The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-14

oxy or rHk PASSENGERS WATCH THE HERMAN
pRoroHT OVER FROM GERMANY. 81

BROUGHT OVER fkoN Vsh@ASf'
baltimore American, Yesterday
The arrival Of the Bremen steamer Her.
mann. which steamed upto her dock at Lo-
cost Point carly In the morning, was mat
Ter Of unusual interest yesterday, owing 10
fbe fact that, in addition to S24 immigrants.
she brought over live female elephant for
the Cincinnati Zoo. The Immigrants were
housed on Peir the better part OF tue gay
awaiting the train over The Baltimore auo
Ohio railroad to convey them TO tneir va
rious destinations. Some 2ys OF tnem 49,
from Prussia, so from bavaria, 90 nom
Norway and Sweden, ~ nom Den
marx. 5s from Austria. and the bai-
anrs about evenly divided between
Mechleuburg, Scbleswig, wurtemburg,
oldenburg, Saxony, Thuringen, Han.
over. Lubbock. Hessen, Baden, ana
o;ber Of the smaller German provinces.
collected on the pier they formed q curious
and rather pathetic picture. which was
viewed by crowds Of people through every
available crack and opening. They were
al rather bewildered at being suddenly set
down in a strange country having nothing
in common with "dss Vaterland "--in the
hustle and noise OF the pier. The men
we're restless. and seemed impatient TO con-
Time their Journey. The women wore, as
A ruIe. a subdued look. and were seated
around on nopdescript boxes, bags, and
hacking cases. A remarkable fact was that
ionr.fjftbs OF them had blue eyes, aud
hair that ranged from dingy drab
mn through an assortment OF yellow
that would paralvze q pilot undergoing
examination for color blindness, until the
tone OF a good sample OF raw cotton was
reached. The men were mostly arrayed I'D
costumes that caused the small boys oufsioe
10 rail at them In deTision. They certainty
showed a prediction for absurdly small
bats. varying the monotony occasionally
with an impossible looking cap; their coats
thew could never wrinkle by sitting on
them. and there was sure 10 be some festive
ornament like woollen comforter or
blanket twisted around their waists or
ntcks. They walked up and down curious
ly inspecting everything they saw some OF
them with large chunks OF bread and boz
logna In their hands (which inviting edible
could be had at a small stand on the pier).
and munched this repast most vigorously.
One young fellow with rosy cheeks and
white hair, which would not allow his cap
TO rest on bis head. carried a large Bava-
rian jsger-rifle strapped 10 bis back, evi.
IDENTIFY under The impression that be bad
landed in q savage country; and every now
an d then he would finger the lock cautious
Iy and suspicousIy, as II expecting a mo-
mentsry attack from bowling Indians who
would Jump in on the pier and scalp Them
ALL The mothers Of the families, all with
that peculiar faded look, sat sucking their
Youngest children and endeayOring TO still
The yelpipg Of the other juvenile members
OF the family, while the young girls, with
their hsir done up in series OF the most in
fricate piaits, either chatled and ate bologna
socially with the men or ran to and fro
with curious wonder, exciaiming i'm reso.
pant German accents at everything which
came within range OF their vision. The
bows, mostly shockheaded and batless, but
happy, seemed bent on having fun out OF
something, and behaved pretty much as q
crowd OF boys OF any nationality would II
gathered together in like position.
As for The elephant, she arrived safely in
a large wooden box or cage which was
slowed on the starboard side OF the vessel
amidship, and was on the whole rather a
pjteous spectacle as she glared with her
piggish little eyes through the wooden bars
and thrust her trunk out 10 inhae the
fresh breeze. The box was too small 10
admit OF her lying down or tuning around,
and she must have been rather uncomfOrta-
BILE. Her food consisted Of bran mash,
bat the immigrants continually phed her
with the daintles OF which they themselves
partook. i: is needless TO say that she re-
jected bologna and wouldn't hear Of linn
burger. She passes through tue custom.
house duty free, being for breeding pur-
poses, and will be put aboard Of the cars
ibis morniDg-boX and all-and 60 10 Gin
cinnati.