The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1913, Page 8

‘ eo rere —= ———- es eee sep re. "THE EVEWING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1913.' Ten New Immigrants From as Many Lands at Ellis Island ‘ Tell Why They Came to America. and How They Hope to Succeed oS ALENTIAT SS CD e eo) POLE, ALSE RIAN QREEN THE STORIES OF Giovanni Martini........... wee. Sieily Lars Johnson... ... 20.66.00. cece eeeee ee Sweden Paulo Constantini...................... Athens Josen Wapowski. ese... Poland Michael O’Connor.............. Treland Otto Schultz... .............cceceeeeee ss Bavaria Alex Nickoloff..... 006.00. c cc cceeeeeeeess Roumania Alexis Popoff...... cetoed Crea) | eee Karl Lewenhaupt ............... . Holland 1418 MLAND t the sieve, through which is eifted the half soore lands, The Evening World reporter learned through «lfb-tongued yearning liens from = the [Sage gate the story of why they come, world’s four Bom lany others who were asked “Why do bd oe *} you come?” shook thelr heads and come to thts land of the ¢ree with its Constitution and public achools because of intoleraiie conditions in the land that gove them birth. Others come from sen- timental reasons, drawn by the love) ‘vorne for others gone before. Some—and & Cow get dy Uncle Sam's keen-eyed svardlane—come here to escape the pen- alties for their misdeeds in other lands. ‘The others, the rest by far, come here to make money. And of this latter class ome come to atay and other come re- Golved to gather wealth and return whence they came. smiled, Others ecowled upon their qu tioner with suspicious eyes, fearing a harmful motive behind the interroga- tion. Glovanni Martini t# a chunkily bullt and swarthy son of Sicily's sunny isle, Alone he journeyed to the new world, leaving his wife and three children in the care of kin in his native town of Montflore. ‘Perhaps I go back; perhaps later I bring them here,” he sald. For ten of his twenty-eight years Martini bas been planning to come to SPANIARDS of frugality and scrimping, he has made his dream an actuniity. “I @o to work and I wave in a week more than T make altogether in Mont- flore. I have many friends in Amertea and they have made money. Some of them ‘have gone back to Italy and they will work no more, I am a laborer and I will do anything. M I like to stay in America and by and by T send for my wife and children, But perhaps 1 go back when I have saved some money and live happy !n Montfiore.’ His reply is echoed by many of his kind, But it was a totally different reason that brought Lara Jonson from his farm and home for seven score years and ten, near Gothenburg, Sweden, His reason in entirely one of sentiment. Twenty years ago his two sons came to America and settled on a farm in Minnbsota and twenty yearn have pasned since the father har looked upon his boys. “And now they are fathers of large families themsely he said, “and I want to see them before I die. T have been a lonesome old man for over ten years, since my wife died, and so I have sold my little place in Sweden, Tam going to see my boys and thetr boys and after a while I will go back to die in Sweden.” Paulo Constantini of Athens knows exactly why he came to America, There was no hesitancy in his answer, Paulo eal << dh d DUTCH | “For many years I have wanted to have a business of my own It is hard for a Greek to get @ start In his own land, but here in America every one has An opportunity. 1 will go to work for some one for a while and then 1 will take up a business of my own, Tam ing to stay in New York, for I have several relatives and many friends in rents higher in America than at home. “But we will ive like we did in land,” he replied, “until we have som big enough to work, too, No, 1 de live, for most ff my Josen Wapowskt, the Polish tmmi- «rant who has journeyed to America with a wife and five children, is go- tng to Buffalo, where in the Polish cclony he has many friends who have preceded him to the land of golden op- portunity. “In Poland I was a farm hand and labored from daybreak until after dark and I earned hardly enough to feed iny babes," sald the sturdy Pole, “For years my friends tn Buffalo have been writing to me to come to America, where they told me I could make more in @ week than I made tn almost two months of labor back home, I talked it over with my wife and we began to save what little we could. We spent only what we were forced to and now, after almost five years of hardship, we had enough to pay our passage and keep wrote to me that they are doing weil. After the wile died and my girl married I thought I bad better join the lada in America, I had a little trucking busi- ness in Cork and I sold out, and I think the boys and me will try trucking in Chicago. It's getting to be a sad land jis Ireland, All the lads are coming ww America, and only the old men are | staying behind and trying to make up their minds to make the crossing too. Down on the Florida Keys there Isa considerable colony of Spaniards who e engaged in tht sponge fisheries. | they have been most successful and their success has prompted Jose Peres to leave his little farm near Pamplona, Spain, Jose is not yet thirty and for several years he has been restless, has heard of the success of others in the New World and finally gained came to America with his wife and two Choosing at random from men of @ America and at last, after several years children to engage in business and make money. us awhile.” enough courage to cross himself, It was explained to the Pole that} “If I do not find Florida and the he would find foodstuffs, clothing and’ sponge fishing to my liking I will go to Telephone Girls at Big Hotels Tell of “Husband’s Excuses,’ _But—“Women Are Better Liars. Than Men,” Say the \ wwe weisTLE? oven THE PHONE The Excuse Makers’ Merry- Go-Round in Full Blast Between 5 and 7 o’Clock, and Not a Few, With Plausible Explanations for Staying Out Late, Are Women. 7 HEN you drop into a telephone booth in en uptown hotel and etate in strong, confidential fones to the loved ones at home that you are detained in town on im- pertant Susinens, don't for a minute, or even @ fraction thereof, suppose that you are getting away with anything, far as the operator is concerned, Ask the girl et the ewitchboard in any big hotel what she thinks of the portion of the day that comes between 6 and 7 o'clock. They will inform you that ts known as the “Staller's Carnival.” That is the time when there ts a steady stream of men (and a few wo- men incidentally) Hning up four and five deep in front of the desk of the lady of the wires. Some of them bear thoughtful expressions. Those are the ones who haven't got their stories quite letter perfect. But most of them can reel off glibly enough and come of the booth with that pecular exp: ion of peace and good-will that follows hav- ing got away with it. The girl at the ewitchboard secs as much of Mfe as anybody on earth and most of them have formed their own Conclusions about it Ever etand by the wire-plusging board waiting for @ call and watch the presiding genius of it as she makes her mental rating of the telephoners— | avencies for another one, or your money te'ephonies eome of them are in her! blow off the ferryboat while you were timation? counting it and you've got to scurry There once was a suburbanite who] @round and borrow rome more. has cloped with a chorus girl and you are busy hunting around employment telephoned to his office that he couldn't At ¢ f the biggest New York ho- come to work because the laundry |tels at Forty-second street and Broad- wagon had been wrecked by @ collision| way is a gis] Who has worked there f with an automobile, and he hadn't w long time and has had manifold ex- @ clean collar, Lota of the excuses|periences. The other day an individual beard by the sirens of the switchboard | in 4 Stetson hat and with all the ear- ere just as weird. marks of a moving pleture Western Of course, there's the old, old one} millionaire came up to the rd. He about being kept at the office late on| got his call and paid hin dime at t ome sort of special work on Which the} same instant as & monocied exquisite whole future welfare of the family de-| from that dear Paris, who has acquired pends; but, according to the helloines| some recent fame in this country, war ef Broadway, that is golng out of|ianguishingly regarding the operator, date. It's better form now to ay the The broad-brimmed man from the ear han brokep down, @ the chauffeur Went ecowled at hun Ul Be got nis ——_—— n er and retired into a booth. the Stetsonite turned to the girl Attle gal," quoth tn the accepted Then manner of the big-hearted Westerner, ‘if that feller annoys you tell me and Vil shove his monocle out of the back of his head Then he strode hack to the ba ‘Well, what do you think of that} wluck?” quoth the damsel of th board, “He's willing to bust monocles but he's been here a month and I've ex even seem & Quarter out of bim * WOMEN ARE. $ oer VAR! Lire ra MEN” “Dearest,” said he in the most con- vincing manner, ‘you know poor old Jim, well something fearful has hap- pened to him. I'm now at Bellevue Hospital with him, Poor chap, he was run down by a street car and his legs cut off—yes, both of them,” If he'd loosen up it would be a whole| “Richard,” rejoined the voice from| fire answer that made the bestower of lot better than hearkening to him doing| Whitestone, in firm and unfaltering | the five deem ft well spent, : the Corse Payton act at the gink with] toner “this is the frat time I ever But when all is said and done, It's the the swell city clothes and the fas-| heard that they had an orchestra in| shank of the day that sees the hotel einating manner.” the hospital.” central’s busiest time, The exe Tt was at the same hotel that the] ft Was not til then that “Richard” | makers’ merry-xo-ro nd im then In full r evening “one of the boys" came; remembered that he had forgotten to | blast, and if you don’t guess that not a In and bilthely called up a number in {lose the door of the booth and that| few of the parties with plausible ex» Whitestone, Long Island. He appeared | the strains of “Row, Row, Row,” were to be so fearfully upset over some! merrily Miter n to the wire, calamity that the girl at the switeh-| There is one hotel on Broadway which Lowrd couldn't refrain trom “listening | bas been famous for many years as the in" and then we will all be happy and perhaps some day we will zo back to Poland for a visit ‘t want to go back there to friends are here | thin city, and the rest are saving to come.” Paulo's ambition is the ambition of | Seven strapping Irish sons preceded | most Greek immigrants, according to] Michael O'Connor of Cork to Amert thoxe who are familiar with alien mat-| They have found America to thelr lk- ters. The Greeks are business ..en,|ing as have so many other sons of :he} they say, and are not satisfled to work | Emerald Isle, for oth “The lads are all in Chi d they He! Ls KOSSAK e money saved and soon the boys will be ITALIAN South America, where there are 80 | many Spaniards and where I have many friends. And perhaps af Tam succeswful | I will go back to Pamplona and buy the Inn, for tt is owned by my uncle, an vld man, and then I will be a man of stand- ing and will marry and have no wor- ries for mamana,” For well-nigh thirty years Otto Schultz of Bavaria has tolled and serimped on a bit of a farm ®hat hardly yielded enough, after the taxes were paid, to keep him and his family. “And now I have sold aut and I come “Hello’-ines | wire-tappers, confidence men and other gentry of that stripe. There are two Kirls there who have probably heard more Ittle deals “put acrot than any lothers in New York The telephone ts @ favorite instrument to use in work of this sort and if the girls “listened in" they could, If they would, have “tipped off" Easy Mark to the pitfall being prepared for him. At another hotel further tp the atreet there 1s @ musical gen, who fre- quent the telephone booths. He ta a composer of popular songs, but like some others in that profession he can- not write a note of music. When he has an inspiration he strolls into a booth, sits down at the phone and whistles nis composition off to his pub- Ushers. If they 0, K. it the girl in sure of @ good tip, If not his dime ts given up with a fearful scowl of agony. Most obliging of telephone Venuses jis the girl who works at this same hotel. One evening a stout, jovial look- ing personage strolled up to her and laid down a five-dollar bill. ‘That's yours,” said he, “if you'll be stenographer for five minutes.” sir!” “I mean telephonically, of course,” he Ihastened to explain, "ve been out with the bunch and I want to try to square myself, You call up my wife and say you are my stenographer and that I've started for home without wasting time over calling up. 1 was working late and that delayed me, ‘This appeared to be an easy way of acquiring the five, so the obliging young woman did as she was asked. A voice that resembled the freesing blast of a January Diigeard wafted toily back, “Well, It's most remarkable that I've been calling up the office for the last three hours and the central told me that no one answered the phone,” it! bilzzed. “Oh, that's because we disconnected it in order that the boss could work without being disturbed,” was the rapid for staying out late are nen, Why then you don't know New planations 8 than thy of n are better Il Brownie” Me BAVARIAN (GERMAN) ITAL to America where I can buy almost a hundred times more land for what I sold my place for, For several years I have read of the irrigation farms of Colorado and I will go there and buy me a place and then I will send for the frau and my three girls. My boy ts serving in the army, and in two years he will be dis- harged and he will come quickly, My »oy does not like the army, but he must serve, We will not go back to the F therland to live, Perhaps sometime w go for a visit.” Alexander Nickoloff, hardly knew why he came, man of middle age, panled by his wife and @ strapping daughter. Now that he has turned his back on Roumania he has no desire to » the country again, “1 will go to work. I can do any labor with my hands," he @atd. “In Rou- mania I was a shepherd, but it ts bitter cold, and I could earn but little. heard of the big farms of America, and I would like to go to the sheep country and buy a flock of my own. I do not want to go back, I want to stay here Alexis Popoft was a Russian Cossack, For yeara he rode tha steppes with his fighting fellows. Then his brother de- parted to Western Canada to farm, and the tall Cossack of the Don has com with his family to Join the brother. I served my country for fifteen years. sald the ex-noldier, “I fought against the Japanese, and I have been almost frogen to death many times. After m, brother began to write how well he was doing on his Canadian farm I got to thinking, and so I write to my brother He a and was accom- the Italians, the Germans, Swedes, the Russians, the Lithuan! the Huns, Finns, Chinese, Turks and other typical New Yorkers to hurry home and leave the city to the Irish, for it Is so close to Patrick's Day that It is just the same as if it was the day of the blessed saint. The shamrock {s all here, and the last of it was unloaded this very morn- ing—ten thousands sprigs of it by one vessel, while through the transatlantte mail as many more twigs came in le! tera from the old folks at home, or the lads and lassies who have not forgotten the ones that went away across the sea, And the shillelahs! Crates of them came over to remind the typical New Yorkers that they'd better leave be the Irishman when he chooses to cele- brate the day of his patron saint. The blackthorn sticks will be seen in the parade on — Monday-in-the-morning. Shamrocks and blackthorns have been sent to New York's loyal Irishmen for States Express Company's Build- Rector street no emulate subway guards when fail to stop their cars on an im- te level with the floor, » longer do they Fifa operators in the United Ing at No. 2 longer they ed warn passengers the Roumantan, | AN SWEDES and said I would come to America and we would farm together. I have served the Czar and my country, and now I will serve myself. “Once when I was a small boy I met an American artist in my native clly Gf Rotterdam,” said Karl Lewenhaupt, © and he told me about his land. I never forgot what he sald and as I grew older I read everything I could about y land. I was in the cheese, milk and but- ter business and I have done well, and new when I am past forty I come to see the country I have read and heard so much about. I am going into bus! ness here in New York and then I will send for my wife and five children Some day I will go to Niagara Falls and perhaps I will see Washington and the President.” or have read of the marvelous oppor- tunities in America or they meet immi- grants who have returned with eeem- ingly fabulous fortunes which they have plucked from the ever-filled lap of the land of freedom, Every ship that en- ters the port is bringing them in end almost every ship that departs is tak out many who have realized thelr dreams. And there are many In the course of & year who come to find the doors belt ed against them, There was the glori- ously robed Algerian who was turned from the threshold. He confessed to being a Mussulman. That creed teaches polygamy. e Algerian was not mer- ried but the Inspector asked him if &e helleved In polygamy. He replied “yes, The law says no alien who Is @ polyga- mist or who preaches or delieves in polygamy shall enter, When the Whistle Blows To-Night, “Leave the HEN the whistle blows this very W day it will be @ signal for all the City, to the Irish.’’ the great day by their own peop! thelr own countries and the iritheaae with a love for his old mother country may well picture now the quiet ecemes upon the banks of the Shandon, te Barrow, the Erne and Blackwater, With @ it of shamrock in the lapel of his long-tatled coat, with his atiok in his hand, and with the parade under way Monday, the bells of the Cathedral will atrike up and many’s the Irishman who will think of the belle of Shandon as he passes by the great twin spire on Fifth avenue, at the foot of whieh will stand—none other than Cardinal Farley. Then after the parade! Or for just @ ttle bit before the parade, there will be @ recourse to @ wee drap of something warming. Along with the shamrock and the blackthorn taken from the hold of one steamehip there were 100,000 galions of good potheen. But there are many of the Irish in Mew York, and it is not euch a vent dea ef the stuff imported by one ship ag you would be inclined to think. It would give only one good drink to one million of us—and there is at least Us Irish New Yorkers |» Millon of aaaeetenaeennaanantos The Latest in Skyscraper Elevators, When a car ts brought to a full stop @n attachment on the lever or controller automatically Hghts a strong incandes- cent with @ reflector upon tt, and this 1s focused on the threshold ef the elevator. The poorest-sighted passenger could not fail to discover any difference in the levels of the car and the fi ntering and leaving thelr cars to, the circumstanees. loor unier “Watch your step,” varying It once in| Elevator operators ma: af y Mi t a while with a "Mind your step," just) blond stenograpiers and acunis Site to shock wandering purists messenger boys {) this building If the ‘The building mannagement bas found| wish, to thelr heart's content “fl a better plan—a veritable Maxim! need they occupy thelr thn eilencer for raucouartoned operasore, assengere egaiges dapges, And so it goes, They elther have friends _