Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-01

other persons, or by any corporation,
society or government, whether in pos
session of money, and If SO whether
upward of $50. whether going to join
relative, and If SO what relative and
his name and address, whether ever
before in the United States whether a
polygamist, whether under contract,
expressed or implied, to perform labor
In the United States, the immigrants
condition of health, and whether de-
formed or crippled, and If SO from
what cause The census is search
ing one and the questions must be all
answered.
At Ellis Island.
When the steamship reaches her
pier the inspectors discharge such i'm
migrants as they may deem 1t neces-
sary to examine-usually not over Is
or 20. says a writer in the Worlds
Work. All the rest are transferred to
barges and taken to Ellis Island.
There on the main floor of the big i'm
migration building they are divided
into groups, according to the mani
tests, and separated. Each immi-
grant Is questioned to see IL his an
swers tally with the manifests. If
they do not, he Is detained for "spe-
cial inquiry" by boards of four inspec-
tors, who decide all questionable
cases. y
Only the Secretary of the Treasury
can overrule their decision. The immi-
grants are kept in big detention
room until the railway agents take
them to Board trains to their final des-
tination.
One Of those who recently came over
to become one of us was Florio Vim
cenzo, who hailed from Palermo, Italy.
He was IA years old and Travelled light.
When he opened his cheap paper va
lise it was apparently empty. save for
a pair Of discredited and disreputable
old shoes. Florio bowed, cap in hand,
and his white teeth flashed as he
suavely smiled: II am poor man,
nobleman, seeking my fortune"
There was an odor that the old in
spector knew. He picked up one Of
the old shoes and extracted from 1t
creased and crumpled hunk Of Bologna
sausage The other shoe was, stuffed
with a soft, sticky and aggressively
fragrant mass of italian cheese. These
articles and a sum of Italian money
equivalent to about $1.80, and the
clothes he stood in, formed the basis
on which Florio expected to rear his
fortune.
Another immigrant, PietrO Viadilli,
was gray-haired, round shouldered and
weazened. He, too had come to make
his fortune. His nnpedimented con-
sisted of canvass yalise, lined with
paper and containing two striped cot
ton shirts, one neckerchief OF yellow
silk, a black hat, waistcoat, two
pairs of hose, one pint Of olive oil and
half a peck of hard bread biscuit.
At the examination the immigrants
are asked to show their money, which.
after being counted and record made
Of 1t, is restored to them. In one re-
cent year the French led all the others,
with an average Of $39.37. The He
brews stood at the foot of the list,
bringing an average of $S.5S. After
the French came the Italians from
Northern Italy. with $23.53 per capita; !;
Dohemians and Morayians were next,
with $22. 78; Scandinayiaps next. with
$1S.16, and the Irish next with $17.1O,
Next to the Hebrews the Italians from
Southern Italy were lowest, with an
average of $s.67.
At the battery an employment bureau
is conducted for the benefit Of the Inn
migrants by the German Society Of
the City Of New York, and the Irish
Immigrant Society, and here from