Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-01-09
FROM FOREIGN SHORES.
THE TIDE WHICH SWEEPS INTO
THE FAR NORTHWEST.

Castle Garden Arrivals ss They Appear
In st. Paul, sfinp.-swedes and Not~
wegians--A Big Famiiy-New com-as
Greeted ny Friends.
The tide OF immigration into Northern
Minnesota, Dakota and the far Northwest
flows through ST. Paul The immigration dc
90 It's character may he broadly divided into
two classcs--foreign immigration and imInE-
grafton from Yankccslom- Each branch .
handled differently and IS kept distinct Ths
incoming representatives OF the monarchi, =
Of Europe journey along together, and the
migratory people from the eastern statss
travel similarly by themselves. And 80 they
seldom fall in with each other. IL almoAh
might be said TINT there are two streams df
immigration, but this would he hardly cor
+, rect, as they are all going in the same dire,s-
/, tion, and will probably mingle at their
destination. Y
/ The Castle Garden arrivals are to be found
at the Emigrant house at the Union depot
OF the half hundred or moro men, women
and children who were waiting about the
place FOR trains to take them further west,
there was not single person-it may seern
7 strange, but Il Is fact not II single one that
I unarmed would hesitate to meet in the
street ON a dark night The faces were all
intelligent, not really bad face in the
lot They are worthy Scandinavian and
Germans
An emigrant house Is necessary nstitn.
tion at point like this where there are larAs
numbers of emigrants changing trains TAs
foreigners must bc kept TO themselves fbr
various reasons and one reason is that very
few Of them speak English. and therefore 10
r...l8 .n a.. sl.-l..
must hang together and keep in constant
communication with the polyglot emigrahs
passenger agents as they go along from place
To place Furthermore, they have TO be prI,-
tectati against sharks Of various specics ard
particularly against ths boarding houAs
sharks. who would like To get them outside,
fill them with aqua fortis, aud work them
down to their last hard earned nickel
BIG FAMILIES
The emigrant room is in the long briNk
annex at the Union depot. at the north OF / Q
sheds Here IL an array Of old country {, l.
tunes and characteristics--brig colors and
odd cuts OF garmeuts-quite bewildering 10
the senses The agent who is skipping abots
the room reading the tickets Of the immi-
grants fer them, and answering questions in
five or six different languages at the rate pf
1900 a minute, pauses long enough 20 inform
mo that family OF nine and ten childrtn
may be found waiting in the emigrant room
almost any day
"The run is higher than that sometimes, y
he said. with a nod, "hut they very seldom
: 60 beyond fifteen. There was one man
! through here with thirty-two children in Ills
train last season. One wifei Oh, no; it was
his third wife he had with him. but then ybu
see, with three wives the average was ten and
: two-thrds children each"
The majority Of the immigrants nerhap.
1t would be more proper to call them transi
grants in the room are Swedes and NorWe
|, gians The young men are Of the peasant
and farmer class-lusty young fellows, with
broad shoulders and finely developed limbs
most of them wearing big boots and shiny
black buckskin pea jackets Some Of thu N
, have families along with them, but the ma
4 jority are single young chaps. The agsni
: says they all have place to 90 20, secureS
r for them in advance by friends already st
a tied in the west A few OF the Norwegian
. are going 10 Washington territory to engag
! in the fisheries. and the whole crowd will b
widely scattered by the time the long jourue
a Is at an end
: FOREVER EATING.
! One gets the impression that transigraht
! are forever eating While they are waitihI
4 In the emigrant house they open up wad
/ mouthed carpet sacks, and from the cavern
; Gus depths thereof lisa out great loaves OF Is
I bread, bologna sausages and dried meat,
" The young men carry enormous clasp kniVe
.r with blades six inches long, and which the
q use with great deliberation iii whiting u
" their rations piece by piece as they eAi
Il Meanwhile the babies are playing about th
10 floor. and feeding on cookies at the sam
Is time. Wherever a transigrant sits down
|. there he eats Yet II Is doubtful IL any o
o them have a genuine square meal from th
IL time they start from the old home to the tim
le they reach the new. Many OF them, whe
It they start, lay In a supply OF coarse foe
" sufficient To last them during the whole JONI
80 ney. and this IL their only provender ult
in the end OF the journey IS reached
II is quite curious to watch newcomers d
they greet friends who come In 10 see then
The newcomers arc anything but "sprude
Ia in appearance They are roughly clAs
a. While one of them is looking restlessly abotl
Ia watching for friend, the expected one II
h rives, the fresh arrival stares, filled VT
: surprise. His friend, instead Of appearh1
n in flannel trousers and a buckskin coat
n. fairly dazzling In wide pants. light spritl
"a overcoat, a tall silk tile and four in hand iii
~ He has been In tho northwest for few yea
q and has prospered, and the newcomer, afts
a his first surprise is over, listens with mout
Ia wide open as he hears the spruce young ma
ia tell how he can afford 10 wear such goh
a. clothes | saw three or four such meetill;
a the afternoon was at the emigrant hous
a. and such scenes are 10 be met with thai
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