The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-22
new AMERICANS, $4,000 OF EN-
ELLIS ISLAND MAS TO HANDLE
A FLOOD FROM EUROPE.
light ships, but There's Only Time 60
Pass q Half OF Their Human CnrEoes
odd sights In the Waitlng Pens-JeNS
on one ship Lacked Kosher Food.

day night and noon OF yesterday Oh
thousand new Americans from the tene-
ments Of Naples and Rome. the little peas
ant farms Of Sicily the Lithuanian novels,
the Hungarian estates, the Russian ghettos,
we're herded like sheep through the hundred
and one inspections Of Ellis Island.
So big was the rush that only half Of the
lncomers could be handled, The rest
r,naIned on shlpboard last night and will
Keep Ellis Island at full tension all day
to-day.
with all the crowd-enough 10 make .
,tv OF themselves--it was only an extra
tusy dav at Ellis Island. There was hardly
any confusion, only an orderly and system
attic hustle.
Following we're the steamers and their
steerare consig nnents: Maine, l. ESQ., Neckar,
, soi. Deutschland 292 Gallia, i,ll2;
Christiana, esi; mbArda. l,ll1: Penn
sylvania. ass; Baltic. l,AS1 OF these
the Maine, Pennsylvania and Baltic were
not cleared out yesterday. These con-
tain most OF the Russian Jews, HungariAns
snd Ilthuanians. The 5,777 immigrants
although Yesterday we're mainly Italians.
perlars a quarter Of them went up the
country at once to labor on the railroads.
They we're not contract laborers Of course
but they all knew where to 60. The rest
we're dropped into New York.
Waiting for them in the lines outside
Of the Barge Ohlce were their friends
and kinsmen who could not get passes to
Ellis Island. Waiting also were the jackals
of the foreign poPulation-the boarding
house runners. the employment agents
Of the East Side These last had little
business Yesterday; they were there be-
cause they expected the landing OF the
Yiddish and especially the Hungarian
emigrants, their special prey.
Al Ellis Island they drive their herd OF
emigrants down a big hall divided into
alleys hy iron ratings. As they pass along
tbis line they ere thumped and pounded
and inspected as TO eyes and scelps py
physicians; asked fool questions about
laIor contracts and previous condition
Of servitude by special agents. and forced
to show their money and to explain about
their relatives in this country.
If they pass all these tests safely and
most of them do, they are free TO pass on 20
the waiting room where their people are
hose alleys blossomed like the rose yes
tcrday with the most singular effects IN
high Coored clothes. There were WON N in
black and red Paisley shawls OF the fashion
Of 1875 women in bright yellow head cloths,
women in red kerchiefs that swore at purple
Tbe clothing OF the men, although less
gaudy, was as singular. Almost to man
thew we're shirts Of that singular plaid which
seems 20 be woven nowhere out OF Italy,
and gaudv neckties OF magenta, pink ana
purpIe. Now and then there was a cos
tune 80 brilliant and unusual as 70 nash
out even from that crowd.
Tor example, one man wore suit OF
singular gaudy blue which has no counter
ma in american weaves. It looked as
though Il had been cut by some aged female
relative. The sleeves were set IN lego
mutton fashion. like those OF q womnn's
shirt waist, and the seam OF tho trousers
had q tendency TO curve.
The material Of his soft shirt had q pat
tern Of red and yellow roses, as though Il
had been cut out OF Parlor tidy' hn We
was a yellow silk handkerchief and his
cap was Of red satin. He was evidently
peasant dude. this one; his complexion was
perfect and his mustaches were dehcately
There flashed from the crowd also q
woman whose purple waist was cut straight
from bust 10 hip Ike the bodices OF Queen
Elizabeths time an ehecttwhich was height
ened by the fare Of her red skirt at the
hips. She was lighter than most Italians,
this one. and her face under her blue and
white handkerchief was dolllike.
Then there was a woman In peasant
dress all but her head which was decorated
with a polo hat Of the latest spring, style
To an Inspector who spoke Italian she ex-
planned that she wanted 70 dress hke
lady in America, so she bought IL before
she left Naples In her purse was Just
$40 20 show that she would not be public
Momentous we're the decisions Of those
doctors and inspectors who threshed out
the wheat from the chat along the iron
rallied aisles. IL needed only motion
from one Of these and an emigrant must
step aside into the detention pen TO lnger
for final decision Of his case
Quickest Of all these decisions was that
Of the surgeon who examines eyes. The
aisles converge upon his post As they
passed him he raised their eyelids III ne
mOtioned with his left hand the emlgrant
right, the efnigrant went TO the hospital
there 10 stay until his case Is cured OF he
Is sent home gain as incurable-
In the main the emf grants took tn ,e
decisions stoicaly. Il was In the detention
rooms that they showed their real feelings.
There are two OF these rooms, one for men
and one for women. Old cases are there,
cases which have hung on for months;
Those whose relatives have failed 70 send
for them the old, the tnhrm, the oeggars,
the immoral-all who are held N except
the sick-herd together In these white
lie women's ward holds the children as
we'll This department could not be quite
gloomy, with twenty babies rolling on the
floor and a dozen small boys OF many
tongues and scant clothing playing tag
over the chairs In the mems ward, how
ever the air was thick with gloom
II was Good Friday yesterday and Fass-
over as well. In one corner OF the men
ward three Italians were saying over the
tations Of the cross from leaflets which
lad Leen given them by a missionary
priest In the opposite corner Hebrew
Patriarch, wearing a tall hat above his
corkscrew c,irls, was droning from book
and rocking as be droned, while three
younger men Joined in the responses. Be
tween them was a Lithuanian boy, crying
tears Of Inconsistencies down his conoave.
thick-hanGed nose, a seam-faced old Sicilian
who muttered over a rosary, black Hun
Who played solitaire on bench, and thirty
other men in all degrees OF misery. The
only brightly human thing IN the ward
wac little girl, sent there In company with
her father She draped a red handkerchief
around a rag doll and battered to herself
In Italian.
The negro natrons were combing out the
tangled hair Of the immi grant women In
the other ward and though dozen tongues
were represented there the woman man
aged 10 chatter. Saddest Of all was an
lngish woman with two children born here
m America on a previous visit. She is walt
ing for a cousin In Milwaukee TO take her
out but letters and kilograms do not reach
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