Show SHE GUARDS THE MORAL WICKET MRS REGINA STUCKLIN IMMIGRATION INSPECT RESS AND HER WORK coYrlglit 1011 New York March 10lor 14 years Mr Stucklln has guarded the moral wicket of the Immigration hlthway Into the United Mutes The plain record Mrs Region Slucklln Inspectress In the blue book of the treasury depart nent gives no hint of he peculiar na ure or extent of tie work she does I itlll lens I of the conscientious manner I III wi Ich Mrs Stucklln Guards the trust Imposed on hr In these 14 years 2 COO 000 women coming Into the port of New York by he Immigration bureau have passel under Mrs Stucklln rltlcal questionIng question-Ing eye and to her thousands of chll Inn In the United states perhaisthou lands yet unborn owe their stainless birth > and the very name they tear She Is I the only woman In the service of the Immigration department who has he right to sit in a board of Inquiry nod has the same rIght to sit on a special spe-cial board as the assistant I commissioner commission-er Immigration himself She also has the Mme power 10 administer an oath In the work of the bureau as the Inspectors In-spectors have Both of these powers hOloer Mn Btucklln rarely exercises unless the bureau 10 ovorcrol 0101 with work or some special case I under can I erotlon I here n emnn or young girl would be placed III an ovrmbar tnsolng peoillon Ilhout the omcl1 prNenncePfal prence 01 u I omnn Mrs Blucklln mith hr assistant 1I0 Tnylor has u little dek In 1 one corner 01 the center 11 the bureau lhleh I rlled orr to receive women and children who have become separated rated from their party haven tickets or are In any kind of position that re quIre some special attention from In spectress or tram mllonoll ut her approval A lIt 01 Incoming steamers with the numbr 01 teruge Passengers hangs at the desk and wlien the warning whistle blows In the bureau Mn Stuck Her takes up her position opposite the chief Inspecting physician i As the long line oj Immigrants np proche each ladenxith many children chil-dren and many pieces of luggage of strange descriptions Mrs Stucklln glances down the line arching faces of gIrl and children and women As the medical Inspector examine and turns them about Mrs Slucklln Is I sizIng siz-Ing up the feminine portion of the line Once Past the oclorJt Is her chance Among the first thing she Is I hunllng for are apparently newly wd Coup on More than frequently they are i not well lot but Mrs Stucklln at once I lercoMes the pressing ted of the Service of prlei or pastor Every woman 01 that description whether 14 or 40 Is held up and Ques Honed by Mrs Stucklln Where your husband Is the < first question Very often the man whom Ihe womnn therbman points out as her husband doesn car that relation to her and may have len his real wife behind him when he sailed preferring the inamorata ham be has In tow Then there are young women nigh Bid erly lovers fleeing from the wrath of husband or wife eloping couples scurrying scur-rying before the blast of parental 01 position po-sition girls who have yielded to the at tentlons on board ship of strangers or former friends and covoyagers All thesp and many mar It I Is I Mr Ftuckllns duty to discover How File recenlze them I n mystery to one un 11r2oB11Ith familiar with the motley crew gibe star Ioohs There are signs In a girls face What they nrpbluheS of shame or Joy proud posspssion ot n sweetheart or expected ex-pected husband Mn Stutklins long study of feminine human nature Ir the steerage line taught her And thereIn passes there-In review before this tall HL tried Impassive faced woman the regiments 01 misshapen love affairs from the slums and purlieus of every country In Europe and the orient llrs Stucklins desk in the center becomes the clearing house and she the 1 lower behind the throne of the unlucky love affairs 01 10ler Europe and the I steerage After days nnd sEeks 11 matching Mrs Stucklins work II become I be-come npiaitnt that Immigration to tills i country Is I consider the cure all to Inspect over 9000 Immigrants between be-tween S In the morning and halt last 12 midnight I hue nothing to do with the morals of men except as they concern con-cern some woman Immigrant I urn supposed 1 to see that people who ought te be modded ure not admitted to the country until the ceremony has been performed Sometimes the men object but generally when they find they will be returned 1 to the port from which they sailed I If they continue to refuse everybody every-body consents The couple < Is sent out under bureau charge and when the guard brings back a receipt from poster t or Driest for one married couple with names Ir full they are released We have 10 be sure no Impediment te the inner age has been left behind In the old world > I verge about 150 couples a year Bomellmes a couple Is I to be deported In any event and they wart to get married for Ir 01 ronequence on the r reI t urn Then If there Is I no 010 i i 400 I N MRS REGINA STUCKHN for rurope9 unhappy affairs at the heort und pan slons Whether In cabin or Steerage elders are detained by the bureau If detected i wen Whn no eloping couple appears no matter by whom discovered they are turned over to Mrs Stucklln She speaki German and English fluently and has gained sufficient mastery of about all the languages and dialects to obtain all the information necessary front tire women she hndl Ham times It Is I a stubborn case where for days both partlet deny their relations and other men offer to wed the girl and en other women claim the man as their lawful husband What tangles these women of the steerage and their heart affairs do weave ne romance wlter has ever surpassed Some 01 the affairs become humorous and even run the gamut 01 emotions to end In the lomn or man being ordered deported de-ported to the port from which lie came It is Impossible to understand the extraordinary scale of Ingenious 1lots and emotions the human peasant cart I Is I capable of until like Mrs Stucklln one spends Years among the arilvlng people with their heart affairs In full Fully Only after Commissioner ollmmlgra lion itchlo had given his permission would Mrs Stucklln consent to talk other ot-her experience i I went Into the service In old Castle Cas-tle Carden 14 years ago For six years It mas state service for New York ItWhen When the bureau 1 Ass turned over to the national government I went too The biggest days work I ever did was tncle we allow them the felicity 01 making a honeymoon 01 the return trip to Europe The prettiest girls I shouldnt wont to ay but some 01 the most beautiful to me are the Peasants at Southern Itnlylho The English German French and Scandinavian women are almost sure 10 red and write their on languages because compulsory education exists for thoe nations So do the Slav girl generally It Is I one perpetual procession 01 novelties In emotions und Eturies comIng com-Ing through the Immigration bureau always al-ways some variation 01 love tragedy or drama What couhl be mar i dramatic than n recent case where n women tilting on her very high heeled little shoes and wearIng peasant garb was claimed by tO men as their wife and then when the real husband arrived and refused to receive his wife the woman wo-man was sent back to Italy without even being permitted to speak to the husband mho marched off contented as soon as he learned his unfaithful spouse could not land In this country One Strange feature 10 people are the babies born under the shadow ot the bureau Itself There hove been cases ullere reputable women npaniet by husbands and other children have I given birth to children while wnltlng to to he sent back to Europe in such a one the family Is I held until the woman I able to travel again but the baby although 1 al-though it may be born In the Long Is land 1 City hospital or on Ellis Island IS I not a citizen of this country because the mother has not been < admitted 10 the country The most Interesting cases to tno are the many child re traveling nlon in rejected but by friendship It I Mcnn th indntsaes of strangers I think then came that stands out In all my expert nee Is I that of a baby boy jut able 10 t toddle l and patter a little who arrived without out Icing able to secure trace 01 his deal nation I or previcis any I callan In Europe ilia mOlhr hadlali en domn stairs en the racther hrokD her neck and died Instantly Oothl8 auld le found to give an I clw I Ie her it ctb destination estimation The baby was lllh m I astle Garden fir three month Dnt ull me knew lOK his last tom E grow to love the child and lie lerBltJ In 1 calling me mmmll Ivery I ne lOOk Ie the boy and his strangj criZT11tion little BIr Nobody 11 Xol here gallita him much Sympathy 11011 altr advertising u mn mlote finto Itara that the buy wn his nephew and him sister the Iubs I i mother hd been the way to Xonsas uo Decmnenl arrived from Europe 10 Ioe the man a Ioy un d Iho lhll a mas finally Brut on Ie him bUI It WOJ o cry orre lul child that tried lnaJ struggled 10 stO A I fill us In 011 1 Orden I llhombr one baby locall hat t arrived bound for Chicago travel Ing only under the guIde of a tig Thee are Just as good chances In th i country for Immigrant gIrl us Bier But the nee of domestic scrvanl has passed away No girls ically want to dohouseitork Theywor fid ralherge Into stores or hols 01 16 > n 1eek than bon bo-n home and gI14 n month They seem now te look down oil domsllo omlc although my experience has ben that o girl 1 olth S n uk In a store Is I nl 0 I ell all a u demelle lIb ooly I month Every safeguard Is I thrown about girls I nnd lomen In this bureau No girl Is permitted to gu Into the elll unless we hllow I here she Is I going of uoles he InII ond Ie hnv no er once admlltcd to detain her after p telling her of the Pitfalls Intowhich ihi may fall The mltslonarles here do a great work In Protecting girl gvvg l wcm en Their uric in I thollug nod ac five and only one who knoB its Importance Im-portance In helping newly arlved women ao id girls can understand Its value I do not think many girls are brought here now In the Klerg for Immoral purpose Under the regular arrangements arrange-ments every girl Ie Protected II she du Fires i It for n year after lending It she of her own volition leaves Places found for hr by the labor bureau ollhoo notifying the bureau and get into I trouble that Is I her OliO fault TM government has Provided I every sife guard wisdom and experience earl sul geot and I faithfully I try tory carer 011 to-ry Provision so md and any that common sense und lemanly sympathy die I late 1 But 11 Is always an ever pressing stream 01 new women with new stories ood I no sooner do I wonder What Vk III become 01 that omnn7 than another tllk her place und the first drops out of sight KATE M dURH |