The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-11-26

k1nS. the secretary OF the London Soc
ETY. for the Prevention of Pauper Allie
Emigration. and after relating pathet
ic story about his poverty and his ute
failure to support himself in England
that gentleman gave him letter to an
: other society emitting him to free pas
sage 10 New York 1t was to get at th
bottom of this stealthy and deadly &C
tiyjty against the interests of Americ.
that Congress, through the Ford Com
mittee, worked go hard and not in vain
1t was to further explore the bidder
channels that the Treasury Department
sent the present Commission to Europe
But there were mysterious hints drop
ped in London that the Chairman of the
Commission had expressed his views or
the subject in advance, and that. being
in lucrative position at the head of the
Emigration Bureau In New York, he
would not and could not afford to make
his investigation thorough and exhaust
i've, because 1t would show the sham OF
inspection kept up in the port of New
York and reveal to the public the hyp-
motto influences of steamship and rail-
way companies and so-ealled philan-
thropic committees, working always to
get paupers and criminals out of their
own country into come other
When Commissioner Weber returned
| to New York, Mr. Schulteis, finding that
the secrets OF the European Committees
were so jealously guarded and so difficult
OF eccess, determined to undergo the
hafdships Of the voyage az q steerage
passenger, and for that purpose applied
to the Society for Assisting Friendless
Foreigners In London for money to pay
his passage to America.
He told che representative OF this
British organization that he was unable
to obtain work as he vas not In good
q poorhouee. This last statement WAS
exceedingly important and weighed
more with the Committee than any 9TH
er fact according 20 Mr. 6chulteis. He
vas referred, under 4 false name OF
coarse, ard In disguise, 10 General John
G. Nev, United States Consul General,
for some Recommendation. The dozens
OF othor paupers from Russia and Hun
gary whom he met there during his diff
era,t visits ell had Inducements on
again the deliberate and wcll-arranged
character Of the Society was shown.
General New refused TO give any in
dorseInert to the supposed pauper He
did not believe his story. In the face OF
this the Society contributed Fl a. 81.
(s562) 70 the $40 necessay Tor tho steer
age passage On the GUARD steamship
Servia. Tho clerks declared that hun
drsds upon hundreds of rarperised Rus-
sian Jews were passs, On from England
to America upon axe Endorsement OF
their ConsuAs. The whole effort of the
Society was 10 prevent such people from
getting lodg1nent In Greet Britain.
Mr.. Echulteis aboard the steamer was
known to his steerage associates as
"Gco4ty." He saw many abuses on the
ship which will make spicy report TO
the Treasury Departments. The quar-
terr provided for the immigrant passen-
gers were SO foul and imperfectly venti-
lated that 1t was impossible to sleep in
them. Tke employees Of the boat, the
Commissioners charges, were guilty of
the grcseest improprieties with the inn
migrant girls. He discovered that
large proportion OF the steerage passen-
gers In their sick and weak condition
were unable TO eat the fare served at the
table and had to pay the under stewards
outlandish prices for better food. He
himself paid shilling for spoonful OF
jam. One steerage passenger paid as
much as so sh;llinge, or e7.5O, for the
privilege Of eating with the employees
during the voyage. Others paid 10 shil
lings for extra food, and others whatever
they had, some Of them getting tidbits
as low es shillings The paupers, of
course, had to 60 without food or take
what was given to them.
The Commissioner wore a yellow kid
glove on his right hand as he walked up
the thronging corridor Of the Astor
House at . quarter after II o'clock yes
terday morning. The Commissioner had
not had an opportunity to renew his ae
quaintaAce with American soap ard
water since landing, and something was
due to the feelings Of the clerk After
room 50 had been allotted 80 the assisted
emigrant, 1t took four renewals OF the
contents Of q large water basin TO get
the hand under the glove In condition
in which any hotel clerk would consent
to it's close proximity to the white page
Of hctel register. Once ia his room
"Scettys" Eaetamorphcsis to Commits
sioner ccbulteis vas rerdd A barber
put 81. 20 worth of artistic labor on his
chin and On his STATED ioche. The
Commissioners proper hcbilin,ents came
out of his steamer trunks, and grad aally
g goodlooking, aaite yonngish official,
with . neat black Hoastsche and white
teeth, wes evolved out OF the assisted
immigrant. When the official put on
q Newmarket coat and a high silk hat
and made ready to sally forth ON the
street. tho Transformation was complete.