Betty B.
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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and if upon the roofs of new york it would make white hundreds yes thousands of houses if hung upon clothes-lines there would float in the breeze eight thousand bed-spreads ten thousand blankets and seventy seven thousand towels there would be also ten thousand table-cloths forty five thousand napkins and more than five thousand aprons required for the cooks and stewards as well as doilies and ship's lingerie of one kind and another
The blanket stretched on one line would reach 15 miles, the sheet 16 miles, and the tablecloths and napkins just about as far as from Washington to Baltimore.
No washing is done on the ship, yet none of the table linen is used more than once.
I don't know what the weekly wash costs, but I am sure it is at one with the other expenses of a great modern steamship.
The liner deluxe floats upon dollars, and the thousands of us who cross the Atlantic must pay the bills.
These boats are the last word in luxurious travel.
The Majestic, for instance, has a suite costing $7,000, and its occupants pay for their passage at the rate of about $50 an hour for six days spent on the water.
For the price of a working man's house, they get a drawing room, a sun porch, two bedrooms, a maid's room, and three baths.
The charge includes passage for four persons.
Indeed, I can tell you that it takes much more money to go to Europe
these days than it did only a decade ago then the minimum first class fare on the great ocean liners was 125 and there were comfortable ships from new york to liverpool with a minimum charge of 75 i have crossed on a second class liner that is a steamer without any first class for 55 and i once came from london to new york on such a ship for 35 on that trip i had room board
and the voyage for $3.50 a day, or less than the room rate at any of our best city hotels.
Today, the minimum first-class passenger on a liner deluxe is around $275, and that of the second class is $150 or more.
And besides, there are an infinite number of incidental expenses.
We have more than 2,000 passengers aboard, and I venture 1,200 at least have paid $1.50 for the use of a deck chair.
at that rate on every voyage the ship will net eighteen hundred dollars for its chairs alone think of paying two hundred and seventy-five dollars as the rent of a furnished home on the ocean for six days and then being charged one dollar and fifty cents to sit on your veranda furthermore i have been told that i am expected to give two dollars more as a fee to the deck steward who folds up this chair every night and unfolds it again in the morning he does not even move it about
for each passenger is given a place for his chair and is expected to stick to it and then the other fees that the steamship publicity literature informs the traveler are proper during the voyage we are told that the average passenger on a big liner is expected to spend thirty dollars in tips the table steward will be satisfied with a five-dollar bill although some pay half as much more or even twice as much the room steward's fee is another five dollars
The bath steward should have 25 cents every time you take a bath.
The library steward must have quite as much for each book and sheet of notepaper he fetches.
And the smoking room steward expects a percentage on your profits at pool betting or poker and the cost of your drinks.
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