Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1913 — FEWER ARE GOING ABROAD [ARTICLE]

FEWER ARE GOING ABROAD

Bteamshlp Agents Blame Decrease of 30 Per Cent. Chiefly on the t Recent Floods. New York.—Dp to May 8 the firstcabin passenger traffic between this port and Europe was 357 ahead of the same period in 1912 west-hound and 138 bookings ahead east-bound. The seoond-cabin passenger traffic showed an Increase of 16.000 west-bound and 2,434 east-bound from Jan. 1 to May 8 over last year. Traffic east-bound from now on will be about 30 per cent below last year, according to the steamship agents. This, they say. is chiefly due to the number of cancellations of bookings made in January and February by persons who were sufferers by the floods in the middle west and by the tornado in the Mississippi valley. Generally the year of the presidential election is a poor one for foreign travel, but 1912 was a very good year Cancellations have been made in the last few days not only on the older Atlantic liners, but also oa the firstcabin bookings of the Imperator. Mauretania and Olympia. The # Atlantic steamship companies look to the middle west and the west for the bulk of their summer tourist traffic, and the sudden falling off in the demand for cabin accommodation and the cancellations came as a surprise to them. A few of the more optimistic agents hope that there will be a boom in the European tourist traffic later on. but it will have, to come soon to have any effect on the trade. a, .. .. ilx-^ Conducted party travel Is also light, according to the various tourist agents, and there ia not much hope or it picking up this year The biggest carty this summer will be the I.OQQ

persons who are going to Zurich to attend the International Sunday school convention, to be held In June. They are to be }aken over by Cook’s agency in two chartered steamships. There will be a universal exposition at Ghent, Belgium, which will draw a, number of tourists, and another exposition at Earl’s court. London.