New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-14
THOSE DETAINED 1900.
SCUM OF EUROPE COMING.
Ellis Island officials Call Immi-
grants Worst They Hare Seen.

Although the influx Of diseased, criminal and
otherwise undesirable immigrants whose pres
snce here is chiefly due TO Ihe cut in steamship
steerago rates has only begun there are over
thirteen hundred immigrants no~ detained al
Ellis Island. OF these held for special inquiry
nearly all viii have TO be deported. and fully %
per cent of those IN the New-York room will
also go back The usual proportion Of the latter
deported IS only per cent.
The New-Yo-x room. called, IS where I'M
migrants Cor this city detained until friends
vouch for them or money Is furnished 10 allow
them TO land.
Officials at the island called the immigrants
that landed yesterday the most degraded ana
ignorant they had seen there The fears OF the
oficials that the So 90 rate would attract the
scum of Europe has already been realized Pau
mars idiots and criminals are plentiful among
the immigrants now arriving. 1t is the opinion
., she officials that the European cities have
,,lso, advantage OF the cut rate 10 ship here
,bsir naupe-s. criminals and general ne'er-do-
wells This city VIII suffer far more than any
other II any of these manage to slip thFongh
u-llis Island for the greater number OF those de-
ssined hope 10 find quarters here.
-r,,,,icration officials believe that in time the
steamship companies will either so back 10 the
oId steeraEe rates examine steerage passeh-
xrers more vigorously. since so many OF those
now arriving VIII be oePOIteu a' '4S
OF the warning lines
7, addition to the 1900 now on Ellis lslaho'
15aOo or more Immigrants will be dumped on
che island before Saturday night. 1t is known
that the Pennsylvania. from Hamburg. is bring
spr aS7 steerage passengers: the iceland. from
Antwerp 1913; the Rotterdam from Rotter-
dam. 10; the Sardegna. from Naples. ~ the
Pannonia, from Fume, 123, and the HeIlg
olav and the AdrIa. from Scandinavian ports
114S and So respectively. In addition 70 these
vessels, before the end OF the week the Majestic
the Etruria the Laurentian, the Frieda and
Ia Savoie due.
The maximum capacity Of Ellis Island is
1900. and with 1890 already there the officials
are wondering what they will do when these
other steamers arrive.
Two cases serve TO illustrate one class Of i'm
migrants attracted ny the cheap rate. on the
Anchoria ;here arrived a woman and her three
children on their way TO some point III ASSN
iboa, just where they did not know. They
had s. and the clothes they wore. Even worse
was the case OF couple who brought over
their seven children on the Arcadia Not one
OF the children was over thirteen years old. ana
the family had less than - cents IN American
money. They intended land. and go any
where that Providence directed them.
While on TWO Cunard boats. the Aurania and
So 30 from Liverpool. the rate from the Con
Gnent is Sl5, more than s. greater than the
rates OF the Continental pool. Vernon NJ.
Brown said yesterday:
The Cunard Company has declined 20 lessen It's
Eteerage rates 10 the SO OF the competing com
panies because its views entirely in accord
with those of the immigration officials in keeping
out undesirable immigrants The Cunard COM
pary has no wish TO bring a horde OF ilterate
and criminal steerage passengers, merely TO get
them away from some other line for the pleasure
of taking them back later own expense This
80 rate Is SO low attract inevitably the scum
OK ali Europe II is obvious that the more Of these
smnigrants the steamship companies get by reason
OF their low rate tho greater number they will
have TO take back II is assured fact that a.
extremely large proportion of these people will have
% be deported. as the immigration officials
Thoroughly alive to the great danger of allowing
Them 10 enter the country.
Gustav II. Schwab. speaking for the North
German Lloyd and no other. said that so far
as his line was concerned, the $40 rate would
bring no more undesirable immigrants here than
usual, because OF the rigid inspection of all
steerase passengers on The North German Lloyd
steamers.
Father Henry. director Of the Mission OF Our
LADY or the Rosary. said the low rate would
extract from Ireland those whose friends had
repeatedly advised them against ernigrating.