The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-15
CASTLE GARDEN, new FORK.

CASTLE GARDEN, new FORK.
The immigrants and How They are Treat-
ed-TwO Simple Stories in Simple Lam
guage. 'a3i5e 5t0G 1911 l3& ,563E
New York has offset her narrow and
dirty downtown streets with Battery
Park, and her shadeless, cobble-stone
uptown avenues with Central Park, and
no person can visit either place without
u feeling of pleasure and gratitude, that
such retreats are open alike to all who
obey the regulations Cd straightadown
broadway, and you suddenly leave stone
and brick. and dust behind and find
yourself in tie country, almost. The
lower end of the island. is a true half
circle, made so by this grand park. The
park is large enough to accommodate
five Thousand people with shade and
seats and cool breeZes off the bay, and
it offers such sights as can not ne found
elsewhere in tAmerica. f...-.-..
GRAND VIEW
OF both rivers and all the bay can be had
from any bench in Battery Park, and
the breeze. from Sandy Hook strikes
there first. Every craft which comes
and goes is in plain view, and the waves
which beat against the stone wall have
the brine Of the sea- A stranger who
visits New York, even in mid winter,
should not skip this point of interest.
The lower end of Broadway has changed
but little in the last fifty or sixty years.
The "palace dry-goods stores" of fifty
years ago are now the freight offices Of
steamboat lines. The 8. first-class ho-
tells - are Sailors boarding houses. The
banks have been turned into saloons or
ten-cent restaurants and the ghosts of
the dead and gone Van Werts groan
dismaly asthey gather in the little park
and note the new order of things. Some
of the buildings have had modern
cornice put up and their queer old win
doWs removed, but scores of them look
just as they did when their old-time oc-
cupants passed out to be known no more
among men, on earth.
CASTLE GARDEN.
1t is not castle, and it is not gar
den; but there's nothing in a name. ~
little to the right Of the center Of the
island, and with its outer wall beaten
by the waves. of the bay, is a great cir
cular building, towering up like fort.
1t Isl built fof brick and wood, and
around it is a wall, ten OF twelve feet
high. At this spot, for many wears
past, everyimmigrant, reaching Ameri-.
ca By way Of New ,eYf York, has been first
"A small share of theainterior, of the
great building, is, taken. up with, the
offices of the commission under whose
charge every immigrant is landed and
forwarded to his destination. He can
look out upon the bay from the manyy
windows, or he can walk lin thewgreen.
space between the building and wall,
but he can not 60 outside unless he
elects to take up. his abode in New York.
Ii friends wish to see him they must
have pass, and their business must be
known. Once beyond the offices the
visitor descends deep stairway to find
himself in a place somewhat resembling
a round-house for locomotives. Here Is
a circular space large enough to hold
four, o.. fyer thousand people,. It is
heated by coal stoves, well supplied
with benches, and has every Z CON.
venience demanded by, people whose
stay is seldom longer than two days. Is
TWO THOUSAND IMMIGRANTS
were sheltered there the day T walked
down among them. There were Swedes.
Danes, Poles, Germans, Erenehmen and
Englishmen, and over in one, corner a
group of sLaplanders nibbled at lun-
cheon and talked among themselves.
Didn't l include the Irish abovep All!
Patrick was there, and so was his moth
er and wife and babies. He was the
first one to meet me at the foot of the
stairs. ---- - 60.
= g Can yees tell me if this is, Amer
hyP1' he asked as he came forward. ;,
-, s. Yes, this is America. y - ''''
/" An do yees know a place called
Shehigop 7ss~ 'seas - '.tR'3aG3e
:. /" Shehigo!s may be you mean Chi
cagop H.s3.l z5sz-3 ssss go ssas.snsr eEfs, {gsy,
''That's the place-that's herr, n I've
got brother there, and that's where
we are going to when We git out O. here.
DID ye hear any mon outside inquiring
for Patrick O'GradyP" - y
:" No, believe not. - s7sso. i'f ss@SSsAa
y "Wel1, he's here all the same, and
he'll handlea shovel alongside of any
mon in Shehigo or die .a-trying.sn ~
The different nationalities were rallied
off from each other by slight divisions,
but this step seemed unnecessary, as
Dane chung to, Dane. and German to
German as if separation would result in
calamity. '7 rs Z. nj -s''sst7Se *sa = !
In one corner was a family OF real old
Dutch stock. w The grandfather and
grandmother were there with their black
pipes and wooden shoes, the father and
mother with their fat, rudy cheeks and
Coarse wooden garments, and eight chill
dren were sleeping on the benches or
looking from the windows. Three gem
CREATIONS were there in one agroup, and
the old people looked hearty enoughAto
feel sure of dozen more years Of life.
The interpreter spoke few pleasant
words to the father to draw him out.
and here was his
NMPLE STORY