The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-01

two stop all the official machinery
down here until some one cans oui,
ssTove on which really means Break
away = ,a
The bureau of information IS one
room, in two sections. the penned sec
lion at the north and the rallied ana
benched section at the south BehlIi .l
the eratings are kept those fnTnleI ans
who have successfully passed theII -
aminations for candidacy Tor amer 49, 80
citizenship and are eXpeclhs lei'' -
or friends to take them by the manu-
on the threshold of the new WoI4u'
Here are men. women, and chlidIeh-
French, Spanish, German AitneiiatI'
Russian, Scandinavian, Dutch, Odiilsl'
Servian Czech. Italian, BaSque-Ohe
and all watching the narrow gateway
at the end Of the room, the passa -
way between two lines of steel pipe
ratings that lead past Chief Koran
desk toward the free world.
Some of them are listless, sitting on
their peculiar bOX-like trunks or trunk
like boxes hands inert in laps. staring
with dull eyes Others have their
hearts beating in their threats with eX-
element, fearing that the lOng-sought
IOng-lOVed one Will come in and not see
and be seen at once 1t is thus mainly
with the women, although now and
| then one sees an old man or very
/ young boy whose whole being is alert
/ with expectancy and VINO cannot Ior-
y
one comes in and asks Mr.. Koran for
| permission to take such and such one
| home
| There was young man at the outer
/ railing today who had come Tor MS oiu
! mother and his sister. They eSpled MN
/ long before he saw them, and both OF
] them spTang from their trunk seats ana
! called his name aloud in an ecstasy OF
! recognition.
Soon they were at the kissing gate,
- 4 re y
down their cheeks as they cried and
laughed the while. They were Ger
1 mans, and TO the wTinkled old mother
the sun rose and set in that boy. When
she could release him she held him at
/ rms length TO admire him. She made
.4im take his hat off; she ran her
hands through his hair, and told him
over and over again what fine fellow
he was.
The young girl was clinging to his
arm all this time, and now and then
raising herself on her toes to kiss her
big brother. All were entirely ObliviOuS
of the rest, the other immigrants. the
officials, and would probably have re-
manned blocking the passageway had
not one of the interpreters called out
for them TO move on; and even then
the old woman. as she gathered her
skirts, her bundles, and her boy under
her arm, cried out a 'fblesS you to the
officials and stumbled out, telling the
| boy what a fine. big 1ellOW ne was.
/ The italians are great ones Tor kiss
ing, like the French, and 1t is by no
means uncommon for two men to stand
in a bear-like embrace, kissing like two
! turtle doves, while the inspectors and
Interpreters and attendants cry out al
them to move along.
A little Bohemian girl, not day
more than II, who had made the ocean
: Journey alone, at least only with
steamer friends, was met at the gate
by her uncle, because her father, Wn(
intended to come, was i'll in hospital
, Surprise and grief at the fathers alb
sence were evident in the chfld's race
( the moment she saw only her uncle
3 awaiting her at the gate. The uncl
5 saw it at once and the first thin2 n
said to her across the forty-fOot spac'
? was that her father was all right, onl!
! a little i'll, and that she should see hin
S this very afternoon. This evtdent,
= comforted the child, because, after tn
e customary kiss at the gate, she wen
: off hand in hand with her overjoyei
= ! uncle.
= And so the kissing and the greeting
: and the happiness and the tears an
e the longing and the unhappiness go Of
$ day after day.