The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-01

AOFe Arrivals Expected This YPaF thai
Ever Before = Scenes At Castle Gar
den.
New York Pest, March 9oth.
The Commissioners Of Emigration ex
pect, judging from the statistics Of the frs
months Of this year and the advice from
Europe, that the total number OF immi
grants arriving In this city during the yea
1881 will not be less than four hundred
thousand.
Last year the arrivals were S27,S71, thu
largest number received since the Burear
Of Emigration was established in lS47, a
comparison OF the results OF the frs
months OF last year with the first month";
Of this will show the wonderful increase
Immigrants arrived;
JluuHry, 1850 .,,,.,,..,..,,, 81
January 1881 ""'",'.,,., "..,"....',,,,,,,,,e0s
February, 90
February It'
The arrivals in March, 1850, for the frs
twenty-five days Of the month were l2,'
$50; for the first twenty-five days OF this
month they were 1858. In 1879 the total
number Of arrivals for March was only
6,05l. The arrivals o week ago to-day
were nearly 1900. Sometimes four or five
consignments Of immigrants arrive on the
MA day, as on the 10th OF this month
v whsn Tho ~r'"'dsr, from Hamburg, brought
IS5 n seT the bo.thnia 1856, the Abys'
sfnia 1872, the Vile d'Alger, from ."S'te'
l75, aud the Victoria, from London, 157.
Mr.. II. j. Jackson, the secretary OF the
Board OF Emigration Commissioners, said
this morning that the average character
of the immigrants this year was better
than ever before, the care taken on this
side to reject oil intirm, diseased and
pauper immigrants having had its effect,
Fully half the immigrants who arrive are
Germans; then in order OF numbers come
the Irish, Scandinavian and English i'm.
migrants. 1t ia difficult 10 ascertain the
amount Of money brought by the
immigrants, because many OF them
believing that they will
not be allowed to enter the country
without q certain amount, and others
understate the amount for fear OF taxa.
ton. The richest body OF immigrants tina.
ever came here were the Mennonites, q
Russian sect OF whom many members
have recently emigrated because com.
PEELED to carry arms. One party Of twenty
families gave $85, 900 to the treasurer OF
Castle Garden to keep for them over night.
No person Is allowed TO enter the country
through the Emigration Bureau II more
than sixty years Of age unless o bond is
given against such person becomlnga bur.
den upon the public.
The work Of protecting immigrants from
the land sharks who iniest the neighbor.
hood OF Castle Garden has been 90 sys.
tematized within the last few years that
instances OF swindling are intreQuent.
Three detectives are kept constantly ct
work looking out for runners" who have
no business In the vast enclosure which
the emigrants are not allowed to leave
until careful record Is made OF their
nsmes and destinations. All emigrants
who have or buy tickets for the West are
taken on barges directly from the Gar.
den to the railroad stations, and do not 70
into the streets Of new York at all. Only
licensed boarding house keepers are allow.
ed to solicit patronage among those who
must remain In the city for some time. Mr..
jackson ssys that no ono except the Off.
GERS know the tricks Iesorted 10 Ia order
to dupe and cheat emigrants. Most read.
ers will remember that missionary was
expelled from the Garden for telling Inn
migrants that the road 10 heaven In this
county was the Erie road. The plan OF
not allowing the immigrants 10 60 outside
OF the Garden has been found to work
we'll.
About one thousand persons arrived on
German ships on Saturday morning. Their
costumes were not 80 quaint as may be
seen when the Tyrolese and Italians till
the Garden, but were sufficiently marked
to attract attention and stamp the people
as Internationally from the north Of Ger.
many. Among the baggage were to be
seen many old.iaBhioned Bkin.covered
trunks. Each family seemed to be
provided with good stock Of cook.
Ing utensils, for the stores were covered
with pots and kettles. The Evening Post
reporter watched the registering Of about
hundred emigrants without noticing one
sickly looking person. The morning was
chilly and raw, and the vast barn, called
by courtesy q garden, could not have Inn
pressed new conner favorably. Yet the
emigrants were cheerful, and the children
laughed and PLAYED upon the heaps oil