped his hat and rushed away for one of his favorite haunts “Bounder!” growled the Mi “well, well; a ship's deck Is always Liberty Ha 4a have turned your belongings over to an expressaman?’ asked the agent. Theso were charming people; and any doubts he might have en~ tertalned were dissipated, And why should he have any doubts? Jones was nitric young chap, anyhow, An atory letter (written by the rin Jone reless hand), wacked up by a cable, was enough authority for any reasonable man, “Everything is out of the way,” the Major. “Then, if you. wish, J can take you right up to the house In my car, Your butler said th would have luneh ready when y rrived.”" “Very kind of you. How nolsy York ts! You ean take our han wage?” e made St. Anthony uneasy of mina; Tere nolds, young, alive, metaphorically fell at her feet. - “Plenty of room for ft, “Tt an Jones fntr bring h want an ew