Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-07

With and efforts made to regulate their
ives with due observance of the laws OF
me country. but often he cannot be found
ana then she must go back To tho land
from which she came
a corps of missionaries. representatives
OF the different nationalities assists IN,
bdrge ONCE matrOn and her aids in nroyid-
ing Tor the women and locating them to the
pest advantage. This was not always So
II was not far cry from the time when
!lilhiisrahts, both men and women. w,re
lhdenturcd virtually sold at auction To
owners who would pay their passage ar
rears-to the era of the runner a worthy
successor in nefarfous tyranny over the
unfortunate immigrant. The day OF the
runner passed away only lately
fhe pioneer woman Immigrant was the
tIish or SIerman girl VINO Jared not badly
put IN the change of conditions the ma
uonal'ty shifted and the Austro- Hungarian
came and is now coming. for that matter,
IN the largest numbers The runner waited
Tor his prey outside the immigration bureau
ana usually being OF the same nationality,
easily induced the stranger in A strane.
land to let him take her to a boarding house
temporarily. holding out premises of rrn-
Payment. Her little means speedily he
came exhausted for the boarding houses
We're in league with the runners. and she
was then farmed out. becoming iittI, loss
than a beast of burden Her sfoli,litv did
not keer,-her from seeing the difference he
tween her own lot and that of IN. feathArel
ana haunting woman who could be gavly
attired every day and yet toll not. and Of
ten she adopted the easier life. 4 certain
east side type of woman of today was re-
Cfulted from this Stolid creature of th,. Rail
kan mountains. who treatel as an animal.
could not rise above the conditions that
made her one and who went naturally from
crudsery to slavery "a the lesser hardship.
After the shame of this became pplpIIIar
the present commissioner started pr;.ynnt-
I've measures, and the outcome was a 50
c!ety Tor the protection Of girls lately land
ed 10 combat the forces that were deter
mined on their downfall. No girl is now al
lowed to leave the barge office without
proper escort and temporary provision is
made for her with care for future employ
ment.
The woman who acts as marron at tba
barge office has to bring many resources 10
Dear on her intercourse with the woman
immigrant She Is mother sister friend
Judge. aCcuser and protector. When a wo-
man is landed she passes A physical eXHn-
NATION and is sent to the ply sicilu with a
report. perhaps a suspicion which he in
NestsateS or confirms Usually, almost in
Ndflaoly the immigrant woman Is ignorant
or helpless. and the puzzle of where she, il
gong has to be solved for her. If her PASS
age has been prepaid. the steamship agency
mas the name of her friend or relative,
ana she Is easily disposed of While the
women are detained their lot is made az
comfortable possible and thy are kept
from the quarters where the men are herd
ed If they grow agitated and distressed
soied and promised. and no efforts arc
spared TO find their friends.
Types and Types and Types.
The Austro-Hungarian women are mostly
hard-working, good girls. and with their
booted feet tall these mountain women wear
boots) and heads tied in colored kerchiefs
they present picturesque appearance She
takes her lot good-hunloredly. the Hun
gartan, sends out for her beer, munches her
bread and chatters with her neighbors and
friends. She is daughter of the earth,
meets your glance calmly or brightly, ac-
cording to her intelligence, and with in
grauating instinct, tries to win YOUR in
fuence if she is held and thinks YOU can
help her.
Some of the Russian women are fncase5
in Dig skin coats. reversing the ia snion -
The beau monde by putting the fur next 20
them, and the white and ugly skin on the
outside. The Italian women would do moth
ing like that: they have the Unborn faculty
OF pleasing, the charm of self-adurnmerf
and they maze themselves clean and attrac-
1--WE before passing through the matrons
hands. Sometimes a young bride who has
been married in her own country to her
sweetheart in this by proxy, is met by her
bridegroom and they are persuaded to have
the ceremony performed again, for proxy
marriages are not recognized by our laws.
Then there is wedding
But there is always more of sadness than
of merriment. When the detained imlni-
grant women are massed in the big hall,
the various types. the various minds, The
various temperaments, with their homes and
their sorrows. and. perhaps. their memories
weighing them down: taking little care,
some of them, herding together much like
anlmals-one marvels at the heterogeneous
crowd.
The ocean outside is beating against the
sea wall; the sun is glint1ng on the waters:
the waits from the shores of the old world
are leaving the barge office to begin life in
the new, and among them her hands laden
with her collected baggage, is Mariet-
ta-still holding to the new-found brother,
however-and their faces. are afame with
JOY and sweet enthusiasm. But Marietta
was the only pearl that the ocean washed
UP on our shores that day. r. A. H.