St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-23
FROM ACROSS THE SEA.
Emigrants From Foreign Lands Who
Land at Castle Garden.
A HETEROGENEOUS MASS.
How Emigrants Are Transferred to
Their Proper Places and Protected
Prom the Wicked.

now EmlgfantS Are transferred to
Their Proper Places and Protected
Prom the Wicked.
a. HREE million seven
u, Y@ hundred and fifty
E9E thousand eight hun
.|ENS dred and twenty-four
1T ~ immigrants have been
Au "a landed up to date at
AlA N the emigrant landing
IN Elk depot at the Castle
T~h y Garden wharf since
w. w. 1873, says the New
fasa'dS""s York Star. In other
WoruS, over 0ne-twentieth of the entire
population of the United States has,
Within fourteen years, been landed at
Castle Garden. The entire manage
ment of this immense transfer of human
lives is dependent UPON the genial
hammered Capt. John K. Moore and
his efficient clerk, George w. ESsilin-
ger, who was born in Castle Garden,
his father at the time being one of the
officers III charge who had his apart
ments in the building. Mrs. ESsilinger,
the mother of George, is to-day the
matron, who has charge of the German
and Swedish immigrants seeking en-
plOyment in the labor bureau. To
thoroughly understand the immense in
tefeStS that are at stake in this, the
greatest transfer business in the world,
IL Is necessary to enter into statistics.
Ihere are tWenty-fOur steamship lines
that land passengers at Castle Garden.
A complete record of these is kept from
their departure from Europe, as the
agents at the different ports telegraph
to the agents here of the various COM
panles how many emigraDtS are on each
ship, When they are landed here
complete record is kept of each pas
Senger, where he or she came from and
what his or her destination. The land
ing system is as perfect as it is possible
to make it. No sooner is a steamer
reported off Fire Island Iightship or
Sandy Hook than swift tug is dis
patched by Capt. Moore to get the
mails, These tugs are in charge of
They have full steam OH night and day,
as they are liable to be called on at any
moment, either to tow steamer out,
aid one In distress, OF hurry down and
get the mails. No sooner do they run
alongside big ocean mail steamer than
the bags of letters and papers are
thrown On board. At the same time the
purser OF the ship hands out copies of
his lists of passengers for the agent of
the steamers line. This accounts for
the fact that before steamer has got to
her dock the lists of passengers are al
ready IN type. A big ocean steamer,
having on board from 800 to 1000 pas
sengers, is often detained several hours
at quarantine, especially if the passen-
gers hail from sunny, dirty and infected
tf2IV AS thp StQQmnr &c CT h
ing up, Capt. Moore will dispatch either
the transfer boats Starr, Moore or Rosa.
each having in tow
AN IMMENSE BARGE.
On board there will be the custom
house officers and the boarding officers
especially appointed by the commits
sioner of immigration. These are
Philip Wagner, Charles Eichler, Philip
Hurlich, George Whitlock, James
Gould and John Maison. In no other
country in the world is there extended
such protection and assistance to the
stranger OH landing that is given by the
commissioners OF emigration here. 1t is
the duty OF the boarding officer to in
quire of all passengers as to their treat
ment on board the ship while coming
out: then as to their destination and
condition. Many young, innocent girls
would nave been entraped and ruined,
if not lost forever, but for the care of
the officers. They will learn either
through the purSer, steward, a sailor
or passengers that such and
such young girl came aboard
alone, and is at the time about to
leave the ship with man who has
openly boosted of what he can get for
her in New York, or with a procuress,
many OF whom annually cross the
ocean. The boarding officers say
nothing, but await the landing of the
passengers at the Castle Garden wharf.
Then Supt Jackson or Capt. Heinze-
man is notified. AS the young woman
and her attendant leave the transfer
boat they are quietly taken into room.
The young woman generally breaks and
innocently tells how she met her com
panlon. Ii 1t is man, he is summariIy
disposed of. If a procuress. she is
taken to the tOmbs. If the Young
women admit that they came to this
country with a full knowledge of what
was wanted of them, they are
taken to Wards island and sent back
to the land they came from, at
the expense OF the steamship company
that brought them out, as mot desira-
BILE immigrants" Then, again. not p
day passes but what these boarding
officers discover cases of the utmost des,
titutiOn-crippleS, idiots, paupers, sent
out from Europe to die here. AS there
is already enough poverty in this land
without importing more, these unfortu-
mates are at once separated from the
other passengers and sent to Wards
Island, to be returned to the govern
ment that sent them to the land of the
free. A more distressing, exciting scene
cannot lie imagined than one that took
place a few days ago when seven steam
ers, having 10000 passengers among
them, coming from Italy, Spain, France.
Germany, Norway and the British Isles
were landed simultaneously at Castle
Garden. The steamers coming in be-
fore sunset had the law on their side
and compelled the commissioners of
emigration to remove the Immigrants
from the ships. 70 the companies il
was saving of hundreds of dollars. To
the commissioners it was the
HERDING OF PEOPLE
in worse way than cattle-an awful
confusion in every part of the garden.
To dispose of all was a herculean task.
but it was done. Capt. Moore dispatched
all of his bargeS, transfer boats and tugs
to- the several ships. Supt. Jackson,
Capt: HeinZeman, Clerks Van Dusen,
Neiglutsch and Murphy prepared for
Tic IuSH. IAd1To1S DOyle anu ESS1llnger
took their allotted places, and the great,
big, nOble-hearted Father Riordan was
ready to meet the devil, if need be. One
boat after another came. There were
Italians, Greeks and Turks, Spaniards
and French, GermanS-and by this we
mean that vast territory of the German
empire, with its different dialects. Then
came Norwegians, Swedes and Danes.
English, Irish and Scotch, and had the
tower of Babel suddenly toppled over
i'm New York nothing more confusing