The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-25

ness, and 10 rs 10 their interest to have the emf.
grants properly treated both on board the vessel
and alter their arrival So think the Commits
[ sloners have outliyed their usefulness.
hBPORTEk-ShOuld this bill pass would your CON-
pany increase the passage to this portP :
Mr.. NIcHoLsoN-Certainly. We must. Why, Just
look here is letter rom Mr. Inman which lhave
Just received: lReading from the letter. "Coal
has advanced from seventeen shuings TO thirty
Ave snillings per ton; fresh beef from fty shil
In proportion.1 Now, what can We do ! This thing
was done some years ago. We went to Albany and
convincing arguments. The Castle Garden people
just sent up some other kind OF arguments with
knowing smilel and the Dlll went right through
but will send all the passengers we can to Boston
In our regular passenger steamers
then, that the increase win fall on the emigrants
MT: OVERWHELMINGLY In some parts OF
Swsd 1e =. and other parts OF Europe where the
La EMIGRATION CLUBS.
number Of people club together, pay into o
have enough to buy passage ticket n they have AVE
to secure IN extra dollar II may throw them over
mnSie sa ana the one whose turn Is to come
loses from each club the services OF one stalwart
REpoRrER-I lean that there is a great deal of
opposition sprlnging up in other cities.
!. Mr.. NIcHoLsoN-0f course there is. The Allen
away great part Of the tlade " as tSe Grand
Trunk Railway rates are 80 much less than those
Of our New York roads. II the extra tax Is levied
e. Steamships will certainly make the sn'sFaa''
! The reporter next called at the snlces Of
THE NATIONAL LINE.
and prOp0unded questions similar to those above
quoted, to Mr. Hurst the general agent Of che COM
pany. That gentleman IN reply stated that he
carry on the business Of the Commissioners.
There Is q great deal OF money squandered some
the work wen s r as aa
see, 50 on that score we cannot complain. There
IL no doubt that the extra tax Will fall on the emf
case OF .
POOR SERVANT GIRL
who works hard to save dollar or two O month
from her earnings 80 that she may pay the passage
OF some relative The extra dollar win surely put
her back month, during which time she may lose
saved goes to pay DOCTORS bills. Ht
The Allen Line for the purpose of inducing emil
sterling for every emigrant 1t cost our line $4,000
more for coal last year than It did the before,
Of the Whole y Woud
barely make ends meet, and II this bill passes we
must put It on the emigrants. The Commissioners
cannon show any good argument In favor OF the in
crease, and It should not pass. There is no neces-
sity for IT. They have built permanent establish
tended to use that fund for such purposes but,
even &c. those buildings all paid for. So that
cannot see what the increase Is wanted for.
The office Of the r1i a $3.50 aG
was next visited. Mr.. j. 8. Gartner, tho passenger
his company had taken no action on the question
OF the increase Of commutati0n as the line was the
other Companies Viii DO the White Star ny
win heartily cooperate with. He could see no ne
cessity for the increase and he felt assured that it
would initiate greatly against the interests OF this
city M r.. -.,.-r,
REpoRrKR-what do you think induces this call
Mr.. GARTNER-Oh suppose they want fat
thing. You viii hnd, am sure, that the steam
ship companies are unit, and the increase must
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NM r. e. s N rep to saa qs
the management of the emigrant business in Castle
Garden and on Wards Island. He said that he
advocated the passage OF q law which would COM
pei The steamship companies TO take back any pas
senger whs should prove TO be not capable or tax.
politics had got mixed up With the asrs ate caste
-Garden, and stated that when certain man was
named very recently as agent for the Erie Railroad
and thought it was an outrage to make such an
appointment; still the man could only do his
pretty Closely it ' should Spu' be decided he
should stay there. He instanced the case Of a man
who had been here some three or four years and
Commssoner's agent wanted our line to take the
man back to the old country. The line would net
do 1t. The Communication money had been paid and
there was no law to compel them to take HIM back.
Such law, he said, should be passed, and then We
would not nave such case as the old woman who
to Wards Island to spend the Winter there. The
whole thing is bad, bad sir, and any increase must
certainly be paid by the emgrant.
similar opinions were expressed BY the repre-
sentatives Of the Cunard German ana other lines,
and 1t is safe to say, should the bill become law,
1t VIII materially damage the business at this port.
There are two ineanow running into Baltimore; by
next Summer there will be three running into
Philadelphia and those of the New York lines that
can affect ouch arrangements will land their emf
grants at Boston. The Montreal line has been
fully explained above and between them all and
the absurd management OF the Commissioners OF
Emigration the Immense trade now brought to
this city will be entirely diverted The bill referred
to fs being showed along very quietly, but should
not be permitted to become q law.