Show RETIRING COMMISSIONER COMMISSION R OF IMMIGRATION More than four million men women and children have filer flier past Robert Watchorn tt at Kills Ellis oil island island almost a almost the p population of g g lai New York City lity more than n the population population I tion of any atY state except New York Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania Illinois or Ohio Considering the thc enormous executive work and uncounted un un- un- un counted detail of the task considering I further urther the bitter controversy of and those who would let down the bars there has been little trouble I over Ellis Island The stupendous march of the nations has slipped almost silently over the threshold of ot America It was Mr Ur Watchorn's task to draw and loose the latchstrIng during the years when Immigration immigration Im Im- im- im migration crept up over the he million on mark rk r During f his administration I io het t there w was a great expansion of the immigrant station station station sta sta- tion which not only added but simplified and cleansed cutting out unnecessary stairs cutting In new skylights centralizing central- central zing izing and grouping so that the trip EIf into ur America ri i is no longer an endless s shuffling through dark corridors from one department department depart depart- m ment nt to another When the tiny liny Island w was s built over without room left for a hospital It was his imagination which claimed new acreage from the bay But Buthe the he four million admitted present nothing like Ike th tire th-e problems of the fifty thousand debarred In In his Judicial functions Mr Watchorn has won and deserved high praise a An immigrant I himself himself himself-he e h he was nt an in English miner m until 22 he 22 he had a most sympathetic and patient ear to learn the full ull story of those luckless ones bearing for the tho f further inspectors inspector's inquiry I chalk But u mark at i the h which same Fame e time calls r he had a nice appreciation r of the immigration immigration gration an 1 law li and dan its application Thc t lo f. f Tho I S Sur Sur- vey |