Show IMMIGRANTS MISTREATED Officials at New York Charged With Brutality Toward Immigrants London July 2SA serious attack has been made in the columns oC the Express against tho treatment of emigrants emi-grants arriving at NeW York That paper sent a representative in the steerage of the steamer La Champagne Cham-pagne who in the course of a series of articles entitled The Closed Door has been giving English readers vivid pictures of tho horrors of a steerage passage The writer however chiefly devotes himself to the alleged brutality and corruption of officials at the barge office and on Ellis Island The latter the writer describes as a prison where ho maintain emigrants are beaten and abused worse than cattle The Ellis island warders aro called tho dirtiest ruffians In New Yorlc Medical examInatIon ex-amination of emigrants It Is alleged Is made without any regard to theory of principles of hygiene The reporter Hays the Invlncibles Mullett and FltsclmrrlB were a good deal better treated than other emigrants emi-grants not excluding feeble women and children He gives numerous Instances with names An Idea I of the attack can bo gained from the following account of a supper on Ellis island We passed in a long I line around the room A man with filthy hands filled our hats or handkerchiefs with mouldy prunes Another thrust two lumps of broad In our hands Supervising the distribution was a foulmouthe Bow sry tough who danced upon the table and poured forth upon us torrents of obscene blasphemous abuse I saw him drag J an old man longbearded Polish Jew post the barrel of prunes by the hair on the face I saw him kick another emigrant a German on the head with a heavy boot Tho Express writer believes that if the shipping companies were compelled by the Legislature to refund the de ported emigrants the entire sum spent In tho Journey agents would soon cease to embark people who obviously have no possible chance of acceptance |