The herald., 1896-09-30
IS A DISGRACE 70
AI CHR|SIENDOM
Armenian Refugees Now
at Marseilles
ESCAPE EROA Turkish BUTCHERS
Hoping to Reach the Land Of
Freedom
NO HELP is OFFERED THEM
All Are Penniless and Most Of Theo
Starving
Their Sole Hope In Life % to Reach
America
A Case In Which the Castiron Immigra-
tion Laws Must Be Made to Bend.
But Money 70
Needed
70 HELP is OFFERED THEM
All Are Penniless and Most Of Thso
Starving
Their Sole Hope In Life q to Reach
America
Associated Press Special wire

Associated FreSS special W1re
MARsEILLES, Sept 20 Copyright,
1896. )-There exists condition of affairs
in this city at present which seems to be
a disgrace to Europe and the Armenian
associations generally throughout the
wcrfd. Subsisting upon government,
municipal or private charity here are
500 unfortunate Armenians, men, women
and children, young and old, healthy and
sick. who have succeeded in escaping
from the bloody massacres at Constants
nople and who were one and all buoyed
up by the hope of being able eventually
to reach the land of freedom, the United
States Three weeks have already
elapsed and nothing definite appears to
have been done for their relief, much
less toward fnding them homes, by any
of the many associations for the relief
of the suffering Armenians which have
been organized in England and America
These unfortunates, however, seem to
be the very class to which the hand of
charity should be first extended. They
are homeless, nearly all penniless, many
enduring the pangs of hunger and yet
nobody seems willing to step in and guide
this band of refugees to some place
where they can begin life anew and un-
der more promising circumstances.
Large amounts of money have been
raised in the past for the Aremenians
in Armenia, but the situation of the
latter is not whit worse than the half
starving people here, il as bad. The Ar
n1enians in Armenia certainly had their
co-religionists and dfellow-countrymen to
fall back upon. The poor people here
seem to have no friends in the wide
world. yet they are as honest and in
dustrious a class as you can find on the
shores of the Mediterranean.
Only about eighteen of the 800 Arme-
mans who reached here have as yet been
able to start for the United States.
These few emigrants are of the better
class of the Armenians; they are fairly
we'll supplied with funds and will proba-
by start for New York via Southampton.
But what is to become of the remaining
unfortunate Christians fleeing from the
boodthirsty Turks, who are living on
charity here with their eyes turned
longingly towards the United States?
1t would seem that these people may be
barred from reaching the United States,
and they may be forbidden to land there
even if they succeed in obtaining trans
portation to the shores of North Amer
ica. Surely if ever there was a case in
which iron rules, necessary. no doubt.
might be relaxed. it, Isl in the, case Of
these stricken people, flying from the
butcheries that have prevailed in their
own land.
NOT PAUPERS.
NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-Officials of the
Armenian societies in this city do not be-
lieve that the United States will be any <
less hospitable in receiving immigrant
Armenians than the countries of Eu-
rope, which received them with open
arms. J. j. Rooney, secretary of the
Armenian association of New York, and
chairman of the executive committee,
said today:
II do not believe there will be any
trouble about the landing of the Arme- d
nian refugees in this country on account :
of the immigration laws. They are by
no means paupers. AS matter of fact, z
the Armenians are very Industrious
race, and 1 doubt greatly if the Mar
seilles refugees, in all their distressss
could be classified as paupers. If the
Marseiles refugees should decide to-
come here, 1 am quite sure that they
would not be barred out for any reason@
A large number of Armenian refugeeG
have come here in the last year or two
chiefly from the interior districts, anH
these had no difficulty in landing. The
Armenians in this country, of WHOM
there are about Is, 900, many of them hSs
ing in the west, make it point to hep
their unfortunate countrymen." S
MORE OUTRAGES
LONDON, Sept. ga dispatch sto
the Post from Constantinople says 1he
Turkish marines aided the rabbls Ito
loot the Armenian houses in Galatea
on Sunday.
The Daily News correspondents says
that patrols are parading the city in
unusual numbers and that the police
have been notified that some outbreak
will occur tomorrow.
A Berlin dispatch to the Daily News
quotes CoCnstantinople dispatch to
the Frankfurter Zeltung, which, ssNs
the governor OF Kharput teltSraphs
that thousand ArmenianH1 were
clubed to death at Nikde ON Sunday.
This dispatch also says the Su4kan has
given G15O,00O to indemnify thEforeis
ers injured in the massacre