MILLIONS FOR ENGLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 312, 27 May 1911, Page 10

MILLIONS FOR ENGLAND.

WHAT THE HARVEST OF TlIJi CuUOXATION WILL BE. DUMPED DOLLARS. New York, March id. London wilt experience the greatest American invasion in history'this summer. The rush of tourists td England to-witness the Coronation festivities is expected to break all trans-Atlantic steamship records. Fabulous prices are being offered for accommodation of any kind. During the six weeks immediately preceding the Coronation seventy first-class liners will leave Ne>v xork for Northern European ports, carrying 25,000 firstclass, 18,000 second-class and many steerage passengers. There will be at least 75,000 Americans in Loudon during Coronation week. In addition to the enormous number of tourists that will be landed in England from New York during May and June, many Americans who have spent Hie winter abroad will converge on London. The number leaving here early in tiie summer would be much greater, but for the impossibility of booking berths. Steamship offices throughout the country are besieged daily by prospective travellers who are willing to pay exorbitant rates for berths. The 'Mauretania and Lusitania will carry a total of 000 first-class passengers on their tirst June trips, and another 1000 in the second-class. Many secondclass passengers are persons who were unable to book first-class state-rooms and are paying higher rates than the ordinary second-class tariff. Eighteen additional staterooms have been built on the Lusitania and Mauretania. the berths being carried straight aft. All the staterooms are being booked as full as possible. •'CORONATION BOAT." The White Star liner Adriatic, which sails on June 12th, instead of ®n June 14th. as originally arranged, is called the "Coronation boat." Every berth is taken. Five thousand American sightseers for the Coronation will sail in the HamburgAmerican liners Kaiserin Augustc Victoria, Amerika, Cleveland, Cincinnati, President Grant, President Lincoln, Uliiechor, and Hamburg, all of which may be classed as ''Coronation" steamships. Another 5000 passengers, including 2000 first-class, will sail on the George. Washington, Kronprinz Wilhelm, Bremen, Kronprinzessin Ceeilie, and Barbarossa, the Coronation steamships of the North German Lloyd line. The Kaiser Wilhelm 11., Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, and the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, the last sailing from New York on May 18, are full, There are fourteen different steamship services between New York and the Mediterranean, and many wealthy travellers, who are unable to secure berths on the liners that call at English ports, have booked to LisDon, Gibraltar, or one of the Italian ports, with tlie intention of proceeding overland to London. Mr. John Hays Hammond, who will represent the United States at the Coronation, wilt sail on the White Star liner C'cdrie, with Mrs. Hammond, the members of his family, and a special suite, which will include naval and military oflieers and a secretary. A rear-admiral and n brigadier-general will accompany him. MIDDLE-CLASS VISITORS. While the majority of first-class travellers are wealthy persons, including practically all the so-called ''millionaire" families of New York and the Middle West, thousands of Americans of moderate means are making their first trip to Europe this summer. The Coronation pageant has stirred the ambitions of every American worker, and many men of the clerk and artisan classes, who have benefited by the wonderful prosperity of the United States during the past few years, are able to go abroad for two or three weeks in order to spend a few days in London at this time. Tourist parties of this description are beinsr organised in several cities. Some of the travellers will have only a week in London, as they cannot spare any more time from their work. The Mauretania. will land her passengers at Fishguard 48 hours before the Coronation, and some of them will return to New York on the following Tuesday. The rush for accommodation on the westward-bound steamers during Julv and August will lie even greater than the eastward rush, for manv Americans who arrived in London via the Mediterranean will endeavor to sail from an English port. Some of the steamships are already hooked for Julv and August.. One traffic manager declared yesterday that if his line could put five additional vessels into the Transatlantic service for the next five months they would be filled on every voyage.