The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-05-20
Number Of Immigrants Will Be
Limited by the Capacity
Of Liners.
STRICT CONTROL IN ITALY
Thieves at Naples Get High Prices
for American Passports-keen
Competition for Foreign Ships
Maintain Close Inspection.

Naples.-The number of immigrants |
to the United States this year will
only be limited by the capacity of the
steamships, according to United States
Consul Homer w. Boyington, who has
been here for 10 years and has good
knowledge of the situation. The Ital-
ian companies lost a good many
steamships during the war and have
not yet been able to replace them,
while the foreign vessels calling at
Naples and Genoa for immigrants
have dwindled since the war to an al
! most negligible number.
The consul said that the Italian gov
eminent had consented TO permit sur
geons in the United States public
health service to be present at the in
spection of the immigrants before en-
barkation, so that they will be able
| to sign the bills of health and stop
the detention of the steamships on
their arrival at the quarantine station
in New York. There have only been
two cases of typhus in this port ana
thew were Greeks from Piraeus. III
consequence of this the government
has put a tight ring around Italy ana
no alien immigrants are permitted to
pass the frontier. The steamships
leaving Italian ports for the United
States now only carry Italians, and
Poles. Czechs, Croats, Greeks, Ukran-
ians, Roumanians and other nationall-
ties will have to sail from some 9TH
err ports like Danzig, Bremen or Ham
burg.
The staff at the consulate consists
of 25 clerks. stenographers and inter.
prefers, ETC., who are chiefly employed
in handling the hundreds of immi
grants who throng the bureau on the
Via Santa Lucia all day long. Won
en- with babies in their arms have
precedence over all other applicants
by orders Of the consul. Under nor
NAL conditions the immigrants ge
away within three months Of the date
of their vises on the passports, bu
on account of the holding up Of thu
liners in New York through the typhu
scare, they are now fully six months
behind according to the officials.
Passports Closely Scrutinized.
The greatest care is exercised a
the consulate to see that 70 more ge
by with false passports or counter
felt vises. The immigration author
ties are also notified ct New York t
look out for the private marks on tn
. passports, which will >e changed fror
time to time in case they get know
to the Italian crooks who are maxim
: fat living by fabricating passport
and vises for immigrants who ma
have some charges against their cha
: acter which would prevent their oil
= tanning wise on their passports t
9 the American consulate.
Two Americans who arrived fro
New York by the Canopic had the
passports stolen and mad TO procee
y to Rome TO obtain emergency papel
/. at the United States legation aft,
2 getting Identification certificates {
= the consulate here. These stolen pas
ports. the officials say are sent to A
coma or to Cosenaa, which is ne'
Naples. and the seals and vises a
taken off and used for other passport
- A well-executed false passport
: worth 1,400 lire. about $50 to s.
: United States currency. according
the rate Of exchange. which fluctuat
daily. At the consulate it was sa
that these two stolen passports won
), net the pickpockets who took the
about 1000 lire. Passengers a
warned on landing In the cusie