The sun., 1901-04-28

- CLANS at high tide"
curiosity e fnss SsTs Ses s'ss e. s s e ': n
tXned out said the reporter.
The Inspector srlnned.
s esf' u them s, ,.en s' TX. SS" u
them You heard about our scotch girl who
scd1 o h. .hc nsS5s San down toos
hand In that affair. and they we're all agin
the negro. but he won out hands down. ..
soa Sc: r b: s nSs S:in SSrsns SS Syi
.piuarss. Probably they thought over there
ss We r5S. 1dS f IN about Lssy
stfsppSr sas T Scotch @ lssa lsssls fs In love With
and. when he sent for Der. she ran away and
New York for her and We all had nts. though
| guess he WAS good respect able fellow. We
labored with the girl and tried 70 make her
| things were different over here. Say. those
scotch do beat anything fer stuboorpnes:
II loys him, .,,,t. end wnll marry him. she
Finally. one OF the pastors took the girl mp
| town. and all through the negro district. He
| didn't spare her anything in the low down
seen seemed a. a. Il the siri ought TO know what
/ chances she was taking She came back to
the island that evening, soured on IN atrimonN.
ali rel rejoioed and feIt virtuous The next
morning when the matron went to see her
her Jaw was act again, =,
was only hungry last night and faint-like,'
-she never changed the. tune asain The
sJ stood On nS sG,' n 3, estisen'p ~. mar
The reporter wandered out through the
winding labyrinth Of pens and past the
throngs OF immigrants who we're e,Ta oeins snd ex,
Si Is pu1a!d iyao'i irsSIsns4 snsf ,onsisnsr. ore "
-Weddinssy" -sid Mrs. ssHsslin stuck '0h. cy,r: YES:
on here. but the AFFAIR IA arranged here ana
the ceremony IL performed at one OF Tie mis-
sion houses or In Justice onbe We see
with our work, and lot of pleasant things.
too After ALL only about one.lourth u the
marriages are COMPULSORY lhe resi- are
honest love affairs or matches arranged by
-They come over here TO get q start and
then send for their sweethearts, and the happy
meetings are worth seeing II Isn't the fash-
Ion in that class Of society I o hide ones feel-
ings. and though the girls blush furiousy
enough. neither they nor iheir sweethesfts
seem 70 care who's looking NJ them some
times girl ha. TO wait Few hours or days
and gets worried and nervous, aud then,
when the lover does turn mp. she almost goes
wild with relief and delight
There are very few cases for compulsory
marriage from southern Europe or Armenia
and those countries Tho girls down there
time 10 get into trouble and we get only a
few single girls from there Once In while
an Italian or Armenian girl viii come over
TO be married but she IL always met by rela-
tives or friends, and In most cases she has
never seen the man she I" 70 marry ne
AFFAIR has been managed By th- two lamiuss'
and perhaps the girl has been married by
proxy on the other side
II seems queer for u little Italian girl 10
come here and meet a stranger Hh9ih
she il to marry the next day, but she really
nj
doesn't see the man even when she meets hun
here. for she never raises her eyes IRON lhe
ground when he IL brought np TO her ana
talks to her | don't know whether II is etl-
quette or shyneIs but y j. always that way
We have trouble about the marriages oi
many OF those Southern girlS. because they are
too young for our marriage law, but usually
we can put the thing through hy having the
couple marry in jersey They can marry
year earlier there than in New YORK ,,.
DO men ever come here In search OF VIE
without having any particular wOmanin view
Mrs Stucklin laughed
oh. once in while i happens, very seldom,
though she said Il heard stories Of sucn
things In earlier days, but We don't pay any
attention TO such requests now When a
customer like that does come around In
afraid some Of the men have good deal OF
fun with him-'alk the thing over seriously
with him and show him around. but always
have good reason why he cant have the
girl he admres
"Weve just deported. q couple Of lovers
about whom YOU wouldn't have felt stirred up
There was dog IN the outfi, TOO. The man
was an ex-convict and the woman vas an
actress, and the dog was ju-t plain dog rather
the best OF the. trio, too
There was me and the leading lady and
the dog quoted the reporter softly.
Mrs Stncklin nodded
"The Trio came over on German ship As
stowaways II seemed they had gone on the
boat before IL sailed 10 secune ~ the tremen
who was friend Of theirs. They all had
few drinks-
Not the dog
We'll. perhaps, the dog kept sober; but The
others didn't The fireman suggested that
they really ought 70 20 TO Amrrica and the
couple agreed enthusiastically, So they went
down among the steerage passengers ana
were never noticed until the boat was vel out
TO sea or course the stowawav- were held up
here They didn't have any money, but they
were very cheerful
When they went up before the Special
Inquiry Board the evidence against them was
damning but they didn't care Cross
examination showed that the man was an eN-
but they told the stories of their lives a.
iovously a. YOU please. The board wa, Sc
we're ana said they must 10 back There
wasn't any weeping and protesting IN that
cheerful a. ever and said they supposed that
would be iust "a good thing ~ landing.
They didn't care much about America and
wouldn't have Thought of coming If they
hadn't been drinking, 81 they might Us well
20 h,ck ,
nbnut was ths dog THEY'D hate 20 lose
him When they found that he was personal
property and would have 10 be returned With
them, they didn't have care on earth The
immigration officials couldn't do "a thing 10
them They said they'd just IA soon he In
one country a. another, So long as they had
each other and the dog They've gone back
to Germany
villon would have loved thpt vagabond
go. but such Cheerfulness IL rare DepOrts-
ton is usually accompanied by scenes. and
Mrs SuCklin, who has had a long expe ence.
acknowledges that she hasn't the heart 10 be-
around when her charges are takenawav.
~ can get used 10 it," Sh" says, although
interfere with duty do. occasionally.
get n stay. In a case whore 7 think II IL jus
tinabls For instance n girl comes over 10
her sweetheart or relatives The rule Ia that
II the friend doesn't appear. she must 70
back by the neat boat. but sometimes the
friend lives In an out Of the way place. and
there Ia n chance Of delay I'm messages &c
only a short time ago, when ! cnine over
on the morning boat, ! saw girl Tor whom
wanted stay. being taken aboard with
others for deportation | hurried up 10 the
and got my papers. or course
the boat was gone, but We teephuned 10 the
Barge Urice, had the girl brought back and
her sweetheart did turn mp
The reporters cam" bHCk 70 New York
grants aud their friends Near the stern
was group of four. pretty young Irish
girl with pink Cheeks and wide open gray
eyes. had evidently IuSt landed Her clothes
spoke Of an liI~h country village as plainly
A. her complexion spoke yf Irish air. Her
sister and DrOthcr-in-law had met her, the
latter u well-dressed genial young IrshmAn
the former pretty girl who had traded
IriSh roses for American clothes The fourth
member Of the group was a man, a Young