Show ARE OF BEING A MORMON IT IS UNWISE LIVEN EVEN TO LET PEOPLE suspect YOU or OF BEING ONE fiew cw york sun money counts with the commissioners of emigration not that the worthy gentlemen are susceptible to pecuniary inducement in their official action not tit at all simply that the man maji in a blouse with a sla shilling illing in his bis pocket is 18 detained an unwilling prisoner on his arrival from europe until the commission can determine whether he has 1 brains enough to td enable him to make a living while the snob in a cutaway with uncounted sovereigns in his purse lands with customs tu tl with him bini I 1 A and no questions ont are asked although it way may be perfectly I 1 evident that left to himself he could no more earn a living than fly money counts and the emigrant emigran 6 who comes over with witha a pocketful pocket tul of spare coin although his coat be ragged escapes from the commission with little difficulty sometimes as in the case I 1 of the mormons cormons who have just passed through temporary imprisonment the question of character is 1 involved the commission undertook to do what congress has not succeeded in doing undoing check the spread of polygamy in the united states it does not seem probable that the commission will attempt it again very soon the board is authorized to investigate i the cases of all emigrants to de termine determine whether they are competent to care for themselves and to mause permission to land to such as seem likely to become a public charge la in the case of the mormons cormons the commission went outside this to i prevent the people op 1 e irom from landing landine and drew the line at a t religious and presumptively moral incapacity it is not probable that many people will blame the commission lor for its attempt to elevate the moral status of ane west but the courts found that was little in the law to justify them in detaining the emigrant sr sf and accordingly all but five were lot let go these five are detained on legitimate grounds for further investigation into their resources when the vessel on OB which the mor mons were came into port the emi grants as were to Gar garden denand and put the regular formula f 01 mula of inquiries it was at once developed that they were bound for the polygamous region and the whole lot ritty in number were turned aside on suspicion the commission deter mined to make a test case and therefore sert seat them up to wards inland by a S fiction of the law no emigrant is held to land in this country if he is taken at once from the castle to wards island he may be detained there a month if the commission desire iland it if thence is found to be without a trade or money or friends to guarantee his prosperity he is taken back to castle Gar denand the steamship corn com pany that brought him over is bound to carry litin him back the period of 0 detention i is not usually longer than a week though cases case sire are not infrequent infrequent where the delay is twice as long ions the institution at wards wardle island was not established for the purpose of a prison for doubtful but as a hospital for borsick sick emil emigrants grants although ally a govern government went is self supporting for every brought into port the steamship companies carrying them have to pay 50 cents and tue the tax a thus collected is turned over to the hospital for its support naturally Na a sudden influx of halt halte a hundred emigrants healthy but poor or suspected puts tep institution to a severe test and fives tare su 49 no att 0 o Q rare care wr or when th the e arrived ari ived dr murple the acting absent in the city aud the attendants in claige were as aa worried as ab the pro pi leloi of a small ysmall hotel who sues sees tour times limes as baoy guests approach ilig us he has accommodations tor lor ane mor mons presumably felt the anxiety of the guests tur lur none of them lo knew rew what they were going there fur for the ferry to the island is a crude ci ade affair tor for this part of the country consisting simply of a large rowboat manned by four paupers haupers pau pers it plies piles between the island and street once in half an hour wards island la it one ot of the most attractive looking spots in this vicinity willows aud auck evergreen trees smooth lawns and handsome buildings give it the appearance of a public park paik but the unhappy mormons cormons Mor mons homesick irom their ion lung journey failed to see plea pleasure bure in it most of them were wo wom enaud cotch ri she he rest being danes of both exes when they realized what their detention meant and its ita they lifted up tip their voices and rent lent tue air with lamentations they acied wanted to go at once to kneir husbands and who tiny any wanted to go out and find one some loiue of af guem had an idea that Mr mormon was a philanthropist whose sole bole object was to find comfortable homes ifor worthy young women others knew whatever of mormonism and polygamy and were not noc bound for utan at all they were prisoners bonera nevertheless levei ih eless and then their grieving was ube useless when dr murple arrived no DO time was lost in ill putting the ibe emigrants initia quarters A large room known as the nurs nursery ry was nas N as appropriated tor for the women it is 18 up ot of stairs in the main b building all d ing auli has p I 1 adu s to the east and debt altogether it iba ib a light cheerful cheer lul room lor for children and dotso not so bad for a lodging place tor for adults it is much better than a dark stuffy steerage of course but tile the emigrants emio rants had bad entered enter abe steerage voluntarily and nere wey they were driven in it made all the dif difference terence in we tilt world and the enlarged quarters ini im proved ventilation and ires irea cuts cots were luxuries the men wc were re taken to a hospital wald waid in ILL another wing Itis it ia similar in appearance to the nursery but smaller it seemed to the doctor like crowding to get et them all iu in but in 1 tue eim grants felt lost in the unnecessary space it was evening when aby came and they had bad little knowledge of their prison until morning ned harrigan harriga rigan I 1 in one ot of his co makes a new newly ly arrived emigrant the victim ot of swindlers lers ault and of such circumstances cum stances that he gets locked up in the tombs within a day of his landing 8 survey ing the ot oi lie he re marka 11 contemptuously 1 I came to A america erica for liberty and this is how I 1 I 1 gei get tit it mr hari Harri harrigal igan gaa might inight wake make the sitti situation aLign doubly klea keen by placing th the victim in the hands of the commis boners of emigration hwi gration la in the morning tue I 1 suspects were ushered into little dining rooms lor breakfast A plain beccu about ten feet long is the table ana the seats are two low benches on eitner either side s such U as are seen only in pool houses a and country churches tile the meal which was substantial fitial and wholesome having been disposed ol of the t migrants emigrants were told that they were fr free ee to go where they pleased except off the island As that was the one place where they pleased to go and as the island comprehended a very beall portion ot of this great country and especially as the island in legal fiction was wa 3 only onia a part of the high seas or the deck of a ste steamer amer the emigrants viewed the prospect with aeb Lieb pair lamentation threatened to break out again but ag a general eueral weeping was averted in this way one or t y 0 of the more philosophical yaw that under unde r proper cir circumstances wards island would be a capital place for a picnic and they resolved to make the most of it and enjoy themselves to a uch such extent as they co could uld while caplia ity lasted and trust to providence to end it bap happily accordingly they started torta for a ramble among awong the trees and obeying the gregarious instinct the others followed the 1 air the green grass the beautiful ua f foliage the absente absence of the pitching ship all tended to give them needed relief and at noon they returned with hearty appetites tor for dinner it aa wa better than that served on shipboard and they ap appreciated pp e bated it but they had not beaz ceased d to long for the real and prospective liu husbands and the presence of the edae examining luing commissioners gave them iao ivy A multitude ot of questions were asked of every one and then the commissioners hurried away to court the emigrants were assured that if if they were all right the delay would bo be brief rather an ambiguous assurance but better than none most of I 1 them hemA vere inclined to take it hopefully by putting their mauds to it aney could rind had much to interest them au the island it was not at all unpleasant to lie in the shade of a graceful f ul willow and watch the active life of the river all kinds of craft in great numbers were constantly passing mammoth q side wheel pat passenger menger steamers from the east diminutive tugs alone or drawing huge rafts raf ts loaded with freight trains atter alter them coasting schooners ners excursion boats nondescript scows and refuse barges etc bitao but to the west find and only a quarter of a mile t was tile the gortat city and that reminded deTt them im of their captivity I 1 five days they passed on the island as little free as if they had crime for thou though 11 t mey h ey could roam about the place i at t will they could Gould abt oey deport ie port firtl ago t lag 89 foy W PY W F wanted more more to dep depart A f from rom blackwells than did th these people from froin wards warda when at last the word came to 10 forty five of them that they might proceed on their journeys or laou as ad the legal phrase bath it they graciously gi accious ly declared that they had a pleasant plea saut time barring the absence of husbands riu bands A large percentage of the alleged mormons Mor mua then went LO 10 idaho aud and montana where genuine a husbands awaited them the five who remain are ordinary examples amples ot of those unhappy people who set get extravagant factions concerning the sold gold that grows on the trees here berei they have no trade no friends who can be responsible for them and little etisa cash Cabe sare are not infrequent where a man arrives at castle Jas tle garden with wit his goods and chattels all included in a handkerchief and less than a dollar in his pocket the commissioners are slow to send such a man back they consider each individual case on its merits separately and sympathize with tile the sentiments of commissioner taintor who said at a recent meeting we must remember that some of our most p prosperous people arrived in this country r with nothing but their muscles to dep depend e on the famous i family of et gen oral e ra SI sullivan lIvAn of revolutionary fame was one marked example and ben franklins entrance into pennsylvania must not be forgotten some of our best citizens are from those who came here penniless 11 nevertheless money counts it is the eia euce of the ability to earn it ic money and youth ano and matrimony for when the commission discusses a case a ild one of the investigators ann announces oun ces that the party in question is marri married eJ and apparently not nol over 22 years of age he is ia passed or allowed to laud with out further hesitation A young youn mar man can generally genei ally be depended ou on to support and family said white haired commissioner Commissi starr drupp iD g his chin and looking over the tops of his spectacles with young married women suspected of mormon asin the case was different |