The Holbrook news., 1921-05-27
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 15 years and has a 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 ernment had consented to permit sur geons in the United States public health service to be present at the in spection of the immigrants before em- 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 and they were Greeks from Piraeus. In consequence of this the government has put a tight ring around Italy and 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. Greats, Greeks, Ukran- fans. Roumanians and other nationali- ties will have to sail from some oth- CT ports like Danzig, Bremen or Ham, burg.
 The staff at the consulate consists of 25 clerks, stenographers and inter- preters, etc, who are chiefly employed in handling the hundreds of immi- grants who throng the bureau on the Via Santa Lucia all day long. Wom- en with babies in their arms have precedence over all other applicants by orders of the consul. Under nor nal conditions the immigrants get away within three months of the date of their vises on the passports, but on account of the holding up of the liners in New York through the typhus scare, they are now fully six months behind, according to the officials.
 Passports Closely Scrutinized.
 The greatest care is exercised at the consulate to see that no more get by with false passports or counter felt vises. The immigration authori- ties are also notified at New York to look out for the private marks on the passports, which will be changed from time to time in case they get known to the Italian crooks who are making a fat living by fabricating passports and vises for immigrants who may have some charges against their char acter which would prevent their ob- taining a wise on their passports at the American consulate.
 Two Americans who arrived from New York by the Canopic had their passports stolen and had to proceed to Rome to obtain emergency papers at the United States legation after getting Identification certificates at the consulate here. These stolen pass ports, the officials say, are sent to An coma or to Cosenza, which is near Naples, and the seals and vises are taken off and used for other passports. A well-executed false passport is worth 1,400 lire, about $56 to S6O United States currency, according to the rate of exchange, which fluctuates daily. At the consulate it was said that these two stolen passports would net the pickpockets who took them about 1000 lire. Passengers are warned on landing in the custom