Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-02-21
CASTLE GARDEN.
HUMANITY IN MANY ASPECTS AND
OF MANY NATION ALITIES. 10
A Ship Load of Emigrants Lovers on
Their Way to Reunion-1he Pre-
dominati ting Topic of interest
Iirst Impressions

New York Letterl
Castle Garden is one Of those natural
theatres which almost always have some
new drama upon the stage isit il at al
most any lime and you will lind some
unique picture or novel situation in the
tangled skin Of human life The bulk of
the incoming tide of travel is. of course.
commonplace and unntercsting as life in
the lower strata IF society is very apt to
be A ship load Of immigrants pours into
the gateway, bringing the flavor of some
particular nation with II. and then pours
out again. and goes westward and in the
100, 90 people there may not be dozen
who excite a ripple Of interest in the oh
server: but every once in a while there
comes comet. or a planet an CcC entric
star or a brilliant one, and the attention is
fixed Dig down Il little and you find.
not dirt, not chatl but the golden sand
which makes life something more than a
mere animal CNistenCe-the material" of
the poet the dramatist and the romancer.
Look at that pretty girl with wooden
shoou and golden band about her hair.
sitting apart from the rest. with far
away look in her eyes and a faint smile
on her lips aS she tucks 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 ir the west the waiting
maiden in the east, the summons TO come
J and the happy reWIi!ing not far off nowg
Why, il is as PLAIN as print 10 an old
: Castle Gardener Every steamer brings
score of lovers on their way to union and
reunion. These old dCountry lovers are
! more faithful than those OF Young
America
! YoDder is a Swedish lass who fairly
makes the Yankee tongue itch TO be able
( TO talk her language Her gay skirt comes
down 10 the knees Below il are top
/ boots Above it Il snow white waist
| Above that-ah' such Nilsson smile
| What is the romanCe herel Bless your
heart, young man, ism t that arch little
creature romance in berselfy Where
| are your nerves7
! Ii is noticeable popularity of the
north country eope tfoT Castle Garden
that they are strikingly clean and neat in
person, intelligent in manners, and they
make themselves quickly at home in a
/ strange place. 4 swedish cir. will fiirt
with a good, looking American young
man a. freely and naturally as watering
/ place belle whereas the representative Of
more southern nations and apparently
more dirty ones act more like frightened
dulhlhls lLhu OtluES
from the time they leave the ship until
: they are dOmiciled beyond the public eye,
The one predominating topic of interest
in the immigrant mind is money-how 10
make it and how TO save it suspicious
of everyone who can not talk their partiC
ular language though easily bamboo7led
I by those who do they come into the
Garden looking upon cry stranger as
rObbcr and an enemy Their money,
which may be greater sum and may be
/ a less, is sewed away in the lining of their
clothes, or fastened in their coats, or Sc
GREETED in their stockings. or chained 10
their waists by brazen money belts. and
various other apparatus of torture, and to
get it out is much worse than pulling
teeth or coaXing pigs 10 market Only
few DAYS ago all old Swede brought
his wife and Sl,40O in money
over with him, and it was an
hour before he could be persuaded to
get it changed into American money. and
then nc until he had been taken inside OF
the exchange bureau and the whole thiLg
explained to him about nine separate
times. hut the same suspicious man in
the hands Of shrewd rascal outside con
verSant with Swedish and that money
would change ownership in very short
order 1t IS a common saying at the Gar
den that an immigrant knows more when
he arrives there than he ever does after
ward ou can not leach him ANYTHING
If he is in the tolls of swindler and you
try 20 warn him in time TO save himself
he will refuse 10 believe You. The most
sue esSful swindlers who operate among
the immigrants Law the foundation for
their work with letters and circulars sent
across the ocean
What are the immigrants first impres-
siOEs of this country: Most of them are
very matter of fact The pleasing fiction
that they come here expecting TO pick up
money in the streets is wild romance.
They do expect TO mako money. and they
have lingering hope that il will come
without much work. They walk out and
view the butt end of the city and 90 back
much disappointed Ii isE half so fine
as they thought it would be. they say.
and they compare it unfavOrably with
London or Paris or Berlin or whatever
city they are familiar with Those who
stay at the Garden long enough to get
acquainted with the sharpers who are /
constantly on the watch there or theIea-
butts for victims come 10 believe that /.
New ork is quite Ii, ely town after all
lie Labor Bureau bum is q well known
character. A ticket from the Labor
bureau gives him entry there every night
and he houses himself there as long as he .
can scrape up money TO buy food Then
he wants 10 be sent back TO Europe. lie ,
is a sort OF 10 al tramp, with the tramps .
aversion to reai work.
Castle Garden is supposed to protect .
immigrants from sAarpers and from the /
impositiO"s Of boarding house keepers .
and railroad runners and sich. Ii does
il. more or less. II can never do it
thoroughly so Ion as it permits horde .
of runners 10 come in and grab immi- .
grants landing too late to take the even
ing trains If astle Garden were stu
aleG on an island in the harbor. and i'm
migrants having no business in New York .
were restrained from coming here, it |
would lie much more efficient restraint
than II Is at present
There are some rare old characters
among the staff of employees in Castle .
Garden. Pol cemau George Miller. who
weeps to think he is going on the retired
list after twenty two years Of work in the
bureau, is a raCy old soul. full of grutf-
ness and good humOE He can swear
hercely in nineteen different languages,
and not a child will tremble in his pres
euCe. though his voice is as grutf as a
polar bears The veteran ticket taker
with the wooden leg is another Jolly old
boy, full of his yarns when in humor to
tell them His story of how dude in a
street car assaulted his wooden leg with
play cane because he aid not double it
up and get it out of the way is splitting
enough 10 split rails with.
LECTURE ON WAKING.
Rules for Getting Along in slippery
Weather-Beware of Your Heels.
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