New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-29
immigration Men Meet the
Voltaire at Quarantine
and Examine Aliens.
THOSE REJECTED
MUST STAY ON SHIP
Lamport & Holt Line Has Dis
obeyed Deportation Law,
Official Hints.

All Official machinery Of the immi-
grafton service necessary TO examine
incoming aliens was transferred yes
tcrday from Ellis Island to the Lam
port & Holt liner Voltaire. just H. from
Puenos Ayres and Rio do Janeiro.
No passenger on the vessel was
either taken or ordered 20 Ellis Island.
Ellis Island. in all its power, came to
the ship, which locked at Pier 10.
Brooklyn. and the law was admins
tered in the dining saloon.
Neither immigration officials nor
representatives Of the line were able
TO give reason for the unusual pro
ccdurc. Roth admitted the strange de
parturc from custom was done in &C
cordance with an order from the De
partmcnt Of Labor in Washington, and
this gave rise 70 a speculation that
perhaps il might he the beginning Of
a policy of economy on the part of
the governments Rumors were cur
rent also that there had been friction
between the Lamport & Holt Line and
the local immigration officials.
Not for Economy.
The Washington order, it is said,
could hardly have been issued from the
point Of view of economy, as Ellis Isl
and. which is maintained by the 81
head tax eNacted from each incoming
alien, is being used to house nightly
about eight hundred of the city's un-
employed.
Lorenzo Daniels, Of Busk & Daniels,
agents for the Lamport e. Holt Line,
Said last night he could give no reason
for the order against the company S
ships
The third class passengers on the
Lamport & Holt steamer Noltaire.'
he said, "were examined on board the
vessel at her pier this morning and
landed direct into the city. The gov
eminent has not given any definite re-
ply 10 the lines inquiries, end II
raised the question. in view Of the
present small arrival of immigrants,
that the government might have in
mind closing up Ellis Island Cor the
time being and economic on expenses.
BY this steamship lines at the Port OF
New York should gain in popularity
with our incoming immigrants
When the Noltaire came into Quar-
antine she was boarded by two lmmi-
grafton boarding inspectors. three
members Of the immigration beard OF
special inquiry, a doctor an lntcrpre-
Yer ana secretary 70 the pOdIu. HVSV
were in charge Of Roman DOblar, head
Of the boarding division. The Noltalre
had thirty-one saloon passengers, who
soon passed muster and were permitted
TO land when the vessel locked
F II was a different story, however,
with the sixty-nine stcerage passen-
gers. They were brought up into the
saloon Of the first class passengers for
examination and ifty-two were per
mitted to land. Seventeen were held
for the board of special inquiry. whose
sessions required muca time. The ves-
sci locked at 9 a. m. and at noon only
three Of the seventeen had been eX-
amined.
One was admitted and two were held
for further inquiry. As the board was
about to consider the fourth case a
representative Of the line asked the use
Of the dining saloon, which was to be
prepared for luncheon, explaining that
the Storage passengers then before
the board could be examined in the
steerage compartment, whence they had