The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-04-15
.eGood--diay. I,aplanders. how do you

'Good-day, Laplanders, how do you
"We are quite well, ",replied the head
of the family. ''3p sEt '1-R sssi q
''Are you glad to get off the shipp' ?
r. "Very glad, my wife and children
were sick all the time.n k$ii.@ f''2<ioi
t..Where are you going?'' a, yfsg.su
f. ITO a country still further on. /
forgot the name, but my son, who has
just gone out can tell all about it, BE
| is the one who got us to come. He, said
we would have a big piece of land d
our own, plenty of food to eat, and that
we should make, money. We were not
poor at home, but our country is very
cold and the land Is poor, My. son says
they have no RENDERS over here, but
the people ride on horses or 90 on the
cars when they are in a hurry. I,can't
TO learn right away. My wife has.all
our money in Q pocket in her skirt. Do
you think that a safe place, or are there
no robbers over here?s 4 expect to sees
great many sights when we go on the
cars tomorrow"
+ "A lively conversation here took place
between man and wife, accompanied by
vigorous gestures, and the husband
turned to the interpreter and continued !;
Is "On board the ship we saw a man
who's face and hands were black. nj We
never saw one like him before. :, l said
he was born that way, because have
read of black people, but nay wife, who
thinks she knows every thing, claims
that he rubbed black on himself to make
I fsns asFour people some timesdo to have
Esport. She now asks which is right. T"
l. "The man was a negro born with
black skin all sover,'' replied the inter-
prefer. eve have thousands Of them
in this country, and you viii see them
every day." EFg 81 .wsYsF . & gpEsJ
I ttAh! ha! who knows best?o, chuckfed
the husband as he poked her In the ribs!
ttBut I won't give up, for this man
may not know!" she stoutly replied as
she sat down. 3Si5hata 70 SO IsfsS3 s
| -afU BEFORE CASTLE GARDEN $yt
and its officials came into existence as
the friends and guardians Of the inrr1i-
grants, the sharks ofthe metropolis had
fine times--~Welrr d....sharp-witted
Americans land in Europe and are swim
died at every. step. How easy it was,
then, TO impose on the ignorant and be-
wildered foreigners - who knew nothing
OF the language OF customs, and who
expected honesty and fair-dealing from
every one. They were. dumped off at
the steamers pier or any other handy
spot, and at soncef became the Prey Of
hotel-runners, draymen, piokpoekets
and robbers. Hundreds of them were
swindled aud robbed of their last IDOL
lar, and no doubt, had bitter reason. to
regret that they ever saw the land Of the
free. In these days no man in New
York is safer than the<immigrant. He
can not.g out to become q victim, and
the sharks can not get in where he is.
A fatherly care is exercised over each
group until it can. be sent, aboard the
cars for its final destination. A year
ago, an immigrant who elected to re-
main in New York City, secured aidray-
man to take his big chest from Castle
Garden to Chatham Street, The draw
man set his price, and received his pay.
Only a few weeks ago the Immigrant
learned that he Had been swindleds ont
of dollar in the transaction. -.
He made complaint 20 the commission
and the drayman was arrested, convict
ed of overcharge and fined five times
the amount he collected This could
never have been, done by any other
court in the land, but the foreigner who
reaches these shores by way of Castle
Garden has friends who will protect him
at any cost. In Quad, IN Detroit Free
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