New-York tribune., 1906-12-27
Of Interest ~
- to Women.
CATTLESHIP CRUELTY.
Men and Beasts Said To Be Treated
uith Great Brutality.

The Research Department OF the Wornan's
Municipal League has presented evidence 70 tho
District Attorneys Office which II sustained In
the courts. will reveal shocking condition Of
affairs in the shipping agency business. The
District Attorney wished to institute John Doe
proceedings in order to secure an investigation
OF the whole business. but Magistrate Crane.
when the case came up in the Tombs Court yes
terday afternoon. refused TO permit It. although
two agents l. Abramson and " Rozuk, were
specifically named. The was accordingly
adjourned until this afternoon. when specific
complaints will be preferred against the agents
mentioned
According to the evidence placed IN the hands
of the District Attorney It appears that many
immigrants who cannot read or speak Engnsn
have been shamefuliy victimized by some Of ths
shipping agents. The cattle ships apply TO the
agents for employees to care for the cattle going
over, and the agents take advantage OF this cir
cumstance to sell tickets for passage on these
ships and as much further as the purchaser
wants TO go An order to agent in Liverpool
for ticket to cover the rest Of the journey
is put in a sealed envelope and the purchaser
hangs on TO Il like grim death, only TO find when
he presents II 10 the Liverpool agent that the
latter has never heard Of the New York agent
and knows absolutely no reason why he should
comply with the request Of the order to give
the bearer ticket to Hamburg" So the immi-
grant, having earned his passage on the cattle
ship by hard labor. after having paid for II
finds himself stranded in Liverpool
ALLEGED TRICKERY BY AGENTS.
The District Attorney has some pathetic postal
cards written by some OF these men to their fam
ilies. telling of their sorry plight, and asking for
money. Sometimes the agent places cattle men
on board cattle ship without signing them IN
the office OF the line to which the boat belongs,
so these men are arrested in Liverpool for being
for several months.
The witnesses in the two cases to come up
this afternoon were brought back from Boston
before taking passage on the cattle ships for
which they had bought tickets. but the league
has had one of its investigators buy one OF the
fraudulent tickets and make the entire voyage
on a cattle boat. He paid SO at a shipping
Office "a different one from the two firms 70 %
mentioned in the specific Complaints) for ticket
10 Hamburg. and sailed from Boston on october
II with twenty-five other men, eight americans
and the remainder Hebrews and Poles. During
this voyage he relates that unspeakable oruelties
were practised both the men and the ami
mails. One OF the foremen he says. never was
seen without an axe iron instrument with
which he beat the animals on the head The
men were also beaten cruelty.
Morris Goldstein did not understand Eng
Nsh" says the report. 80 he was hercely beaten
for not acting In accordance with his ordersi
Dut this happened the nrSI LSW udys' dACcE "A-CH
Mr. Goldstein knew what he had to do, and
tried his best to work earnestly, so the foreman
stopped beating him So 1t was with Gefser
Chopkowitz and Stib Gudis; they were beaten
during the first few days until they understood
their work But the most unfortunate OF them
was EisheI Fisher, This fellow somewhat
idiotic was tortured cruelty during the entire
voyage. He did not understand his orders and
would not do them right even when he was
shown what to DO. II the S foreman pea 0eas nun ter
The men worked about sixteen hours e day
and were fed soup, meat, potatoes tea ana
bread all of such a character that there was
much speculation to what each article was
intended to be. The soup looked like dirty dish
water" and the bread and the meat were not
recognizable as such. There was also
'browny- black hot mass which the investigator
did not attempt to identify.
Arrived in Liverpool. the investigator presented
his envelope to Green & Co. Mr. Green opened
Il in his presence and found So and the order
for ticket to Hamburg. He said a ticket TO
Hamburg cost 81 SO. and that he had no CON-
nection with the New York