Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-21

from Naples Antoila Fortuni Lodi, with
her 1--WE children ranging In age from 16 to
2 years. They we're coming to join the hus-
band and father. who chose TO deny the
parentage Of the youngest child and
thereby precipitated sorrowful muddle,
as the immigration authorities were com
PEELED to deport this child, as likely to be-
come a public charge, and also the mother
with the baby as It's guardian. The Italian
law, as well as the first instincts Of ma
ture, would keep her in Italy ;and 50 this
mother was torn from her four other chill
dren and the family was parted forever
Six happy young Scotch girls were ar
rested in the Hartford Carpet corporation
early last May as being in the country in
violation Of the law which forbids the Inn
portation Of contract labor. They had been
working i'm their home country in mill
which closed down. Some one, Il proved
later to be an employment agent, sent
them to Connecticut. They we're under an
implied" contract, as the law pats It, All
their savings were consumed by the tickets
and when, after a period OF detention, they
were deported, the state in which they
reached Scotland was sad indeed. A Madi-
son, wis, firm inserted an advertisement
In a foreign paper early this last year
offering $3.50 per day for labor. and nearly
100 innocent immigrants sent by emp'o
ment agents TO answer the advertisement
were trapped by the Ellis Island and Long
Wharf authorities ard deported by the
shipload. Many other contract laborers
were sent back at the same time, and on
one voyage the Neapolitan Prince carried
1000 men, women and children back to their
native land In sorrow other ships took
parties OF 500, 200 and 100.
was mixing in the crowd Of my fellow
immigrants about the Captanina in Naples
one day Just before the ship sailed. when
/ met a man who was running branch Of
the underground system fer smuggling i'm
migrants into the United states. Through
him made the acquaintance of Mrs Vim
cenzo Tortora OF Mulberry street, New
York, but then living in one Of the villages
back of Naples. She had been in New
York for some time with her husband and
had gone home to visit her parents. taking
child which had been born before she
FIRST went TO the United States. During
the visit home the child contracted in rs
worst form trachoma, the dreaded contagi-
Gus eye disease and when the poor woman
reached New York to rejoin her husb7nd
she and her child were excluded and sent
back. Again she tried to enter and failed
and when met her she was arranging ia
pay $50 to be struggled into the country
by the gangs that do that sort OF thing
Six unnecessary voyages across the ocean
with sick child. all because of faulty
administrative system!
The case Of Mrs Czarne Feiserstein and
her s-year-o'd twins. deported from Chi.
cago July 30 because they were found to be
illegally In the country. and with all the
federal judges away on vacation, so that
the matter could not be tried out in tbs
courts: the death Of Mrs Christina sisrke
while detained before deportation at Balti
more, her husband and two children having
been sent on to Texas; the story OF Domen
Eco Galeotalanza ard Domenico Larrone
two trachomatous Neapolitans, who, aftsl
disposlng of all their property in Naples
and giving IN their employments care L
the United States only to be debarred, and
twice again to fail of entry, the last tim,
coming as paupers and stowaways thei
troubles having completely wrecked them
the misfortunes of Samuel Kaplan, VIII
with a wife and family OF eight left Lod
for Rochester N. Y, after selling cut
small business, but on arrival was debarre,
with the entire family because the mothe
and one child had spinal trouble-these ar
a few bits of the great whole.
Some of the Scenes that occur In tn
''inside" part OF Ellis Island (which is tn
name given all that portion Of the syster
that Is for the detained or excluded) wou'
wiring the heart of the hardest of mer
There one can see sons and daughters an
grandchildren clustered about an cd PAL
who have Travelled across the continent O