The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-01-27
UNABLE TO EMBARK
FOR UNITED STATES
Many Germans Disappointed Over Ina
bility to Sail Because Of Dis
ease or Disability,

| bremen, btfmdhyj Jan, Iu'~-IluH'
dreds of emigrants who came to Bre.
men, Hamburg and Danzig to seek new
homes in America are rejected before
they can embark for what to them is
the land Of plenty and promise. Tragic
scenes are numerous when the ships
| physicians announce the list of those
barred because of signs of disease or
disability which would prevent their
admission to the United States.
One hundred home-seckers were re.
jeeted out of 600 who attempted TO
leave Bremen on one steamer recently.
All these unfortunates were not de-
fective but the rejection of one mem
Der of family in many cases prevent
ed the entire group from sailing for
America,
The most pitiful of the tragedies oc.
eur in the breaking up of family groups
when sone' children old enough to tray-
ell alone arg allowed TO proceed 10
America, while others are. detained.
Weeping mothers among the hundred
rejected the other day tried to kiss the
hands of the physicians in an effort TO
get them 10 alter their diagnoses while
scared groups of bundle-laden emf
grants stood by in terror lest some
technicality might also keep them off
the steamer train for Bremerhayen.
One Polish woman, the widow Of an
army surgeon, and her l6.year-old son
had been rejected at Danzig when the
steamer had touched there because the
boy had eonjunctivitis The woman
came with her son by train to Bremen
and pleaded for another examination
here but the physicians adhered to
their original diagnosis and the woman
was compelled to remain with her son,
In several cases one child in a family !
of five or six showed traces Of trachoma |
or conjunctiyitis. This was sufficient to |
halt the whole family or to break up
the family group, some of the mem
bers of which might 60 to America,
while others could not.
Typhus trachoma and favus, an af-
lection of the scalp. are the three dis
eases for which ships physicians seek
above all Others in examining emf.
grants from Poland and other war
areas destined for the United States.
The United States emigration officials
are slow to admit persons whose eyes
are not normal and force the steam
ship line to carry them back to their
port embarkation Besides fine Of
500 may be imposed upon the steam
ship companies for carrying such per
sons to American ports
Consequently. agents Of the steam
hip lines take few chances in these
lays when there are hundreds OF emf
rants elamoring for every steerage
passage available from Danzig. Bremen
md Hamburg to the United States
Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Po-
and are pouring streams Of prospective
migrants into these three ports and
he steamer lines are forced TO exert
very effort to check them from CON
regating a Hamburg and Bremen in I
anger numbers than can be accommO-
ated Model, sanitary quarters are /
vailable in these two ports for emf
rants, but the conditions are far less '
dlArIuckoTA III ltuEit, NNtIt many 3
omplaints are made that they are not :
rec from vermin.
The refugees who flock into Danzig .
re generally in a wretched state when |
hey arrive from the devastated parts d
( Poland and the Baltic states. Their v
there are old and un- o
lnitary Political cross-currents and o
ivided authority keeping in DanziS in u
constant state of uncertainty, with the j.
suit that emigrants can not get prop
attention.
Steerage passage from German port
America this winter have been ex.
.tly three times the rate charged be- q,
re the war. or the equivalent Of SllO
lille second passage has cost
20.
In spite Of the increased expense Of
ans Atlantic travel, every steamer !.
aving for America has every berth y
ken and reservations are booked for y
onths in advance. Il is expected here :
at this situation may be relieved by
e gradually increasing number Of
fps entering the German American
rvice and possibly, by immigration
gislation now pending in the United