St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-19

nationaIities. Sunburnt Turks jostled
rhlegmatic Teutons; ArmenianS crowd
ed in upon rosy. checked girls and little
children; Arabians dressed in their
picturesque garb of wide baggy trOus-
ers, bright yellow skirts and red feZeS,
pushed in among throng people of all
nations, and for some time one would
have imagined Sandy Hook was the in
evitable site selected for modern
tower of Babel.
When the boat earring the first load
of passengers came alonside Of the
wharf, Gen. Hamilton, attended by the
medical staff of the camp, walked down
the gangWay which had been run out.
The commandments orderly. Chief Bu-
gler Wilcox, of the Twenty-secOnd regi-
ment, n. g.. S. n. Y, stood at his side,
and promptly at 1855 p. M, on the gen.
eral giving the order, Camp Low be-
came isolated from the world until the
strict quarantine is raised. AS the imml-
grants landed they filed past the staff of
interpreters. who stood at long table
and acted as entry clerks for the COM
mandant, taking the name, age. place
of birth and destination of the ship.
Just before the passengers landed the
police boat Patrol came down the bay,
having on board Mayor Grant, Health
Officer Jenkins, Supt. Byrnes.
Quarantine Commissioner Allen and
Immigration Commissioner Samuel
Grant. The party landed and
were shown through the camp 10y Gen.
Hamilton and Doctors w asling and
Roach. Mayor Grant said that he had
only heard through conversation of the
arrangements of the camp and expressed
his aStOniShment at the perfect arronge-
ments made for the comfort of the de-
tanned passengers. He added that he
would make every effort i'll his power to
secure harmonious relations and actions
between the state and federal author
ties.
Health Officer Jenkins was equally
pleased with the camp, and said that
the sanitary arrangements were simply
perfect. lie stated that he would send
the cabin passengers Of the Gulon
steamship Wyoming into camp within
few days. He also said he did not an
tlclpate that the quarantine would be
maintained for longer than month.
The first passenger to put his foot
ashore as the bugle sounded was
John Reck, Bohemian lOcksmith, who
was accompanied by his wife and his
little daughter. They were passengers
of the Normannia and the party was in
charge Of the ships third officer. OF
those from Rugia large number are
American citizens who had been abroad
for the summer. No sooner were the
passengers landed than Gen. Hamilton,
hearing that they had nothing to eat to-
day, had dinner served to them. The
women and children were looked after
by the corps under Mrs. Dnnkinson.
Immediately after dinner Gen. Ham,
ilton selected fifty able-bodied men
from the emigrantS and put them to
work OH the structure under the direc-
ton of Foreman Carpenter. They will
be paid for their labor, and the bar
racks will be completed within twenty
four hours.
Nearly all the passengers were loud
in their denunciatiOn of the officers on
the Hamburg-American line on account
of the treatment they had received on
the steamers.
There were some remarkable proceed
ings carried on during their detention
on Hoffman island, according to stories
told by several passengers, among
whom was Mrs. Dora Weingarten, of
Troy, n. Y, who complained bitterly
of the treatment received by the
women and children. She said they
were all treated with brutality by the
German officer in charge of them, except
a few women, with whom, she said, he
was on terms of great friendliness. She
said he and his friends were on good
terms with the cooks Oh the island and
were the only people who got fed. She
stated that she was obliged to send her
little daughter to the kitchen with
money for the cook in order to obtain
food for her children.
Gen. Hamilton today telegraphed to
Secretary Foster officially announcing
the opening of the camp.
The medical staff report sail we'll, "
and the camp tonight is ringing with
the merry laughter of the women and
children, who are happy to be again
ashore, and are loud in their praises of
the comforts that they are now enjoy
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