The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-30

and Ponce De Leon. When disease,
poverty or other barrier to entrance is
suggested. the plausible agent answers
a ready aSh-! You leave that to us.
We've got pull. Buy ticket from
me, and the laws don't countr'
Fake doctors in European ciries gloss
over and patch up diseases with the
promise of a cure, or at least such re-
lief as will enable the immigrant to es-
cape the government inspection and en-
able the victim TO land. The big com
panies have found so many technical
ways of eyading or violating the contract
labor law that it really amounts to little.
The increase of diseased Immigrants
who tried for admission at our ports last
year was forty per cent in advance of
the number of the previous year. Ira
choma, a highly contagious disease of
the eye,s is the most prevalent and one of
the worst diseases. brought in by these
immigrants. How the combination Of
unscrupulous agents and doctors victim
ICES these afflicted with this disease who
want to come to this country is we'll told
in a recent letter from Maurice Fishberg,
an inspector of immigration. to f. P.
Sargent, the immigration commission.
The man Fares" referred to in the
letter is one of the best known and most
unscrupulous transportation agents in
Europe
I'm Marseilies the treatment of tra-
choma has assumed quite remarkable di-
mensions. Here most of the emigrants
from the Orient. from Syria. Armenia,
etc, come on their way to the United
States Most of the Orientals report to
one Anton Fares, who refers them TO a.
clearinghouse. After the usual pre-
liminaries, such as inquiries as to the
amount Of money in their possession,
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their destination. etc, the, emigFan.s are
referred to Dr. Reynaut for examination
Those who are found free from conta-
gious disease are given tickets and at
once sent TO Hayre. AS is we'll known,
these races are especially prone to ira
choma, and in large proportion Ct in
stances the doctor does discover its pre- s.
ence. These are given by NJ Fares the
choice of two alternatives, either to go
via st. Nazaire to Mexico, where Fares
claims to have agents who conduct them
across the frontier to the United States,
which is quite an expensive and tedious
process and of late xerys nnG GsrtsiR, ar
submit to course of treatment by DIR.
o. Reynaut. 20 Boulevard ds.Athenee.
MaIseilles, who claims to have been very
successful. A visit any day at IL A. NJ.
to this doctors clinic will convince any
one that he does aour.shing business.
l met more than 100 emigrants every
day | visited this clinic. The charge Il
one frame for each treatment Some of
these unfortunate patients told ME th ct
two months. The average duration of
the treatment, however. is about two
weeks, after which they are generally
sent TO Havre and thence shipped to
New York. Another feature of this So
called treatment. which is. as far as |
have observed, peculiar to Marseilles and
Fares. is that many healthy emigrants,
who have no trachoma at all are under
treatment for this disease. These are
usually Individuals who have money.
Fares refers such persons to the doctor.
who tells them that they have trachona,
but are curablc. One franc a day for
treatment, three or four francs for board
and lodging for about month Is ex-
tracted from such an unfortunate. When
finally he is pronounced cured be Is
charged more than the usual price for a
steamship ticket Such individuals are,
as rule, never deported for eye disease,
and, believing that they had tracloma,
and that the doctor and Fares had cured
them, and safely passed them through
the gates of the United States. are after
ward excellent advertisements among
their countrynlen for Fares"
There are laws which forbid the
steamship and railroad companies bring
ing immigrants into the country from
doing other advertising than the cost of
tickets and the dates of sailing of their
ships. There are other laws that require
these carriers to publish, in the native
language of the country, the immigration
laws of the United States, and post them
in all stations and ticket offices. also to
make semi-annual reports that they have
complied with these regulations. The re-
port Of the immigration bureau isathat
these laws, are practically ignored by
everybody, and are, to all intents and
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