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Travel is pretty expensive these days, and times are getting so that even when a person is dead he can't be assured that he will get any concessions from the steamship companies. A shipment of Yucatan Indians, bound for Cambridge, were forced to discard their personal identity before they could even get half-fare tickets...
...Morse '99, purchasing agent for the University, opened negotiations with the Ward Steamship Line for the transportation of the mummified Indians from Yucatan to Cambridge. Mummies were just wasted on the Ward Steamship Line. "Passage costs just $100 per person," they told Mr. Morse...
...Canadian Pacific Steamship Company last week notified the North Atlantic Steamship Conference that it would withdraw from that body. Inasmuch as it is through the conference that the steamship companies regulate their trans-Atlantic fares and keep equal the fees charged passengers for equivalent services, the Canadian Pacific's withdrawal is tantamount to a declaration, if not of war, then of protest against the practices of a competitor...
Said Walter Maughan, General Passenger Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railways (which own the steamship company), at Montreal last week: "It is not unusual among important enterprises when action occurs that is considered inimical by any one interested, for the decks to be cleared. . . ." What was such inimical action or by whom done, he, prudent, did not state. But it is well known in Montreal, as in Liverpool, that Canadian Pacific operators were vexed at the recent announcement of the Cunard Line that the Cunarders Athenia, Antonia, Ansonia, and Letitia would be reconditioned to carry only tourist third class...
...filled Chicago's Hotel Sherman exhibition rooms all last week. Practically every foreign country where U. S. tourists go set up displays of arts & crafts and lithographs of its scenic beauties.* U. S. railroads, the national parks, states with recreation sites, travel agencies countered the foreign lure. Steamship lines displayed the magnificences of their services...