Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-02
CASTLE GARDENS NEW USE.
Sight Seeing Crowds Find the Labor Bu'
reau DomiOiled There.

Sight Seeing Crowds Find the Labor Bu-
reau Domioiled There.
Castle Garden has had many vicissl-
tudes in its career. and when 1t was
abandoned by the State Board of Emil
grafton Commissioners six months ago
it was generally supposed that its useful
ness IN its present condition was at an
end. But such is not the case. The OLD
Enclosure which echoed with the trills
of Jenny Lind's voice, and through
whose portals l 200, 900 immigrants have
entered Uncle Sans domain, has again
been put to use. ga,
The Labor Bureau is domiciled within
it's walls. When the park department
obtained control of the Garden, one OF
the first things done was the destruC-
ton of all the frame structures when
had been built outside of the main
building. One of these sheltered the
Labor Bureau, and that useful instltu-
ton applied to the city for quarters.
Permission was given for the temporary
occupancy of Castle Garden, and there
1t is now.
Thousands of people visit the old
structure daily, and they are not all re-
sidents Of the lower wards of the city,
either. They are from all parts of the
city, and there is plentiful sprinkl1ng
of country cousins and tourists. 1t is
massive old walls of what was once
Castle Clinton, with its portfolios and
embrasures. The immense iron-studded
doors, with the wicket and the old
fashioned lock and hinges, come in for
considerable respectful attention. One
of the big iron spikes from the door has
been removed by some relic hunter, and
many other movable objects have been
carried away.
Every fine Sunday there is constant
stream of visitors. The solitary custo-
dian of the place said he would not ask
the city to pay him any salary If he
might be permitted to charge an
entrance fee of l cent.
During the week the visitors are
mostly those who are in search Of sery-
ants or farm hands. No charge is made
of either employer or employee. The
Labor Bureau is operated under the
Joint auspices Of the German and Irish
intendent, has had charge for many
years. The bureau itself antedates
even the old Emigration Commission
under whose care it was recently.
President Gustav H. Schwab, Of the
German society, and President James
Rorke, of the Irish society, direct the
Labor Bureaus affairs. 1t is not under
state, city or national control, and is
purely charitable affair to provide en-
ployment for deserving foreigners, and
to protect them from the sharks who
prowl about the Battery in search Of
human prey.
Every applicant for help must satisfy
the superintendent that he will treat
the immigrants properly and does not
want to fill vacancies made by strikes or
lockouts.
Men are placed in positions where
they will affect the condition of our own
workmen as little as possible. Padrones
in search of slaves, and contractors who
do not deal fairly with their help, are
not countenanced at the Labor Bureau.
When Col. Weber moves to the new
immigrant landing station on Ellis
Island, the Labor Bureau has been
promised quarters in the Barge Office,
and Castle Garden will soon be trans
formed into an aquarium.