The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-16
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Payable Invariably IN Adponee.
eAeaAaE al cAsTLE GARDEN.
what the Immigrants Bring with Them
THOR Characteristic Luggage.
Kew \ DIRK World

New York wor.dl
The annual clearing-out of baggage
collected during the year at Castle car
den is made at this time. There are
ALWAYS several hundred pieces which re-
main nm .Iained aud which are stored
by tn mselves until the time comes for
their removal TO ard island. There
the baggage is opened, and whatever
is of value is preserved, while the
rest is destroyed in large bonfire.
The cole ton IN races all conceivable
kinds of i.oNrS. undes and Gags. lt
would be hard to imagine any con
trivance for packing that is not made
use of by these immigrants. The com
mon pine box with iron hooks is the
most general in use. 1t is sometimes
Ornamented with an iron hinge, and oc-
casionally with "A thin coat of paint.
Next to the pine box the typical emil
grant bag is most common. 1t is usu-
ally made out of a patched bed-sheet
gathered together at the four corners
and secured by rope. This fashion OF
tying up everything with ropes Is uni
yersal, and the size of the rope Is gen
orally out of all proportion to the size or
the box. 1t is not uncommon to see
bundle two feet square bound with an
inch rope. and small trunks are ire
ouently wound over and under malt
directions by fifty or sixty feet OF rope
large enough for ships hawser.
After gazing about at the apparent
confusion of luggage, the other day,
reporter sought out Mr.. Grant, who has
charge of this department, and inter
viewed him on the subject This isnt
a circumstance to what we have here IN
the busy season, y replied Mr.. Grant. 1t
is generally piled up to the roof so full
that we can hardly get about. The busy
season is during April and May, when
the emigrants get little money ahead
and start for western farms. Ihen we
have all we can attend to night and
day"
I'VE have a regular system which
makes what seems confused heap
really an orderly collection. Nhen
steamer arrives we number every parcel
and store it according to the nationality
of the owner-of course keeping record
of what steamer it came on. And IN
this way it is an easy matter to hunt up
the baggage when called for.
But can you tell the nationality OF
the owner, by his name."
''No, indeed; very little of it has any
name or mark of any kind to go by.
But | can tell you what country every
niece of baggage in this building came
from the moment lay eyes on it. The
people of every nation have their own
peculiar way of doing up packages. We
never make mistake. We can tell
even what part of a country a man
comes from by his baggage in lots of
cases. That pile to the left there Is a
French baggage The French emigrants
have two kinds of trunks, the long, low
and very broad ones and the tall, mar
row kind, and | never saw one that
wasn't painted black. On the whole
they are rather neat about their bag
gage. The next pile is English. Inc
English are the only ones that use TN
trunks. which look well at first, Du1
give us lots of trouble by breaking open
They sell great many OF them on tht
Wharves in Queenstown.
ITO what nation do those boxes anC
chests belong? They seem to be nearly
all marked, " observed the reporter, a:
he seated himself on a substantial look
ING oak chest and jotted down the vari
GUS WAYS the owners of several boXe
had contrived to spell New York. "
:, es, they are German, and as W.
receive more Germans at Castle garden
than the people of any other national
itv a large part of our store room
filled with their baggage, and a Ger
man. by the way, always brings mas
of stuff with him, and it is abominabi
heavy. But they put it up well, am
are always careful to mark 1t.
Jewish emigrants are very hlthy
and never bring anything but clot.
bundles. They nave habit of spread
ing out piece of strong cloth or can
vas, and throwing what they own IN
heterogeneous mass into the center, an
gathering the cloth together and wind
ing the whole over and over with rop
until it resembles big and dirty musk
melon Then they jump up and dow
ON it furiously to f1atten it, run a sticl
through the rope and swing it on thel
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