El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-30


the bare. floor where seasiel= men. VOC
men and children. my fellow passen-
gers. lie SPRAYING around.
After Is days Of fairly good sailing
7 have passed out of the Mediterranean,
nave crossed the Atlantic. and have
TO the docks Of New York There the
cabin passengers have been landed and
Z have been showed with the rest Of my
ieloWs into barge, and carried 10
the little archipelago, consisting Of
three DTS of land surrounded by water
called Ellis island. The islands are COW
cred with buildings which seem to float
on the harDor. They are Joined by
bridges and our barge floats right up
TO the doors
Number 25-Group 80
Tn the meantime the 20UO of us have
been sorted and herded in groups. This
was done on the steamer and each was
given card showing his group nd his
number / am No. %, Group f., This
is printed on q white card which is
pinned to my breast. the officers hav-
ing cautioned me TO keep 1t in sight.
4 nave also had to sign a long paper
Of answers to all sorts Of questions /
have given my full name and my age,
have stated whether I was a man or
woman. was married OF single and
whether ] could read or write. I had to
give nay nationality, race and last resi-
renee. I had to state where was going
myself or the other person, corpora
ton, society municipality or govern
ment had to tell what money had
or whether II was as much as $50 and
II I was going to join friends on this
side gave answers to the questions
whether i had been in prison, or the
poor house, or in an insane asylum and
also whether ] was mentally or ply
made me So This paper and my sig
nature I was fated to meet with later
on
had also passed the quarantine doc
tors at sandy Hook, where they looked
me over to see if had any contagious
diseases and had failed to find upon me
any sign Of cholera. smallpox. yellow
.teTer OF plague. After all this I had ex-
pected to 90 right through Ellis island
e7fu to at once land on the golden
streets Of New York.
How Immigrants Are Examined.
How mistaken I was
was just at the beginning instead
Of a the end Of the process Of break
ing through Uncle Sans doors. The
30 or group Fl most of us CARRYING
our baggage. were taken across the
dock into hallway and rushed single
file up long pair OF stairs. At the TOP
OF these we passed into room where
dozen men IN Uniform stood We then
walked across into an alley shut off by
ratings so that only one could 90 ahead
at time. The men in uniform were
the doctors Of the marine hospital ser
vice The first man who inspected me
was on the outlook for any signs of de-
formity or contagious disease He
looked at my legs TO see If they were
tne same length and sound, he grabbed
at my collar TO see if [ had the gOitre.
and with his eyes examined me from
my crown to my toe for signs Of tu-
berculosis. I had noticed that he had
gut chalk mark on the girl ahead of
me dIfd--SSas relieved when he let me
go by
Testing the Iffnigrants' Eyes.
a little further On I came TO a gate
where another dodtor was standing. I
could feel his eyef 50 through me as
T approached. ana then I felt him 20
through my - had a little
wooden sticl than a tooth
pick and M - stocll
you use in
my right