Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-11
FROM DER THE SEA
The Miserable Refugees From
Russia
SPREAD SICKNESS AND DEATH
The City Of Hamburg Transformed Into
Vast Graveyard Wlth Freshly
Heaped Graves.

hCatcA 04aF@ss
LoNpoS. Sept. l0.-The action of the
local government board this week IN
authorizing the exclusion OF emigrsnts
not able 10 give all address n the united
kingdom WAS prompted 10y the acton
OF the American president IA issuing
his order for a twenty days detention
Of all immigration ships. twas feared
that the influx Of Russian Jews, re-
garding which the people of Great
Britain are already su ificiently imps-
tienI, would be diverted altogether 10
Great Britain aud the larger cities,
which these people invariably throng
to, would be over-crowded with them.
A we'll known statistician who has made
lmmigr alton study, sald yesterday
that the movement OF the Russian
Jews WAS the most dangerous Immigra-
ton known TO history since the days OF
Attila and that IN some respects IL was
infinitely more TO be dreaded by evil
ized communities. lie said That all
sorts of deception had been resorted 10
in order to get these refuge es INTO Eng
land and America wItho ut exciting
public suspicion. They were sent IN
patches 10 Glasgow and Liverpool and
other places IN order that the volume
of their emigration by way of Ham
burg, which was their principal port or
departure, should not attract too much
attention.
Lies COncocted for Them.
They we're told 20 call themselves
Austrlans, Prussans or Germans IN
general way, and anything Out Russian
jews. They we're instructed 10 repre-
/ sent themselves az deslrous of working
on farms in order to allay the appre-
| henslon of people in the cities, but not
4 one IN ten thousand had any idea OF
| remaining on farm, even If a pre-
/ tense should be made of entering upon
| agriculture. If they wanted 10 do any
| farming, the statlstlclan said, they
/ had ample opportunity IN the Argen-
! tine Republic, to which a number had
! been sent, but those sent there had
not only refused TO work, but had at
/ tackled the people appointed 10 take
care of them. What tney really want
| ed, added the statlstlclan, was to crowd
| into the cities and make a living at
! pedding, or something of the kind.
/ Everybody is convinced here OF the
/ correctness of Prot. Koch's statement
made after thorough examination, that
! the Russian emgIants brought the
! cholera to Hamburg, and there is little
/ doubt that they brought 1t also To
! Liverpool. Many OF those who have
gone to America by way of Liverpool
| are lndescrlbably filthy.
Filth is Their Element.
Their clothes appear to have been
worn for months and some times II is
! difficult to tell whether they are black
/ or white. In this condition they are
received into lodging houses. carrying
/ with them seeds OF the plague they
have brought from Russia. 1t is
I always necessary TO white-wash and
/ scrub after Russian Jews have left n
! lodging house. Ii was wnlle engaged
! III such occupation that a workman III
! Glasgow WAS seized some days ago
with cholera. The case did not prove
severe and the man recovered. HIS
! sickness was accounted Tor on the
/ ground of the loathesome condition
/ of the apartment which he had been
| cleaning aud which had been occu-
pied by Russian ,s The opinion is
| generally express q ;ha; the EN- gra-
/ ton of Russian Jews must he stopped
| If western Europe and America are TO
/ be saved from plague vlsitatons. 1t
| il pointed out :hat the Gar has
| vast and largely fertile country IN
! Siberia and that II he does not want
/ the Jews IN Russia, he ought to give
/ them land in siberia. As emlgrants
/ TO western Europe they are pest-
/ lence Gnd nuisance.
/ Destitute and Desperate.
! More than 5000 OF Hamhurg's in
| habitants have been carried 10 their
{ graves TINS week and 5000 more lie IN
1 the cholera hospitals and barracks.
Two-thirds Of the families in the city
are mourning. Al the services OF
/ prayer this morning hardly a woman
! IN Colors was TO tee seen. The ceme-
terics south of the Zoologischer Garten
/ have been IN the possession OF a full
! regiment Of grave digge-s all the week,
! and The paupers plots in them are de-
| sCrhed "a looking Ike new ploughed
] helds. The utter desututlon among
! the poor supplies new danger 10 re-
/ place the old one, for thousands of
/ wOrkmen are reported 20 be idle TODAY
! in consequence of the stOppagc Of
/ trade and commerce These men and
/ their families are peuniisSs sud but for
/ wHRt charity gives them are foodicss
/ Talk OF rot = rife n the haTbor q e.
4 trIcts. Two sanitary officials we're NAL
/ treated there last evening and threats
are made today thsta member OF the
} council viii not get Out OF the district
I al We This class hatred IS the logical
1 consequence Of the governments utter
neglect 90 help the poor fight the