New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-01-04

LIFE; IN CASTLE GARDEN.
Stray Pictures In the New worlds Great
Turnstile.
New York Herald s4nid you ever
Kill an immigrant, .Gaptam7n inquired
? Herald reporter of bluff George E.
Moore, the veteran landing agent at
Castle Garden.
Never had the 1uck-bad luck, /
mean. / have landed every Immigrant
that ever came here eleven millions
OF them-and we have never killed or
injured one of them or lost piece Of
baggage. Singular, isn't it? But ]
don + want to brag or we'll surely
have an accident right off. z
Didn't you ever have suicide
shere?''
Nary su. You see, if q person is
going to kill hinself lie does it on the
voyage when everything looks blue.
and he is feeling sick and miserable.
By the time theysget into port they.
feel better; they have the interest Of.
seeing strange sights I'm q new country
and the hope of finding something to
make them happy In this Unknown
land Of promise. If they put off COM
uniting 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 surv illance at once, "
q slrpppse You see many queer char
acters here
Queer characters? Oh, Lordl" and
Captain Moore gave q gasp as express
slve as a whole. grafton.
II you Wisht0see anosaic of human
ity go to Castle Garden. Ifyou Wishto
study human nature in many aspects
and ofmanyna tionalitieSthis is surely
the schoolof schools. Castle Garden
is Cosnnopolis. Tt is the gathering
place of the nations. 1T is themodern
Tower of Babel. 1t is the meeting Of
the waters. It is the greatest human
Kaleidoscope ever invented.
Capt. Moore is very fond of present
ing his friends with q little book, issued
by the American Bible Society, which
gives john Ills, I6-tsF or God so flowed
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
these tongues left unrepresented in the
vast aggglomeration. What q process
sion! Is there any other on earth to
equal it? 1t has contained all classes
and conditions of men, women and
children, for the nobleman has been
there as well as the beggar. Ithas been
the birthplace and the deathbed of
people. It 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 q big
thing on ice.
Castle Garden is one of those natur-
al theaters which almost always have
some new drama upon thestage. Wis
IT 1t at almost any time, and you will
find some unique picture or novel sit
uation III the tangled skein Of human
life. The bulk of the inco ming tide 81
Of travel is, Of course, coanmonplace
and ~ 1 u Y i teresting, as life in the lower
strata OF society is very apt to be. a
sshlp-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 people there may
not be a dozen who excite a ripple Of
interest in the observer; but every
once IN while there comes acomet, or
q planet, an eccentric star, or bril-
liant one, and the attention is fixed.
Dig down a little and you find, not
dirt, not chaff, but the golden sand
which makes life something more than
a mere animal existence the "mater-,
lap'of the poet, thedramati and the
romancer. 4
Look at that pretty girl with wood
en- shoon, and golden band about her
hair /, sitting apart from the rest, with
q lar away look in her eyes and a faint
smile on her lips as she tucks q rude
letter away against the white bosom
behind her quaint bodice Can you
not see the love story there, the tear
tul separation years ago, the struggling
farmer in the west, the waiting maiden
in the east, the summons to
ooos1S 80 AAeoRPy ASetdkoAiaSo 11So 1cSA
off now? "Why, it is as plain as print
to an old Castle Gardener. Every
steamer brings a score Of lovers on
their way to union and reunion.
These old country lovers are more
faithful than those OF North America.
Yonder is a Swedish lass who fairly
makes the Yankee tongue itch to be
able to talk her language. Her gay
skirt comes down to the knees. Be
low It are top boots. Above it a snow
Write waist. Above that-ah! such a
Nilsson smile! What is the romance
he e Bless your heart, young man,
isn t that arch little creature ro-
nance IN herself? Where are your
nerves?
1t IS noticeable popularity Of the
North tn, country people (for Castle Gar
den that they are strikingly clean and
neat neal n person, intelligent in manners,
and they make themselves quickly at
home in q strange place. a Swedish