The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-21
DEBUT or IVAN FROM POLAND.
FypIcALs .ADEENTUREs or AN
I INNJGRdNT on LANDING.
lie Came Here TO Work and started to Seek
!; a Job al Once--Began BY Meeting =
| Shark. Then Good Luck Came. ana Tic
! Already Plans 10 Send for HIS "he'

Ago with eighty rouDleS taDout eio) III ii'
pocket and not word of English in ms
head. He did not know a person IN
New York but he started to find WORK
The very first day he Eot here. ms Is AT
Accurate narrative Of his experiences from
his arrival until his departure last Tuesday
rs far az they are known TO the writer.
= Ivan Is a bright eyed. rosy-cheeKed
fellow, about 30, Of the pure blond STAY
type He knows nothing of town lie ana
has spent his life on the estates OF landed
gentry in Poland. He is an agricultural
Iaborer. somewhat brighter and more
ambitious than the average of Polish farm
hands.
!, He can read and write and for some
years had been IA sort Of orerseer among
his fellow workmen. earning about *loo
b year. with certain allowances OF raw 1ooo
material He is polite and not bit I'M
eouth in manner which, perhaps, Is due
10 the fact that he has been employed all
his life by the educated class OF his country.
b: This is the third consecutive year OF
drought and partial crop famine IN the
part of Poland where he lived, with the
result that the landowners feel them
.selves very poor and are cutting wages.
ivan believed that he might better his
fortunes in this country and so to-day he
" an American in embryo.
= When Ivan was turned loose at the Bat
terry, among five or six other Polish irnml-
grants. the party was accosted by a person
who invited them in their own language
to 10 to his house to dinner. He would
treat them well. tell them things they
ought to know and show them about the
town.
s. SO they dined with their friendly conf
patriot and the meal cost them exactly
81 20 apiece Ivan says it was very good
dinner
81 Then the landlord became interested
IN VANS hat took il of his head, cooliy
tore out the lining and told the astonished
man that he couldn't be seen in New York
with hat like that. Ivan protested that
II was good hat presented to him by his
employer but the landlord, now hat mer-
chant. assured him that the headpiece
was simply impossible, and so Ivan paid
him 81 so for a new hat.
1t occurred to him just them that his
first mountaineering in America was
somewhat expensive luxury; so he donned
his new purchase, picked up his bag and
walked out without saying word. Inc
host called after him, and sought to detain
him, but Ivan brushed him of and started
uptown.
He wished to find woman living in Har-
lem whom he had never seen, but for whose
relatives he had worked for years. They
gave him letters telling her that he was a
sober, faithful competent farmland and
they would be pleased il she could help
him to find work
He showed her address to various persons
and understood by their signs that the
place was away to the north somewhere
So the young man undertook to wear Oh
his sea legs by walking to Harlem.
He probably turned of Broadway into
Park row, and somehow got into Forsyth
street, by which time his heavy bag was
becoming somewhat burdensome. Happen
ing to see sign with name of Polish
aspect he entered the shop of a watch re-
'pairer and asked IL he might leave his bag
there
The man said he might and welcome.
:He asked Ivan a few questions became
a little interested in him and finally dropped
his work and piloted him across town to a
Sixth avenue street car whose conductor
promised faithfully that he would put
Ivan of at the right street.
- -'' '"'S "
occasionally showed symptoms OF uneasi-
mess and linen Inc conductor would wave
his hands IN genera northern direction
as much az TO say tnai II was long way TO
Harlem mat conductor dldh I forget to
put Ivan on az the riRht corner ana indi-
Gated ON ms myers ABOUT no" many houses
down the block he must 60
Ivan Reached the righL apartment house
about 80 clock IN the evening he could
speak to- the elevator boy just one word
thai was understood and that was the name
OF the young woman he came to see. She
was hot in and Ivan sat down to await her
return
He gazcd at the elevator boy, whose color
was a novelty to him and interested him
very much. Hour after hour passed, the
woman did not return and even the ele-
yator boy began topall as an attraction 1t
was Just midnight when the young woman
returned aud when the elevator boy pro-
nounced her name he was surprised to see
tho foreigner bow very low and kiss her
hand.
She road his letters. told him 10 come in
the m6rnine ana talk things over and then
s,nt him o,ll under escort for a bit of supper
and 80 cart lodgings at A modest hotel
Whsn hjS. nav friend arose in the morning
shn wXs informed that Ivan had been M r.
sdjno.up and down in front of the ho,,se for
= co,pie of hours waiting for notic,, that.
sbe vas ready to see him, ''''''
she heard his story and found that Ivan