Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-13
oorl.nrss OF NATIONS.
Immigrants Feel and Look ana A0s
Ho" i rss Universal Money Passion.

mid YOU ever XIII an I'M = ~ wy
~, ;,o,,ired reporter of blum George
l"'u ,,,,,ro the veteran landing agent at
O@ ''>-oror had the luck-bad luck, mean
n,1anded every immigrant that ever
ua,' bere-11 ,0o0,O 900 of them-and sc
.s sra never killed or injured one OF them
n aIost piece of baggage. Singular, lsn =
pnt don't want to brag. or We'll
have an accident right of"
sSaD;dn,t YOU ever have suicide hereF'
Nv su. You see, if person IS 60
In himself he does it on the voyage
lns everything looks blue and he is feel
and miserable. By the time they
'u into port they feel better; they have
s'' i,,torest of seeing strange sights in a
'u. oopntry and the hope Of finding
hing TO make them happy in this
soIae -,sn land of promise. If they put oil
uHsn-,Ii.tino suicide until they get\ here
a',,-r'.stp0ne it until they get away. BE-
. n coed many eyes are watching
ro and people acting suspiciously are
nlacpd under surVel'lahce az ohoe.
p"I snnDose you see many queer charac-
tiers hereE ..+o,es ob Iordi,, and
cont Moore gave gasp as expressive as
i whole Grafton
WONDERFUL PROCESSION.
~, wish TO see a mosaic OF humanity
;Castle Garden. If You wish to study
Sr,,v nature in many aspects and or
vnatiOualites this is surely the school
lluS'acbools. Castle Garden is CosmOpolis.
.;stbe Gathering place of the nations. 1t
J.. tos modern Tower Of Babel. 1t is the
saatirs, Of the waters. 1t is the greatest
bnm9n kaleidoscope ever invented.
n I,ur Moore is very fond OF presenting
bis trieuds with = little book, issued Dy
IA American Bible Society, which gives
I'm Isl. lG-eFOr God So loved the
gO, y atc. translated into 164 different
lDgnaeps. 1.-THE II 600, 900 human bodies
rbich have passed through Castle Gar
E dom could be classified according to ma
-iaraIitv there would be few of those
e tonoIos left unrepresented IN the vast ag-
81 giomoration. What procession! 1t has
81 Contained all classes and conditions of
81 man women and children. tor the noble
b man has been there as well as the beggar.
q II has been the birthplace and the death
81 he'd OF people. IL has seen giants and
8 0warfs and all manner of monstrOsities.
81 Aud it has furnished also some OF the
81 lest blood which the United States pos
se.ses to-day. Castle Garden IS Dig
81 thing on ice.
ALWAYS SOMETHING NOVEL.
Castle Garden is one of those natural
b theatres which almost always have some
3 new drama upon the stage. Visit it at
almost any time and you will find some
unlque picture or or novel situation in the
81 tangled skein OF human life. The bulk Of
4 be incoming tide of travel is, of course,
81 commonplace and uninteresting, as life in
81 the lower strata of society is very apt to
be- A ship load of immigrants pours into
the gateway bringing the flavor of some
mrticular nation with it, and then pours
out again, and goes westward, and in the
thousand people there may not be dozen
who excite a ripple Of interest in the OBJ
server: but every once in while there
comes a comet, or a planet, an eccentric
star or brilliant one, and the attention
IS fixed. Dig down little and you find,
not dirt, not chat, but the golden sand
which makes lite something more than
mere animal eXistence-the s'materiaP'
Of the poet, the dramatist and the ro-
maucer.
Look at that pretty girl with wooden
sb00n and golden band about her hair,
sitting apart from the rest, with a far
away look in her eyes and faint smile on
her lips as she tucks a rude letter away
against the white bosom behind her quaint
bodice. Can you not see the love story
there, the fearful separation years ago.
the struggling farmer in the West, the
waiting maiden in the East, the summons
10 come and the happy reuniting not far
NJ noWH Wey, it is as plain as print to
an old Castle Gardener. Every steamer
'ungs score OF lovers on their way TO
mon and reunion. These old country
overs are more faithful than those of
Young America.
THOSE GAY SWEDISH FLIRTs.
fonder is a Swedish lass who fairly
makes the Yankee tongue itch to be able
alk her language. Her gay skirt
comes down to the knees. Below il are
Np boots. Above IL a snow-white waist.
ABOVE that-ahl such Nilsson smilei
Nnat IS the romance here? Bless your
neart' young man, isn't that arch little
creature romance in herself? Where
are your nerves?
II Is a noticeable popularity of the
Sor'h country people (for Castle Garden
lat lnfy are strikingly clean and neat in
petson, intelligent in manners, and they
saAe themselves quickly at home In a
Iauge place. A Swedish girl will fiirt
W. goo1-looking American Young man
Heely and naturally as watering
aCe Oelie, whereas the representatives
uoIe southern nations and apparently
uos ulIy ones) act more like fright
eu animals than intelligent human
s.iys from the time they leave the ship
L eve. W. 0n" 'Ho pun
i t.s que predominating topic of interest
n.y. immigrant mind is money-how to
og ~ ana how TO save it. Suspicious
d my one who cannot talk their par
d'Il language, though easily bamboo
,,l ny NOSE who do, they come into the
!, %eu looking upon every stranger as a
4il ana an enemy. Their money.
Es, nay ne a greater sum aud NAV be
mbos served away in The liningo Of their
,rsd VI fastened in their coats, or Sc
beIr v,. u tnelr stockings, or chained TO
src, "S,ss by brazen money belts and
h, Il o-ler apparatus Of torture, and to
eb q. ouI is much worse than pulling
h. Gazing pigs 10 market. Only a
nt I, ~ ago an oldSwede brought his wife
Gas an 5o,l III money over with him, and it
70, 1, 0uL before be could be persuaded
nd t6on Ouahged into American money.
1e ~ nol until he had been tsken M
boa ~ ne exchange bureau and the
tepsr.,aa i !g described TO him about nine
amin ZINES. Put the same suspieious
utsds udhds Of suspicious rascal
BAD mon, ''isAnt with Swedish. and
ery sbnrt would change ownership In
tba -, "eI. IL Is a common saving
ore wb.,, vcu mat al immigrant knows
les a,fc. ne arrives there than he ever
'pihirg ",aIu. lou cannot teach him
pr. ana ne Is in the tolls OF n swim
"NN iou try in warn bt,, - :" ~