The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-12
THE INFERNO OF THIRD GLASS
The Experiences of a Couple Who
 Travelled With the Immigrants.

ship Lahn, made by my wife and my | self, studying the under side of the I immigration question, were were given | as we came aboard each a blanket in | which was tin pan, a tin cup, fork, 1 and spoon, and a, card entitling us 1 to 'One Ration" and instructing us to form a group of six or more and elect | one of the group capo di rancid, or chief of the mess, to go and get our food performed this task, lining up with the others on deck, where the food was served to us from huge baskets and caldrons in a slap-dash fashion by dirty storage cooks and steerage stewards, while ships officer and the naval commissioner placed by the Italian government on every ship carrying Italian emigrants stood by and watched. In this manner the food was produced througout the voyage. was in every compartment used by ,steerage passengers, and at no time saw @ table or anything resembling 1t or usable for the purpose and so no shairs ! orbenches of any sort either for use during eating or for sitting in compart- ments or ondeck, except a few tinny ruch chairs brought aboard by passen- gers themselves. At no time was there any chair or bench provided by the ship for sitting down, except in the hospital. When one ate one squatted on deck preehed on the matches or 1 winches or went below and climbed in- to bed. My wife and ate in this fashion until we found the underground railway for high-priced leftover food from the cooks galley. We were ex- pected to wash our pans in a room where cold salt water ran.
 ! The beds provided were of iron, ske- Teton bunk form, in two tiers, and were nlassed in hundreds in the various com partnlents. The mattress was a dirty burlap tick, filled with some course substance like vegetable fiber. The covering was skimpy blanket" such as I would not put on a horse cared for The beds, bedding, compartments, companionways, etc, were dirty when we found them and dirty when we left
 Some months later, on our return voyage, when we had a large party of immigrants with us, we found precise ! fly the same conditions aboard the great beautiful Princess Irene of the North German Lloyd Line. All food was erved in the same way, the compart- ments were just as filthy and i'll venti- lated. The separation of passengers was effected by compelling all the men land boys to occupy ertain apartments, while all the women and children were placed in certain others. Tn the com partInent in which my wife was all the berths were open, as are the majority of the steerage berths on nearly all ships, affording no privacy at any time. On neither the Lahn nor the Princess Irene were there any screening parti- tfons of any kind whatsoever, and I saw two women and four children lying lin two adjacent berths. I had no means of measuring the compartment to as- certain if the law was being complied with, but even if it was, that. as we'll as the other compartments were over- crowded by the more than two hundred persons there, in a shameful, revolting, and inhunan fashion that should never T be permitted by nation that abolished the slave ships.
 I have been in wars, wrecks great fires. and the like, but let me picture one of the most terrible things have ever witnessed. It was night of storm. Great waves were breaking with heavy crashes over the forward decks. The ship was pitching and rol- ling so heavily that one could stay in the shallow berths with difficulty. The hundreds down in the steerage com- partments were death1y seasick and mad with terror of the tempest. Over
 the beds, over their persons, over the
 companionways, like a layer over the floor, lay elected food and other filth.
 A few dim lights set in the ceiling
 allowed one to ,grope about that hole.
 The air was so stifling that the feeble lay openmouthed, beating their hands
 fiutteringly on their faces and breasts. A great heave and 8 heavy crash would come, followed by chorus of yells
 and shriels; baggage and sick would
 come tumbling out of the hunks. On
 every hand were human beings, strug-
 gling to their knees, clinging to the posts of the sbunksi praying for their
 very lives in a pouring murmur that
 filled in the interludes of the noises of
 the storm. Last January the Vaderland
 brought in many dead after heavy
 trip. Have those to blame been pun nished?
 This terrible scene I have described
 is one re-enacted on every rough voy-
 age aboard the big immigrant carriers.
 What is wanted is more space, more
 air, receptacles such as are given first and second cabin passengers, adequate
 light. adequate care, etc. As to the
 cleaning of the compartments it is done , with a salt water hose in those periods of good weather when passengers can be got up on deck out of the way. In the best of weather the average wash out is three times week only.-Brough- ton Brandenburg in Golfers.
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