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Show AMERICAN SPENDERS Coming Back From Europe in Steerage and Dead Broke Now York, Sept 2. Statistics com-rl'ed com-rl'ed at Ellis Island bear evidence that many thousand Americans who went abroad this summer for European Euro-pean vacations found tho expanse of foreign tjavel too much for their pocketbooks and were compelled to return by steorago. On an average l,0v American citizens citi-zens have arrived weekly In Now York fnyn European ports In the Kteerago""of the various Transatlant" liners this summer. Tho official figures for August show that 4,019 Americans arrived at N York as third class or steerage passengers pas-sengers during the last month. V3. eels from British ports brought must of them, the Mauretania, on the vny-age vny-age that ended at New York last week, alone bringing 325 Americans In ber steerage. Tho explanation advanced at Ellis Island fvr the largo number of Amorf cans who are coming home in the cheapest way Is that the passengers are "dead broke." A Rmall percentage, percent-age, however, is accounted for by the fact that many persons who have to got home must come by steerage, ow-lug ow-lug to th? crowded condition of thi ships, or else stay abroad until tho rush is over and cabin nccommoila, tions are available. But most of the homeoomera who are coming back in the steerage f.r- doing so. according to the Kills Island inspectors, because that Is the onlr kind of ticket they are able to buy. They went over first or second clan, but used up their funds in travels, and when the time came to come bach they had to take the cheapest pa. sage. The incoming steerage voyagers represent rep-resent every section of the United States. Many of them are landed es soon as the boat dock because they have papers by which to prove their citizenship. Others who do not hav tho necessary moans nf identification .are forced to the Inconvenience ,f g, Ing to Kills Island in prove their citizenship. |