Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-15
APPEALS OF ALIENS
British Court to Which Reject
ed Immigrants Apply.
BOARD OF THREE MEMBERS
Decision of the Officials at Gravesend
Revised.
SITTING MANY TALES OF WOE
Only in the Past Few Years Have
the Gates to England Been
Watched.
MANY TALES OF WOE
eiru Correspondence of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, October 1, 1910.
One of the little known courts Of, Lon
don is the second floor back in a big
range of. office buildings near the Tower,
where the alien immigration board holds
IFS sittinss' Many a poignant drama
of life has been played out there The
theme is always the same, treating OF
the struggle for permission to land in
England, on the part Of some aspiring
alien, but the plot is ever, varied. ana
absorbs the attention as 1t changes swift
ly from tragedy to comedy, from cum
ming scheming to tears. 1t is only
few years now that England has had an
immigration question. Before the pres
ent alien act was passed all and sundry
came, passed through or stayed, as they
pleased, bat now the task OF selecting
or rejecting immigrants goes on here
much on the same lines, though on a far
smaller scale, as at Ellis Island, in New
York harbor.
The work of the board is in the nature
of that of court of appeal. The amen
is there to plead for a revocation OIL the
order of the immigration officers at the
mouth of the Thames denying him en-
trance to this happy land
Inspection at VrdVeSelu.
Every vessel bearing immigrants that
enters the. port of London has to re-
port herself at, Gravesend to the officers
waiting there to board her. Marshaled
on the deck the visitors. who are in
yariably poor, often frowsy, and gen
orally of uninviting appearance, are there
and then subjected TO summary exam
ination at the hands of investigators
skilled in exposing all the wltes or the
shifty alien. A medical eye is upon them
TO note their desirhbility as near neigh
bors from hygienic standpoint, and
they are put through a pretty searching
examination as to their material pros
poets. 49, -.
some Russian slum who is blinking at
the free land of England behind pair
of exceptionally thick glasses is found
to have an affection OF the eyes-the
doctor calls it by strange name. IA
miliar only to ophthaimic surgeons. Hos
pitfalls here might assuase his aff1iction.
but his eyesight must eventually grow
DINNER and the possibilities are that in
the, condition of dirt and self-negiect in
which he exists his sight will fail him
altogether in a few years. If admitted
he would undoubtedly become a burden
on the rates. "Rejected' is the official
decision.
Nearby poorly dressed young woman
from one OF the Polish provinces is eX-
planning her case to the officers through
the medium of the interpreter. tall
Young fellow whose ear can follow tales
of veal or woe told in seven languages.
Two Of her brothers and an aunt are
in England and are prospecting. and have
sent for her to come to make her for
tune too. One is a farrier. the two
others are talors. She is TAILORING
hand herself. and their employer has
promised her work. See. there is the
letter they have sent to tell her so. Also
she produces from her purse some gilt
tering foreign coins of the value of ScV
eraI pounds and claims d big bundle OF
clothing.
1t is a straightforward story. and the
officers tell her that if the facts can be
verified she will be allowed to land. Mean |
while she must stay on the ship. A few !
INQUIRIES later in the day prove the truth
of her story. and the prospecting rela- !
tives take her with JOY to their home.
Detected in a Falsehood.
A young fellow just out of his teens. !
who is looking crestfailen, and on whose |
cheeks crimson blush is mantling, is a !
poor BARRIERS assistant from Hungary. |
He has just been detected in little |
error of arithmetic. On his declaration
form he has announced himself the pos !
SCISSOR Of E3 les. but all that he can |
stump up when invited to show the coin /
is couple of marks (2s). Says he is |
going to an uncle. who will give him |
work Yes. the immigration officers know |
the man at the address produced. scrawl- |
ed on a. piece of paper This individual !
is an accommodating person, whose name |
is known In most of the emigration ports |
of Europe as one who: for a considera |
humanity from across the seas a rel |
alive. So the -cOnfiding ba rber is in '