The New York herald., 1922-02-13
ALIENS SMUGGLED HERE
IN HORDES FROM CUBA

Pensacola and 500 miles TO New
| Orleans.
Suppose he is landed in Vera Cruz
He has S75 nautical miles between him
and New Orleans. AS for overland
travel through Mexico to the United
States border-well, nothing is gained
by going into that. In the first place
he has anywhere from thousand to
two thousand miles to travel through
dangerous country. The trip is enor-
mously expensive. Finally he arrives
somewhere between Ell Paso and
Brownsville to be ferried across the
Rio Grande and landed on the Amer
| lean side of the frontier many miles
from the nearest city and he becomes
the most conspicuous thing along the
border-the Chinese hobo.
Florida Only One Night Away.
| That settles the Mexican question.
The Chinese, therefore, comes to Cuba,
where his labor is wanted and where
he is within an overnight trip of
/ Florida.
Very WELL" you say to any one Of
these acknowledged smugglers with
whom THE New YORK HERALD cor
| respondent talked, Tets throw all the
American bound Europeans and Ash
atics into one group and begin run
ming them into Florida or other Gulf
| States. How do we go about it 2"
The italian wants to go to Tampa.
From there he can go north. Tampa
las total reputation of abo.;t $4,000,
and of this number about $1,000 are
! Italians.
II imagine" said one of the report
er's sources of information, that 80
per cent of the Italians smuggled
into the States enter between the
southern lip of Tampa Bay and Tar
pom Springs. NATURALLY there is no
particular place where he Is set
ashore. The padrone to whom he is
consigned in Tampa will be a. spec
flied point at a designated hour. His
countrymen are delivered there and
well, who Is going to find that italian
afterward?"
| Before going further it would be
well to observe that no mention is
made of women being smuggled in.
There is no evidence at the command
OF the writer that women kave been.
| This is distinctly mans game. The
European excluded because ot a filled
quota from emigrating to the United
States is prepared to travel alone,
leaving his women folk and children
behind until he can get them in. He
! expects to earn money with Which to
support them in the old country until
he can send for them.
Abandoning the Italian for the mo-
ment, for he presents an economic and
industrial problem, peculiar to himself,
consideration can be given to the
smuggling of the next most numerous
class-the Jew.
The Jew drawing again on facts in
this socalled consensus report) pre-
sents the most pathetic picture of the
lot. He arrives in the West Indies
| under conditions not warranted to
make him as presentable as he might
be were he carried westward in better
ships and set down at Ellis Island. In
almost every instance he is almost if
not utterly penniless.
Typical Cases of Smuggling.
In Havana to-day there are about a
dozen Jewish commissioners-unof
cial of course-whose business it is to
see that certain Jews are cared for
against the time arrangements can be
made to deliver them somewhere on
the Gulf coast. These commissioners
act as the representatives of relatives
or friends of the immigrants who are
willing to pay to have the wanderer
spirited the rest of the way to the
States. Probably one instance-typical
of five or six told THE NEW YORK HER
AID reporter-might be related here.
According to one dummy runner he
was prevailed upon to take fourteen
Polish Jews to a point just south of
Pensacola-thati is not directly into the
town which would be a more or less
unhealthy thing to do, of course. This
fiy-by-night mariner received from the
commissioner who made the negotia-
tions $1,400-s10O a head.
The landing place was made without
mishap and at night. And now TO
quote, the narrator of tine incident:
my partner at Pensacola met me
and the first thing he said to me was.
W y PNHSu q icii Vi a. DOHe.
How Gomez I asked.
By agreeing to carry this bunch
for one hundred head
What do you mean?' asked him.
That's all the commissioner ever gives
for these people,
Bring them along he says. Their
friends are up the road a couple of
rods. Look 'em over and you'll under
stand me-
I'VE took the fourteen Of them lid
the road to where four big automobiles
-Packards and the like-were waiting
and there were two women and four
men in the reception committee. You
never saw such rejoicing and CARRYING
on in your life The reception commit
tee looked like millionaires and they
began weeping over brothers and
cousins that we had taken in to them
and after while, after my partner
and bad told them to cut out the
noise and blow before the cops in Pen
sacola heard them, they all got into
the big closed automobiles and drove
off
do YOU see? We could have got
four or five hundred dollars head for
that bunch. The reception committee
was composed of their rich relatives
folks that a thousand means no more