The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-07-30
STEERAGE HORROR
IS TOLERATED
Vile Filth and 0vcrcrowded
Quarters Tor immigrants
THE OFFICIALS KNOW
THAT LAWS ARE BEING vIoLAT-
ED AND POOR STEERAGE PAS.
SENGERs ARE TREATED
LIKE CATTLE.

Broughton Brandcburg gives in the |
last number of Golfers Weekly a |
startling picture of the conditions I'M
der which immigrants are brought in
to the port of New York He prefaces
his story with a reference 20 his tes-
timony eighteen months ago concern.
Ing the abuses practised on immi
grants, and adds that immigration
Commissioner William VIII ans said
to Secretary Metcalf, of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor:
Mr.. Secretary, these terrible things
Mr.. Brandenburg has told you have
been sworn to over and over again by
passengers, in this office. You may
not know it, bur there are stringent
laws, and the enforcement lies in YOU
department. We have abundant evi4
dence here on file and at your com
| mand"
Mr. BrandeTburg adas
IF there has been the slightest indi-
caticn Of Increased rigdr have not
been able to find IL, and conditions
have been worse this past season in
the grand immigration rush than ever
before. Not an arrest has been made;
not an attempt at prosecution; not
even an adequate official report on
conditions secured"
The writer quotes at length the
laws Of the United States command
| ing tlat the Storage quarters on
ships bringing Immigrants into Amer
lea, shall be kept clean and well ven
4 tilated; that separate berths shall be
provided for individuals, and that the
immigrants shall receive three meals
day. decently served at tables
4 He then gives his personal absarva-
tions fortified with photographs show
ing that these laws are violated on
IneaiIy all the ships coming intd this
port Of New York He gives table
Slowing that twentyfour ships car
/, ried TACT storage passengers more
i than the law allows on recent voy
j ages to this port, or rs per cent. mort
5 than their safety limit
ut IL fair" Mir. BrandanbuTg says
, TO state q. the outset that on boarf
i the SHIPS Of some lines very supario
) accommodations were found for th'
+ third class. Those lines arc the Scan
: dinavian-American, Holland Amer can
] Red Star, Cunard and American linea
! When | compare what the Americas
, ana Cunard lines consider living up u
! the law of 1882 with tho aceomma
q dations ON the Hamburg American
r North German Lloyd, French, ITALIA
+ md other lines ] am astoundcd tina
! mere competition does not right TIN
! matter, for the rates on the good ship
: are equal to or proportionately love-
1 than the rates on the bad ones
! Mr. Brandenburg tells Of filth n tn
1 immigrant quarters Of the Roma, q
the Fabre line. and continues;
The prinz Oskar, commanded b
Capt Dugg, of the HamburgAmer
can line we visited on June %, tw
r days after she had arrived, bringin
In 1922 steeraga passengers. Their
was not one third-class compartment
examined which was not in vii
condition.
& Capt Magn's ship, of this sam
j line the great Immigrant carrier Pa
4. tricia, we inspected on Juue &C. jus
Il after she had landed 2.40S steerag
4 passengers: and how human being
i ever sustained life in those lowe
deck compartments from June 4 whe
d the ship left Dover and Boulogne,
Il can hardly understand"