The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-08
IMMIGRANTS WITH MONEY.
Not as Numerous as The Pauper Va
Tiety, Yet They Exist.
Their Deeds of observation-disclosures
Immigrants Who Begin the New
World in Destitutton.


eye. a fact which speaks well for the
power of the majority. Yet the ragged
and unkempt creatures whom you see
parading across the steerage plank of an
ocean liner to the shores of Ellis island
have, in many cases, bank accounts, in
fuential relatives and plan of action in
the land they have come to which may
make them founders of a new
Aston dynasty. The Ellis Is
land officials no longer Judge i'm
migrants from appearances. That
bejeweled Italian yonder may be beg
CARED criminal The frowsy, fat Ger
man sharing his loaf of bread with fell
low passenger as unwashed as himself,
may have a letter Of credit, running into
four figures, hidden in his battered bag
gage.
Birds oka feather flock together" is
a proverb never so fOrceful as when spoken
of the Storage. On Ellis Island, the i'm
migrants break up into groups as soon as
they land and begin to exchange eX-
periences. Then the moneyed passenger
is in his glory He cheerfully imparts all
his future plans to whom soever
is polite enough to listen.
1t matters not to the hopeful
Irishman, with his little capital and his
theories of agriculture, that the German
family listening admiringly to all he has
to say, understand not a word of his
brogue. The delight Of being on land
sets every tongue away. And they are
singularly trustful souls-these immt-
grants Were it not for the constant
vigilance of the Ellis island staff, many
hoard, designed TO set its possessor up in
the new world, would be filched by the
schemers who reap harvests even from
the steerage. Many a foreigner who
goes west to grow up with our country
looks back upon his stay on the island
with gratitude to Uncle Sans officials.
The Germans who bring money with
them to our shores are actors in the
islands least diluted comedy. The men
wear oddly peaked caps in which they in
sist upon stufhng the coins of which they
are the possessors. There is no harm in
that, but the moment they leave the long
line waiting at the gate and are ushered
into the waiting room by the inspector,
they politely take off their head gear as
they bow and down pour the savings Of
a lifetime. One veteran gate tender dis
tinguishes the pauper immigrants from the
moneyed ones through the constant stoop-
ing of the latter to pick coins up from the
floor. Often as money is thus set rolling,
no one Stops for it but its rightful
owner, and there seems to be no losses at
any time.
Once inside among the assembled for
eigners, the difference between the i'm
poverished and the comparatively rich
becomes again evident. The well-tod do
salute each other and 60 leisurely about,
careless as to whether they get away now
or next week.
The Irishman who has encountered
German casually on the voyage across,
on Int ha Ia fol will ont GiaG TY1 Of
a man who sees a brother after separa-
ton of years The poor, that is, those
with hope as their main item of assets,
rush pell nell to the exits, anxious to
be let out to make their
fortunes. The immigrants are
no longer permitted to go about among
each other soliciting aims. charitable
creature might otherwise allow himself
to be stripped of his all, not to mention
that the new world is an inappropriate
place in which to begin an apprentice
ship at the trade of beggary
They tell story at Ellis Island about
German who stood at the money changers
window, deposited all his funds there and
refused to accept Uncle Sans money In
return. He begged that it might be
given to some worthy compatriot. He
was assured that if he made himself des-
titute he would be sent back.
That's Just what l want" he an
swered, in his native speech, Pm home
sick and unless l become destitute l may
be long time getting back"
However, the officials were unable to
cooperate In this little scheme.
1t was an Italian who fshed a quantity
fashioned gold watch from his rags and
wanted it sent with a letter to the Presi-
dent. he was a deep one, and had sew
eral hundred dollars in his pockets when
his funds had been converted into our
national currency. He had made a study
of our institutions on the way over, and
had hit upon the idea of becoming an
Office holder He thought it would be
good plan to send token of esteem with
his application, and hence his eagerness
to have somebody go off with his gold
watch. 1t was really valuable time
piece, and the officials advised the Italian
TO sell it and set up in business. 1t was
pointed out to him that by the time
he had become a citizen he might
secure a splendid place without the
Presidents assistance at all, especi-
ally if he got naturalized. This caught
his fancy at once, and he drifted away
with his wife and two babes, determined
to act accordingly.
An'elderly Welshman turned up in one
cargo with a ponderous problem on his
his who had come to America some years
before and now mad a farm somewhere
The Welshman did not know Just where
it was, but he had an abiding faith in his
ability to get track of his brother, if he only
asked questions enough. lie had man
aged to make the acquaintance OF a
German family in some inexplica-
BILE manner, as he did not under
stand a word of their tongue. But
one of the Germans knew little English,
and he undertook to act as interpreter.
II was almost the hour of parting, and
the Teutons were feeling pretty Jolly. for
they had exchanged their lucre for some
thing like a thousand dollars in our
money, When the improvised interpreter
had explained the nature of the Welsh
mans trouble, a happy idea took instant
possession of the general mind. The
Germans said they were going to Mime
sofa. Who knows but the missing brother
was also in Minnesota This seemed
plausible to the forlorn gentleman, and
the upshot of it all was that he threw his
lot In with theirs Perhaps he duly
found his brother in Minnesota, but
whether he did or not, he certainly suf-
fered nothing by the arrangement he
made with his fellow-immgrants for they
paid his way to the west.
1t is this kindness of heart which mar
ticularly characterizes the well-to-do i'm
migrant, He is well disposed toward the
whole world, and anxious to share his
good fortune with every one.
The educated immigrant is no less con-
spicuous than the well to do one MANY
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