New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-02
THE EMIGRANT SYSTEM. No. ILL.,
BY Az EaI6RASr.

although anchored n the river IS rolling considerably and
there il hand rope this the ladder of the after hatch
way. What bad smell" did you say This is nothing
the people have been board only "a hours But be
careful the accumulated grease and filth OF the "a hours
have made the ladder and the deck below slippery asce
We'll here we are safely the bottom Feel sick. Ell
Well tie smell is rather rancid but YOU viii soon become
accustomed to H. you think not' Wait little and
,hal see Upon this deck the steersge passengers will
be conveyed to New-York The hight between the two
decks seven feet This space is however curasd some
hreefourhs Of foot by the beams which support the
uprer deck However, the law demand. that 81 not
" than six feet of space shall intervene between the
decks should not crumble.
Between the fore and after seerages, partition has
been erected Formerly both were lodged together
and sometimes men and women were placed IN the same
bertl without regard 10 decency or consanguinity ny
formerly mean not more than four years ago. Bys
recent act of Parliament the divided, the
male. occupying the forward and the females the after
seersges The law however is far from being enforced
have shown in my secondartice shall have occa
sion TO refer to this subject at greater length IN suose
quont article.
human beings will eat, drink and sleep wll prepare
food for cooking will keep food for eating will dress and
undress cleanse aad become filthy again. FOX eight mortal
weeks-s6 days and nights.
we are now after much rolling and tumbling supposed
be standing the extreme end OF The ship Al our
back ere the stern windows. through which little light
Of the water dsshng in they are ope ned and little
some air admitted The width OF the ship at this point
hardly center sne SNcls out some ~ rect
more The steerago looks Ike long and gloomy
tunnel IFS roof broken at distant intervals by
bstchways, down whose shsftlike aperures the light
of day descends Each side Of this tunnel exhibits
two ranges Of shelves the extreme ends of which
are lost in the murky distance. These shelves are
suspended from the upper deck by iron braces and de'nsd
10 accommodate the psssengersthey are the sl>PtHg
"oporments. The behs are SIX feet in length and Is
inches in width, with partition six inches in hight be-
tween every four borihs The aeepes is atawart snip
the seping spaces s inches in width, but at the foot
the width four persons not more Than nye ieet tho
susce is so curtaed by the ships knees which ut out at
regular nterv ais all along the vessel The bers are com
posed Of pine boards When the ship arrives IN
New York they are taken down by tho carpenter and
slowed away for the of the next outward cargo
From the deck 10 the bottom Of berth s about 5 inches,
from the bottom Of alower berth to thetaboye 1t Is two
feet and few inches and the same from the bottom OF the
top berth 10 the deck above. Thus people sleep IN TWO
layers on each side Of the ship close together a. It
possible 10 stow them. There no attempt al classica
ton the vicious and The yirtuous lie side by side in the
Storage of an emgrant ship.
twill ofcourse he that an ample supply offresh
air makes up for the density of the packing Look down
the center Of the steerage supported by sanchon and
broken by the masts whose bases are imbedded in the
keel below.
All around the masts and sanchions, and strewed
the decks and crowded under the behs and piled beside
The berfhs-so numerous and cumbersome 10 allow of
bare passage vayare multitudes Of barrels bales and
boxes. Huge oaken chests immemorial family ward
robes-quaint and groesque in carving worm eaten and
decayed from age and venerable in the household asso
Citations that for generations have olung around them and
handed them down as heirlooms; portmanteaus magnih
cent in brass nails and enclosing pine boxes with wall
paper coverings and bonnet boxes with coverings at
sl are ell unbed and tumbed the other ia the
widest confusion Some few of the thoughtful emf
grants have securely ahed and elected their luggage but
the majority has been merely dumped down. ready to slide
hher and hther at each roll and urch OF the ship 10 tho
Peril Of their owners limbs and the serious deriment Of
their Heterogeneous contents.
These packages contain stores Of cheese and calico hats
and Lerngs bacon and biscuit and soap clothing
eroekery potatoes and of similar opposites
n the such abundance the tho
enigrant will allow him to provide
With such heterogeneous mass of luggage, II would be
very difficult for air II supplied ever beraly 10 have
fee circulation; but the quantity furnished is
cdinsly limited The atmosphere Of the Storage IS G!vay'
fctid.
All the light admitted into the Storage finds its way
through the hetchways sernports and few side ports.
he air admitted from the haichways and down three
ubes or chimney like pipes called ventlators Thess
ubes through to the spardeek, whore their Opsn
mouths are faced the wind The diameter OF each is
shout twelve inches BY such means all the light and
sir is supplied which 40" t2 10 IS passengers
imposed TO require, or at any rate are entitled 90
Az before Observed the decks already exhibit the filthy
feet Of so many people living in so confined space
Before the voyage completed the nerstces between the
luggage both in the center Of the Storage and under
eath the berhs will be the receptacle OF every kind Of
rt and infectious matter, and the chances are that this
ense throng of FACILITATING humanity will be fesrfuly
hinned before the port of New York is reached
See the hatehyay opening into the cabin above is al
ass in an iron Frame being placed it, SO much
he les of heaven pure air for this "blackhoe Hark
shrek and then crash The ponderous covering has
allen through the two seamen who were adjusting i are
I'LL der the effects Of the liquor freely supplied them
" the tavern keeper while they were on shore. Ono
ed his hold Of the frame and the weight great
or the other 80 II has fallen feeble wall from beneath
tiers another thundertone against the demon-Intem
eTance little boy has been crushed almost 10 death
Y the carelesnoss Of drunkards man has his ankle
located aud a is severely cut by piece of the
yng glass. The frame is removed, and the matc-a
oble hearted man-who will never attain TO any higher
flee than mateship-takes up the little fellow Ia his
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,om and lays him upon his bed The motheTfO follows
e little one and with all mothers love- bewails her
aimed child She Is poor womsn with one other child
her way 10 her husband IN iarOn America. Her pas
gc has been paid from the boarded fruits o: many
day OF her aud her husbands toll While no IA
rcd In the blsteng and the starving cold OF Amer
nd-hcr dear old iroland-that both might enjoy tho
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