The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-05-16
Don Emanuel Contrevasy
Crooke Comes Here to Find
Ills Sister Who Wishes
Him Deported
HIS DAUGHTER IS IN PEKlN
WITH HER HE HOPES TO FIND
AN ASYLUM. BUT NO NEWS OF
HER HAS CoME-HIs LONG AND
HONORABLE CAREER


HONORABLE CAREER -
TFF
Herded in the detention pen at Ellis
Island, with the offseouring Of Europe,
for four days, and only yesterday trans
ferred to filter quarters, is Don Emanuel
Contrevasy Crooke, fine, erect, military
looking old man, who suggests the Span
ish grandee in every act and word and
who appears to be a modern King Lear.
For he is held by the immigration au-
thorities because his sister, Nine Cha
want, of No. III Danforth avenue, Jer-
sey City, refuses to receive him and be-
cause he has received no word from his
daughter, married to an EnglishmGn in
the British consular service in Peking,
China, with whom he expected an asy-
lum in his old age Unless his sister re-
lents, or his daughter is heard from. it
is likely that he will be departed back
to Cadiz, Spain. where he has struggled
for years to live independently of his rel
atives.
For thirty years, Don Emanuel served
his country well in the Spanish consular
service. He was stationed all over the
world-in Peking, Athens, Glasgow,
Annoy. Algiers and elsewhere. Before
that he was an officer in the Spanish ar
my. He is now 20 years old and retired
from the consular service several years
ago.
While in Australia. Don Emanuel says,
he married the Baroness Kensington, an
English noblewoman, but no higher in
birth than himself. She is now dead.
Their daughter lives in Peking. Don
Emanuel says that after living alone in
Cadiz for-several years, since his retire
ment, he found himself no longer able
to continue in that way. He wrote to
his sister and his daughter, and says that
they made arrangements for him to go
to live with the latter He was to come
TO New York and to stay few weeks
with his sister in Jersey City until he
should receive word and money from his
daughter, bling him to go to Peking.
Don Emanuel arrived from Cadiz last
wek on the steamship Beunos Ayres,
sailing second cabin. Before hi sarrival,
however, Immigration Commissioner
Watehorn received letter from Nine.
Chavant, who wrote that her mother was
coming here, expecting her to go to her
home, and that she could not receive him,
as her circumstances did not permit it.
She asked that he be sent back to Spain,
as he was likely to become apublic charge
if he remained here.
When the old man arrived, Commits
sioner Watchorn did not tell him of his
sisters letter. Don Emauel said that his
sister was to receive him and it was pre-
tended for while that she could not be
located at the address the brother gave.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Watchorn in
vestigated and found, he says, that Nine.
Chayant has been in business with her
husband in Jersey City for fifteen years
and is well able to support her brother.
Don Emanuel. like other persons arriv-
ing last week who failed to find relatives
to identify them, or who Were suspected
of being unfit candidates forAmeriean
citizenship, was placed in detention pen
with a group of immigrants, mostly of
the lowest class. Many of them were
crooks and thieves who had found their
various European countries too hot for
them, and nearly all were dirty in the
extreme. Among them the old Spaniard,
tall, erect, with white, bristling mus
taches and imperial stood out as unmis-
takably of higher type. He has wide
education, a knowledge of many lam
.guages, and the four days in that deten-
ton pen were not pleasant. To-day,
through the interest of various persons
in the case Don Emanuel was removed
to one of the rooms for detained cabin
passengers.
The Spanish consul-general in this
port, General Arturo Baldasano To-
pete, learned of Don Emanuel's case and
became interested. He will make an
attempt to have his countryman landed
and permitted to stay here. or, failing in
| that will have HIN sent back to Cadiz
as comfortably as possible.
Don Emanuel was pretty near the end
of his resources when he left Cadiz. He
had only $45 when he was examined at
Ellis Island and as he is 20 years old
and in failing health. the authorities
could not let him land without the assur.
ance of relatives or friends that he would
not become public charge.
Don Emanuel has with him many me-
mentos of his long consular service. He
displayed, with pride to-day to reporters
| who talked with him an. autograph letter
| from Queen Victoria, an autographed in
| vitation to dine with King Alfonso oil
Spain and many other letters from dis.
tinguished personages abroad.
Don Emanuel does not know vet that
| his sister refused to receive him. Com
missioner Watchorn and the Spanish con.
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