Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-09


mat II" gets in some OF his most cfec-
NV" work when II. wears Il government
uniform. There are hundreds OF happy
families in the United states for whosc
bliss Uncle sam. through his iInmi :
grafton Bureau. is directly r"sponsi =
bic
Rapid fire AFFAIRS of The heart rum
ming over with sentiment huinor and
pathos ar" commentaries 10 the inmi-
grafton agents The other day Il sh.-
Italian girl landed At ELLIS Island.
Three Years before. the man She was
engaged 10 had lief; sunny Italy TO
seek his fortune In America. Now a
part of that fortune was made and
,iius.rpi had sent for his fancc rho
three years engagement was TO be hap
ply capped hy an American marriage.
Giuseppe was waiting at LIE dock. with
a license and his brcthcT for II witness.
TN" course Of true love seemed for
one" 1" h. running smon'h--hui trar
"dv impcuded.
giuseppe had lived I'm the land OF tn.
FIRE" 10" long lilo had taken too mauy
walks up broadway. looked too often
on dazzling visions Of American fnuiu-
unity. He surveyed his hridc-to- toe ana
calmly announced that sh. hid not
com" up 10 his new standard Of good
looks. II. opiucd that she had deter
iorai"d In tn" three years since they
parted. ~ any rate, ne refused to
marry her. The authorities argued in
vain. Til" girl had no other friends.
ana deportation stared her i'm the face
after thrc" years OF waiting and the
long storage voyage
Hr"thrr Tnkcs Er"om'< Place.
iiut here the brother took a hand -
h WHO had come along 20 act as wit =
ness. Ills ChivalroUs blood boiled at
such conduct toward q lady. IN good,
round Italian II" told giuseppe what he
thought OF him. TO emphasize his point
III view, he hauled off and Knocked the
bridegroom down. Then h" proposed
10 the girl himself. Sh" accepted. So
The marriag" was Sol"WniZ"d after all.
groom and witness exchanging places.
ON" more knotty problem of their
hands. devoutly hope they will liv"
happily ever after.
Hundreds "f Immigrant girls have 20
return /" Europe ever" year because
the men who w-r" to marry them fail
20 appear. aud they have not enough
money TO permit them TO enter the
United states. y pathetic case WAS
that OF Il certain Hungarian girl The
same day sh" landed. the man who
planned 10 meet and marry her was
being taken from the emergency hos
piial 10 the burial ground in pottcr's
field. lie had been fatally injured on
the construction work Of tn" famous
Hell Gate bridge. This particular girl
was not sent back to Hungary Tho
some phlnnthropic women, who made
themselves responsible for her She
worked as n Kitchen maid for several
months and then married the man who
had been working next to her hanCc at
the time Of the accident.
The governments work aS natri .
monial promoters in cases such as this
comes when the whereabouts OF tn.
IMAM are a mystery. Uncle sam prose-
cut"s vigorous search for the missing
bridegroom In the meantime the girl
is lodged at the expense OF the steam
ship company that brought her over,
always under the kindly supervision
Of women agents who look 10 her moral
and physical welfare generally.
difficult Case Arranged.
y German girl Of this class recently
arrived in Boston. utterly alone. Tier
father and all her brothers had been
killed in the trenches. distant cousin
had sent her passage money, and prom
ised TO marry her on her arrival. Her
vessel had been BADLY delayed in cross
ing. and there was no sign of the n"n.
The Immigration authorities took
charge of the girl. finally locating her
cousin In u Lowell shoe factory. There
was nothing unwilling in his attitude.
but the fact that he could not leave
his work kept him away from the dock,
while his lack Of English prevented
hira from making any hrrahG nents to
inform the gIrl OF ms whereabouts.
The immigration officers got inter
prefers and German clergyman. and
the couple were quickly married.
II has already became evident :hat
the war viii eventually cause q bOou.
in Immigrant marriages. The Euro
pcan peasant woman takes a matter
of-fact view of the question. She re-
CARDS marriage her DESTINY, ana
now that the men in her home land are
being killed off by hundreds Of thou
sands and her chances correspondence
decreased. she turns to America, where
men are more plentiful Last SUM
mer q little company Of five German
girls all from the same village, arrived
at Ellis Island. Their homes had been
destroyed and the aIIianced husbands
of three of them had been killed. Each
had managed to accumulate cnou. II
money To permit her to land here; and
each told the woman Immigration OH
Ger that she was going TO work tenn
porarily, until she found n husband
One of the five went out To .Jer-
scy farm. one found work in a bakery,
AID the other three were placed In
domestic service. once they were set =
tion bureau was over. but the girls
were full OF gratitude for the friendly
way the authorities treated them.
Three have found husbands already.
and in every case the proud damscl has
brought her bluShnp bridegroom
around To exhibit him to the WON. n
agents Of the bureau.
Another new war development in the
immigrant stream which is Just begin
ming to be conspicuous enough to at