The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-10-30
LIFE In CASTLE GARDEN.
stray Pictures In the New Worlds Great
TurnStilc.

New DIRK HeraIG,-'Dlu you ever
Kill an immigrant, Captain?" inquired
a Herald reporter OF bluff George E.
Moore, the veteran landing agent at
Castle Garden.
Never had the luck-bad luck, |
mean. | have landed every immigrant
that ever came here-eleVen millions
OF them-and we have eve killed or
injured one of them or lost a piece OF
baggage. Singular, isn't it, But l
don't want to brag or we'll surely
have an accident right off"
Didn't you ever have a suicide
here?"
Nary a SUI. You see, if a person is
going 10 kill himself he does it On the
voyage when everything looks blue
and he is feeling sick and miserable.
BY the time they get into port they
feel better; they have the interest OF
seeing strange sights in a new country
and the hope of finding something to
make them happy in this unknown
land of promise. If they put off com
hitting suicide until they get here they
postpone it until they get away. Be
sides, a good many eyes are watching
here, and people acting suspiciously
are placed under surveillance at once"
II suppose you see many queer char
acters here"
Queer characters? Oh, Lordl" and
Captain Moore gave a gasp as express
sive as q whole grafton.
If you wisht to see a mosaic ofhuman-
ity 60 to Castle Garden. Ifyou wish to
study human nature in many aspects
and ofmany nationalities this is surely
the school of schools. Castle Garden
is Cosmopolis. 1t is the gathering
place of the nations. 1t is the modern
Tower of Babel. 1t is the meeting of
the waters. 1t is the greatest human
kaleidoscope eve invented.
Capt. Moore is very fond of present
ing his friends with a little book, issued
by the American Bible Society, which
gives John iii, 16-"For God so loved
the world" &c, translated into one
hundred and sixty-four different Ian
guages If the eleven million human
bodies which has passed through Castle
Garden could be classified according
to nationality there would be few OF
those tongues left unrepresentedin the
vast agglomeration. What q process
sion! Is there any other or earth to
equal it" t has contained all classes
and coLuitions of men, women and
children, for the noblcman has been
there as we'll as the beggar. Ithas been
the birthplace and the deathbed OF
people. 1t has seen giants and dwarfs,
and all manner of monstrosities. And
it has furnished also some of the best
blood which the United States pos
sesses to-day, Castle Garden is a big
thing on ice.
Castle Garden is one of those natur-
al theaters which almost always have
some new drama upon the stage. Wis
it it at almost any time, and you will
find some unique picture or novel sit
uation in the tangled skein of human
life. The bulk of the incoming tide OF
of travel is, OF course, commonplace
and u~ninteresting, as life in the lower
strata of society is very apt to be. A
ship-load ofimmigrants pours into the
gateway, bringing the flavor of some
particular Nation with it, and then
pours out again, and goes westward,
and In the thousand peoplethere may
not be a dozen who excite a ripple OF
interest in the observer; but every
once ina while there comes acomet, OF
a planet, an eccentric star, or a bril-,
li&nt one, and the attention is fixed
Dig down a little and you find, not
dirt, not chaf, but the golden sand
which makes life something more than
a mere animal existence-the ''mater.
ial" of the poet, the dramatist and the
romancer.
Look at that pretty girl with wood
en- shoon, and golden band about hel
hair, sitting apart from the rest, with
a far away look in her eyes and afaint
smile on her lips as she tucks a rude
letter away against the white bosom
behind her quaint bodice. Can yot
not see the love story there, the tear
full separation years ago, the STRUGGLING
farmer in the west, the waiting nader
in the east, the summons tt
come and the happy reuniting not fal
off now2 "Why, it is as plain as print
to an old Castle Gardener. Every
steamer brings a score of lovers Oh
their way to union and reunion
These old country lovers are NOR,
faithful than those of North America
Yondcr is q Swedish lass who fairly
makes the Yankee tongue itch to b,
able to talk her language. Her ga,
/, skirt comes down to the knees. Be
| low it are top boots. Above it snow
: white waist. Above that-ah! such
! Nilsson smiiel' What is the romanc
! here? Bless your heart, young man
? isn't that arch little creature a RI
: nance in herself? Where are you
! nerves?
1t is q noticeable popularity OF tn
North country people TOR Castle Gar
deny that they are strikingly clean an,
!, neat in person, intelligent in manners
I and they make themselves quickly q