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SE’@W@N USEE W w‘\\ww y CATCHIES NORTH S. COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGR ATION M Bt B £ g =t ng | E XAMINING THE IHH‘I)GRANTS #PERS ~TRE SMUGGIIER/ WAS ASSISTED OYER I THE RAILING "' @ / h at Angel T passer a hich the steerage ks. large baggage arily subje g 1 bundle ' que 1t- rman_ dccent an can’t I, without ex- o there when fon of the ship and the lit- e Chinese immi- nts were all ¢ “Gone to 4 1" explained some one, “to be fumigated and to awalt ex- amination an They go over 0~ nln”uv—n\-l\l\ nine Japs, forty- nese, nine Koreans and the stow- away."” The stowaway had boarded the ship at Japan and w 1d in quarantine for trachoma, a contagious disease of the eyelid. “Hi, ther called an authoritative volce. ““The oing back. Every- boat is thing finished for to-day? Come aboard.” There was a small progressive newsboy, who had managed to get on board some way. He sold all his papers, but was trightened almost out of his wits when threatened with fumigation. “You'll have to go with the Japs over to Angel Island to be fumigated,” they told him. “Lord, sirs, yer don't meant It, sure? You'uns won't do it, will yer, honest?” The voice was trembling and full of plead- ing, 80 on promising not to let it occur again the little fellow was spared the sul- phur bath. 1_ SAN FRANCISCO =\ JOSEPH 3. SPEAR JRN -S.SURVEVYOK. OF CUSTOMS Fonr, on the wharf and counted “One short,” sald Mr. Geffeney. th e “One fellow left over there sick the explanation. my - - “All rig Come along, you e Right abe Up the there and 1 moking r Gaelc. The litt Koreans in pa into an awkward board, followed b: awe-inspiring i1 They were b dropping Or death “Menjah!" de tioner. Each handed out h! or was sent to sear baggage. The ly guarded wrapped in a face! The first or 5 = & hustled out. There medical st P iy » veid in no wise r ' 1 one, more progr . The next afternoon the Gaelle steamed he wharf at fic Mail dock. She r the ted and fumi- ed, and h L two weeks' rest. The Chin s were aboard k< « 1 Chinese fmmigra he spectal Chinese Bureau ials from that department for the n Aristo- cratic » cabin. A Chinese merchant of fabulous Wth, with his wife, babies and serv were the first “Velly glad.” sald the little ; “velly glad see land: 1 were re- turned resident was busy e pho- n. When Celestial ank and three re- showing up his ce was y trotted down th away into the city. The two maining Chinese cab! attended to with Ii to go, but for the p there was more tro cells of the Broadw (‘h:‘lr nrative gibber] when the Chinese come to decide their fate: trotted out into the diff opportunities of the w perhaps to be bundled their own crowded-to- The Japanese find It e “Here comes the Caroline with the Jape and the Koreans,” sald the Spanish Inter- preter to the Japaness Examiner. “Get ready for work, Geffeney The Caroline, which had brought the steerage passengers from the fumigating station at Angel Island, drew up to the dock and the sailors made fast the big ropes to the posts; then immigrants of as- sorted sizes, types =and nationalities vday plebelan t up in the ry chatter aw \'( the time ack again Into wing domaln, iy iohg 0 I 3 FYRNEY