The Raymer enterprise., 1920-10-28
Millions From Italy Alone Are Re.
ported to Have Booked Pas.
sage for United States.
POOR COME FROM MANY LANDS
Fersake Their Own Soil for the Dream
ef Ameriea-Hordes That Returned
to Homeland After War Ar
FIockinq Back.

congested Europe Is piping It's worn
and motley peasantry to the United
States, Not record OF ancient ma
tions Is In existence which can tell
tale OF such a flow Of humanity.
From Italy Is heard the report that
no less than 1000 600 have booked pas
sage for the dreamland.
Wherever liner docks In Europe
sweaty peasants. burdened with
striped and shapeless baggage, wind
their way into the steerage.
In every nation the poor are forsak-
Ing the reality OF their own soil for
the dram Of Amerlcn-frre, golden
america.
When the war was over there was
Fcamperlng for passports and flock
ing back TO the homeland of imml-
grants Of pre-war days, Polish, italian.
Czecho Sovak. Irish and British-all.
hungering for breath Of mother soil.
departed.
But 1t is not what once 1t was-over
there. And they are coming back, dis
enchanted These form goodly part
OF the steerage population.
Block Ellis Island.
The tide OF immigrants has swelled
week by week, until last week the
brusquc hut kindly gates by which all
asplrants for entrance must pass
clogged and chnkcd.
Five giant liners attempted to un
load their human cargoes on the IS
land at once The dikcs were down. as
II were. and Ellis island was iammed
So an embargo was imposed. For As
hours no bright-ryed immigrant climbed
down on the island frcm stecrage
gangwny.
= Those that had landed were packed
Into the narrow sleeping quarters. The
island Is tight little island In any
event, and the quarters were never
meant 10 accommodate thousands.
A curious body might tip-tOe into the
tight against one another, legs flung
out and twisted one over the other In
an lndecipherabIe tangle.
Gawky boys. gay kerchiefs mufflerlne
their nccks. lean against posts and
walls, and try to sleep. Strange, but
they succeed. They are very tired.
Quarters Are SquaIid.
The washing facilities Of ships steer
ages are not ample and in cramped FL.
lis island they are also lacking.
The stencil Of steeragp and a curl.
Gus horSy smell cllngs 10 the men and
women. II is the smell that heralds
the approach Of immigrants n smell by
which they may be recognized.
In the wOmeu'S quarters gaycty of
colOriug might strike the eye were It
not for the Squalor md the discomfort.
One might stop and admire the broad
red shawl draplHg the shoulders Of n
CastilIan beauty, and perhaps, pity her
with her raven henddrcSs sQuashcd
against humble Of luggage upon
which her head is resting as she
sleeps
Little children, too, might attract the
eye.
A story is told 0f family Of three.
coming from rracow, and prevented
from leaving by the illness OF the six
year-old child. The child was born in
concentration camp where the par
ents had been kept by the Austrlans.
Milk Unknown to Baby.
ale has never known the taste Of
milk, never known sugar" moaned the
mother.
He was war baby. In all the pa.
thetc meaning Of the word. Last week
the child died
The family is released, they are free
TO do rs they wish in the United
States, but the parents feel that they
walk into the new land at the expense
of their child.
Cases OF equal pathos constantly
crop up and are passed over as part Of
the days work by the officials on the
Island.
Congestion Absted.
Commissioner Wallis said that the
choke at the gate Is relieved and the
sun-burned sons and daughters Of old
Europe are streaming rnrough.
In a little while the commissioner
expects his staff TO he augmented by
about 200. He also expects the erec-
tion Of new building the length Of
the island. The accommodations are at
present not hlg enough by half, he
says.
There was a concert for the immi-
grants on the island one day. Drowsy
men and women heard songs sung In
their own tongues.
Louis F. Post, assistant secretary OF
labor. waved an American flag and
pleaded that the aliens be regarded as
visitors, as honored guests.
In the back OF the crowd a hundred
stowaways clustered They have the
sympathy Of all. but they must submit,
to the rigor Of the law. which re-
quires that no passportless person may