| Show nearly a tear mr james wright second vice president of the inman line says that when the end of at least people will have left for europe from all parts of this during tho year half of them will sail during tho fifteen weeks of the season froia april to august some travelers will carry hundreds of dollars in their pocketbook a to spend where others carry thousands nine tenths of those hundreds and thousands will ie transferred to foreign owners before the tourists return even the money spent for passage and during the voyage must be counted in that which bids goodby to thia land of liberty for the great steamship companies are with one exception foreign corporations including tips and fees these corporations will take an average of from each passenger for the round trip the majority will pay less but there will be enough rich men who who pay a good deal morer to bring the mean amount up to that figure the money which each tourist carries with him is harder to estimate A foreign exchange clerk said that the letters of credit issued by them to european travelers average about or each but this is above the ordinary figure and of course this in many cases covers a party of four or five eight hundred dollars is estimated as the average amount taken by each passenger in ahe cabin thu makes the total average expenditure of the average european traveler when this is multiplied by the estimated total of these travelers the result is astounding it is ninety abr millions of dollars carried from america to europe in a single year by travelers clonel it this were saved for a few years uncle sam might bev a good slice of europe and bring it over hero for exhibition purposes new york press |
