The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-07-17
SNEAK HUMAN FREIGHT
into THE UNITED STATES
SMUGGLERS GET THOUSANDS
OF CHINESE ACROSS Dor
DER AT ISOLATED SPOTS.
AUTHORITIES ARE POWERLESS
Entire Strength of the United States
Army Would Be Unable to Stop
Dribbling of Aliens Into Coanrry,
Officials Say. Make Big Money.

OHClaiS Day. 1uake Dig money
When the two masted schooner, the
Mary Beatrice, came drifting toward
New York city from the open sea with
IS Chinese aboard a few rusty shot
guns and signs of battle royal strew-
ing her decks and blood splattered
against the cabins the first instaiment
of a story was told, story whose
scenes stretch along the Atlantic
coast from Maine to Florida, along
the Mexican frontier, and up the Pa
cifc coast to few hundred miles
above San Francisco.
1t is the story of the smuggling into
| this country of human beings -white,
yellow, brown, black.
Chinese Won.
The episode of the Mary Beatrice
was dramatic in its every detail. An
INSCRIPTIONS captain, who offered to
smuggle the Chinese into New York
city at $500 head, deserted the two
master just before it sighted land,
leaving the boat in charge of another
white man and a negro, with several
common seamen as crew.
There followed an alteration be-
| tween the Chinese and the crew. Then
the fight UP ard down the deck, in
and out the cabins, down the COM
panion way and up the hatchway,
ending in a victory for the yellow
men, who chucked the dead bodies OF
the whites and the black overheard.
When immigration officials boarded
the Mary Beatrice they asked the inn
perturable Chinese where they had
come from Havana" was the an
sWer
In the squat novels of Havana. Gu
ba, are many Orientals hiding, wait
ing to be shipped to America, their
land of promise. They must be
Struggled into the country and the
price is generally $500 head.
Price Is High
Because America has closed the
door forever to the Chinese and al
lows only a limited number of for
eigners of other nations to pass
through, the smuggling of human car
go has become almost as extensive
business as the smuggling of liquor
since the eighteenth amendment be-
came the law of the land.
| If these aliens have the price to
pay tramp steamer or schooner will
anchor outside Cuban or Mexican
harbor, and in the dead of night
small boat will pull away from shore,
filled with human freight. Up the sides
of the steamer or schooner the men
will Chamber and the vessel will turn
its prov toward the promised land.
Those who have not the price to
/ Ia Al. 4 IL A.
chance to hide themselves in the
hold of a steamer.
"Stowaways" they are called. When
the Santa Theresa came into New
York the other day four Cubans were
brought ashore in a pitiable condition.
They had hidden themselves in one of
the coal bunkers, near the boilers.
The carbon dioxide fumes from the
it had finished five who had concealed
themselves in an adjoining bunker,
and whose bodies were buried at sea.
Not so long ago the United States
government estimated that 10000
Chinese and 10000 aliens of other ma
tionalities were in Cuba waiting their
chance to be. struggled into this coun-
try or enter by hook or crook as
stowaways
Some time ago the steamer Flea
stowaways in Philadelphia They
and deported by the next vessel.
immigration officials are constantly
on the watch on the Mexican from
diers to stop the smuggling of Chi
a,,I afb al; f.1,,, Aba4
try.
Cross in Box Cars.
1t is said that from FL Paso, Tex,
to the Pacific coast are so rings of
smugglers, whose speciality is getting
men into this country.
Sometimes they get them across in
sealed box cars. Occasionally a pull
man porter will hide one in locker
room of the coach But the usual
method is to land them from small
boats on the coast.
The case of Capts. Adolph Adolph-
son and Billy Sundgren is typical.
They bought the little vessel, the Earl
K, for $1,100, spent $500 in fitting her
up and made $4,000 by bringing SO
coolies from a Mexican port to Half
Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
1t was voyage of $500 miles.
Smugglers sometimes bring the
Chinese afoot, over the trails, into the
country. The print of their feet at the
crossing of dirty road would be a
give-away. A blanket is spread across
the road and the bare feet of the cool
les patter over it. A flip of the blanket
and cloud of dust arises, covering
whatever marks have been made.
Many Get Through.
Secretary of Labor Davis estimates
there are 5000 Chinese illegally in
New York city alone. To deport them
would cost $1,000,000, if they could
be apprehended.
He further estimates that there are
100000 aliens living in the United
States who have been brought in by
smugglers. The entire United States
army could not stop the activities of
the latter, officials say