The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1876-11-24
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genot gentleman and young English la6y
They had never met before bus no sooner
dld they see each other than an attachment. /
sprang up between them, which soon ri
pened, upon acquaintance. into mutual es-
TEEN and enduring love. The vessel when 4
seven days out, struck upon Cape Race .
hock, ana became n total wreck. Most of !
! the passengers were saved, among them the [
! two persons alluded 10, and landed i'm small !
/ boats, at Chance Cove, a few miles north /
/ of the cape. Here they remained for sew /
eral days, living q u Robinson Crusoe I'M
/ til they were observed by coasting vessel I.
and taken Oft in small parties TO st. John, (
/ New Foundland. At this place the sub
! jects of my story we've united in marriage.
| The only means of getting away from ST.
John either to wait for the relief
steamers, which the captain of the wrecked
vessel had (by way of St. john, New BluIs-
I wick, ielegraphcd TO his port of destination
/ III the United States for, take the fort
nightly mail steamer TO Halifax. As this
! latter course involved the payment of pas
sage, aud most of our shipwrecl<ed people
had lost their all on the sharp pointed rocks
of Cape Race, but few could avail themselves
| of it, On the other hand, TO await the re-
lief vessel involved a further detention az
st. John OF, it was believed, fully two
months-not a very pleasant prospect in
such place. In this dilemma our hero
resolved upon q rUSe. He and his wife hid
| themselves IN different places on board the
/ Halifax steamer when she was ready 10 sail.
| Their plan was to remain concealed until
! she was out at sea, and then to discover
| themselves. The gentleman had friends at
Halifax, and knew lie could obtain funds
| when he arrived there. They were both
young, giddy creatures, and hardly under
stood the foolish nature of their enterprise.
/ Well, the vessel put to sea and, after a
few hours of seclusion, the French gentle
! tI,
signal for volley of curses from the cap
i tain of the vessel. and cruel order con
demning the stow-a-way to the martyrdom
of a coal-bunker. But our hero cared
nothing for either the heat of the furnace
or the smut of the coal. lie had gained his
passage, and his misery would be over in
two days. The only thing he cared about
was his wife. So he went to work at stoE-
ing coal with will, determined first to al
low the captains rage to blow over, and
then 20 search out his hidden sweetheart.
Imagine his horror and despair when he
heard, shortly afterwaId, from a brother
Stoker, that his wife had been discovered
before the vessel left port and put ashore.
In vain had she called Ipon her husband.
who could not hear her; in vain lad she
asserted to the iufuiiated captain that her
husband was slowed away ON The vessel,
and that she would not he parted from him.
She heard with derisiou, and treated
as an unscrupulous and vicious person SO
ihat she was doubtless landed in ST. John
not only minus a husband, but also minus
character for Iespecia Oility. At least
this was the conclusion To which her un-
| happy husband arrived at as he looked over
the tracl;ess waters about the vessel, and
cursed the repeated n,isfoTtunes they had
visited upon him. However, there was no
help for the situation until he could reach
Halifax.
Next day, or the day after he was kicked
rather tban put ashore, and found himself
in the streets of Halifax in guise so SuS-
picious that, bat for his obvious air of gem
tility, lie would not have been received at
the Al cadian Hotel, where lie had the
conrage 10 apply for board.
| To make :he story short, he succeeded
in finding his friends, and having his drafts
honored, thing he could not accomplish
in Newfoundland. Then he offered to pay
for his stolen passage in the steamer, an
offer which was impudently refused 10y the
agents. lie finally took passage back in
the same vessel for st. John, with the view
of rescuing his wife from her uncomforta-
BILE and peIilous position there.
| But new troubles were in store for him.
When he arrived at St. John he found that
the relief vessel from the STATES came be-
| fore she expected. and that his wife
had taken passage in her. She had left a
letter behind for him, explaining that she
had deemed it best to pursue this course
rather than lose the only opportunity that
| promised of getting away from a place so
odious, and where she had no friends; that
| she could not be certain of the success of
| his enterprise to Halifax: that she had
! written to him ut Halifax, and to their
common port of destination in the States,
to the same effect; and that she would
| await his arrival at the last-named place at
the house of the friends with whom she was
| travelling.
As it subsequently turned ont, it seems
| that this inexperienced young creature had
made Two very important mistakes. In the
first place the relief-vessel did not go to the
| port to which the wrecked vessel was bound:
| in the second place, her friends did not live
at the last named place, but somewhere
else, supposed to be out West. So that
when, after many detentions, our heart
broken Frenchman found his way to jhe
poIt of destination, he could discover no
/ trace of his wife.
Among the requirements of the State
! laws upon immigration is one that demands
of each alien passenger his name, vocation,
place of destination, etc. After some
weeks of knocking about at the seaport onr
| Frenchman heard of tins requirement OF
the laws and commenced To search the re-
cords of the State bureau of immigration.
in the hope of finding his wife's name and
destination. Although he expended a
good deal of time and money in this search
the archives were so fragmentary and dis
ordered that nothing came of it neither
did he obtain any intelligence through the
post-oflice.
Ten years have passed away. About this
time Federal Bureau of immigration
now abolished) was established in the State
Department. have, in a previous paper,
explained how the functions of this came
to be turned over to the Bureau Of Statis-
tics.
Well, one day, some two years later, a
card, bearing a well known French HUI
gueuot name. was brought into my office.
The bearer of the card was introduced. lie
was young man, of medium stature, of an
intellectual appearance. and bore the traces
of long suffering. His object in visiting
me was To solicit permission to examine
the lists of immigration passengers which
he understood were filed in my bureau. |
explained to him that, although the statis-