Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-29

a It has puzzled many persons TO
discover how he becomes welded withthe
population, how he finds employment
and what he does when unable TO get II
There Is no doubt that hundreds OF m
migrants would never leave Informative
lands were 1t not for the h~ighly-colored
accounts given them before they started
by the ticket agents. Instances crop up
every day where the new arrivals are
wofully disappointed, but as they are
unable to give vent to their feelings by
pulyerizing the identical agents who ln-
dueed them to come they settle down 70
hard work, in many cases harder than
the work which they deserted.
PENNIES IN A STRANGE LAND.
OF the thousands of immigrants
who have come lately to this city from
Europe in the American Red Star
steamers large majority have been I'M
mediately placed in cars and taken 10
Minnesota and Dakota. This happens
only in cases where they have the ne
cessary funds, q great many arriving
at the dock without a dollar In their
pockets. When they are penniless and
have friends i'm far-off States these are I'M
mediately telegraphed to send on help,
which they generally do. Where they
have neither friends nor money they
have to shift for themselves, and 1t Is
surprising how well they get on. The
few Italians who come to this port, OF
course. adopt the professions which
seem bred in them from the time they
are weaned-those of street-cleaning
and shoe-blackmg. The question OF
where they get the shoe stand and
brushes is a small enigmain itself, and in
q great many cases they would have TO
90 without the ''plant" were it not for
the help oftheir Americanized brethren,
who molly come forward and assist
them to transform a starch-box into a
boot pedestal. The Russian refugees
have been mainly assisted by Hebrew
societies, while the Germans. who form
more than a foruth of the arrivals, are
either taken at once into breweries or
ioin friends out West. Hundreds of
English and Irish proceed direct to the
New England States, where they OBJ
tain work in factories. The devices
resorted to by others are almost as
many as there are persons. =.
Immediately on landing the Immigrant
commences to open his or her boxes and
bales and begins to change his or her
apparel. The women are not over par
ticular as to where they divest them
selves of their clothing, and a small
space on the wharf behind a pile of pig
iron or a stack of merchandise forms in
their estimation as good an apartment
as there is. The men carefully put on
clean collars and fresh ties, sort out the
best coat among their little stock and
fix up as neat as possible. After that
they proceed in a body, men, women
and children, to a large room above the
wharf, where they can purchase 1000,
change their foreign money into United
States currency and converse with the
Interpreters about the country and their
prospects before they start on their last
voyage to the far West. In a few hours
they are placed on board the cars, hur-
ried hundreds of miles away, and every
thing is ready for a fresh batch by the
next steamer.
The trades of the different persons
are recorded at the Custom Houses but
are not at all reliable. Irishmen some
times register themselves as politicians"
as do also people Of other nations whose
only claim to be considered such is a
remarkable want Of appreciation Of the
difference between meum and tuum.
This years and last years imml-
grants when compared show little diff
ference as regards physique or wealth.
Most Ofthe men are strong, and able
bodied. The women are almost as
strong and as big as the men and quite
fitted for a rough life, hundreds OF
them being accustomed to follow the
plough.