Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-18
TRICKS OF IMMIGRANTS.
TIE REVERSE SIDE OF PICTURES
PAINTED BY REPORTERS.

IT,, ,,,r,Iar belief is that the immigrant
.1,,in,r "a New York is a badly used inui-
,;,Inai md bv the time he works MS way
into his land Of freedom he has been ronpeu
~ everything he has and is cast THIRSTY anu
Countless upon tho inhospitable shores OF an
aa,,a.cr,,,vded nation To the imagination
trash emicrapt is the embodiment OF ihho-
canca n prey to every sharper ana a souieo
of ravenue to any one disposed to take au-
VANTAGE of him. This MS a rule may perhal'
Nv, accented as having some foundation II,
f,ct but there are glItterins exceptions anu
marked divergences, that are slithcieh'y
rr,p,;nent and sufficiently successful III the"
afrorts 70 square accounts with the natives,
e, .tt,.,r. some attention and almost balance
rho in,positions put upon the arriving straii-
gers. ..,.s r,o1a
mn of farmers and residents Of the rural as
triets in the old country are of course inter-
ested and pleased with everything they en-
counter in this new place; they reVel Ill tiie
questionable food put before them on inc
Tables of the queer boarding houses run iof
thair ,acention; meat to them is luxury
they may have had but very few opportuni-
ties of enjoying and they absorb the STEAKS
and outlets presented to them in wondering
and adniring haste not questioning their
condition or fitness for the human stomach.
/ These people have no comparisons TO maze,
no precedents whereby they may govern
| their opinions of things. They are usherea
/ suddenly INTO an entirely new phase OF iiie'
/ their simple existence heretofore ahorus no
! means of controlling their ideas IN tue pres
emit. The neglected condition of the streets
| in fine immigrant localities escapes their at
/ tention: their eyes are filed with the large
/ buildings. the great ships the gorgeous signs
! their ears hear nothing but expressions OF adj
! miration from their companions. The dust
! that blows over them and the mud through
which they tramp is noticed, If noticed at all,
merely in its practical feature as an adjunct
to agriculture and its advantages when spread
over the acres some of them titled on the
anks of the Rhine, the Rhone, the Thames
or elsewher The neglected houses and TIE
unswept rooms are familiar sights--it takes
them back in mind to the faderland, and they
feel more or less at home.
Different is it with those who have lived in
the cities of the old world. They come with
inclination to cIiticise With them famili-
aritv with the ways of centers of civilization
cives them the right 10 comment, and the ex-
cessveness with which they can indulge in
this marks them, in their own estimation, as
familiar with the manners of the world and
the pitfalls of its devious paths. These per-
sons are the ovcrsnart, and their plenitude or
confidence OF an leads them into troubles that
the innocence and tinidity of the former
class prevent. Conspicuous among this
number are those who have nibblcd at
education, who come here with an intelli-
rence that extends short distance beyond
the ability to read and write, who indulge
in diatribes against the nation and its ideas,
its principles, its government its material
istic tenets, not in an anarchistic, but in a
deprecatory, spirit. The monarchical idea
clings to them; they can no more free them
selves from it than could the natives of that
small German principally adjoining France,
who declared that as their French neighbors
had q republic, they, too, must have a repub-
lie; but, eve want our prince as ruler of our
repubhcl' they cried
The most Objectionable of all immigrants
to the boarding house keeper is the Berliner
who, hailing from one OF the most important
cities III the world, and taking advantage Of
the companionship OF strangers, presumably
ignorant of his humble social status at home
affects a standing he has no right to, and
like all characters of narrow instincts anC
el1NlSu blItLl, lNNOtllt> Oul4pAlbusIN dTDllIdTl
and tyrannicll when freed from the absolute
servitude in which he has had to serve in or
der to earn a subsistence. loudly crticizes
the table, boasts of the conspicuous men al
whose board he has dinetl, browbeats the
7 walters, DULLES the house servants and i'm
poses upon the landlord \ favorite affecta
ton of this CSass, rather unusual in inmi
: grant boarding houses, is standing thei
of tl,,,, :
apparently for the single purpose of having
} something to find fault about the next morn
ing, inasmush as they remain there un
& touched and uncleaned.
: The most persistent and cunning beat il
+ the thoroughbred Polish Jew. Nothing i
too small for him to claim, and nothing to,
Insignificant for him TO avoid payment for
: any excuse is considered legitimate with hi
: kind to warrant refusal to pay out none,
for whatever they may have enjoyed tn
benefit Of. Quite an ordinary scheme witt
them, worked after they have dined ant
: slept at boarding house for a week, is t,
declare their positive and unswerving be
. lief in the obligation and intention of thi
. government to support and provide fo
them for the term Of eight days foilowin:
their first arrival in this country.
= Nor is it lack of money with these fellow
+ that prompts their rascality. 1t is an inborl
a and abnormal tendency TO rob, and often
when they are brought to a realization o
the necessity Of liquidation through the con
vincing, though not considerable. arcumen
OF policeman's club, they fall upon thei
knees, tear their hair and Clothes beat thei
e breasts, call upon their endless category q
l. saints for protection from the uneodlv rob
bers, declare their intention to kill them
IS selves, their children and their entire cener
e alton, and indulge in all the fantastic an
,r extrayagant oa,hs peculiar and distinctly
OF a slavish and hideboun6 people. II
- only after this terrible exhibition of eric,
+ contempt for all mankind and self immolf
/ ton upon the altar of their ayarjco tbo
, they draw from its hiding place in some co,
her OF their wretchel dress the dirty oreas,
= Ill scented coin and pay up their sore.
~ One Of their fayorite oaths usually /,
: dulged after the reckoning has been exacted
Is addressed to the hotel keeper. and is en-
bodied in these gentle terms; MAY N
horse be damned from whose hoofs the ta
low comes that makes the candle bprn
your deathbedn When the horse is danno
the candle II necessarily .mned II ficl
ers and in the darkness the devil has an q,
portunity to seize the soul Of the cr,el la,,l
lord, Is the mental argument of the indi
If nant Pole.-A. Curtis Bond in New VI,
re Star.
70 A Cafe in a Tub
r. restaurant proprietor of Montmartr,
ID france, recently opened curious cafe, TT
SIS interior Is IL the form Of an immense n,
K the Illusion of which is carried out nv II
ID circular shape of the doors a,J = =