Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-04-28
CASTLE GARDEN OVERLOOKING.
Nearly Ten Thousand Immis rants
Landed in the Last Forty Eight
Hours
New York Sun.

Nearly Ten Thousand Immigrants
Landed an the Last Forty Eight
Hours.
New York sun.
The barge Harvest Home, rounding
up to the bulkhead under the 'skillful
assistance of small tug-boat shortly
before six o'clock yesterday afternoon,
discharged at Castle Garden COS emf
grants brought by the steamship Pollux
from Amsterdam, they being the last
to land of nearly 10000 brought in the
steerages of fourteen European steam
ships in the past two days. On Thurs
day, the Helyetia, from Liverpool,
landed $50 Englishmen and Irishmen
the W. A. Scholten, from Rotterdam.
iS4 Dutchmen the Koen, from Bre-
men, 1850 Germans the Hohen-
staufen, from Bremen, LOGS. Germans;
the Abyssinia, from Liverpool, 2S5
British; the Belgravia, from Glasgow,
SIC Scotch and Irish, aud the Circassia,
S94 Scotch and Irish. Yesterday, the
Trinachia, from Gibraltar, landed S14
French and Italians 4; the Leasing, from
Hamburg, 966 Germans; the Parthia,
from Liverpool, 13S British the Allie
mania, from Hamburg, 900 Germans;
the Pollux, from Amsterdam, 666
Dutchmen, and the Bengala, from Pa
these wholesale shipments there were
mingled some of other nationalities.
A few of the emigrants came from
Finland and a few from Iceland. 1t
was the heaviest work that the Garden
had had so far this year, though last
year it was surpassed when upward Of
eleven Thousand arrived in two days.
As the Harvest Home tied up there
was a great clatter on her two decks,
made by the wooden shoes that nearly
all the women and children wore. The
first to land was little man with
gold band on his cap. He was the doc
tor of the Pollux. He carried in his
hand small box, tied up with a cord.
He made his way to DIR. Chaplin, of the
Garden, and said few words to him.
The two then made their way to the
hospital and the doctors quarters,
which are reached by going through
the baggage-room and by Bummer's
Hall to q corner formed by high fence
outside the Castle wall. In 81 room
there man in a strait jacket, who had
gone mad on the voyage from Liver
pool, was pacing up and down; and in
the yard young Dutchwoman, Hillig-
gren Mulder, who had similarly gone
mad on the Scholten coming over, and
who had just been taken out of a strait
jacket, stood lettering in a pair Of
wooden shoes IN the yard regarding
her four children, who were attended
by their grandmother, and eating an
apple. The small box was handed over
10 an attendant, with the order to "put
it In the dead-house," and the death of
a newborn child was recorded in a
printed certificate against such cases
provided. As the two doctors returned
to the landing place the last of the
Pollux's passengers were gathering
up the planks. A policeman with
pleasant, kindly eyes and a huge
grizzled moustache was awkwardly
Juggling squaliing and obstreperous
baby and objurgating the father, who
had gone on ahead with bag of bread
and cheese and a pipe. Gust like
those Europeans" growled the police
man when he had disposed of his
charge; "they look out for the food
and trust to luck and the women to
mind the bundles and the babies.
1t was queer sight inside the Gar
den at this hour. Probably one thous-
and persons were there, but from the
manner in which they were mingled
with large and remarkable assort-
ment of bundles, which much resem-
bled them, they seemed ten times that
number. They sat in rows and in
clusters. Families had made them
selves Enclosures by placing the long
wooden benches together, and were
preparing the evening meal There
were babies nursing, and there were
babies sleeping in out of-the-way hooks
and crannies among the heaps of soft
baggage, where one could not help sus-
pecting they would be overlooked and
lost. The big cooking stove was crowd |
ed with the most amazing variety of |
coffee-pots. Silver pieces clinked upon |
the restaurant bars in exchange for |
bread, beer, sausages, cheese, cake and |
pies. Worn men in an Enclosure lot !
ted down figures with pencils that
seemed moved by electricity, and ex-
the coin of the republic for |
brought from the four quarters |
of the earth The circular stone walls
we're filled with the babble of a dozen
Of the worlds tongues, intermingled |
With the shuttle of feet, the sharp rat
tat on counters and ratings |
Of official wands, and the occasion
al stentorian calling of persons
name. Mary Ryan !" yelled a
man with blue cap and lungs of brass,
but there was no answer. There never |
seems to be an answer to name call
ed in Castle Garden. The shrek of a |
terrific whistle from boat on the river
close by was followed by q sOnorous and |
tremendous boom that all but shook !
he coffee-p9ts off the stove, startled |
he women and occasioned frenzy in
he babies. 1t was the sunset gun on /
Governors Island. The open skylight |
became dingy, and the gaslights, back
ed up by tin reffectors, began to assert |
themselves. All the emigrants took to |
eating. A group of Italians, with leg
yins and metal buttons and ten-dav |
boards, stood in the blow of friedrich |
stove and devoured bread witt avidity |
md nothing else. The bulk of the en-
grants seemed TO content themselves |
With bread alone, but some of the Ger
mans took beer from the bottle turn
about, and coffee parties, with cake.
occurred in a number of the Enclosures.
One group created envy by reason of
, pot of butter that had been brought
along, and that looked very bad, Id
Iced.
By nine O'Clock the Garden was much
more crowded. Emigrants who had
iupPed luxuriously, in Greenwich
street and other places outside had re-
urned to sleep. The emigrant trains
If which there is one daily on each Of
he three large roads West, were una
Die to take out all who arrived yester-
lay and on Thursday, and il was for
his reason that the Garden was called
lpon to lodge SO many. Many who
;sme on Thursday we're still not able
o get away yesterday The officials
ay that the largest immigration yet
Known is setting in, and promises that
he next two months will show q record
precedent
A Sunday school teacher was exhib-
ting his specimen pupil to compa-
~ of visitors, and in the course of
ONE questions propounded to elicit