The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-21
ELLIS ISLANDS BANNER DAY.
4.sOO INMIGRANTS LAND. 5000
STAY HERE.
Most NJ Them Italians. and Aunt Jane.
Merchant. says They Have Money
Bags, Battles and Bundles In Plenty.
10 say Nothing OF Earrings and ShawIs.

som. theatrical manager who wants
now ideas for stage groups and ,'olors
should have gone to the Battery yesterday
afternoon when 1000 immigrants. most Of
them Italian. added themselve. To the I,opu /.
laton of New York
II was a record. breaking day for Ellis
Island and the Barge Office. The steam.
ships Perugia from Genoa. Citta di Napol
from Naples. Siclian Prince from Palermo,
which arrived on Sunday. and the ,eland
from Antwerp, in yesterday. brought. all
told. 400 s'eerage passengers. They all
got away from Ellis Island yesterday
About seventeen hundred Of them were
bound for the West and were transferred
directly from Ellis Island to the railroad
terminals in jersey. The rest were fer
ried 10 the Battery on the John G. Carlisle
and there was steady stream Of foreigners
going through the Barge Office gates all
day.
II was a good -na'ured crowd and pros
porous one. too. according TO Aunt Jane,
the old Irish woman who runs the banana
and caraway cookie stand in the lower
deck OF he Carlisle. She is the first person
with whom the incoming new American can
have trade relations after exchanging his
W lfdn'r VI 1utBfS OF IRE LOT nlte1
States coin.
There were SO many children with in
dulgent parents in yesterdays invoice of
new blood that was good enough to pass
quarantine that Aunt Jane had to replen
ish her stock after each trip.
The picture that would have appealed
TO the stage manager was on the Battery
walk. where, with the gray wall of the Barge
Once Tor background, was huddled a
company Of a thousand, every one with a
speaking and gesture part and all the women
in costu Of green and blue and yellow
and red. Old Sol. who hadn't been doing
much for this part Of the world for a month,
was on duty again and furnished the best
kind Of limeght for the Battery chorus
There were some women there with gold
enough in their earrings TO pay their pas
sage money back to Italy.
There was no row. but the extra police
sent down from Church street had their
hands full all day in holding in check the
crowds who had gone down 10 the Battery
TO meet the newcomers and pilot them in
safety 10 Mulberry street or 10 Harlem +
little Italy. Occasionally the police lines
were broken by rush TO get sonnet hing
more sat isfactory than long distance greet
ings Then there would be hopeless mix
up Of the bright head shawls Of the new
arrivals with the millinery from Division
street worn by the old settlers. the women
who came over as much as week or a month
ago and had had plenty Of time to adopt
East Side fashions
One baby was landed 90 American soil
without her knowledge or consent She
was asleep in basket. Her father held
one end Of It and her mother the other.
The father also carried two bags and the
fragment of doll in his other hand and a
feather bed was strapped 10 his back And
the mother, besides carrying her half Of n.
basket cradle had a Younger child over
her left shoulder and her earrings The
parents d dat seem TO feel that they were
overburdened and both Of them managed
without dropping anything TO kiss an old
man who was waiting o greet them. The old
man was the grandfather. on the mother's
side, OF the little immigrant in the basket
and the other one on the woman's shoulder
He had found job in America for son-in.
law, Pietro Of Genoa.
The baby's basket, as we'll as the two
valises. had been stamped by the United
States Government -disinfected' without
waking the baby.
A Yankee bvstander played the old Smith
Joke with Italian variations on the crowd
When group of twenty or more men wers
shufiling by he yelled: Angelo! Angelo.
More than half Of them turned around il
response 10 the name.