The Evening World New York May 22, 1903 To And From Europe The annual flight to Europe has now fairly begun, with the promise of a full passenger list throughout the season. This means that perhaps 100,000 persons will go abroad for a brief or protracted stay. How much will they spend? With some whose purses are long, paying $1,800 merely for stateroom accommodations, is it an extravagant estimate that the average expenditure will be at least $1,000. One hundred million dollars! It is an enormous amount to pay for a pleasure trip. Some parts of it, as going into the coffers of Mr. Morgan's shipping trust, will remain at home in the land where it was amassed, but the great bulk of the capital will be distributed in England and on the Continent. The transatlantic traveller has become a factor to be reckoned with in our balance of trade with Europe. What is Europe giving us in return? Among other things, a bunch of 6,000 immigrants, who arrived at Ellis Island yesterday. Is not this one day's consignment from abroad almost sufficient in itself to liquidate the debt of $100,000,000? Does the statement appear extravagant in the light of the probability that their lifetime earnings here may not attain the high figures of the tourists' expenditure? Perhaps, but in this newly arrived 6,000 we have the raw material out of which that finished product, the American workman, is evolved, who makes possible Mr. Carnegie's boast in London of our industrial leadership of the world. They represent an improved quality of immigration from whom good citizens will come and from whose children we shall get inventors and Senators and perhaps a Steel Trust president, another barefoot, country chore boy.