St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-15
THEY oUT-JUDAS JUDAS.
Steamship Agents Who Betray Credulous
Foreigners for a Little Silver.
ALIENS VERSUS AMERICANS.
European and Asiatic Paupers Who
Freeze Out Artisans to the
Manor Born.
Special to the Globe.


New YORK, Aug. 1.-THE Ford con-
gressional committee resumed the in
vestigation into immigration affairs to-
day. A. Packard, manufacturer of ship
stores, said that he had been in the
business fifty years in this city. From
his testimony it was elected that two
thirds of those employed in vessels
leaving and arriving at this port are
aliens. Two firms of this city, he said,
made it business of employing for
eigners in their sailing craft. The
captains of most of the vessels are for
eigners. Capt. R. A. Briggs corrobor-
ated the testimony of Mr.. Packard.
Foreign ship captains, witness said, work
for less than American navigators and on
this account many American sea cap
tains are lying idle. Capt. NJ. G. Grace
testified that he was captain of vessels
for twenty-five years and that he was an
American by birth. He grew excited
and said: II am now idle. 1 cannot
get employment because foreigners
come here and freeze me out. The for
elgners work for such low wages that
the owners gobble them up" Witness
gave several instances of where Amer
lean ship owners have cut down wages
so low that one could not support a
family on the wages. Luchenbeck d
Morse were mentioned by the witness
as employing foreign
HANDS AT STARVATION WAGES.
Capt. Grace said he never applied per-
sonally to the collector of the port for a
remedy for the alleged evils. The main
complaint the witness had to make was
that a clearing clerk in the custom house
did not exercise proper caution to eX-
clude all men from the command Of
American ships who are not citizens of
the United States. lie said the State of
Alabama, a vessel now here belonging
in England. has been brought here to
dredge Gedney channel down the bay.
Mr.. Cummings, Jersey man, is the
contractor, and nearly every hand en-
ployed in the scheme is an Englishman.
James Heghney and Patrick Cayan-
agh, two young Irishmen from Tyrone,
landed here two weeks ago. They tes-
titled that steamship agents induced
them to come here by stating they could
earn $12 per week. They made 10 shill-
ingS per week at home, and if they
were there again would not soon be in
duced to emigrate by such fraudulent
stories. Groups of thirty and forty had
been led by steamship agents to the
deck and shipped like sheep. Both
witnesses are living on the charity of a
friend. Both are doubtless material
for good citizens. Patrick McAndrews,
their friend, corroborated their state
ments, and said both had worn out shoes
looking for employment. Lewis Bur-
CESS Greenslade.
A LIVING CURIOSITY,
Devonshire, England, testified to being
confined at the city lunatic asylum at
Stone, suburb of London. The author
tiles purchased a ticket and sent him to
America, His wife secured a passage
through her own eXertions. Witness
said he was king of the cranks, and had
a monopoly of the business here. His
wife does not thiuk him insane. She
supports him by shaving people in
Brooklyn.
George Jurischek, an employe of the
Equitable Life Insurance company, told
of the methods of various steamship
lines plying between here and German
ports. The competition was rapid, and
inducements We're offered by the
agents to immigrants. One Messing,
a consul at Berlin, was an active
solicitor of emigrants. He acted for
the National line, and sent agents So
liciting through country places. A good
many poor miners from Silesia are
hoodwinked by these agents and per-
suaded to come here. They are told
they can make a fortune in short time.
Messing had some transactions with the
late defunct American Exchange in Eu-
rope. On one occasion an agent of
MeSsing'S came to witness to change
money for some emigrantS. He wanted
him to have two accounts and deduct
cents from every form and whack
up. The American Exchange in Europe
would do business that way. but the
witness would not agree. The witness
reported the action to a German official,
who told him to mind his own business
that the German government did not
care what became of Polish Jews. The
witness then
INFORMED PRINCE RADZEVILL,
an officer on Emperor Williams staff.
Nothing came of it. The witness, in
testifying further, stated that the North
German Lloyd line was always ready to
take undesirable persons to this country.
A society called the alliance Israelite
Universelle," to which the late Sir
Moses Montefiore was connected, used
every effort to export poor European
Hebrews to this country. The North
German Lloyd, it appears, was always
willing to render assistance to the low
est possible consideration. A promi-
nent Hebrew, at Berlin, named Mier
MagnuS, was instrumental in making
special rates for the transfer of poor
Hebrews with the North German Lloyd.
MagnuS was a personal friend of the
late Emperor Frederick.
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