The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-26
FARE OF BREAD AND CHEESE
PERILS AND PRIVAIIONs SUE
FERED BY Ell DORADO SBEKERs.

Unhappy Lot of Deluded Canadians who
Sought Prosperity In Santos SoiI-Treat-
ed as If They We're Cattle-Terrible Ex-
periences of the Emigrants-Many Un-
able to Return to Their Homes.
New York, Nov. 25.-A Montreal spe-
cial says:
Among the deluded Canadians who
went to seek prosperity in Santos soil
last September was Arthur Owen, who
gave up good place in Montreal. He
is now back in that city, and tells
sad story of the sufferings and hard
ships endured by the Canadians. He
says that there were three deaths on
the voyage out. A priest who was on
board was asked to conduct funeral
service, but would not
On arriving at Santos the emigrants
were put on board a train which took
them to Sac Paulo, 8. mountain town
about fourteen miles up the country. Al
limited supply of bread and cheese was
IL.
train was run up beside a bare, bleak.
place known as the emigration build
ing, and the men, women, and children
were unloaded like cattle, and stored in
one large room, where all lived and
slept together for eight days. and where
the majority remain, fearing to fly
from known evils to greater ones un-
known.
Bad bread and worse coffee made up.
with little variation, their daily fare.
Onspresenting a ticket a representa-
tive of each family received a dish OF
food and a dish of coffee, and all the
members of the family ate and drank
out of the same vessel. The only beds
provided in the common room were
sugar cane mats, which were little soft
er or higher than the floor. There We're
no pillows or BLANKETS until the French
and English consuls intervened and
many persons would walk for hours to
keep themselves warm
The emigrants tried to get work, but
could not. The only employers that
appeared We're the owners of the coffee
and sugar plantations. They wanted
the Canadians to sign contracts to work
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cultivating the plants that would then
be put in, and at the end of that period
the workers, If they survived, would
receive for their hire half of the value
of the plantation, which 1t was limited
by disinterested parties, was not likely
to be much. The houses they would be
allowed to live in during this time were
hardly worthy of the name, consisting
| merely of walls and a. roof, with no
windows The English consul promised
to do his best for the unfortunates, but
told them they should not have come
there. #V
Emigrants were supposed to be al
lowed to remain only eight days in the
large barracks, but the consul promised
to see that they were not turned out
until they had some psace to go to.
/ The single men were drifting off to
Buenos Ayres and a few were working
or beating their way home, but those
with families were in a poor plight.
| The manager Of the railroad at Sac
Paulo, an Englishman, was very kind,
and gave a number of enigraIts work
at eighty cents a day, advising them
at the same time ito return home as
soon as possible. To twelve persons he
gave passes down to Santos, that they
might catch vessel. When Owen
left all the Canadians were sincerely
regretting that they had left their
homes in Canada.