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Show tiiotrirt tH Srirhi-. The llard-lieartttliaess oriiunilcnt-crallau oriiunilcnt-crallau UIUrlalsntAen lork. Nnw York, Aug. 30. If there is rne oition In the world where kindness of heart aud helpful consideration consi-deration should be cxccrrl-cd It Is in that of (Hiimissiontr of Imniigra-lkn. Imniigra-lkn. But it seems that the members of the pre-eut board are lartlcuUrly kicking In fetling. The simple story of the GillesjiSe children shows this. There were three boys all under twelve and a little fr of 14 years, in rbarce of an old man, their grandfather, grand-father, coming from Ireland to live In San Francisco, where the children's taniits rtid'-. They had bretl provided witli tliK ets uhieii woulJ bring tliem to New York, awl ultli other tlrktts for pa-sage from Jew York to San Krantisco by xvay of Tanama. They cxectcd that the transatlantic Iwat ami Taiific Mall steamslilp woukl connect, so that there wouU be so naltin New York, but wheu they got there they found that the Taiillc Mail boatiltd not have until next week. They were iu a tod fix. for tliey had no money and ho friends in the city. They contained permission to sleep in the large ollicc w litre the immigrants landeJ, tut had no money for food. Tlie result was that for a day and n half tbevslaiveil. flood Father Callahati, wlio Je-Votcd Je-Votcd himself to relieving those in distress among the immigrants uas walking through the targe onlec yesterday inoruing, wheu a little girl ran up and with tears iu her eyes, begged for something to cat for her little brothers, who were crj Ing in a corner. The pnt-t looked Into the case and at once provi f ed for their needs and arranged that they should lie cared for till their departure. The grandfather had gone out to get aid somen here iu the city, but btiug a stranger, got lost aud was totally unsuccessful. Your correspondent called on Father Callahan this evening and learned the above story aud asked ll it could be that children and others who, for the time, were practically wards of the government, were allowed al-lowed to starve, and he said there were many sucli cases. Yourcor-m-lKiDileut then went to the barge ollicc to learn if this was the policy of the board, and found uoueof tin commissioners present, but Interviewed Inter-viewed tlie burly clerk, w ho seemed to think immigrants were to Is-treated Is-treated like cattle, worse In fact In answer to a question he said he didn't care if the children did starve. It wasn't thtir business. They ued to help people who by accident were lelt ou their hands, but lately they hadn't done it He said he had seen the children crying and heard that they had nothing, but that tvas their parents' lookout, not his. |