The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-26
COMMISSION OF EMIGRATION.
Startling Abuses ON Wards Island Re-
ported Upon and Recomme md atiOns
Madc-Erie's Agont-The Case or Hon.
Nicholas Muller

ported Upon and RECON- m md q lions
Madc-Eric's Agont-The Case OF Hon.
Nicholas Muller.
The Commissioners Of Emigration met yesterday.
President O'iorman in the chair, and Messrs.
Kaufman, Forest, Hart, Lynch, Wallach, Wellman
Nicholson, Powell mayor OF Brooklyn and Frear
present
communication from Mr.. Macdonald, OF the
Bowery, who has recently written much, he claims
on emigra abuses was read.
Mr.. Kaufman moved that 1t be considered at the
first meeting before the 4th of July, which ne sub
sequently withdrew, and the communication was
placed on nle. rfa aaHr er3 o aalg
Marshal Hart Of the Mayors ONCE, resigned as
Manifest Clerk of the Commissioners at the City
Hall, and Mr.. +. w. Salmonson was appointed.
The Wards Island Committee appointed to in
vestigate abuses alleged to exist there. made q
report, recommending that the Warden, Deputy
Warden and matrons pay for all supplies consumed
by them ether than milk produced and vegetables
grown on the island. synopsis of the evidence
taken by them shows disorganized state of affairs
on the island; that in many instances no accounts
are kept, no acquisitions are made out, required
by the rules that the tea and beef are bad that
the bread is sometimes unfit to be eaten; that
poultry for the sick reaches the tables of the
officers instead OF those for whom 1t Is in
tended, and, In BRIEF that under Warden
Wells things have been "drifting to the bad"
The Warden sent general denial, but
out the suggestions of the committee, was u1ani,
mousy adopted. The other business-the con-
sideration OF the charges made against Nicholas
Railroad, was then taken up, when Commits
sioner Wallach made serious charges against Mr..
Nicholas Muller in speech OF some length. Mr..
Walach alleged that he objected to the admission
of Mr.. Muller to Castle Garden, for the reason that
he (Wallach) had received different letters reject
Ing upon the character OF that gentleman; that,
with these letters before him, he did not think
be SSSa he Sad
in 1860 for misdemeanor, and, after fair trial,
convicted and sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment in the County Jail, he cannot approve
of his admission to the Garden. 1t was shown by
letters that the occasion of his conviction was a
license. We all know that not out OF one Thousand
VINO arrive here know that man should have
license TO sen tlSaess II et ~ n@er the letters
him TO pay $45 for a ticket worth only ss5. AS
there was no law to cover the case Muller was
convicted of misdemeanor only. At the same
time case was known where he made serious
mistake in change. In 1869 another case
arrived here with his wife and four children. he
was innocent OF the traps set for the engrant,
Chicago. One OF his children took sick at Queens
town and was left in the hospital On his arrival
here he repaired to the house of Dennis McGrath,
who warned him against the snares OF Castle Gar
den, and advised HIM to remain in the place with
his family until the passengers were ready to leave
ments OF an emigrant runner, who took this VIC
tim outside OF the Garden, where McGrath saw
hum the S; Of the and S
to his house. He then told McGrath that the run
ner had taken him to Nicholas Muller,s ONCE,
where Muller told him ne would have to take first
class ticket for the child who was to follow, and
after paying this Muller had demanded q further
deposit OF $40 for incidental expenses Of the Child
said) explained the swindle to the emigrant and
took him to superintendent Casserly to have his
complaint taken This was done when CSssery
full fare for a child eleven years old, and returned
the difference and the $40 advanced. Here Mr..
Wallach remarked that he believed ii man was
guilty of dccelving emigrants that man was not
1t to take charge Of the interests OF emgrants.
Mr.. Wallach further said that only o year and
| erty street, played what is known as the ''belt
gsme'' upon three young 1rishmen. He was ar
rested for robbery This man an Ryan was boon
or before the Justice, and after attempts haQ been
made to get the witnesses ont Of the way, Muller
called ont the ocer and offered THIS man 500 II
did not catch the concluding word, but some OF the
| Commissioners understood Mr. Wallach to say
waliaca said, is fhomaa Keneally. formerly at at.
s"sS called upon "" srf had q he
said all ld his life long, lived upon the emg1ants
| by which emigrants had been defrauded that
was not known to Muller. Besides, he had
Mr.. Wallach declared, by delaying the departure
| of emgrants, for the accommodation Of whom
boarding houses paid twenty-five cents per head
| he could make from 500 to t125 per day, without
being detected. Mr.. Wallach made other charges
against relatives OF MI. Muller. and finally the
| Commissioners adopted resolution instructing
| the question: and allow Mr. Muller to appear per-
| sonally or by counsel and answer
three O'Clock to-day. when the evidence win be
| taken under oath.