The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-18

tue 1000 ana provisions or all the passengers
10 0e well and properly cooked daily,
and to be served out and distributed 10 them at
regular and stated hours, by messes, or in such
other manner as shall be deemed best and most
conducive to the health and comfort of such
passengers, OF which hours and manner of dis
hlbHtion due and sufficient notice shall be
given. If the captain or master OF any such
ship or vessel shall wilfully fail TO furnish and
distribute such provisions, cooked as aforesaid,
he shall be deemed guilty of a msdemeauor
and, upon conviction thereof before any Circuit
or District Court of the United States, shall be
bned not more than one thousand dollars, and
shall be imprisoned for term not exceeding
one year, provided that the enforcement of this
penalty shall not affect the civil responsibility
of the captain or MASTER and owners 10 such
passengers as may have suffered from said
default.
HOW THEY ARE REGISTERED ON LANDING.
AS the emigrant leaves the barge and places
MS loot on terra tiyTnd, he is met by DR.. Cam
merer, who is acquainted with several Ian
guages, and addresses the following intorroga-
tons :-Have you family? How many chill
urenE Where ale your relations? and so on
taking sharp skiful look at the emiprant he
sees at glance If there be any defect, constitu.
Ilonally, physically, organically. or If pregnant
or other cause of bodily distemper or disease all
tnese are noted In his book with the expertness
and TapIdity of photographic amanuensis
they then pass from the COctor lato the rotunda
Tor Registration, the Irish on the one siGe and
the Germans on the other. The questions tnen
put are What is your name? What county
are you from, or native Of? Where are you
gong, 4. p, what State is your destination?
Have you family? Have you been in America
before? Then they again undergo another ex
animation by booker of the railroad depart
ment, who gives them their passes to the railroad
Office clerks for the transit tickets to the place
they desire to go.
HOW THEY COMMENCE LIFE AFRBsu.
or all the departments in Castle Garden, the
most Credltable one is the Employment Office.
Families go there daily, and, tree of all expense,
secure the services OF lady's maid chamber.
maid cook, laundress, farmer, and all sorts of
Workmen, ana females, too, able to do all neces-
saly teld and housework. The emigrant is pro-
Vlded with employment, free OF charge to him
or her, and Is registered, so that wages NAV be
recovered in case of the employers delalcation
IN this respect. The emigrant thus starts afresh
on the Journey of life; and, though quite "greenn
on landing, soon becomes acquainted with
American society, the manners, customs and
habits OF the people. The honest, industrious
emlgrant soon advances, and by perseverance,
energy, and parsimony, in few years, laws by
a comparative fortune. He then can afford to
smile at the crueltles he endured on board the
em,gIant ship on his passage out to the new
HOW THEY LIVE AND sLBBP AT CASTLE GARDEN
For the most part, those who remain IN the
Garden are young Irish women, who have left
ihelr homes on speculation. The adventure
they have taken may or may not be worth their
while. They are, too very INDECENT in circum.
stances, seldom with more than one suit of
clothes, and that on their back, with perhaps a
shilling English silver, but more often altogether
penniless. These are provided with lust as
much bread and milk as will "keep body and
soul together" ana thus they live day by day.
nonlnally existing, until a lady applies for a
glrl, and the unluckv ones go off in this way,
oi II at Castle Garden.
The way they sleep, is positive disgrace to
the civilization of the age. Without bed or
beddiDg, and no covering Of any kind whatever
they lie down on the boards or naked benches
they themselves almost as bare, and thew hear
and see what no young person should. Men in
cellbacy, and married folk, and virgins lie down
together in full view of each other, and alike
breathe the morbid atmosphere which peryades
the interior OF Castle Garden. The General
Agent and Superintendent must be aware of the
theits committed, of the seductions practised,
and OF the lmproprieties indulged; for not a
week passes but that he in his oEficial capacity
as a. notary public, takes the dispositions of
parties complaining on the above grounds of
grievance, imposition, aud injury.
-, IN no department of the institution is plum
dering not carried on in the MINOR degree, and
in some in the magnitude and strength of the
most daring unblusbing impudence.
THE QUESTIONS PUT TO THE EMIGRANTs.
=, 1t IS remarkable how very innocent and mild
the young Irish woman's character is. She
seems TO have never lefI the family hearth all
her days. She lands at Castle Garden, and in
her purity, thinks all things pure, and there
are, in the Garden, fellows who take ADVANTAGE of
THIS simplicity, and put highly improper cues.
tons to certain OF the emigrant girls, who un-
consciously and unsuspectingly answer them.
IN many instances they unwittngly expose some
discrepancy in their system, some failure in
health, or some temporary organic eccentricity
which physically troubles them These intru-
sye, bold, and impudent queries are carried
frequently to greater lengths, and what was but
lnclpient Improperly is transformed to auda-
cious intimacy.
HOW THE BOOKS ARE KEPT ETC.
There are three Registry Books: formerly
only two were used, but since the months OF
April and May 1t was deemed expedient to open
another book, on account of the large flow of
and the obvious necessity of pass.
ing the emlg1 ants through as speedily as posi-
Bile, to make place foe the other ships passen.
gers. These books contain little Information.
beoynd the name and the country of each emf
grant that lands The destinations registered
are not 10 be depended on. Other books are
kept, OF minor Importance, but the principal
books are under the keeping of Dr. Cammerer,
and they are very crejltably and ably adjusted
as also are his accounts punctually made up,
WIN systematic precision and nicely, and almost
lniaIlihle correctness Those kept upstairs bv
the Treasurer may bear the SAME mention as
the Doctors. The shipping book and some
others are under the keeping of DR.. Smith.
HOW THE EMIGRANTs ARE SUPPLIED WITH PRO-
VISIONS.
grocery or provision establishment is kent
in the GaIden, and is a very iair and creditably
department. Sales OF provisions are
mace TO those emlgTants who NAV have money
10 purchase, and those who have not are fur.
nished with cards by the Floor Superintendent
which are voucher for such supply but their
boxes are mortgaged and retained till the means
are provided by some friend or relative to lqui-
date the cost OF supplies. The articles kept in
this store are OF superior quality and meet
ready sale.