Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-10
Storage Rate War Results In
immigration of Undesirable
Glasses to America
DRAINS LONDON wHlTEcHApEL
Eastern Europe Furnishes Majority
Of Those Taking Advantage of the
Low Rates Editors of london Pa
pers Send Men to Make Reports =
Their Stories.

New York, June 1o-In the steerage
rate war which the various transat-
larttic steamship companies have instt-
tuted against the Cunard line the rate
OF passage from London is reduced %
$3.50. The majority of those taking;
Z advantage of this low rate are from
eastern Europe, the rest are those who
originally came from that section OF
lowest districts, and it is these which
this low rate of passage is now drain
ing from the Whitechapel sluns to
this and other American cities.
Commissioner General of 1mmigra-
ton Frank z. Sargent, said in Wash
ington yesterday. While in New
York Wednesday, l could see for my
self that this ocean rate war already IS
resulting in a great increase OF undo
sirable immigrants. Judging from
what ! myself saw at Ellis islana,
many of those induced to come over
BY the low rates will have to be de-
ported by the steamship companies.
To ascertain the conditions OF this
cheap travel the editors of two London
newspapers sent special representa-
xives to live on board the Potsdanl rs
emigrants. They just have arrived
with that vessel, which brought 75I
emigrants.
w. o. Bennett, of the London Daily
Mail, in his description of the trip.
says:
The acknowledgements Company has
a large hotel for emigrants at VIII
helminakade, Rotterdam, and all of
Friday I boarded there In company
with thousand men, women and chit
dren, OF no less than eighteen differ
emit natiOnalities, One of its curios.
tiles Is huge bedstead, capable of
sleeping thirty-six persons. From the
hotel the immigrants We're taken 10 the
steamship.
Food was brought round in huge
pans by Dutch stewards, each emf
grant helping himself with his enamel
mug and speen to what he required.
The cleanliness of the stewards, and
their painstaking efforts to induce a
naturally dirty people TO become partial
to soap and water was remarkable.
Every morning the decks and cabin !
were SCOuTeu lnoiooSiiSt pol az thS
next meal the barbaric wretches
crowding the steerage had thrown
humps of meat, bone and potato peel
ings on the floor.
There were jews OF eighteen differ
ent nationalities on board. Every even
ing at 9 o'clock the old gray boards
among them sought cut convenient cor
ners, tied cloths around their heads and
arms, and then. with one hand placed
on a tiny square cloth fixed against the
wall, they used the other TO perform
movements similar to those made by u
cat when she licks her paw and cleans
her face.
BY far the majority of the emigrants
were taiiors by trade, and regarded the
United States as a veritable land Of
promise for their endeavors. The Rus
slams. to man, are deserters from the
Czar's army.
Many enligrants laid In stock of
1-cent cigars at Rotterdam. One made
cigar holder from chicken bone pro-
cured from the second class steward.
This example was followed by nearly
every one. Pumpkin seed was served
out to the children, and, as a variation
of this, coarse black cake that had been
soaked in water.
The day after the boat sailed all In
the storage We're vaccinated. and sew
eral sucked the lymph from each others
arms, thus neutralizing its effect
Not Desirable Citizens.
Another newspaper investigator said:
These emigrants may not be actually