Show he american i 0 irl n ORA ltv do 1 0 10 lir ill U a IA g kip ef 7 ter 4 MN a a az fo B by y PROEHL halter HALLER JAKLON drawing by ray walters f f alg ocean tills this summer Is toll full T of ships and the ships are full of americans young and old rich and not so rich but all comrades in arms and handbag hand bag gage cage in the annual descent on europe and paris and as usual this years tourist swarm Is larger than any previous year so BO the steamship agents tell us estimates meaning guesses place the number of eastbound travelers tills this year anywhere from to of the total whatever it roay may be by far the most picturesque throng Is ils that composed of college students this designation of course includes prep school lads bonn fide college btu atu dents and anyone who recently that Is within ten years or so has been a college student foreign travel it seems has become a necessary part of a college education this year the steamship lines expect the total of this class of patronage to reach one in ten vf of the college population of 0 the united the peak load of tourists with eu generally la Is carried during une and july but on account of 0 the unexpectedly heavy demand for ac collit commod atlon that began to make itself felt BH as early as last tall fail most of the transatlantic lines arranged for extra sal sailing lingg for slay may as well as june and july the cunard schedule was arran arranged ped last winter so as to find end out 84 passenger ships from at bantle ports in the course of tiny may june and july this included 54 sailings from new york the international mercantile marine the united states lines the french line the dutch carman scandinavian italian and alier companies arranged their schedules in proportion passenger Pass traffic dwindles since the world war transatlantic travel hits has been beed a long time coming back discomforts Dis comforts and delays in postwar europe made it anything but a pleasure trip thay too loo the cost was high since 1914 fares had almost doubled for six years after the ar rul stice only the rich bood afford the voyage steamships sailed halt half filled business was wag rotten to make things worse americas new immigration quota law lav reduced the number of incoming allens to about a quater qua ter of the prewar genres the steerage of these great steamships was only partly filled coming from europe to america and empty on the return then Bone sone hody had a brilliant idea why not kairit up this now deserted steerage give it a new name and make a campaign for the business ot of the old time american traveler to europe via the steerage everything considered these third class accommodations were not so bad it was the garlic and cheese society to which the less pungent american travelers mainly objected and so BO competing ianes once the idea pained gained currency raced with each other in organizing and popularizing it new kind hind of third class set apart and dignified congenial company guaranteed for the kind of Amer american amerlean lenn travelers who had the he desire to tour europe but not the price to go via first or second class cabins well avell placed propaganda put the tha idea over and tourist third and lately student third immediately became popular it Is advertised as JD intended tended chiefly for students ten teachers chers clergymen and professional people the territory covered by the latter des gnat lon however Is broad enough to include almost anyone whose appearance pe arance and manner indicate that his company during the voyage Is likely to be tolerable or in other words that he Is an Arn american erlean used to the ways of americans and not dot a returning alien whose customs tand habits might not prove in harmony with the student crowd the main idea of student third la Is to have a good time everybody join in Is the slogan with the st refined and educated the college boys and girls have made it the thing to do before the end of the voyage many first class passengers find themselves joining in with the jolly throng that Is third class one young man who has been across twice once in dignified first class with his parents and the second in student third alone has nothing but wild enthusiasm for the less expensive mode of travel tourist third now the thing in its few years of exl existence e third has become the most talked about feature of modern ocean travel and has grown rapidly the united states line carried 1500 passengers eastbound in 1924 last year they accommodated in the first six months and this year the number li 19 expected to exceed other lines have had similar success round trip passage costs vary tary from lck to in tourist third depending on the ship and the ports of embarkation bar kation and debarkation this includes transportation berth and meals tourist third became popular first in the eastern colleges but rapidly the idea spread westward tinny many universities versi ties of the middle and far west have tours now en route several groups notably those from schools of journalism have taken along their in tora tors with a view toward absorbing a little academic learning along with their other travel education of course college students are not the on ones that are touring europe business men from boot bootleggers legers to butter aud and egg aren from the lie west have temporarily abandoned their scramble tor for dollars while they assiduously practice the easily learned art of spending them they spend them in parts paris london rome venice and along the rhine where it Is understood one gets so much more for ones dollar than when it lg Is spent at home what do europeans think of these droves of apparently wealthy americans let a F frenchman hman tell you georges villa writing in the new york times the french people as a whole finds no benefit from this tourist invasion citizens are as a rule not even curious about the hordes of foreigners in their midst only a few who stand to make direct financial profit such as the hotel keepers are at all interested americans americana a happy lot A frenchman Is keenly conscious that with his poor francs tir ba cannot compete with the dollars and pounds of the tourists many essentials amusements and luxuries totally inaccessible ces sible to him prove inexpensive to foreigners then too there Is tb the frenchmans French mans fundamental patriotism that tr rr events ills his paying any attention s yx S L 0 RS va to the snap judgments so BO lightly made by a majority of visiting foreigners it la Is the americans who most of 0 all impress tho the french their ex slon Is happy the happiness felt by a man who knows how to enjoy the present the typical american la in smooth shaven d essed in a light gray sult suit his customary cold and formal appearance transformed into youthful gayety gaiety ile he Is conspicuous by hla his obviously exaggerated sporty manner ile he wears huge round spectacles one does not find the american woman tourist beautiful having become tourists they no longer have any desire to appear womanly they dress in sport clothes like the men wear heavy shoes cocoa colored bats and carry slung over their shoulders a large money bag instead of a dainty purse from our parisian point of view the wearing of such a horrible costume cannot be understood it Is too practical oan an american passing through paris wanted to see sea the city la in one day in order to accomplish tola this bt be hired a taxi lie ile was wag one of those expressionless onless americans lcy icy faced as the french love to depict them and an architect he had the chauffeur drive past all the great monuments of the capital passing a house that was still under construction he be stopped the taxi and questioned the chauffeur when was this thin building begun about six months month ago answered the driver six months mont lisl 1 in america ym we would have built that shack la in eight days next nest they arrived at the pantheon well that bad a fine piece of work tell me chauffeur how long did it take to build 1 I 1 do not know monsieur perhaps a year or two great scott we could have done dome it in a month P I 1 similar outbursts continued during the balance of the tour but then the chauffeur began to lose temper my customer Is exaggerating he grumbled to himself walt wait a bit my friend ill settle you ton I 1 dont come from montmartre tor for nothing and just then they came to the great church of notre dame ordered the american this Is really splendid I 1 then after a minute and how much time did it take for that raising hla his arms with a stupefied expression the chauffeur exclaimed well I 1 beverl never 1 that la is beyond me that there last night nigh tl I 1 tho the kidder kidded another story told of the american americ an tourist relates to a frenchman from marseilles and as aa Is well known a Is never to be outdone in telling a story the american a fat i meat packer from cincinnati was waa dai scribing how they made sausage meat in france saad he sarcastically la in order to kill a pig and get one ba ham you use implements worthy of primitive man in cincinnati we put the k live pig into one end and of a machine turn the handle and at the other end comes out your choice of sausages bologna I 1 or ham barn nothing said the marsell bals after thinking a minute we to so even better than that our machine works both ways if one makes makei a mistake and the sausage does not no butt our taste we turn the handle the opposite way and get back our pig |