The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-06-11
COMING HERE TOO RAPIDLY.
HEBREW BENEvOLENCE STRAINED TO
MEET THE RUSH or REFUGEES.

-How they BIher from Otner hmmtErunts
lTrying to Alter the Mode OF Life OF
Feopie-Their Refusal TO de as Others do.
The people OF New York are likely to havo
e,enty OF opportunities TO see the Russian
News. who now arc Hocking to America. Tho
Battery Park contains hundreds Of them. They
Ia on tho grass. monopolize whole lines OF
benches sit side by side In groups Of tens and
dozeps on the Istreet curbs and wander aim
lessly along Broadway State street. Greon-
Svlch street and the side streets. keeping within
ounshot OF Castle Gardepiand the ONCE OF the
Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society. the only two
points they know anything about In America.
The scenes In the Park and the street. con-
eequent upon the addition to the cisys life.
are such as New Workers have never been
familiar with. or even witnessed In the past.
Uhe tale OF the hardships that have forced
these prosecuted people upon the charity OF
the world is eloauently told In their appear
ance No body OF people poorer than they ever
PASSED the gates OF Castle Garden. A Russian
refugee can be recognized anywhere by his long
coat. his small cap. and quite as readily by his
bodily condition. In this they arc as unique
es In their poverty. Women who attempt to
pross Battery Park. and who encounter group
OF two Of refugees near the entrance. fire.
uusntly turn back. unwilling to risk further
ether immigrants in Castle Garden are often
Been to avoid the Russians.
,nar ark i however. ''i in the pride and conn,
hence OF their mien and carriage. Never is one
Beer, among tho men ct least: whose head 4. Is
public hs gaze unfincElnsiy. and wScse deporte
nept Is not that Of man who understands der
81 the land he has found There seemed to be
BOO in and around Castle Garden yesterday.
and On d tS anlnSitins looking icsSes q
Via an dfs
suggested in the carriage OF the Hollanders.
h and aang or CT N6om Sh Ss
brought little stores OF goods and money with
them. There were some women and children
those respects that made the men conspicuous.
were even more to be remarked and pitied.
aud that fondness for adornment which was
marked even in the poorest Of the women from
Russians. Many Of the children, particularly
the yoyns gFlS were p 9sses s sS 81 all the
famous .0 Aer V their Pe abiutons at the Grcon
large deep black eyes and Oriental nt features;
to good sdvantage. But they were no more
careful Of their dross than their elders. They
nent alone, but nearly all the lesser articles Of
among them. They w. often conducted ' them.
have been looked for only in the privacy Sa Of
home. and appeared either UNCONSCIOUS Of or
pnSono s . about the presence Of the multi
They are a striking looking people. spare of
sFhG SRS
men wear their hair and boards long and un;
parting and smoothing it on top,
awe?k Known New Yorker who has long inter:
The Ss sed a fba who ~ ta
refugees had been assumed by private enter:
prise: and he had not practically concerned
moveme INTO Of these Russians Is That il is
Quoted as poetic s rHher than P1re bn
peculiar people and its troubles multiply
every day, These refugees have been SO ton;
london. H9yre. in short wherever they have
telGepco and humility than theirs would
have been dcadened before, they reached
as $ Sc snG9Eh s Tnfn w hy to
accept anything then. they have come to ex
pet every Eyy. attention 4 and all e9nSdeTation
here and in Greenpoint and on Wards Island
until they cost the committee t25 head. They
tperhaps natural they should expect, as they
DO amo and assistance for celebrating in full
should loudly eo%plaig as they do. i their
daily fare is not that which their religion has
harsh word been spoken to them" A' wa =
DO not other immiGrGntss s. show the same
Se 2nf Ssrs "a ba ,tat o ouporuntv
them to exhibit ii in Castle Garden. Suppose
those refugees were here on the same basis as
authorities would 60 to those handsome. we'll
as speedily as possible and tell them TO 60 at
once to the Labor Bureau. wash themselves.
om as S servants srs The
here cannot get enough mill hands to meet the
Them hSs TG work sS &c hSss
scene az if thu, refugees had not come to accept
they are are = peddlers and small tradesmen. Of
whom from other nations it has been limited
n the cities OF the land These refugees dis
Like to go far irom the committee; Some who
sot sasd they % to VneasS SJ
q some other place near the headquarters pi
iSyorything is not to their taste. Il they Came came
a. the people OF other lands, do. and land and
G hat Wo Ire an& Of T. e Se Hn Of
different standing. am told that what they
think thoy arc % get it, They were not agTcpl
u not easy to change the mode Of lie OF a peo-
pc; Tho committee Keep at work herolcally
and shoy no signs Of weakening but it is often
predicted that the task is too great to DO under
Sfs .Sen on any other than the hardest business
3tasls The Russian refugees diGsr from other
immigrants in other respects than those have
mentioned a. ,ha Tho apthorities who have placed
nan AMER disposal buii33ing on Wards Island
San H' ashe" shem ~ 60 and look at the other
;.-.'t;::-.ss wherein other people are cared for;
seS oSseTEe now tidy neat and pleasant to all
however. give more OF their time To their do
'9Muons than 70 other occupations"
Plumbers OF them loitered before the door OF
Tho basement opposite the park which is the
nfsSsdquarters OF the Aid Society that is to pro-
In the basement, where the Clerks and en-
ployees are kept apart from them by a stout
~rs framework. The atmosphere, is warm
nnu Otherwise unpleasant. Mr. Kursheedt. the
ssiec9tivs. has removed his office. and Is to he
b UIhih several flights higher up in the same
II is true that the refugees are coming over
ttaasteI Than We can accommodate them. and
tnat h4i Of them have no trades" said he.
A., Dlu You not have an arrangement whereby