| Show THE NEW YORK emigration commission STE stephenson who represents the railway pool at castle garden announced yesterday that hereafter he would not permit attorneys to appear leture his bis board to present the claims of embargoed immigrants stephen Step heason S on claims calms that his board Is beyond and ad above all law that jt is absolute it is is about time tor for secretary Fair fairchild hild to put his bis toot loot upon this insolent and arbitrary castle garden satrap the above is from the new york world of july the emigration commissioner who is mentioned as fit to be officially stamped upon is the bumptious ferow fellow who endeavored to stop mormon immigration and was sat down upon by the powers that be for his pains the railway pool referred to is an organization of companies that have secured tue the of forwarding immigrants I 1 from castle garden to points in the west and which divide up the receipts pro rata other companies arc frozen out and one of the worst features of the concern is that the unfortunate immigrants who land at that place in addition to paying a higher rate for transportation than would be charged with free competition hive have to go by the line that may happen to have its turn when they arrive the world prints a long iong article exposing this combine ind and gives the following lowing ol as the statement ot of an old steamship agent it is perfectly shameful that such a thins thing should be permitted to continue not only are immigrants most brutally treated but they are robbed autri outright ht because they are compelled to go not only anly to chicago but from there on OB by the road the pool sells them a ticket on OB although they could get very much cheaper transportation by other roads such forwarders as tile the southern california the chesapeake and ohio the he canadian pacific the old dominion steamship company and lots of others are frozen out from any share in the business to which they are entitled by law because they could successfully compete with the pool roads let me give you I 1 just one instance suppose a passenger wants to go to some point in northern min blin desota he is compelled to go by way of chicago paying 13 for his ticket to that point while the fare for the rest of the jo journey on a road the pool does business with would send the total up tip to 38 or 40 while theres the canadian pacific standing ready to take him there from 13 to 15 the man is robbed of 25 for the benefit of the pool it is perfectly scandalous not only that but it is a serious injury to new york as a port ot of entry the immigrant traffic is a big one it enables stem steamers pers to tun run to and from new york if it is driven away to quebec montreal boston and other points as it has already been to a very large extent there will be fewer steamers steade r s running to new york why just consider the outrageousness of the for a moment said the steamship steam shi p man warming up the pool sends I a 9 gang as they call them that comes by one steamer by such a road and the next gang by another road apply such a rule to ourselves suppose that the people who come here from all parts of tile the country to go to europe should be seized hold of by some pool and add divided up into gangs that this gang was to be told off to go by the cunard line to day and another gans gang was marched aboard the inman line steamer sailing I 1 tomorrow to morrow how long do you suppose such a state of affairs would be permitted to continue and yet the cas cases are identically alike these people have their money or their tickets to go to their destination and have as much right fight to go the way they want to and to save their money by going by a eb cheap eap and direct route as behave we have it is an infamy sir air that ought to be wiped out at once that Is the kind of arrangement that stephenson Stephen sox soia supports the world thinks the commission as at present constituted should be abolished because cau seltis it is a detriment instead of a benefit to the people for whose protection it was organized sometimes it proceeds under the laws of the united states and when these do not suit its purpose it runs to the laws of the 9 state t ate of new york and aad for a year it consigns to this railway pool under pretence predence pre tence of facilitating the transportation of immigrants a monopoly that is worth millious millions of dollars annually to the roads reads in the pool fortunately the Alor mormon morill immigration ignot is hot forced under the control of the ring one of the most recent acts of the blunderer and fanatic stephenson is the detention of the norwegian emigrant Jon jonson sori this is a young woman with a child wid to be illegitimate whose relatives in minnesota sent tor for her and are willing to support her it necessary stephenson objected to her landing on the ground that she was an immoral person but there being no law to sustain this objection the board decided to send her back to sweden as liable to become a public charge I 1 walthou although gh she had 15 in money and her railroad ticket was sent to her the day after she arrived she landed with her sister who was permitted to proceed and whose husband in minnesota sent for them both here is the young womans comans story told to a world reporter and aad quite affecting he describes her as a comely woman I 1 twenty five years old tall and straight she has bright blue eyes clear cut features and white teeth lu in spite of laer her having spent the greater part of two weeks in a pen pea hardly nt fit tor for human beings she looked nest neat aud and clean the agent of the company which is acting lor for her friends in this country has been denied access to garden because of the sway held by the railroad pool and all through anese long warm days the woman has bat there with no comforts no distraction and no way of learning what is to be done with her she told her story in an irregular dav and many times during the recital the tears would well up into her eyes but she quietly brushed them away I 1 am twenty five years old she said my father died when I 1 was one oae year old and my mother when I 1 was a year and a half I 1 was raised by my older sisters and since I 1 way was fifteen I 1 have supported myself for the past two years I 1 have lived with the family ot of the rev halkam olson a lutheran minister in Blee keng lane sweden as housemaid one of my sisters who is I 1 married and whose husband came to this cout country itry some time a ago go was coming out to this country to join her husband he knew I 1 wished to 10 come and sent me money to pay my passage and I 1 came out with my sister aud four children on the iceland which arrived here july ath I 1 sold all my lew things before I 1 left sweden and bought some clothing and little things to taketo ny my brothers home in lassel dassel minn where my brother in law carl jensen lives my things were all packed with my sisters things but when I 1 came here my railroad ticket had not dot come they thel told my sister I 1 should start the next day and she left me and took all my things and I 1 have no change of clothing tor for myself and my child when I 1 landed here I 1 stayed three days and slept for three nights on the benches then I 1 was taken to wards island where they put my me to scrubbing the floors and I 1 wore out my only u underskirt n der skirt by b being e in obliged to be on my knees so much nue t they made us scrub in the afternoons ter and in the mornings I 1 bad to carry food from a storehouse store house to the hospital I 1 was brought down again i ll 11 and stayed here two days and a aga half 1 f and was taken back again and was brought brough here there tor for the third time yesterday 11 at the hospital some of the people who had been there longer than I 1 had took all the meat and I 1 did not get any we all had one bowl of milk and all the bread we here in the gar den we have coffee and bread for breakfast milk and bread for dinner but I 1 do nt not expect any supper because I 1 have not had it when I 1 was here before in dassel minn I 1 have an uncle who is a school teacher who has lost his arm and cannot cabaot work a brother who Is a lumberman lumber man a brother in law arod his brother who is an old d acquaintance e and they are boti both foremen on thy the railroad and my sister who will have reached there by this time when I 1 left home it was understood that I 1 was to work for my brother inlaw in law who has made money and he was to support me it was tor for that reason he sent me the money to come out here in ih sweden 1 have four sisters one is married and the other three are living out when I 1 get back I 1 do not know what I 1 shall do the ship lands six hours ride from my nearest acquaintance I 1 have sold evary everything thing have no money and am afraid I 1 will have to beg to get back to my friends 11 it appears that the father of her ebil child d is the son of wealthy parents who opposed their marriage and he expects to join her in this country and marry her by next christmas during her enforced stay at the miserable mis erable quarters where she ha has been detained ake has cheen twice approached pro proa ached clied with violence by lecherous attaches of the place but they were successfully repelled that all this Is without support in law appears from a perusal of tue law itself which is as follows it shall be the duty of such state commission board or officers to examine into tile the condition of passengers arriving at the ports within such st state ate in any ship or vessel and for that purpose all or any of such commissioners or officers or such other person or persons as they shall appoint shall be authorized to go on board of and ti through any such ship or vessel and if on such examination there shall be found among such passengers any convict lunatic lana tic idiot or any person unable to take care ot of himself or herself without becoming a public charge they shall report the same in britting writ ting to the collector of such port an and such persons shall not bi be aid to land it is only by a stretch of authority that this can be made to aap apply ly to this unfortunate young woman who in all al probability will be able to take care of herself as well as most moat immigrants that land in this country and who has friends ready to suppo i her if necessary whatever her morals may be ba they ney are not to be inquired into under the law and the obstructionist stephenson has once more exposed his officiousness and folly the world says her detention and return are lor for no other purpose than to gratify the self conceit and satisfy the pigheaded obstinacy of emigration commissioner stephenson Stephen soa soia 11 it is time that if the board of commissioners ners is not overhauled or swept out of existence something was done to check the swelling ambition aud and cool the fiery fussiness fus ainess and self im 0 r 1 1 1 nee of f its stupidest and endmost most un ua va 1 1 g member 4 it secretary fairchild aull and governor govera in cxoe movement to this end they will gabi gapi the gratitude ofa of a disgusted public |
