CRY FOR SHIPS
STILL HEARD
AT SEAPORTS
NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (Associated
Press).—The slogan of “ships! and
still more ships;” so effectively used
during the war to speed up Ameri
ca's ship building program as a de
fiance of the submaroine campaign
still is heard in American seaports.
It comes, however, not so much from
those having freight for transit as it
does from those who desire to make
trips to foreign shores on business or
pleasure.
Steamship accomodations for all
lands, despite more than double pre
war tariffs, and rigid restrictions as
to passports are at a premium. Repre
sentatives in New York and other
terminals of passengers-carrying lines
say that all available accomodations
are booked as far as three months
ahead. The unfortunate business
man faced with the need of making an
unexpected trip abroad, is forced to
depend on possible cancellations of
previously engaged passage on the
part of someone who at the last ma
ment is prevented fi'om sailing. On
many ships third-class accomodations
hold men and women who are finan
cially able to travel in the best that
the ships affords. It is no infrequent
occurrence for a staid banker, or a
■wealthy head of a large business
house to be found booked with a hum
ble alien laborer returning to the
land of his birth for a visit.
It was recently said by the head of
a large line in speaking of tariffs
that in 1914 a man could purchase a
tourist ticket including rail fares and
hotel for the same sum that he is
now compelled to pay for a one-way
ticket from Newk York to a Mediter
ranean nort..
Records of departures and arrivals
are kept here by the Steamship Men’s
Association and show that despite the
very apparent rush travel is only
about half, as to the number of pas
sengers, what it was in 1914. In May
and June of that year there sailed
from American to trans-Atlantic ports
264,300 persons of whom more than
^ 100,000 were classed as third-class. In
the same months of 1920 the outgoing
total was 80,323 of whom 50,000 were
third-class.
Of incoming passengers in one
month of 1914 there were 105,100 per
sons. The corresponding month of
this same year showed 45,120 per
sons arrivals.
The rush this year and the diffi
culty in getting accomodations is
accounted for by the fact that there
is needed “ships, ships and more
ships.” of the passenger-carrying
class. Available tonnage, due to the
ravages of the war, is greatly deplet
ed. The North German Lloyd and
the Hamburg American lines, which
prior to the war carried a large per
centage of the trans-Atlantic travel
do not exist. In addition, many of the
big liners of allied flags are gone
as for example the Lusitania. Al
most the entire pre-war fleet of an
other large British line were submar
ine victims. Other ships were of a
necessity laid up for periods of more
than a year for reconditioning due to
their accomodations having been
ripped out with axes to make them
into troop carriers. An example ol
this is the huge Olympic, which but
recently was returned to the passen
ger-carrying trade.
(Ji the former German liners, al
though taken over by the United
States and other countries, but com
parative few are yet in operation,
One of these is the Leviathan, the
largest ship afloat which is lying idle
at her dock in Hoboken—a ship
which could carry from 5,000 to 6,000
passengers were she in operation.
Leviathan could go to sea now, in
sofar as her engines and boilers are
concerned, but alterations of her
cabins by which she was able to take
on board 12,000 troops have unfitted
her for passenger-carrying trade.
The outlook of the American Mer
chant Marine passenger carrying
trade, however, is very bright, ship
ping men say. The United States
Shipping Board is giving encourage
ment to the organization of lines ad
equate to demands of the service.
The International Mercantile Marine
Company has added to its American
flag service a line to Hamburg with
two of America’s best ships making
regular runs therein. Recent anounce
ment was made that a new company,
the American Ship and Commerce
Corporation, has made a working
agreement with the Hamburg Ameri
can Line for its former trade routes.
This company announces that it will
handle 86 ships of more than 590,000
tons. Included in its service will be
several passenger lines. Another new
company, recently organized, is the
United States Mail Steamship Com
pany, to which has been allocated 15
of the largest German passenger lin
si’s, including the presidential ship,
George Washington, America, Mount
Vernon, and President Grant, all well
know liners prior to the war.
A passenger service to South
America with five steamers now in
operation was instituted by the ship
ping board. A number of new pas
senger liners now under construction
will soon be ready for allocation
among various companies. A line of
passenger ships to Danzig was re
cently formed and its first ship, a for
mer German liner, is now at sea.
Prevailing rates recently quoted
show that a first-class ticket can be
purchased from New York to a Brit
ish port at prices ranging from $200
up to $5,000—the latter for the
choice of suites. To Prance the tariff
ranges from $200 to $1,400 depending
on the ship and the berth. Italy as
a destination requires an expenditure
of from $220 up, and to Scandinavian
countries from $220 to $500. In addi
tion a war tax of $5 is collected on
each ticket.
Steerage, or third-class rates, are
about what second-class formerly cost
and second-class in proportion. To
sail, a passenger must have a pass
port, the details of getting which in
clude furnishing birth certificates,
and sworn affidavits as to business
abroad, sworn supporting affidavits
of witnesses, and a picture of the
passenger for the passport and for
state department records. The pass
port secured, there is then required
Vises of consul^ of countries to which
a certificate from the internal rev
enue collector that the applicant has
paid ais oh her income tax. On this
certificate a permit to sail is issued,
passengers are pound are also a re
quirement.
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Wienie rolls and pastry of all kinds
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Meals well cooked and properly
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Graham Bread fresh every day at
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Our wiener rolls are unexcelled.
Alaskan Grill and Bakery. 20-tf
Professional kodak finishing. Scar
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store.
The Daily Times Job Plant is well
equipped for all classes of commercial
printing.
Kodak finishing. Scarborough.
Back-to-School
Days
In a few days, the school bell, after many
weeks of silence, will be tolling forth the
summons, “Back to school/’ To mother,
it will mean the beginning of more work and
less help around the house.
Clothes to be gotten into shap<‘—youngsters to be dressed and
) fussed over—little folks too busy and excited to be of much use
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Fortunately for mother, she has no longer to worry about the
I clean clothes problem—each week she is sending her family wash
to us. The time once given to slaving over the wash-tub and
wrestling with heavy boilers and baskets, are now devoted to
better care of the children and the home.
The spic-and-spanness so noticeable in school children today
is a laundry product. Why not YOU give yourself and the kiddies
the benefit of it. A minute at the phone will do the work.
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