The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-01-19
ALL NATIONALITIES.
"A f!cture OF the European Immi grants
AS they Arrive at Castle Garden.
Special Correspondence Of the Chron1

Ashley Arrive at Castle Garden.
| Special Correspondence Of the Chronicle.
NEW YORK, Jan 16.-There is nowhere
| else IN the world such a place as Castle
| GarCen-the old battery at the end of the
island where all our foreign immigrants
are landed. Any day you choose to 90
| there, you will see hundreds and frequent
/ ~ thousands OF people of the Old World
who have come to make their homes in the
| New
| The steamers transfer their steeraoe pas
sengers to barges and all The barges bring
them here. In this building are English,
Scotch, Irish, Germans (and generally more
| Germans than any Other), Italians, Scan
| dinavians, Russians-men, women and
| children OF almost every European nation
atty. They all make motley company.
| Such a variety Of humanity it would be
! difficult to find anywhere else. Behind
one railing there were to-day several hun
! dred Irish many men, not a few women,
young and old, and dozens Of babies
/ Some are neat, well-to-do people, but
others are the pictures of poverty. In
| another part of the building the Germans
| were cOngrt gated. Some were making
coffee, others drinking beer, half hun
dred babies were crying Gn German, of
course,) number OF men and women were
sleeping, or trying to sleep. Household
plunder and children were strewn on the
floor in the most promiscuous way.
| The NOrwegians and Danes were the
| hardest looking fellows that l saw to-day
Tall men and strong women, every other
one with a baby, not in her arms, but
bound to her body with shawl.
In this building tickets are bought to
their destinations and barges take them
directly to the train whereon they are to
complete their journey. AS many as stop
in New York, only small proportion Of
all that come stop here.
You are obliged to wonder at the cour-
age Of these people who take their house
holds and come so boldly into a country
where they cannot even be understood by
the natives, and start life again, the most
OF them with little or no capital. 1t is,
for instance, no holiday work for the faith
er Of a North Carolina family to sell his
home and to make journey to the West,
never expecting to return, when he has
not enough money, in fact, to pay his fare
back if he wished to return. But this is
not to be compared with the boldness of a
German or a Danish family which makes
such a journey.
There is no better proof of the real bene-
ficence of our Government or Of the youth
and possibilities of the United States than
have met here. Not small part by any
means either OF our good citizenship OF
of our Industrial wealth has come through
| Castle Garden, and come through it in
! poverty.
Very few of them go South. One rea-
! son is, they have not heard OF the South
and another and the greater reason why
you do not get this class Of immigrants
the working class-is the presence of the
} Negro as a cheap laborer. S. L.
An Old Residents Visit to Pender.
Special Correspondence Of The Chronicle.
BURGAW, January l5.-Upon returning
after an absence OF several years | an
| gratifed to note the improvement in the
places Of my youth and the home Of my
boyhood. At Burgaw the county site o
$ Pender, which a few years ago was bar
rem waste, there is located, on the public
square, a court house that would ornamen
any county in the State, around which il
rapidly springing up a thrifty village q
people, as clever as live anywhere. Ant
the Presbyterians have erected house o
worship whereof the young ladies are nov
2 engaged in arranging concert to lqui
} date the last outstanding Indebtedness.
? am also glad to know that King Solomon
| Lodge f. A. NJ. formerly located at Lii
8 | lington has been removed and reorga nized
! and with Col. Robt. w. Moore as Master
t is rapidly growing in numbers and useful
| ness But there is one subject which
| trust I will be pardoned for saying tn
people Of the place are not coming up t.
7 the measure of their capacity, that the.
do not establish upon a permanent am
: successful basis a school of high grade
e | Possessing fine building, good water
healthy location and good society-ther
' | is nowhere a better opening for the sue
, cessful progress of slch an institution.
r The first sleigh, dare say, ever seen il
e the county was extemporiZed on Monda
: of last week, and drawn by DR.. Walter g
\ Murphy's elegant span Of Hamiltonians
G..