New-York tribune., 1911-03-12

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train at New York were sent over circuit
GUS routes. II seems like simple matter
10 get from New York to Scranton, Penn
There is a direct line which covers the dis
tance i'm four hours and a half. The slow
/ est Is a fye-hour train. But the immigrants
were not dispatched over the Delaware
Iackawanna a. Western, which would have
been glad to trail two or three special cars
behind one ot it's expresses. That was not
the idea of the Trunk Line Association.
Instead. a good share of them were sent
north over the New York. ontario q West
ern 10 Cadosia. y. Y. in the neishborhood
Of the Catskills. and then south 10 scran-
ton over a branch Of the same road. a
route that takes ten hours when there are
no DELAYS. And immigrant trains are re-
markably subject 10 delays.
The hardships which immigrants suher
on their wandering journeys and the
complaints that they have made "ouid
fill volumes. There was one family
mother and four children-that came from
Hungary on their way 10 Seattle. There
are many ways Of reaching Seattle, but
bv most Of them, with fair luck in making
connexions, It is possible TO make the
tourney in six days or week Inc
woman received "A handful OF tickets
cach one OF them as long as n ticker
tape account Of a bear raid. She had w.
the remnant of what her husband had sent
her to pay for her passage.
| She reached Chicago in the mornihs'
/ after two nights and day in an emil
grant train The man whose duy II was
70 pilot her across Chicago showed her A
track I'm the station and told her that her
train started from there al o'clock In
tho afternoon. She went out with her
/ children. bought them some food, and
tl.en fell asleep in the waiting room. worn
out with her long travel The train went
without her.
/ Tho ticket seller told her that there
was another train in the early mornihe'
but when he saw. how tired she was he
advised hcr % go To a hotel she did SO
/ Tho proprietor feeced her. and when she
had raid MS bill she had only 81 lett
Five 6ays later she arrived in Denver.
II was mi.inight when she reached the
CITY. her train had been delayed ana the
train she was 10 have taken had gone y
guard I'm the station answered her roughly
when she inquired when she could get
/ another train. and she fell IN q faint.
rhen the children told how she had spent
ier money. n little at a time: now she
had tried to bargain with the men al
lunch counters. and how they had missed
/ their train at one city because they haa
tried To find a cheap store.
Their baggage was carried away on that
/ train and they did not know where 10 looS
ror H. The mother boarded up the crack
ANr.f- ~
and gave them 10 all the children she had
not eaten a moutrfGl for two days The
children had gone hungry since noon.
/ Tha, was the story mat was drawn nN
endless questions from d. back-eyed sir
- thirteen. who could only master hci
tears bv hor immense pride Al making her
self understood dimly in her schoolroon
/ English
Such a story does not 20 unregailed IT
Denver. Within ten minutes the mer
around tho station had raised 81, brough
the woman out of her faint and whlskc'
the family of to a hotel. Tho telegraph
1perators stirred up half the functions be
tween the Missouri and the Pacific with In
ouirios about .hc missing baggage. In spit
~ her protests the woman was led an'
sent Of to her room with good nature
force Si' TNl " p4''"''N '''N '''' ''''''''' "
each OF her benefactors and the amount o
his contribution. She was able 10 pay be
way. she said, and she meant 90 30 it som
day.
The baggage was located Ia a statlo
three or four hundred miles away an
shipped on by the next train. \ homewar
hound mmbcrman who had been in In
, station stayed over till next day TO Sc
, the woman part way on her journey q
Seattle. She arrived at last with her chill
dren. twelve days from New York, wit
her husbands savings gone. and, as sh
, considered S25 in debt
Tho workings Of the Trunk Line pool az
partlcularly wonderful wherever the coast