Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-09-01 | Page 4 | Steamers Bring More Americans

STEAMERS BRING MORE AMERICANS J Italian Vessel Brings Wealthy Passengers Enormous Charges Made Dutch Liner Reaches Port. New York. Sept. 1 The Italian steamer Prlnclpessa Mafalda. charter ed by John E. Jones, American consul at Genoa, at a cost of $184,000, reach ed New York today from Italy wiih 388 wealthy Americans aboard, and unoccupied cabins with space for 200 more. Some of the passengers paid $7000 for a cabin; none paid loss than $100. and the average cost to all aboard was approximately $500 The presence of empty cabins was explained by the declaration that, although al-though there were many Americans In Italy who wanted to return horn they were unwilling to pay the fares demanded for the oyage Reaching port at almost the same hour as the Principessa Mafalda was the Holland American liner Rvndam with 1.285 passengers 332 in the steerage of whom 1,072 were Americans Ameri-cans on