The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-30

who invented the comfortable ana sanitary sleeping arrangements. Twelve hundred can be kept each night.
 In the big dining-room where tables stretch out like streets, a half hundred men are kept busy serving excellent food. Fourteen hundred can be fed here each meal. A sign on the wall in six languages tells that the food is free to the immigrants. The bill is charged to the ships company that had not exercised the care that would have prevented the immigrants delay.
 Here sits . Russian Jew, who ap- pears a great piece of meat with his fork and, holding 1t firmly in his hand calmly gnaws his way around it. Next year, with hIs hair cut and his big boots discarded, he will probably be among the hundreds of Americans that wait below. just outside the big gates, to welcome newcomers. Next to him sits Finnish woman in gay plaid dress and yellow kerchief on her hair. Tn a half dozen years from now who knows but that she will be head Ing the equal suffrage club in some remote western town? Here is an
 Italian woman with gaily eolored short skirts that she will exchange for
 more sober raiment as soon as her
 little .daugter has learned in school
 what the other children think of the matter. There is a young Greek. supple limbed. suggesting Marathon and olive wreaths. Despite the vigilance of the government he may next year be in the keeping of some shrewd padrone.
 Here is an Armenian with scars that suggest escape from massacre in years gone by, and there another Russian Jew with the horror of Kishnev still
 In his haunted eyes. Here Is an Irish girl with the spring of County Clare yet in her heels and the summer of the green hills yet in her heart, and there is q frightened German house. wife going to the Far East to join her prosperous sons. Here sits little girl who has travelled many thou
 sand miles alone. and Is going thou sands more, relying on the protection of the government until she reaches
 her own people.
 Thousands who pass through here 1 speaking no tongue but their own. | are placed on trains and cross the con- tinent without discomfort, so excellent
 Is the safeguarding by the nation, as | dependable the transportation system ! of this country. Practically all who | come to Ellis Island are between the ages of fourteen and forty The only
 unpleasant spectacle in the building Is | the strong room where are kept the suspected criminals and the others who | are held for deportation. There is | sorrow and sadness there. Across the | way stand the sevenhospital buildings, | the almost completed chtldren's hospi-
 tai being dearest to the heart of the
 hard d-working commissioner.
 Downstairs in the big corridors there
 Is an orderly confusion. "No. she | cannot so with you. You have lied to me twice. You said you4 were married and you are net, You say ! r.a- E.Es- | wife for the girl. You go!" And under
 the accusing finger of an lrate official shifty-eyed fellow slips away, while the bone of coneention. a \ patient Lithuanian girl. is locked in a | detention room by one of the matrons. | Two pretty French girls have just been released to go to the German
 Catholic home for a short while. They | have been in a great tangle. They had told different tales about their | coming. and because the woman who came to meet them proved & stranger | to both girls, they were detained. | Finally they told a French speaking | matron that they were really employees l in a big Paris department store spending their vacation in a trip to I America, and that an old gentleman
 with kindest intentions and densest l ignorance of the immigration laws, 1 had told them they could not land
 unless one of their countrywomen net | them. He had sent the keeper of a | French boarding house for them, they ! had all tried to tell plausible stories, and hence the tangle, Had he been 1 French we would not have believed
 him. but since he was an American l gentleman we were sure he must be | right" one natvely said. They then
 showed their letters of introduction
 to various American and were permitted to pass at once.
 An Armenian girl is the subject of
 discussion over there. She had been
 orphaned by the massacre. educated
 in the Congregational mission schools
 and had come over to marry an Ameri-
 canized Armenian whom she had never
 seen. She was told that in American
 she could do as she pleased about
 marrying. She was then paroled to the | Armenian and Bulgarian missionaries,
 and they have come to report that the
 lover had come on, the girl was pleased
 with him and they were married over
 in Jersey City that same evening. To
 some foreigners this spirit of inde-
 pendenee In women is a bad thing
 to be encouraged. The Italian over
 there Is greatly disgruntled because
 the girl whose way he has paid over
 has suddenly developed, this spirit of
 American independence and has refused
 to marry him until she sees if she
 likes him. To his astonishnent the
 officials are abetting her in her here-
 say to Old World traditions.
 Here the curly. haired Irish Catholic
 priest is making ready a bevy of red
 checked Irish girls to take to the
 Catholic home for the night over there