The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-09

ing fraud several gentlemen ware tested on the for
warder's scales One who rsa11 vAigSsd la2 pounds
marked aex Another suddenly scat - nom loo =
%''s sS. sS. sou a0 Sss, :Ss
their victims into canal boats - Enough they were
merely hogs. and in great many instances the cap
OF putting them ashore In tho swamp the long evel
west q uticA6gNr. Knapp, in his interesting work,
says
roads shared ths profits With them greater lesser
nor. we're Ssps every nsspspsr snoss daily
p.sp %
then complaint w.s made By one Of the victims but for
Country Va. ssas 20 obtain redress. IN where L
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ss BY the gsssss. route sent West Thus thee ra,psrs
scis political sg n s
the lay creating The Commissioner Of Emlsrstcn
DC hs.s
so s. es had ~ b.n from s
obtaining lease q Castle Garden they once gut step
,1s &
q them % 9 he sSs. q s s Ss
others tried 60 carry on the old business Of dcfnudng aud
ss as: 81 S We ss
been speaking the runner bushes. had snina.sd These
gradual efforts that tho Commissioners Emigration
their examination before the committee Of tie Assembly
openly boldly asowsd and essod TO '' their own
dspravlty.
BOARD COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION.
Those frauds assumed such gigantic proportions In
184546 that several eminent citizens undertook TO
euro legislative remedy. Prominent this work
Tnurlow Weed. Archbishop Hughes, Leopold Bier
with, Robert D. Minturn and Andrew Carrigan They
stoutly opposed not only by the but by
most OF the city officials, led BY George Il purser.
Comptroller Even and several officers OF tbs Aims
house, with John Van Buren as thcr counsel On tho
ed OF March, lS47, mass meeting was held In the
Broadway Tabernacle, Charles 0'COnor IN the chair.
After much opposition from the opponents Of reform
resolutions Of the right sort were adopted and Mr.
Garrgan wen, 20 Albany 10 urge INC o wa
created May 8. 1S47 Tho FIRST Commissioner were
Gulian C verpanck, James Boorman, Jacob Harvey,
Robert b. Mirturn, William +. Havomcyor and David
c. Golden. Mr. Weed aud Mr. Carrigan had made sep
sarate lists OF namos for Commissioners and sngulary
y , W a
Carrigan had boen too modest to name himself bus
suggested Harvey year later Mr. Carrigan sue
ceeded Mayor HRvemeyer in the Board and was an ao-
tive member for about twelve years. Mr. Havomoyer
the President In 1S47 then Mr. verplanck bad the
Richard o'Gormsn presided ID is7I-7s, succeeded By
Henry 6. Hurlbut in 1873, and finally George j. For
We lack space to rehoarse tho work Of the commits
sion Under tho able superintendent. Bernard Cas-
serly. john A. Kennedy and others, the strangers
Ny given
p Tnin py Tho noble hospitals on wards.
respondence tho Labor Bureau, tho honest OK
change Of money, the transfer direct from ships to
railway trains the leading features ana benefits
that tho Board provided for cmigrants-features so
valuable and important that Castle Garden soon be-
came known all over Europe a. the Emigrants Mocca
tho harbor Of security where thoy would IND friends
and fair dealing. The Commissioners have BEEN almost
without exception, Trustworthy and abo men. Be-
sides those named, we note the Mayors OF New York
and Brooklyn and the Presidents oil tho Irish and
German Benevolent societies for the time being,
Cyrus Curtis, Abraham X. Lawrence, John =
Dovlin, Charles X. Marshall, Elias Hicks, James Kelly,
George W. Blunt, Caleb Barstow, John A. Ken
ncdy Elijah f. Purdy, Edwin D. Morgan, John T.
Cunning Gnstavus Schwab Wilson G. Hunt, A. A.
Low, Frederick 8 Winston Cyrus H Loutrel Isaac I.
Smith, Frederick Kapp, Patrick McEIroy, Emanuel b
Hart, Isaac Bell Janos W. Hustled, Henry l. Hoguet
Andreas wmanp, George Starr, Daniel Mauer, George
w. Quntard and Edmund Stephenson.
ARRIVALS NEW YORK FOR rrrY.sIx YEARS.
II was not until the law OF 1919 that records woro
made OF passengers arriving from foreign countries
Is rcckopcd that about $50 600 aliens had arrived a.
nll ports from tho Lcace Of 1883 to That date From
October l. 1872 to the establishment Of tho commits
sion, May 1847, tho total number Of aliens at all
foreign ports and coming the Canadian and hoxl
can borders was 14s5 7o0 and, adding the $50 900.
1916 700. or those there arrived At New York tho
following numbers
.rtvxo Apprvxp A. xvw vonr vnox ocronua 4 1910