The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-11-06
LIFE IN CASTLE GARDEN.
Stray Pictures in tho New Worlds Great
Turustile.

q Herald reporter OF bluff George Z.
Moore, the veteran landing agent at
Castle Garden.
Never had the luck-bad luck, l
c | have landed every immigrant
that ever came here-eleven millions
of them-and we have never killed or
injured one of them or lost a piece OF
baggage. Singular, isn't it? But /
don't want to brag or we'll surely
have al accident right off"
Didn't you ever have q suicide
here?2"
Mary a su. You see, if a person is
going to 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. ii they put OFF COM
hitting suicide until they get here they
postpone it until they get away. Be
sides, q good many eyes are watching
here, and people acting susplciously
are placed undersurvcillancea at once"
81 suppose you scemany queer char
acterS here.
"Queer characters? Oh, Lord" and
Captain Moore gave n gasp as express
sive as a whole Grafton.
Ii you wishtose othuman-
ity go to Castle Garden. Ifyou wishto
study human nature in many aspects
and ofmany nationalities this is
the school OF schools. Castle Garden
is Cosmopolis. 1t is the gathering
place of the nations. 1t is themodern
Tower OF Babel. 1t is the meeting of
the waters. 1t is the greatest human
kaleidoscope ever invented.
Capt. Moore is very fond OF present
ing his friends with Hitchcock, issued
by the American Bible Society, which
gives John Ill, l6-"For God so loved
the world" &c, translated into one
hundred and siXty-four different Ian
guages. Ii the eleven million human
bodies which has passed through Castle
Garden could be classified according
to nationality there would be lew OF
those tongues lett unrepresentedln the
vast ACCOMMODATION. What q process
sion! Is there any other ON earth to
equal 1t? 1t has contained all classes
and conditions of men, women and
children, Tor the noblcman has been
there as well astheb eggar. 1t has been
the birthplace II the deathoed OF
people. 1T has seen giants and dwarfs.
and all mannerot monstros'ties. And
u a 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 t~hestaSe. Nls,
1t II at almost any time, ana you VIII
lind some unique picture or novel sit
uatlon IN the tangled skeIn OF human
lie. The bulk OF the incoming tide o
OF travel Is, OF course, commonplace
n undressing, as life IN the lower
strata OF society is very apt to be. A
shlp-load oflmmlgrants pours INTO the
gateway, bringing the flavor OF scmt
particular Natioh win IL, n the,
pours out again, and goes westward
ana IN the Thousand peopiethere may
not be a dozen who excite Il ripple O
interest IN the observer; but every
onc ma While there ONE acomet,o'
q planet, an eccentric star, or a bril-
liant one, and the attention is fixed
Dig down n llttle and you innd, no,
dirt. o chat. but the golden sane
which makes HE something more thai
a mere animal existence-the mater
la!' OF the poet, hedramatls and ht
romancer.
Look at that pretty, girl with wood
en- shoon. IL golden band about hel
hair, sitting apart from the rest, will
a away look in her eyes andaialn'
smile on her lips as she tucks a rud'
letter away against the white bosom
behind her quaint bodice. Can yo'
not see the love story there, the tear