To the great majority of people who find it necessary—for either purposes of business or holiday—to make an ocean journey and to have to bear themselves the cost of travelling, the amount of the steamship fare is usually an portant consideration. On the steamship lines serving the East and Far East there are but two classes of _accomm from which the average foreign traveller can possibly choose—first-class and second. Third-class accommodation is usually not provided, and when it is, it is not such as would appeal;|in the very least to the average ives in the East or business in the East. With the Atlantic services, or at least ome of them, things are far different, and it really seems that, any person, rich or otherwise, can now travel third-class from Europe ito America or vice verse without the loss of any of that "face" which is thought so much of by foreigners. east of Suez. As an excellent example of what we mean, we will refer to a recent voyage of the} Cunard liner Franconia, When this, ship left Liverpool for New York on August 30 she had nearly 900 Passengers on board, and a remarkable fact which characterized the 400 odd third-class ones was that not one of them answered the ordinary description of "emigrant." Instead of being artisans dustrialists going to seek work and 'a fortune, they were every one of. them of the professional class, doctors of medicine, clerics of denomination or another, scientiié of literary professors, Inwyers, ete, They were all American citizens these 400 third-class. passengers: the Franconia, practically all grades of American social life were represented. This favour shown iS
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