New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-24
NO FEELING FOR IMMIGRANTS
ACTION OF ELLIS ISLAND OFFICIALS
DENOUNCED AS INHUMAN.
THEY DECLINE TO TAKE TIE sTEERAGE PAS
sENGERs FROM THE cAMrANrA UNTIL To-
DAY ALTHOUGH THE HEAT ~ THE
APARTMENTS rs TORRID-A PRO
TEST SENT TO WASHINGTON.

APARTMENTS rs TORRID-A PRO
TEST SENT TO WASHINGTON.
The Campania the swift steamer OF the Cunaro
Line fleet. arrived here yesterday afternoon VIII"
many well-known people her cabins the cam
pana made the trip In five days. nine hours ana s'N
minutes which is twenty-thre minutes behind her
best previous record and two hours and seventeen
minutes behind the record of her sister ship,
the Lucan!a. The daily Of the Campania
from Liverpool 30 lO2 526, 533 5'l, 54z $50,
4. making distance OF 3.02s miles Travelled ana
2.s7i from Daunts Rock, which the steamer passeo
on August Is. at 1i3 a. The greatest run OF 'he
voyage was 542 knots. and made on Thursday.
The average run from Daunts Rock was Aoo
knots
The Campania carried 1420 passengers in all-SH
first cabin. 325 second and 703 steerage passengers
Among the prominent people aboard were Cardinal
Gibbons the Duke OF Marlborough. Bishop j.
Hogan. of Kansas CITY, Archbishop R.ordan. OF San
Francisco. Gilbert Fraser. British Consul at
New-York.
The Joy caused to many people BY the arrival OF
the Campania was greatly marred by the treatment
accorded the steerage people. Vernon H. Brown
and the other Cunard people highly indignant
at the action Of the Ellis Island officials The
steamship moored to her pier at 2:i5 p. m. and
the first and second cabin passengers at once went
ashore. but owing as Mr. Brown said to the azi-
Of the Ellis Island officials. the steerase
passengers compelled TO remain in the torrid
atmosphere OF the steerage aboard the steamship.
When the Campana was going up the river MI
Brown sent messenger the Ellis Island author-
ties. asking that the passengers be taken
off Immediately. He received a reply that 1t could
not be done until to-day. The reply incensed the
Cunard people. and the following telegram was sent
Secretary Carlisle. through Or. s. o. Claws VINO
is the general representative OF the steamship com
pan,es. in Washington
Protest against inhumanity OF Ellis Island ofn-
cials IN refusing 10 receive Campana's steerass
passengers tonight necessitatlng detention on board
night with the thermometer about 100 IN the
steerage. Ship was docked al 2:iS T. m or>-
VERNON H. BROWN.
Mr. Brown said later that the action Of the Ellis
Island people was IAN inhuman outrage" and the
keeping Of 7O3 steerage passengers aboard the ship
was not only against the avs OF comfort out
those Of health and quarantine Mr.. Brown added
that the companies subject TO n fine OF Sob
and the officers to possible Imprisonment In case A
passenger escaped. but he had instructed the off-
GERS OF the Campana to allow the steerage passen-
gers TO have the privileges OF the decks and take
their chances With these privileges 1t would be
easy for steerage passengers to make their way
ashore but the company was willing TO take the
risk In preference TO making the poor devils. as
they were described. remain below decks all night
All last night therefore. the steerage people
owned the Cunarder
The Cunard people assert that the only reason the
Ellis Island officials have for not looking after the
steerage passengers Is that they would nave 10
work after hours. ,
other passengers who arrived on the Campania
were:
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