THE CRUISING SEASON.
More ships and passengers devoted to purely pleasure cruises—many of them circling the globe—leave New York, the steamship lines tell us, than embark from any other port in the world. The cruising season has just begun, and to provide for the growing traffic most of the trans- atlantic lines' have found it necessary to divert some of their finest vessels from the usual transatlantic service to foreign cruising. About 80,000 travellers, it is estimated, will leave New York for foreign cruises this season, the total bill for their fares being about $10,000,000. The cruises vary from fourteen-day round trips to the West Indies, costing about $150, to " around the world " cruises lasting five months, with a minimum fare of $2,000. Americans, it would appear from the bookings, are increasingly interested in South America, the Orient and India. American interest in India has been greatly stimulated in the last few years, as the sales of books dealing with that country and its problems and the amount of space given to Indian news in the daily papers indicate. IVY LEE. New York, Wednesday, January 29th.
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