The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1905, Page 3

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a ‘ A a and Finally Police, Invasion of Little Peoples h-]- HOVVY SWARMS OF IMMIG stead of Nation Builders in Full Swing. 6,000 ARRIVE EACH DAY. * (gnorant and Unskilled the Rule, and Worst Conditions Here Seem Paradise. ' FEW OF STURDY RACES NOW. Mune, Slave and Latins Make Up! Bulk of Immigration, Which 80 Far for Year Smashes Records, In every seaport of Murope thousands fre clamoring for admission to the: yawning etecrage of the great liners bound for the United States. By the @housands they am passed down Into | the pen-liko inclosures, and by the thousands they are emptied on our whores, The mammoth steamships that steam fn fects to American ports day by day | earinot accommodate half the appll- eants for posaage, The first three monthe of this year show an Increaao of neatly 10 per cent, over 1904, If the Average continues 1,600,000 men, women and children will be brought to the ports of the Western republic this year, Last month there swarmed through the great catch basin on Wills Island 313,48, for the most part Italiana, Hune and Slavs, Within a few hundred of 6,00 crossed the Battery sea wall in Ahe first eleven days of this month. When there land now a bare 6,000 on Ellis Intand ‘tis a dull day. Soon there will be ten and fifteen thousand a day, and otill there remains behind on the * docks of Europe a disappointed horde, Fleets Can't Keep Up. They are hullding leviathan carriers fn every shipyard in Europe to keep abrenst with the allen tide into Amer- fca, Each year sees another fleet of onater boats steaming toward us with ‘dente human cargo in the steerage, | + “and each year the fleet ls too small to meet the rush, A day spent on Ells Tetnnd studying , types and looking over statistics can- ‘not help but impress one with the {dew that the United States {s bound to gufter trom the doterioration of the class of newcomers, Fifteen hundred years asd the Roman Empire wan. swamped by hordes of Huns, Goths, Visigoth, Ostrogothe and kindred races of ble| and little barbarians, The little ones | were Huns, ‘They overflowed southern | aid eastern Europe, By foroe of over- | ‘whelming numbers they conquered great | jarens, but more as a nomadic horde | ‘than as a aettled race, It 1s these little le that are pouring to America now, fore them and behind them come thousands of Italians, little dark- vievged men and women with sharp features nd furtive eyes, Of tho little people, Huns, Slavs and MMallans, 436,083 came to join In the great battle for existence here last year, Twice that number of little people will dominate tthe flood of immigration this year if “ghey can vbtaln accommodations, Way for the Little People, For the Irish, the Anglo-Saxon and the German imuvgrant who helped bulld up the eguntry from its earliest days the } @ldo hae ‘een checked. Only 86,000 came ‘ from Ircland last year, and these nearly boys and young women, ‘Dhere were fow grown men among them, , ‘The Greater part of the little people, almost the total number of the Russians and Finns, are unskilled ond unedu- wateds ‘Thoy come to toll with their hands with pick, shovel or nendle, A few are carpenters, a fow shoemakers, What is practically tho range of their | @kill, / More than two-thirds have no trade. The sprinkling of educated and Bktiled mechanics are es grains of sand to an avalanche, Rusgin and Finland sent us last your 145,107 But a small percentage of theso are Finha. ‘They are aiding In the sos lution of the great servant problem, for the Finnish women make excellent do- AA CONSIGNMENT FROM || mestica, Tt ts not so with the Ruse [oR furely the tend le here put Ad wians, for the greater part unskilled, wotked in the’ fields from infanby, motte except for the tailors adroit with the needle and cutting shears, ‘Of the 812,000 immigrants passed over the borders of the States Inst year | 681,774 were Huns, Slave, Poles, Rus- + ate, yest areas of unocoupted | ° Mend them to swarm to, say the ponti who approve the furloug geal’"of the steamship companies jn ‘The of the} mold thelr peasant huts they have learned to lve on thé crudest» nutriment and amid miserable squalor. from tenements in inland » Buropean. cltles, where they lived in yile quar- ers, In Gur cities, they have heard, between the pavine stones, In Some, como Consequently the tenements of the east alge and other congested’ quarters of the metropolis offer by comparivon splendid ahelte: ‘Thoreln: they may live In hand or on head, hurrying with eagor feot to the destination of which they HE WORLD: MONDAY yx ‘fi {500000 OF EUROPE'S PEOPLE SWARM REGISTRATION iL I il vil ce PASSAGE WEw YORI have dreamed for years, ) ‘ a ‘They pass them: through fourteen separate aisles on Bills Island, clerks check them off beef or pork in the tookyatde, mood-naturedly, Fully inspection system. , First came a boat-load of nearly two thousand Latins—Italians, Sandinians and Sicilia) THousanos ARE fir i Hit IMI GRANTS where they check off The work 1a done ewiftly, mechanically und 5,000 passed through the gates as an Evening World reporter watched the workings of the A tussy Htthe tug brought 17, 1908, (DRAWN I'OR THE EVENING WORLD BY LOUIS BIRDERMAN,) THE (TRANCE TO EL IStRATION WAU) LeapinG TO Mn EEATAIR LL WHERE ih rr aN Hh bul mali 1 aa ult} WAY TO FOR New YORK VISITORS NAITING FOR, FRIENDS IMMIGRANTS 70 RR. DEPOTS FOR GAGCAGE GARGES TAKING WEST exit oO R.R, BARGES RANTS TRAVELING JAIG! West MOVING 3 PLATFORM FOR BAGGAGE TATeT OF THE SLAV IWwvVAGLON ING HERE ON MANY GIANT FLEETS RANTS ARE FILTERED AT ELLIS ISLAND ———= BARGES UNLOADING liv ATs ae and women, dragging thetr children, wblashed out over the asphalt. They had been packed in the barges until you imagined they made the tubby sides bulge, When the bars were taken down from the side doors they just spilled out into the-onen air, ‘Tagged and Numbered. Spreading out én @ vari-colored mass at the first commanding voice, they pile across the broad plasa and up the wide stone steps, Then they are taken in hand by a acore of inapectors, tagged, numbered and e@ubjected to a swift winnowing process, OMclous little doo- tors look at their eyes for signs of the dreaded trachoma, give them a thump on the chest and push them, staggering irresolutely, into the great distribution hall, with its fourteen alsles and half ®@ hundred wire screened pens, In lettered lots they are sent through thes® passages, Jabbering and staring. are tamed for almost every rail. foad and steamboat line that carrios human freight out of New York. At ‘the head of one Bne ta a boy, probably seventeen years old. He is less than four feet in height, hee large feet nnd @ little, sharp-féatured head, He walks out of plumb from carrying a huge case, children ia shunted through hands and feet; trousers, | | endless monotony, Bent to the Yoke, The majority of without complaint, ‘They will among ‘themselves, you will see later toiling with nd, “At they roll in’ on thousand are scores Italy tered ‘peasants, splendidly Hibor in fields’ or trench productive the vast, va go tiere, Few Ttallans here | A slender iittte Slollian woman carry- |!ng ono Infant and a huge cloth trunk | Pooterslooking than and followed by two tiny but sturdy to rejoin the onflowing stream, jmen, ltttte women and very little ehil- |dren, ‘The sameness of feature, the |pteady, swanvhy color of skin, the big vats and vests of stuff like cloth shuffle by in They are ali peasunt folk of Italy, Sardinia and Bletly, them look sturdy- shouldered, used to bear a heavy yoke edly plod along diligently. Ily! few pennies a day and saving dollars, Some of them will brawl and stab and munier; but these outiburaia are mostly The most of them shovel or behind push-oirt and frult the rate of a thousand a day us, and among that feels well rid of; hundreds heayy-witted, unlet- fitted the West and Southwest if they The fou of tts the ship. | thelr the aisle Little hair and Famous and rough the brid | Polink Mnewof It H a faces more erty of expression, teen aisles, duced a $5 gold plene to show he 1s found starving and the Italian beggar no pauper, and becomes a part of a|!8 almost unknown stream cascading down a broad stalr- here, rteen aisles are skin, Even Hope Crushed. painters’ have pict tla the acoudge amd his multitude type they were not a bit unlike these 2,000 that are now herded into the four. feabures are short the noge indented at Phere Is a mixture of Sinv, oant few of 'Dhely h-hewn, Mun and a soon emptied allans and make way 1 out of the depths of y were more ragged and Italians, fal through pov- for all thelr mualrer Na eh ways, Ine fow minutes there hundfeds—only four hundred, howev with a sprinkling of men and boys mostiv hoy: One Bright Gleam In All, It {s the first bit of real, fresh, hu- man color to pass through ‘the devour- Ing catch-basin, ‘The vast majority are girls under twenty, neatly ‘clad, cleanly in uppear- ance and splendid specimens of topust health, Every face ts as quick with intelligence as the other faces ate slow and dia, ‘They are passed through thivr allotted aisles, grabbed singly and in groups by their kin and hustled to the waiting Battory ferry before you have half done enjoying the Wok of them, ‘There were not quite five hun- for 3 and ured At- In | Austrians or Gorman strnin, In them| dred trom tho Green deter fue te you ve yf the Tartar c a to ous They are pe. ro ett ona and | 2urepe, ‘The usual ratio now {8 about undoudt- | daughters of, peas ane dt ne {one to twenty, Ing on @) is not #o much hope of bette dt is the sime with the real Ger- |us of dull curiosity, Most of the women | fins descendants of the gint Gotha, pick and | Ttatlans. Wile’ yo thelr hea The last when ther reat for make o! ate bossa ape Fe pad petay ataerage pens atlor die, They enter our! gates full of|two barges to the tsland lagoon, ond|cloth grip. In @ few seconds he has 8 Tate war ts ‘hope, carrying their bundle or rudeigrip| when the hars were let down, the men! elven hig spediaree, tremblingly pro- down un (Mo) 4 ? oropretor of the saloon, could not iden- SERENADE FOR pubes TUS? scab in. eigen tis BR Het oh was nade of Jim Wone. . “Do it quick,” came tn sleepy. tones \ ? from the hospital and, the meray. wes ho. maker an eusy living. Dollshiny Blake’ Vooal Efforts to Cheer|? “ Spouse in Hospital Roused * Déotors, Patients, Neighbors eTemmbny, “Hummany, thic), wam- ) Pum, wantpum, gessbampum," roared a fustyvotce unter the windows of Roose- arte 2 ASM. when the wev- aeanaveny Ad. about. 3] » whe s termed a. ute unctuated by medio: WEAT 24M ee us f hor the battle brought Surgoone 1 made ie} acicdent'ward, where 1 thirty-seven, ‘third #treet, was, a te dU a nee ats ‘bottles and test. ameashini in the Paulist Fath- nose street, called ‘for Neither this cry, the so! ‘the pol ns final ntl @ policeman from the West Forty- Seventh treet station arrived, ARRESTED IN CHURCH. . Marry B, Washington: colored, aged of Ne : at sixty- nt to the Island. to- strate Omimen, in the Woet sollcltins ant. wae. Ye ou hi he chure! im Wer Scena tation, who wi ee a Hts y gharged with tie fest WITH CHINAMAN Man Grabs Jim Wong and Tosses Into’ a Saloon—John Reilly Is Arrested, but Dis- Him éharged. Somebody broke a plate glasm window in the valaon. of George Coonan, No. 268 West Fifty-third street, last néght Hoj wed Jim Wong, a Chinaman, for’ projectile, and the unfortunate yellow gman [les In Roosevelt with a lacerted ¥ but that wan qulte immaterial | for him, and was overlooked by the complain- Ants and the volcemap who. arrested. the John Retily, of No, pts Wfghth avenue, hronking the wigdow, car th West Bide gran ber day | 264 West Fitty-third pussing the ‘saloon the breaking. m wi can be learned a« lenge came along with the cheerfully inaccurate step “of one who has beef eating a Raines law sandwich, The ht in feetned to In ro tho ‘man, ‘who seized Won c44 hyried him ihead) first through the late glass, After éntering Wy ‘ong sat on his ear in a settee inti) untangled, } (street, Wong his Mund t No. Fro! vt ROBERT WALTER URBAN MISSlird SINCE WEDNESDAY Robert Walter Unban, an Insurance agent, employed by the Prudential Lite Insurance Company, at Riphty-third street and Third avenue, has been mias- ing since dast Wednesday morning and his friends have asked the police to look Mem ia home at Nov 101 West Wifty-third streot last Wednesday marn- Ing ‘to go to ris office, taking with him la pair of bany savas, Avhict he intended to have exchanged, Ho hag not, been einep WW any of) bis, frionds, ite erly was manager for Richard \. ‘ot: . q n IMMIGRANT R grants muted An unéxpected good fortiine for the eecond co them, ‘nd those who had gecond-clans pasmage—fifty-six When ¢ BROUGHT LUCK So Many Salled on La Gascogne that Second-Class Passen- gers Had to Be Given First- | Cldss Accommodation. The unprecedented rush of immi- | nengera on La Gaxeogne, of the ¥ line, whion arrived to-day from Havre. ‘There wore so many Immigrants advon | the ship that the gecond cavin and the! quartem, of thé stewards wore oped | immigrane toips | hose who accommodations: w 1 sent nt ja " [ shin. ry pant of t enh mid until the when they officer France plece o tas The Gael twenty-six pald for | aohes In num | Se ber<were accommodated in the frst | O" Master Bundy “arnegie Hal’. J omte ime Came jas om posers: fam, n hassnce and are dressed in vivid colors, but thelr {figures aro dumpy and dwarfed jehildren are decked out brightly [there are more of them than with the ou A vy studying at ele atures they a through the us minutes are s swarm has of th re app halla er, Soon the as) mur from carrylig record had engaged Was no oblecti vase who had ena to recelve frst xo room, Wa rants, ‘Mh 3. drive immlerants, Mining saloon, a ain A second cabin people vy little sickne Jeoleras were ‘Two stowaways kk shin was a day f “ vo will ber ————-— IRISH MUSIC FESTIVAL. prilit |Gnetty Roctety, to Wntertain on Bane ter Sunday Kyening. He * aman th (upton) y wt the such ns Victor Herbert, Mi NVilllera Stanford, Bi irs at the very end of rosy-cheeked, |raven-tressed Irish gin, clad in a long for frst cabin walled off for the use of the e betrayed to th Khe programmne tx obabs | sera for SbOMt | vom the worka of the old Trish tarda woll as from modorn Irish Last year only 46,380 came here from tho Fatherland, Half a mition Hunk lang came over and double that expected thi Py y sent her quota as w The and |} a ‘bare weden’s 1% les ye PANE lwening each yea Greeks (1,343) ata | than Danes "(s, wme fast year; a Spain gent a paltry and Portugal ont 6.7 Asii mivarded to our ports 1 14.261 Japs—more Utttle tp » are none too tall v less In helght if le people continie to r immigration slulce- wi! prdes of Ltt Peur tn through BLIZZARD KEEPS are a ale ve ny thair 1 with, ny chase 1c 8 provide ‘nlept apart, pt President Sticks toCamp Swap- ping Hunting Stories While Storm Rages—Got Big Cinna- mon Bear Before Snow Came. vat meal n the din hidden tom 4 wtned to A flerce Roosevelt, violent ts the storm that no one ven- Ime Is spent us | Beatih 1 be helt : rit 23, 40 ‘ont er who covers the ter: ritory:wdjagent }o Huntsman Hilly hag. verified the fepert that the President large cinnamon bear with the drawn . Need. nite and lied a ROOSEVELT IN| “CORNELL 18 A PRISONER: Missing Son of Mlajor Believed to Be in House Near Thirty-first Street, $500 OFFER BRINGS CLUE, One of Lester’s Friends admit. He Was With Him Night - of Disappearance, Major Tt. L, Cornell, of the Fourtesath to-day told an March & and has not been seen @ young man prominent tn the militia ‘has admitted under that he was with Lester on the be disappeared, but does not the ofreumstances unter whieh parted, This admission ts ag the most promising clue inthe Seaston of tho police and; tives working on the cage, anda. ther investigation of ¢he moay< nade to-day, May Be Held a Prisonen, Acoonling to the story of the young man’s father who is held prisoner in some hewe ‘Dhinty-ciree Soak aloe eo, ee 40 his frient'e stories, Naval Investigation ToNight. At Broadway and Ares lus companiona Tataved Lester should go uptown with them, but he re- fused, saying he wo! ‘home, His oom) lone gay they remember nobhiny beyond that ohey pamed with Cornel who started south. Tt was) this usual custom to the @ixth avenue ‘ the Rage an 4 tne she De italy a ther learned by questicasn| a you q naval milttiaman, whose prominence icavens ee ra anolsin ‘his name, that mn Lester after partin thelr fNend, but’ the rr fren the military heart: New Hampah/ro, @ fourth street, to-ntet, Kaos WIL De whanau ig aime mama ad $60 in hie pockets at the ® diamond pin, d'amond ring, dia- mond studded Iccket and mold watch and chain, Commissioner McAdoo, who ls a friend of the Cornelis, sent out a feneral alarm end all hospitals have Mhinking phat med while ining shin river, been rearched in vain, Cornell may have been dro’ attempting to beard bhe ti the police have dragged the DRUG HABITS Easily Formed but Hard to Break, . A man down in old Virginia ¢elle of his experience, which points simple and effective way out, He saya: “About 16 years ago my wife, through using coffee and laudanum for rellef of neuralgia, became ade dicted to the habits, continuing un- til she had about destroyed stomach, nerves ind mind. This brought on periods of dementia lasting from one ito two weeks, growing steadily worso, until the $d of August last yenr car family phystelan called in consultation another doctor, had been Resident Physician at oar. State Insane Asylum, “They decided the only hope to place her fn a santtarium, ethers wise she would be hopelessly insane hefore the year was out. On investi- gation we found the charges for such & patient beyond our means, ao it was necessary to face the worst:at home, “Upon the advice of a friend she stopped the uso of coffee, of which she was very fond, and began the use of Postum Food Coftee as a rem- edy for tho constipation which ac» companied the attacks. The result was more than we expected, It not only relleved the constipation great~ ly, but aided her to break the landa- nura habit, for when she found here self possessed of the desire to ‘take something’ a cup of strong Postum would allay the desire and soothe and rofresh her, “This led to the regnlar use of Postum and Grape-Nuts, that vlso seemed to nourish and strengthen tho overwrought nerves. She stead- ily got better and better, and to-day, linstead of being in the insane asy- lum, she is still with us in her own home, sounder in mind and body than for several years past, The at+ tacks of dementia have stoadily grown milder and loss frequent, un- ti! now we have every reason to be# eve that she will soon be filly rex atored—sound in-mind and body, “T Imow this has been accom= plished entirely by the ald of Postim and Grape-Nuts, for not since thas consultation, over @ year ago, has she taken a particle of medicine of ny sort. ayn writing this my greatest de- sire is to bring the use of your prod- ucts {o the notice of some other uns fortunate trembling upon the brink ef that most terrible of all calamiy ities, Insanity, and I thoroughly hee lieve and know that leaving off cof- fee and other dru food and drink is the surest moana” by which it can be averted, 1 sive the name of our family pbysiclan, ‘iso the consulting physician, whe’ can vouch for the truth of what f have written. You are at ib ni 6 Company and for leat hait ‘had been taking a milstary course om | the traning slip New Hammpahive, The 4" to us | HNP) and taking good ea SN a

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