Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-09-09
huns Arb GOING HOME.
THOUSANDS FLEEING FROM THE INDUSTRIAL
CENTRES OF TIE UNITED STATES.
They Dread the Coming Wintsr-Handicappsd by
Ignorance Of English, They Lsad
Wreched Life in the Mines.
Speefol to Ms Rszistsr.

6pectot 10 us As2lstsr.
SCRANTON, PA, September THE
Hungarians are fleeing from all the in
dustrial centres of this country like rats
from sinking ship. There is this ex-
ception, however, that the Huns are
making for the ships that carry them
away from this country, while the STAN
peding rats seek the shore. A common
impulse actuates both. 1t Is the impulse
OF self preservation. When the ship is
waterlogged the cunning rodents know
by instinct that its usefulness is at an
end, so far as they are concerned, and
the willy Huns, having ascertained that
their laDor is no longer in demand, and
that the outlook is not promising for
their employment, are going back TO
their homes in hundreds from the towns
and hamlets In which their presence has
been tolerated with bad grace during
the past few years.
The Central Station, OF the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Company, in
this city, is crowded nightly with these
emigrants, who come in from the
neigh boring settlements. 1t is d. fficult
TO tell from their stold demeanor
whether they are pleased or palned TO
leave the land OF the free. Their APP
pearance certainly indicates that they
are q little better of than when they
came. They wear better clothes, they
are cleaner looking and their d5meanor
is net SO detected as when they arrived.
AN AMERICAN TRUNK.
1t is also worthy OF notice that each
returning Hun has an American trunk
along with him on his homeward jour
ney in lieu OF the dilapidated carpet
bag or bundle that held his belongings
when he first reached this region, and
IL is safe 10 presume that although he
was known by number during his stay
here, and worked at the hardest possible
toll for the poorest possible pay. he car
ries sDug sum Of money with him 10 his
belt. 1t is the fear Of having 10 spend
this in idlemess that causes him to take
the advantage OF the low rate OF travel.
On his native heath the Hun with
hundred dollars or more, as the case
may be, will figure as nabo0. Here
his money would soon vanish and the
prospect OF tramping across the country
like Coxey and his men and OF being
compelled to break stones as the penalty
OF poverty would intensity his poverty.
The Hun breads the severe winters OF
this latitude when the prospect OF en-
ployment is not favorable, and the emf
grafton agents are intensifylDg their
fears with doleful stories that soon con-
vince him that IL Is 10 bis best interest
10 buy q ticket and take leave OF "the
land OF the brave and the home OF the
free" until such time as brighter days
return, when ne will come back once
more with empty pocket and hopeful
heart.
LITTLE HOME LIFE.
tits characteristic of the HungAriaus
that they bring but little Of what may
| be called their home life to this coun-
try. They come almost entirely with
out women. and being mostly OF tough,
hardy nature are prepared for the
severest tasks to which they may be
assigned, with no encumbrances In the
line OF women and children 10 hinder
the majority OF them from going any
where or doing any kind q work to
which they may be assigDed-
Ii Ia common thing TO Pee 3 party
| of sixty or a hundred men OF this-cla
| alighting from an emigran Train With
only one or two women bong their
number. And the wome khU come