The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-08

men, We're "indentured"- sold at
auction to owners who would pay their
passage arrears-to the era of the run
ner," a worthy successor in nefarious
tyranny over the unfortunate immigraHt
The day of the runner passed away only
lately
The pioneer woman immigrant was the
irish or German girl VINO Jared NOT bad
Is. but in the change Of conditions, the
nationality shifted and the Austro-Hun-
garian came, and is now coming, for that
matter in the largest numbers. The run
ner waited for his prey outside the lmInl-
grafton bureau and usually being of the
same nationality, easily induced che
stranger in a strange land 10 let him take
her to "A boarding house temporarily
holding out promises of employmenL Her
little means speedily became eNha listed,
for the boarding houses We're in league
with the runners and she was then farm
ed out, becoming little less tnAn "a beast
Of burden. Her stolidity dld not keep
her from seeing the difference between
her own lot and that Of the featherei
and Haunting woman who could be gay
" attired every day and yet toll not
and often she adopted the easier life.
certain East Side type OF woman OF TO-
dav was recruited from this stolid crea-
ture of the Balkan mountains, who treat
ed as an ANIMAL tVutN nv 4'flN
the conditions that made her one ana
who went naturally from drudgery 10
slavery as the lesser hardship After the
shame of this became popular the pres
ent commissioner starred preventive
measures and the outcome was
society for the protection OF girls Iaie-
lv landed TO combat the forces that
were determined on their downfall no
girl is now allowed to leave the barge
ONCE without proper escort and temporary
nrovision is made for her with care for
future employment
The woman who acts as matron AT inc
barge office has TO bring many resources
to bear on her intercourse with the woman
immigrant. She is mother sister friend,
Judge. acCuser and protector. Nhen
woman is landed she passes a phYslcal
examination and is sent to the physician
with report, perhaps a suspicion when
mo investigates or confirms Usually. al
most invariably. the immigrant woman
is ignorant or helpless, and the puzzle OF
where she is going has TO be solved for
her. If her passage has been prepaid
the steamship agency has the name of her
friends or relatives, and she Is easily dis
posed of. While the women are detained
their lot is made as comfortable as pos
sible and they are kept from the quarters
where the men are herded. If they grow
agitated aud distressed because no one
meets them, they are consoied and prom
ised. and no efforts are spared to find
their friends.
Types and Types and Types.
The Austro- Hungarian women are
mostly Woodworking. good girls, and
with their booted feet Gall these mountain
women wear boots and heads tied in col
ored kerchiefs, they present picturesque
appearance. She takes her lot good hui
moredly, the Hungarian, 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, according to her in
teIigence and with ingratiating instinct,
tries TO win your influence if she is held
and thinks your can help her.
Some of the Russian women are encas-
ed in the big skin coats, reversing the
fashion of the beau monde by putting the
fur next to them and the white and ugly
skin on the outside. The Italian women
would do nothing like that; they have
the Unborn faculty of pleasing, the charm
of self adornment, and they make them
selves clean and attractive before pass
ing through the matron's hands Some
times a young bride, who has been mar
ried in her own country to her sweet
heart in this by proxy, lis met by her
bridegroom and they are persuaded to
have the ceremony performed again, for
our laws Then there is a wedding.
But there is always more of sadness
than of merriment When the detained
immigrant women massed in the big hall,
the various types, the various minds, the
various temperaments, with their hopes
and their sorrows, and, perhaps, their
memories Weighing them down; taking lit
tie care, some of them, herding together
much like animals-one marvels at the
heterogeneous crowd.
The ocean outside is beating against
the sea WALL the sun is glinting 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 bag
gage. is Marietta-still holding to the new
found brother, however-and their faces
are afame with Joy and sweet enshus-
iasm. But Marietta was the only pearl
that the ocean washed up on our shores
that day X a H.