JAPAN: Open, Orient!''
The "Open, Sesame!" to Europe was spoken for millions of U. S. citizens when great trans-Atlantic lines established the moderate priced "Cabin Class" service and the bargain-rate "Tourist Third."
Up to last week the trans-Pacific lines had not thus "opened" the Orient to modest purses. Then into Seattle harbor chugged softly M. S. Hikawa Maru.
Her owners are one of Japan's great families, the House of Iwasaki. She flys the "N. Y. K." flag of the Japan mail steamship company, famed Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Beaming with satisfaction her passengers debarked from the first trans-Pacific "Cabin Class" ($250), from the first trans-Pacific "Tourist Third" ($125). Hitherto it has cost some $300 to cross the Pacific in First and to cross in plain Second or plain Third has been even more infra dig; than on the Atlantic.
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