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Show EXCITING TIME ON IMMIGRANT SHIP Nearly IOOO Passengers on French Liner Panic-Stricken Over a False Heport Special to The Tribune. NEW YORK, April 9, From the many aliens who have .sought homc9 in this country, only to be lured back by Immigration laws, some exaggcrted Ideas as to the potency of these laws and the stringency with which they are enforced, seems to have got abroad. This notion, along with a curious ma-nouever ma-nouever on the part of the incoming French liner Touraine, when that steamship arrived here this week, brought about a panic among the S21 Immigrants which the vessel had in her steerage, most of whom had been hoarding' their little savings for years in order to reach this country, and for a full half hourthere were shrieks and lamentations among them. It was just turning flood-tide when tho liner dropped anchor off Quarantine. Quaran-tine. The Inpninlnc itin emmnr Vi. bow seaward, and when she got her anchor there was a forty-mile gale blowing down the Narrows, and, despite de-spite a hard over helm and one engine backing and the other going ahead, she found it impossible to swing her bow upstream. The immigration cutler was on one side of the vessel and the revenue cutter cut-ter on the other. The immigrants had all gathered on deck, all more or less anxious about the ordeal which awaited await-ed them. Then some orie among them Btartcd the report that the ship was not to be allowed to land any of her passengers, and that all would have to go back to Havre. There was a rush to the rail and much excited gesticulation and pointing point-ing to the city receding astern. It was true, they screamed, and loud walllngs filled the air. To their distorted dis-torted imagination tho two Government Govern-ment cutters puffing alongside were forcibly taking the ship to sea, and from the way the vessel was sheering from side to side in her efforts to turn it did look as though she were a recalcitrant re-calcitrant craft being hauled to an offing of-fing by constable cutters. Officers of the ship endeavored to still the tumult, but there was a ba-ble ba-ble of voices and none could be made to understand. Finally the vessel reached the more open waters of Gravesend Bay, where, after describing a wide sweep, she managed to get her bow pointed upstream. But not until the pier was reached and the Immigration barges were alongside, were the terrified foreigners sure that they were not to be sent back In a body. |