Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-04-21

/ When the immigration authorities
at ellis Island. New York, got on the
Job Tuesday morning they knew
from the list of steamers piled up
and waiting to be cleared that the
bureau had ahead of II the hardest
week in its history They had hard
ly settled down To work on n horde
OF Italian immigrants when the tele-
phone began to ring More immi-
grant vessels and still more. had
been sighted at Fire Island, comisg
through the fine spring weather to
pile mp trouble. The inspectors held
a conference and laid out the weeks
work. The capacity of Ellis Island is
about 5000 immigrants a day. Il
can handle great many more on
a squirt, once. two or three years ago.
IT, put through 1900 a day. But such
a pace as that cannot be maintained
without wearing out the force. and it
was planned to handle lust about
5000 aday and no more.
ON that schedule i'm the New Am
sterdam, which arrived I'm the morn
ing, was sent to her dock under
guard. with instructions to keep her
immigrants aboard until Thursday
afternoon the very earliest moment
when she can be disposed of. The
Republic, from Naples, and the Zee
ian, from Antwerp. which passed
IRE Island at noon, Will have to wait
until Saturday. other ships are To
wait until Friday and anything later
must wait until Saturday. Other
ships arc coming deeply freightcd
they made a snap circulation yester-
day and estimated that the pickIngs
OF the year Will be about LOO. 900.
The greatest year in the past was
100000
Forty-nvc thousand immigrants
was the estimate for the week; the
greatest record The greatest prevl-
Gus record was made this year also
the week ending March 81, when 30
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the best record for previous year.
made In a week In April. 1908. If
This thing keeps mp. however. last
week may be beaten by this and both
by some of the weeks to- come.
There may. indeed. come time
have TO wait more than week with
the inn m iprapto nonnnd ,,u L.. .A.t.
steerage before they can be cleared.
Ellis Island as has been said, can
handle only so many n day. And
every immigrant has 10 pass through
Ellis Island Therefore the steam
ship companies Will lose some Of the
profits Of this heavy immigration traf-
iic through having TO feed the steer
age passengers ON board and through
delays TO vessels kept in port until
after their sailing time The island
got through with 200 yesterday and
viii handle 5.649 today.
The lot which landed yesterday
was rather unusual for these days
in the proportion OF northern i'm
migrants More than one thousand
or one n.h of The total. were Eng
lish-spD .n" people good prOpOr.
ton Of them Scotch These came on
the Cedric, which carried also n good
lot Of Germans. 90 that old employees
said IL reminded them OF Castle
Garden Then the Equita sprang
somothing unusual ~ had f.23i
It..a... and not woman among
them Mostly they were returning
italian labOrcrs back from their I.
winter iu lndr TO- work ON dams and f.
railroad and public works.
Furthc here we're very few Rus. .
sian Jew .ne Jews preferring not
10 travel In the time about Passover.
The Umbria, however, did have a few |.
refugees escaping from the troubles /
iu Russia. set OF long bearded pa
triarchs In lambskin hats In that
same batch came set OF genuine /
cossacks big men i'm long boots.
lur hats and skirted coats. These
men. with % few small and meek /.
women. were consigend TO the West.
where they are going 10 try farm f.
labor
Tho officials ON The island. al /
though they keep mo- regular tab on
ihaI point believe ON snap Judgment
fNaI tHc ondouot OF mmigrIn to
pile up in Sew York has been stopp
cI The statistics Of last month are
unusual on that point They sent
immigrants to every State and Ter