Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-27
The Rush to the )
Promised Land
In Spite of Deadly PeriLs Number of StowaWays
Steadily Increasing With Restricted
Immigration

bled over gear of all kinds, the
when his eyes grew more accustoma
to the dim light he saw before hill
stretched out on a great coil of rol
a young and comedy mulatto gil
staring at him with eys as big a
saucers from fright.
The Mulatto Girl.
The inspectors took her off TT
ship, detained her at Gloucester an
then sent her back to Jamaica. Sd
said that she was IS, that she hd
met the captain in Jamaica. and th}
when he had offered to bring her
this country she had readily COZ
scented, thinking that there was notl
ing wrong in it. She had no idd
that there might be laws debarriI
her from the country; Furthermore
she had a cousin in New York, whol
she dimly understood was doing we
and making lots Of money. SD
wished to do the same.
Every sailor is familiar with til
beachcomber-that skinny, hollow
eyed individual who lives beneat
the wharves of the waterfront, sui
sisting by whatever means he cal
begging, stealing, numbering, any
thing. They exist everywhere,
matters not where one may q
Wherever ships are they are alsl
They are the efduvia, the outcast
the down-and-outers amongst It'd
sailors.
The sailors fear these wolves, I'd
oftentimes when they are returnin
to their ship late at night they lay
wait for them and strip them of Ell
erything. They take money an
clothing, but worst of all, they ste4
the papers, the passports-whid
oftentimes is the sole means wherl
by the sailor can identify himself d
a citizen of the United States. If til
!, beachcomber gets a passport he In
mediately assumes the name write
thereon, is able to get a job on a sh
, and will not be denied entry to
!, country by the immigration authoF
: ties. 1t is not difficult to understa1
why the miserable outcast of
beachcomber will commit murder |
get the papers allowing him a shat
of the privileges due every citizen I
the republic.
Put Up a Scrap.
Here's a story told by a sailor q
a ship recently landed from Spai
with a load of cork. 1t shows hot
a stowaway may cause an infinit
lot of trouble and be a means of grea
loss to the owners of a ship.
I'VE went into Huelva to fill ]
our cargo with a couple hundred ton
of cork. 1t took them about hV
days for the longshoremen to get
on. We were going to sail about
o'clock, so early in the morning th
captain ordered the second office
and some of the ordinary seamen
search the ship for s~towaways.
I'VE looked over the lifeboats frs
The covers were nicely laced dow
and everything looked o. K, but tn
officer said pull loose the ends Z
them anyway. We did so, and woul
you believe we got seven 'spicks' OF
of four boats. The longshoremen ha
put them in the boats and put til
covers on just as neatly as they ha
ever been.
"Once we were through with th
lifeboats we went down into the hol
and pulled out four more stowaway
and, believe me, some of 'em put Y
quite a scrap, but we fixed 'em Al
bounced them on the dock.
n The Method That's Wrong.
} OF course some stowaways tai
that method of coming from a roi
81 eign port because, though not barre
,e by any law that would prevent the
:. from coming in the usual way, the
70 are without the price of even Il
" cheapest passage and more than OF
n good man who has subsequently b.
a come a desired citizen has reachc
% our shores that way. The presel
h immense increase in the number
= stowaways indicates among 9th
70 things the increased desire amor
,f the peoples of all countries to live
;, this country and enjoy the benefi
A. of our laws and the many opportul
tiles to be found here. Not evel
80 stowaway, therefore, is an undesir
BILE, though his method of arrival
forbidden. Sometimes his very pc
sistence makes him desirable.
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I'd Cigarettes that burn with an al
lie that does not Scatter" have been d