The New York herald., 1921-02-15
IL DAY QUARANTINE
FOR LINERS ORDERED
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pany owning the ship. at conference
with DR.. Leland f. Cofer Health officer
OF the Port of New York. DIR. Cofer
had expressed the opinion that the use
OF such a ship might solve the problem
OF congestion which had become so
acute at New York that incoming liners
We're being diverted to other ports. and
some OF those in port including the Adri-
attic of the White Star line. had been
obliged to postpone their sailinGs.
"Mr. Franklin informed Dr. Cofer that
his company would contribute the use
of the ship to the Government for the
benefit of all the steamship lines landing
passengers here. 1t was hoped that the
ship could be moved tomorrow Tuesday,
from her present berth at Hoboken TO
an anchorage at the quarantine GROUNDS
in the lower harbor and there anchored
Incoming ships could transfer their
third class passengers to the Minnesota
while in quarantine, and then proceed
to their piers.
"The Minnesota is the largest Ameri-
can built merchant ship and is 2O.ooV
tons register. She has very broad open
spaces below decks. where portaoie
berths can be set UP for almost 5000
people. During the war she carried as
many as $500 troops at one time be-
sides her large crew. She has been laid
up at Hoboken. but as she is tight ana
sound and has a good heating plant II
is believed that she will make an ideal
floating hotel for the type of travellers
who now clog the gateway to the port.
Continues His Appeals.
DR.. Copeland continued to appeal to
the washington authorities yesterday
He telegraphed to Secretary OF LABOR
Wilson, Surgeon-General Hugh ;. cum
ming. Senators Calder and Wadsworth
and Speaker Gillett of the House OF
Representatives that ''the uncleanliness
of the immigrants passing through Ellis
Island is an outrage against decency.
He was indignant at the fact that
during the last three days 400 immi-
grants have been landed at the Lacka-
wanna Railroad station in Hoboken
from Ellis Island. 1t is fair to pre-
sume he said, that s per cent. of them
are uncean. The percentage of un-
cleanliness among those examined at
South Ferry is 10.
DR.. Copeland got in touch with Or.
William C. Woodward, Health Commits
sioner Of Boston, by telephone. DR..
Woodward said he had not found any
opposition by the Federal authorities IN
Boston such as is alleged to have en-
barrassed the Health Department here
DR.. Louis l. Harris of the bureau OF
preventable diseases was ordered out
of the barge office and not permitted on
the Ellis Island boat, DIR. Copeland re-
ported.
Seventy-five immigrants off the Red
Star liner Poland were taken to the
health station on South street after being
discharged from Ellis Island yesterday
and were examined Nine were detained.
About thirty policemen directed the inn
migrants as they came from the ferry
house. but as there was no way OF dis
tinguishing new arrivals from their
friends and relatives. several slipped
through the lines.
Statement by Wallis.
Immigration Commissioner Wallis. in
charge of Ellis Island, last night gave
out the following:
when assumed the responsibilities
Of the office of I.nmigra tion Commits
sioner at the port last June, the first
question asked was. why are not these
people selected, inspected and examined
on the other side of the water? 1t is
rothing less than criminal to bring these
hundreds of thousands OF people across
the sea and begin ut this port the process
of separating the clean from the un
clean-the good from the evil This
cullirS out process should Desln on the
other side of the ocean.
There lis nothing in the world so
unbusinesslike and certainly nothing
so inhuman as the system of eliminn-
tlon on this side. These people have
been encouraged to sell all their be-
longings. sever all family ties, spend
for passage all the money they have
been able to save or borrow. only TO
find when they knock at the gate of
Ellis Island that they are denied ad-
mission. They are compelled to 20
back with their fondest dreams shat.
tered broken in pocketbook. no business
and no home, but a greater tragedy is
in that they are broken in spirit and
have lost faith in God and in man.
The whole thing is an unnecessary
tragedy"
When the Nieuw Amsterdam OF the
Holland-America line got to her dock
in Hoboken last night Hoboken health
officials met her despite the fact that
Quarantine had given her a clean bill
of health. There were only forty-seven
abin passengers on board and no steer
age. the latter having been landed at
Boston Sunday. Hoboken authorities
will not permit the crew to leave the
ship until they have been examined.
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