The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-06-11
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 aor 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 Is years and has good
knowledge of the situation. The ltal-
ian companies lost a good many
steamships during the war and nave
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
eeons 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
they were Greeks from Piraeus. In
consequence Of this the government
has put tight ring around Italy and
no alien immigrants are permitted TO
mass 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 nationals
ties win have to sail from some 9th
er ports like Danzig, Bremen or Ham
burg.
The staff at the consulate consists
| OF Is clerks, stenegraphers and inter.
prefers, ETC., who are chiefly employed
IA 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 dats
.of their vises on the passports, bu
ON account Of the holding up OF tn
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 q
the consulate to see that no more &c
by with false passports or counter
felt vises. The immigration authori
ties are also notified at New York T
look ont for the private marks on tn
passports. which win be changed fron
time to time IN case they get know
to the Italian crooks who are maxim
4 fat living by fabricating passport
and vises for immigrants who ma
! have some charges against their char
acter which would prevent their OF
tanning q wise on their passports q
the American consulate.
4 Two Americans who arrived fror
New York by the Canopic had thei
passports stolen and had to procee
70 Rome to obtain emergency paper
i nj the United States legation att
getting Identification certificates 9
fhe consulate here. These stolen pas
ports, the. officials say, are sent to Al
coma or to Cosenza, which IS net
{ Naples. and the seals and vises al
{ taken OF and used for other passport
well-executed false passport
worth 1,4OO lire. about 500 to y
United States currency, according
the rate of exchange, which fiuctuat'
daily. At the consulate it was sa
that these two stolen passports won
net the pickpockets who took the
ahout 1000 lire. Passengers a
warned on landing in the tcusto