Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-05-21
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 ltal-
ian companies lost 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 and
consequence of this the government
has put 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-
lans. Roumanians and other nationali-
ties will have to sail from some 9TH
err ports like Danzig, Bremen or Ham
burg.
The staff at the consulate consists
of % 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. 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 yises 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 al
the consulate to see that 70 more get
| by with false passports or counter
felt vises. The immigration authori
ties are also notified at New York tC
! look out for the private marks oG the
passports, which will e 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 ma,
have some charges against their char
acter which would prevent their OBJ
tanning wise on their passports al
the American consulate.
Two Americans who arrived from
New York by the Canopic had theil
passports stolen and had to proceed
to Rome to obtain emergency papers
mt the United States legation aftei
getting Identification certificates al
the consulate here. These stolen pass
ports, the officials say, are sent TO An
| coma or TO Cosenza, which is neal
Naples, and the seals and vises ar,
taken off and used for other passports
well-executed false passport Is
worth 1,40O lire. about 500 to S6t
United States currency, according I,
the rate of exchange. which fluctuate.
daily. At the consulate 1t was sale
that these two stolen passports would
net the pickpockets who took then
about 1000 lire. Passengers arr
warned on landing In the custom