Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-06
will be added to the area of the island by
making deep water along the south front.

will be added to the area of the island by
making deep water along the south front,
giving a total area of four acres. The
main buildings, two stories high, will lie
nearly north and south and be surmounted
by a central dome 80 feet wide and so feet
above the floor. East and west from the
south front of this will extend one story
wings, each 125 feet in length. Thus all
the waste and general discharge will 20
out at the extreme ends, where the coming
and going tides create the greatest swirl
The main building is to have a frontage
of 200 feet, so the complete front will be
450 feet long. Such are the present designs
of Col Marshall, but it is barely possible
that the supervising architect at Washing
ton will make some changes. On the rear
or northern part of the island will be sew
eral structures: two hospitals lone for con-
tagious and the other for non-contagious
diseases), outhouses, wash rooms and
boiler house, tue latter including a first
class electric light plant which is to be
warranted to "shock" the immigrants with
brilliancy only, and not agitate them to
death. In addition, the older and more ex-
perienced officials want general cleansing
and disinfecting apartment. They suggest
a steam heated room in which the Sin
tested" ones shall be thoroughly sweated
and secured, while their clothes go through
nit killing process in another room. But
the federal authorities are not quite per-
suaded to this. When all is done, the i'm
migrants are to be ferried over to their
several depots and sent on their ways re-
joicing
"All very WE'LL" was my comment on the
island, "but isn't this treating grown peo-
pie very much as if they were childrent
Isn't there too much paternalism about it?"
go to the Barge office and see," was the
laconic reply.
So | went to the Barge office, where the
immigrants are received since Castle Gar
den was abandoned. The place is a little
more suitable for such purpose than the
cattle yards at Cheyenne but does not COM
pare with the cattle yards of Chicago as
they would be if secured up for human
occupation. There was something pathetic
in the sight of the newly arrived foreign
ers budding together in national groups,
in an area entirely too small for their
numbers. The weary and worn looking
mothers from Italy, the stalwart blondes
from northern Europe, to whom the YES
sci had been like prison, and the more
stolid and apathetic Poles and Hungarians
men to whom misery was a birthright
and the Barge Office as good as home.
was particularly struck by the style of
jocular rudeness in which the under Off
cials ordered the immigrants about, bran
dishing heavy canes as their badges of au-
thorty
"Ah, nowl Will we come on theres Did
" soy " wus fur Omyhaw? Come now
with a tap of the stick, step lively; ye're
crowds maxim oop."
aren't you rather free?" asked one who
had just tapped a rather stupid looking
Neapolitan on the head.
ooh, sure an they loike it," he rejoined
with a laugh. "Thm Oytahlians don't
think ye're noticin' 'em less you kick 'em
vance day. Sure an they'd think they
was neglected"
OF all classes the Scandinavians seem
most easily dealt with. They all know
where they are going and generally have
their tickets well studied. Their first care
is to learn the needed English words, and
they combine on shipboard so as to facili-
tate their landing and reshipment by rail-
One sight noticed, at once affecting and
cheering-cheerng to the believer in hui
man goodness. 1t was a sturdy, blonde
and really pretty Swedish girl of years,
who was ticketed like piece of goods to
OLE LARSON,
CANTON, DAKOTA.
Her fare had been paid in Sweden, and
the tag fastened securely to her dress; and
thus, without relative on the vessel, she
started with party of her townspeople to
reach some friends in the American north
west. She had already learned English
enough to say that she was glad to be on
land again, and even while talked with
her and the interpreter the official came to
| hal lar
they were on their way to the new state
j. II. BEADLE.
A BOSWELL TO BISMARCK.
The Drince's Confidential Servant Writ