New-York tribune., 1900-03-15

Representatives from sixteen religious and chari-
table societies, including Protestants Catholics and
Jews. were at the Barge Office yesterday to care
for the physical and spiritual of the 2.0SS
immigrants who landed from three steamships dur
ing the day. OF these. Miss A E. Mathews and
Patrick McCool devoted their time exclusively TO
looking out for women and girls Miss Mathews is
the harbor missionary of the Womens Home Mis-
sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
which has Immigrant Girls Home No
State-st. Patrick McCool is the representative for
the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the pro-
lection of Irish Immigrant girls, at No. State-st
These are the only homes in this citv exclu
sivey for immigrant women and girls. The other
societies care for men, women and children of the
various nattonalities. and there several tenn
porary homes in which accommodations pro-
vided while friends and work being found 1t is
declared by the missionaries that they all work
together harmoniously and in full sympathy with
the Commissioner and head officials.
Letters received by the various societies from
all parts of the world, consignng to their care
women and girls who coming alone It Is with
all these that the charitable organizations have to
deal Miss Mathews is equipped with closet, in
which she keeps a stock OF garments and literature
With the one she supplies the needy. and with the
other, which is in many languages, she helps to
while the tedum of waiting for trains and friends.
The Immigrant Girls Home, which she represents,
is temporary refuge for those who waiting
for friends, for the frendess who are seeking
employment
Fewer families this country from Ireland
than from any other country, and so per of all
the girls who come between the ages of fifteen
and thirty-fve." said Mr.. McCool yesterday. The
average age Is twenty-one years We can accom-
going out of town by rail and who short of
money furnish with provisions for their jour
ney. About % cent of the Irish girls who come
to this country remain in New.fork This city
means. to them, America. Some time ago SIX girls
together from the little town. ana all
were cared for at our home Some weeks after they
had left returned to call upon us, ana SAID 10
me: oh, yes, stayed in America but two OF the
others went to Boston. two more to Philadelphia.
and one is in Chicago -
StuckIen yesterday. 1T began about weeks
ago. and the rush will continue until the last of
June Last week twelve thousand immigrants en-
Mrs. Stucken and her two assistants are EN-,
ployed by the Government for women and
girls while they in the charge of the Commits
sioner of immigration. AS she talked TO the
Tribune reporter, a motley crowd of men. women
and children filed before her and to each she gave
a rapid glance of scrutiny Now and then she
called TO her a woman whom she thought might
need her
Among those whom she befriended yesterday was
a bright faced Hungarian girl of fifteen years VINO
had friends in Newly ork to meet her Ihe glri
was scrupulously neat. She wore a blue HoWered
calico dress, blue and white striped apron little
black shawl and a black and white kerchef on her
head. Around her neck was swung a big Wnlte
Stucken attached to the girls dress Ole of the
tags of the United States immigration Service,
which read: This child, Erzebet <opesa, Is going
to Norwak, Conn" Then telegram was sent TO
her niece.
When young Swiss couple who before the
they had the little wife burst into tears and her
husbands voice trembled he replied that tnelr
only child baby a year and half old, had died
on the voyage and been buried at sea-