The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-29


ated, now the Germans have the ascendancv
IN the proportion OF one hundred to sixty. |
Inc commissioners Of Emigration have officers
in every city IN the State OF New York for the
aid and protection of emigrants.
There IS attached to the Castle Garden denot
Office for the employment Of em.ro,,, oirIs
who desire to procure situations as HELM i'm |
iamlles' Ihe room devoted to this PURPOSE a |
located ON the northeast corner of the Castle |
Garden. The room is oblong. about 10 feet in |
length ana 70 feet in width, with seats ar |
IanBe1 WIN an aisle in the middle like a |
church, ana desk rallied in where pulpit |
would be in church, behind which Sits a |
gentleman OF the Teutonic persuasion In a |
mixed pepper-and-salt suit, TO answer ones-
tions. Here it is the custom for persons who
desire to get great deal of work for verv
little money to apply for servant ssrals ;, ne
the policeman at the door terms the private
help. Any girl who has just landed al this
port can obtain situation by waiting at this
place and submitting her person to inspection
o those who may desire female help. Having
procured a place and entered the service Of
her employer, she may, If she dislikes the re-
muneratiOn or work, inform the Commits
soners of her wish to leave her stua-
tion, and the privilege is accorded to
her of returning to the Employment
Agency at the Garden, as often as she changes
her mind during the space of twelve calendar
months from the time she has landed on the
shores of the New World. The large majority
of these girls who seek employment are indus
trious, clean, and honest before being defiled
by the filth and contamination of the great
city. Some of these are, however, very giddy,
thoughtless, fond of dress, gaudy colors, and
easily led away by soft and honeyed words.
They may have to encounter two great dangers,
which shall be specified; Cut off from home
and parental teaching set adrift in strange
land, it is a common occurrence with them to
obtain employment in families when design
ing scoundrels employ every art and influence
of money and circumstances to seduce and
destroy them. The other danger is from the
emigrant boarding house keepers, who haunt
the Castle Garden depot like evil spirits to
entice any fish that may be en-
tangled in their nets. Nominally these
birds of prey are supposed to be
deprived of any power to further their
ends; but this is altogether a mistake, as the
l'calandar of crime in cur courts, and the cata-
logue of wretched women in these dens of in
fanny infesting the city, will show; but ma
iority of the girls are poor emigrants, driven
to desperate courses by the circumstances they
are placed in after they leave Castle Garden.
Very few German girls ever seek employment
in the Office at the depot, as they are picked
up in the bull pen by these scoundrels, speak
ing their own language, who make magnificent
| promises to them, and wheedle them, in order
| to have them accompany them to their dens.
Very few single girls, without friends, arrive
| il New York city with more than fifty dollars
| in money. These boarding house sharks charge
| eight dollars a week for lodgings and food.
! Having got the girl into the boarding house,
the next thing is to buoy her up with delusive
hopes of comfortable situation, which they
are certain never to procure for her, and hav-
ing done this, it is then necessary to encour-
| age her to procure cheap fnery, and end by
keeping her at the boarding-hous for
month to get her in debt. Then, should she
desire to leave, the next move is to hold her
clothing and trunk for a bogus board bill.
| The society of abandoned women, who are
employed to sap the poor girls virtue, and
| the troubles of prosecution for debt, make
| the girl a plant instrument in the hands of
| the boarding house shark. She then becomes
an easy victim to the lust of the highest
bidder, and her ruin is consummated. Many
! of these girls after undergoing course of
| prostitution and shame for two or three
months in the lager beer dens of Greenwich
street, the dance houses of Water street, or
the perlieus of Greene and Mercer streets, are
afflicted with fits of ennui, and return to the
Castle Garden depot for change of scene, or
else they are secret missionaries of evil, sent
by their employers to corrupt girls who as yet
are perfectly innocent. These girls are quite
shameless, and by their vile conduct disgust
all who visit Castle Garden for the purpose of
| procuring help. The clerk who has charge OF
the employment Office is sometimes put to
his limit OF patience by the antics of these
| young ladies'. A number of persons from the
country visit the Castle Garden daily in search
| of girls to work on the farms. A few days
! since a gentleman of venerable years and
appearance came from the Connecticut Valley
to procure help. About thirty girls were pre-
sent, seated in the Office, awaiting employment.
| Some of them had the fresh rosy cheeks gene
rally found in emigrant girls before becoming
Injured to this climate, so different from their
| own, the soft blue eyes, and expression of
| innocence and virtue, while others bore in
| their countenances the marks of hardened
! depravity and crime carrying in bonnet and
shawl the colors of the rainbow. The old gem
| tleman, after looking around at the upturned
| faces, selected a rather hardened-looking girl,
and said to herr
"Do You want a situation, my girl Y'
"Wen," said this charming damsel, "that
depends. How much you want to give ?"
"How much do you want ?' said the old
man.
"Well, want tin dollars with a toss Of the
head), unless have too much work to do"
she added.
-'Can you cook, said the old gentleman.
"Av coorse l can," said she, and added,
''but where do you live 2''
SIN Connecticut - said the old man.
"Oh, deed'n I'll not go to Kuneoktikut for
tin dollars a month";" and away she went,
tossing her head.
The old gentleman made another attempt;
this time, however, he did not have to make
the selectiOO himsalf for n oaudilV dressed