The Ferry to Europe.

The article presents on various developments related to Europe. Westbound transatlantic passenger traffic for the year 1492 totaled eighty-eight persons, carried in three ships. There was no eastbound traffic. That did not begin until the next year, when two ships, the Nifia and the Pinta, cleared for European ports. There are no, exact statistics of the number of persons carried to Europe on the Nifia and the Pinta, but the total was below the west-bound traffic in 1492. Then, as now, the foreigner arriving on the U.S. shores expressed immediate admiration for the American girl, and doubtless that was a potent reason for the failure of some to return who had booked with Columbus on his first tour to see America first.