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Show I EOV.G1Z F. EOWEir. pioneer ' r-ifii'lont cf Snani.sh For',:, for ' : v.'j:o:n fi;r.GrtI :-.';rvi' c:; will l.e hold1' j t.-'.-iorrov' f'C)riic:;:i. f"' -N1 : 'i ; ; ! 1 i 1 1 VlMw is CTpnq quip dlU!i!HiU Mil Police Called When Crowd Becomes Impatient at New York Pier. "NEW YOliK, Dec. 25. Police reserves were called tonight when a crowd of for- j eigners attempted to storm the Fabre i Eine pier in Urooklyu in order to reach j friends and relatives on the steamship! Fatrt, which docked Tuesday with l'00 , steerage passengers. The pier guard was overpowered but the police halted the mob before anyone reached the vessel. ; Because of the crowded conditions at Ellis island the immigration authorities have been conducting entrance examinations examina-tions on the liner. Tho work has been slow. Tonight the crowd became impatient. impa-tient. Many in the crowd never had seen the passengers they had come to meet. They had letters fmm distant relatives who had written they were coming on the liner, while o titers had photographs to assist them in picking out their friends. ', Virtually all the steerage passengers were Italians. Immigration officials said of those thus fa r examined more than 20(1 will not be allowed to land, the majority ma-jority lacking sufficient funds. |