New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-03
TIE CASTLE GARDEN REPORT.

To the Editor Of The N i. Tribune
SIR: Through your columns, | wish to put few
QUE stons to the Castle Garden Committee of the Com
rssiorers Of Emigration and to polIt out few cases
IN Which they have been deceived.
Would il hot be well for them to say, first, who are
the responsible psites in Castle Garden? Many thou
sand dollars worth of baggage has boen lost there, aud
has yet been possible to ascertain who was re-
responsible for its safe keeping The Commissioners of
Emigration have been sued for the recovery OF lost
baggage and have sworn that they were not resons-
be they testify the same thing before the Investigate
ipg Committee. Now, why will they not say wnat
this organization Of the railroads IL, who Is response
bic, that the poor emisrants who pay their nonsy
in Castle Garden get some redress by legal pro
GEES, and not be, rs they now are, entirely at the
mercy of the Superintendent
In the next place ought not the Counsel Of the Com
missoneTs o. Emigration, when an eInlgrant Dag-
gage for which he holds Castle Garden cheeks Is lost
IN Castle Garden to prosecute the really responsible
paItes for the benefit of the emgraht instead OF ap-
pesribg on all such suits against bin Is 1t not the
duty Of the Commissioners of Emigration to protect
the cIngrant against anybody who receives us money
r taking care OF his baggage and then loses or dis
poses Of It They have not zone so. In al the cases
~ hch have arsen hitherto the Counsel for the Com
missioners he's appeared against the emiSrant
The gentlemen who sign the repent have been very
selously nisntcrmed. 10 beglp with the end, they
Il addition you1 Committee would ths $40 90 emf
the Depot keep from sine August lSj5,
which number only ii9 81 boush: ticket. at Castle Garden
hu long the ntec from the city had purcha.ed their
tickets in Europe bought taem in tue cy away from t6s
quite true that those em grants who have bought
| Their tickets for the West Europe passed
| through Castle Gsr6en. But that is all; for while
those who buy their tickets the Garden have their
baggage taken to the depos free of expense, those
| who buy them in Europe although they may be
going the same road, sent out ot Castle Gar
| da, i,,to .ity lpir tn ha
| be they
The Committee include and indorse a report from
the Cashier which is predcated on the declaration
that only 20 per cent OF the grosS amount OF receipts
within the Garden reserved for the expense fund.
1t is possible that no noreithan ~ per cent may be re
| served hut upess the unknown orr inzal9n, winch
figures IN the report a. OF the railroads Is chstged
bv the railroads vastly more than Other agents are
charged there is much greater margin between tue
| amount received from the emigrant and tl. amount
| paid TO the railroads than 70 per cent. Ii nc more
than 70 per cent be made on the paisenger'' eNtra
luggage pays IN many nsaoces more than oO per cent
profit. Here are the figures obtained from sources
| which ksOw TO be reliable;
Castle Garden allows only 20 poul + baggage to
each passenger while the railroads a.ON 100 pounds.
Then for extra bsggagc Castle Garden charges more
than the railroads chegi their sgeuts by from 10 TO
20 per cent. For instance, Castle Garden charges
- % per hundred for extra Baggage 10 Chicago, and
other agents pay only S2Sl 10 BUialO and II thence
on to Chicago. 10 1t. Louis. Castle G arden charges
"a ~ per hundred for baggage, while the railroads
get, from other sgents At least, only s. 6O This is
very hard upon thrifty German family which al "a
brings as much of the furniture possible 20 remnd
its members Of their old home in thu father.l land
Suppose ths; family Of five Is going TO s., Louis
with l,COO p)unds Of boggagcs very ordinary occur
| Ierce-then Castle GaiGen receives
hiyr psssse tickets at 90
Loo pounds ot DaxsaSc, 0tdlfi - Tree 10 u a. -. - -
Rec ip's .................. 800 =
P.dto T. H. ticket money S7j ~ T. cent Oh te1 W
| leO pounds hssgsse. 40 ff,- i.aVes. 80 n =.
| s260 per- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IS -
| 3 -
Bssnce.....................
Which is 30 per cent on the whole, 70 per cent
assage money and 6! per cent on tue extra Baggage.
Another thing either the railroads o. the Conmis-
siopers cent MIR. Murray to Euope some tins ago u
enecsvor 10 put stop 60 the booking thore He wss
accrdited by the state and Federal authorities so
that lie go, interviews with foreign stihor'.es Would
il rot be interesting to the public to kao~ vses,er the
1 lpovo NJ oxruuys.o1 o( ths CcupisSicasEs 9t Enigrs