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Money Changer.
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rangements that used to ex
q' ist for tbe recep.ion of immi¬
grants who landed at Castle Garden,
Inis Island, says the New York Becor
der. Is far from being a gatewpy that
would prepossess arrivals from Europe
in favor of their adopted oountry. dock
The island is tied aronnd from
to dock with miles of red.tape. It is
a fearfully tedious matter to land in
America and a most unnecessary
amount of fuss and feather# seems to
Meompany the entrance of a new ar¬
rival into the land of freedom,
A vi«t to Ellis Island, when the liv
fog freight of being two sifted or three through ocean the
steamers is
various avenues leading to the boat
that trasports it to tbe Battery, it pre- well
- eenta «o many phases that is
worth braving the trip in an itnmi
grant ferryboat from the Barge Office
to tee the sight, Aronnd the big room
. in the centre of the principal the sifting bnild
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•ess gooi on rune a gallery, and
»this a view of the whole interior
be obtained.
Tbe first stage through which the
vr arrivals pass is tbe scrutiny EUia Itl- of
e medical officers and tha
d matrons Having proven tliet
•y ere tree from physical defects
e immigrants are driven into fenced
passages leading to the registretiou
fenced avenues the
of paseengers, eccentric
variety heed-gear, mid
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pste of hope through
»v oan get to forward liberty,
a elouohes at
mm iiont a toot in ten min
' & y being i caused by tbe
th e uniformed
neoessary infor
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etc.
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te variety of languages wonld or
has In hand he e
one. As it is, ow*
condition of tbe
it I usually takes an almost
long ri fPA to drag oat
» the simplest question, several
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in the minutest
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slowly Into the promL-d haspaaeedsnc* land.
Whett the immigrant
cess tally through the ordeal of
swering the sharp catechism of the
official at the top of the lane, he is
handed to the mercies of the crowd on
the ontside end thenceforth becomes
common property at the mercy of
hotel and boarding boose runners, rail*
road agents, well meaning hat offi
cions missionaries, restaurant keepers,
and if he be lucky enough to have
them, relative# and friend*.
He is a luckless wight daring this
period of his transition tocitizenhood.
First of all, he most change his
money. Thi* can be done at the
island, where a firm of money brokers
has purchased the sole right to money
changing. The immigrants’ savings
are brought from all sorts of extraor
dinary hiding places, sometimes from
tine depths of stockings, from the in
side of waists, where nothing short of
a knife ora pair of scissors can secure
its release, from shoes and belts, and
even from the mouth.
To watch Money Changer Soully at
work is one of the most interesting
sights on the island. The rapidity
with which he changes into current
coin of ' the republic Busaian roubles,
Italian lire, German marks, French
francs, English ma/velons. sovereigns and Aus
trian florins is Only one
glance seems necessary, and the hand
goes down into one of the well-filled
caah drawers Two or three seconds
later and the amount of exohange lies
before the immigrant with a paper
showing how mnoh has been exchanged,
and the bewildered foreigner is told
to stand back to make room for the
next applicant. He might as well
take it for granted that it the is) amount for, if is
correct (as, of coarse, air of stunned he
looked at it with that
stupidity for sn hoar, be would not
know anything more about the strange
money than before. Occasionally one
bolder than the rest will make an at¬
tempt to eballenge tbe aoeuraoy which of
the araenot given him, npon an
attaohe ol the money ohanger'a offioe
will take the coins from the immi
gcant’s hand and explain the value of
each as he drops It back agaiji- It is
wasted time, however, as the owner of
the money is left in ae bad oondition
of dense ignorance as ever.
Money will bny things on Ellis
Island and tha proprietors of the
loach counters, where bologna and
bread appear to be the staple artioles
of food, axe at liberty now to oharge
on the mob made lines. hungry The by the long
wait in the • soonts for
these lnnoh oountera certainly are indetatiga- their
ble workers and earn
money. The wonder is, from the way
in whieh the immigrants are almost
dragged to the bologna counters, that
some one does not get hurt in the
scrimmage. If the greenhorn gets
through tbe exoerienee all right and
survives the bologna, let him braoe up
to resist the onslaught of the railroad
agents, who will bear sharp him off bodily if
he does not keep a look not.
la this neutral ground at Ellis
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driven tadgered crowd that passes
to i>e boat* there t is none which i« not
-l^ght-hearted, tor the red tape erdeal
is over., The prisoners in defcen
tioa pen have nothing to buoy them
up. After ooming ell this way to reach
this land of promise, they get only •
glimpse and are sent back to the wil
derness again.
One of the queerest personages on
the island is the barber. It is hardly
correct to call hia place a shop, for it
is merely a corner of the big room
where the barber has placed a chair
and hang bp a mirror and a towel or
two. Judging from the condition of
the majority of tne immigrants, the
barber is an institution sadly needed
at EHis Island, but few seem to utilize
his servioes, advertised at the prices
of twenty cents for a hair cat and ten
cents for a shave,
The crematory at Ellis Island is an
other very necessary accessory. It is
not intended for the cremation of ba¬
man bodies, bnt merely to give the
clothing of suspicions arrivals a thor
ough cbanoe to shake off any disagree
able associations with infectious dis
case or obnoxious insects,
Fairly good arrangements appear to
hsve been made for the housing of
immigrants who are compelled to stay
on the island over night, the old pow
der magazines having been converted
into comfortable sleeping rooms,
One of the worst sources of annoy
ance to the officials are the crowd of
relations that flock to Ellis Island to
meet incoming passengers. They are
always in the most intense state of ex¬
citement and it is all that the gate
keepers can do to prevent them break¬
ing down the barriers in the mad rnsh
to get inside of the enclosure.
There being no police on the island
it is necessary for the officials to take
the law into their own hands and
maintain order by force. It would
be a decided improvement if some of
the strongest and most reliable men
on the island were sworn in to act as
special polioemen. landmark of the island is
An old
gradually yielding to the infirjnitses
of age. This is the historical tree on
which the pirates, Hioks, Wormsley
and Gibbs, were hanged when the
place was known as Ellis Island. The
tree was damaged daring tne storms
of last winter, and has recently been
broken off short by the wind. All that
is left of tbe tree now is about seven
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feet of haze trunk, and this the Eliia
Island gardener ia making every effort I
to preserve.
A Good Turk.
It is oaid the Snltan of Turkey ia
impressed with the idea that to him
have been oonflded by AUah the keys
of Europe, and hia nervous tempera¬
ment leads him to feel meet acutely
the responsibility of the oharge. No
man works harder than he. He ri
with the dawn, takes but a lev hours’
deep, sometimes, with pen in hand,
writing the whole night. about He studies
every question, knows all every¬
thing, reads everything whioh oen
oerna hia business, and ever since tha
affairs of the Turkish Provinces hove
ooonpied the foregronnd he sitma
every document presented Governor to , Mn *»
from the appointment of a
to the nomination of the lowest offioe
of the police.—New Orleans Picayune.
Faithful to His Trmt.
“E. J. Tinkhan, of the Seoond Na¬
tional Bank,” mid a “burnt outer,”
“had an odd experience daring'the
big fire in Chicago, When it
evident that the hank was doomed ho
went to the safe, packed $600,000 in a
a passing col
ored man, he would giro
kirn $1000 if ho would get the satchel
to the Milwaukee station. They be
and Mr, Tinkham
reached the station by i of a tug
boat. Ha found the
waiting tor him, paid^ him theJUOOO
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BILL ARP’S LETTER.
THE MARCH OF PROGRESS BE¬
WILDERS HIM.
He Talks of Many Interesting Things,
Among Them Silver and Gold.
Ilifefift and other -pectscular amnsemenls. The utne
was I never missed one if X could help it;
but r w I prefer to see things that provoke of tbe
thou ht uateai of smiles. Tbe wonders
esbibiw, in the exposittou, the ofogreas of in»n
kind in tbe arts and sciences fill the miod with
pleasant contemplation. When the 'eegr-iph
wires fiist reached onr town we felt sure that
there was nothing ebe to tovent or discover;
that not! i ig more was needed. Bnt so many
wonderful and useful things have piled up on
us since that now w<j live in a state of expect¬
ancy. What will come next? pnilogopby
When I was a bov we studied a
which said that the load must be nr ar the
power, and there was a picture of a horre try¬
ing to pull a bag of sand by a ropo that was
100 yards long—and he oonldn t move it. now
we read that the power from the electric plxnt
at Niagara is soon to pnll all the boats on the
great Erie canal and tbe thousands of horses
and mules are to be discharged from their mo¬
notonous service. More than this—we re sd
that this same power is soon to ritpetcede tbe all
other powers in loading and unloading ves¬
sels in New York harbor. If this power can
reach New York from Niagara, why not reach
acrofs the contineni? flow long before all onr
railway trains will be moved by ii? There is
sufficient water power right lv re near < arters
ville to operate a plant shat would move all the
wheels in Georgia, The children now at school
will live to laugh at the simplicity and stupidi¬ I
ty of their fathers and grandfathers the just as
now smilo at the recollection of time when
my father kept a flint and steel and a piece of
punk in a little tin box and would strike a
spark and tight a candle when he wanted a
light in the night. It is funny to think of the
time when there were no matches. What
would these cigarette boys do without matche-?
Every decade brings cheaper methods and
more comforts. The old rule that Adam Smith
taught ns in his “Wealth of Nations” was that
providence had wisely ordained that the labor
of out) man would easily support eijxhfc p^rs >ns»
meaning himself and wife Bnd six ciiildren.
But be wasent counting on $6 shoes forth#
hoys and *10 bats and balloon sleeves for the
girls and a college education for both. The
labor of the average man will not support eight
peisons now, for notwithstanding the cheap¬
ness of things onr wants are increasing ten¬ get
fold. Ssephen Girard said that the way to
rich was to buy nothing that yon ore not ob¬
liged to have, but we levers* the maxim and
bny too many things we are not obliged to
have.
While in the exposition I did wont to buy a
lot of those beautiful aluminium wares for my
wife, for she do* 8 love pretty things and flue
things, but I dident have tbe money. I let her
look at them and only bought h* r a proper
box. Now that reminds me of oar trouble in
the south. That aluminium clay is all about in
onr hills and is being mined there and is shipped reduced every
day to Pittsburg and it and
manufactured and the products oome back to
us with two freights and big profits added,
-mat so with onr manganese and ochre and lum¬
ber and hides and most of onr cotton and wool.
\t e have got to manufacture onr own materials
or we will never catch up. Bat we are making
good progress in iron and cotton and maybe
tbe other plants will come along in time. I
learn that 8U per cent of that aluminium of olay
is wasted and thrown away in the process re¬
duction. Just think what a aaving of freight
there would be if we could reduce the metal at
tbe mines We wonld soon be the richest peo¬
ple on the earUt if we could manufacture onr
own materials The labor is hers, but it is
idle. Oar boys are willing, bnt they-can’t find
empmjtaenh a-tonisbing how rapidly wealth increase*
It is
when labor is rewarded. Look st a rained
state like Georgia ass in 1886 and now see
what thirty years have done. Look at the ex¬
position that has been planted with the money
from one city and is now the wonder of the
nation. Where does all this money come from?
Verily, it looks like Aladdin’s lamp has come
down to ns—and yet almost everybody it com¬
plaining of hard times. I've been reading Jo¬
sephus again and I don't unde*stand how Solo
men got all his money, for. David was at war
with somebody most all his life. Josephus
sayrtbat silver was as plentiful in Je.nsalecn
as tbe stones in the street. The temple was
overlaid with gold and coat million* of dollars.
Herod sent a little prawn? of ten millions of
drachmae to Caesar. Hjrcunui The Pharaohs sent ten built thou¬ tbe
sand talents of gold.
pyramids fot their own tombs, and one of them
took 100,000 men ihlrty-stven bandied years to com¬
plete it and it oust live millions of
dollars and is not worth a oent to anybody.
The Aztec# of Mexico built some just ae large.
The ruins of them are still them and historians
say they had idol* on their top. that were thirty
feet high and made of solid gold. Thera is a
cathedra! now in the Cuy of Mexico that cost
millions of dollars.
What a vast amount of mouev bae been
made from the Mankind beginning- began down early to the pree- iiunt
ent time. to
for gold, for Moses eeys in tbe eoo
<*4 chapter of Genesis that the gold of
that land around Bdeu wee g->od, and I reckon
old Adam dug for it and molded it and jingled
it in his Knox, pocket. He never wore fig of leaves tbe Bible, long.
John in hie Georvi edition
an cdiiion that lasted fifty yeersand Ew, when was very they
popular, aay* that Adam and
knew that they wets naked, made f ur them¬
selves “breeches,” and to, of coune. th-v Mother bad
rockets to carry their mooev 'Q. Old
Ere wore breeches then, and h >r offspring, the
new woman,got her f»«hioti ri ht straight from
the garden of Idem What will Dr- Hawthorne
aav about that?
lint silver came along in dna time. Abraham
bought the cave of Macpelah and ptM 400 she¬
kels of silver current money with the merchant
It was not coined, for he weighed it. I reckon
it was granulated like we used to bny gOld half
a century ago. My father wa* a merchant,
and bought a great deal of flue gold feom ike
minora, and of it t wee and in bed goose little quills. wooden Tbe
quill wn tr a
•topper, and a good lanre one beW about #10
worth. Joeephns aaye the) in his day sold and
«lv«r were eoteed tad stamped- It wee rough
if I reckon, tar I have a coin that is 1,600 ills'
two toe other; and i« is a
job. would make a brant i
bea lier ooia than efirer, for it i* not half
» * It ie tha etamp that fixes the value,
copper were need by the Greeks and
•ewe
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ty of it.
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CHEAPER IKON QBE.
R fa penios * the Great Sparrows*
Point Steel Plant.
Hie great Maryland Steel Works,
located at Sparrows? Point, near Bal¬
timore, Md., are just now affording a
striking proof of the wisdom of the
Democratic policy of cheaper raw ma¬ The
terials for our manufacturers.
Sparrows’ Point Works are among the
largest and most complete steel-mak¬
ing plants of the country. From their
location at a distance from the iron
miners of this country it was found
that in order to compete with rivals
situated nearer great ore deposits, a
supply of foreign ore was discovered necessary. in
This was fortunately have been
Cuba, where rieb iron mines
developed by Philadelphia capitalists.
Owing to their nearness to the sea¬
board, it was thought that Cuban ores
could be profitably imported so that
the works at Sparrows’ Point could be
kept in operation. But when the for¬
eign ores reached Baltimore ths duty
of seventy-five oents per ton, imposed
by the McKinley tariff, increased their
'cost so much that competition with
Pennsylvania and Ohio steel works
was impossible, and the Maryland
Steel Company was easily bribed by
the steel rail trust to close down, thus
throwing about three thousand men
out of employment. This, was merely
a sample on a large scale of the way in
which many iron and steel works were
driven out of business by the heavy
duty on their raw materials.
The Wilson tariff as it left t he House
of Bepresentatives put iron ore on the
free list, and although amended in the
Senate, it reduced the duty on foreign
ore over fifty per cent. The usual pro¬
tests were made by the MoKinleyites
in Congress, who dolefully prophesied would
the injury which cheap iron ore
cause to American labor.
The tremendous increase in the pro¬
duction of iron and steel under the
restored prosperity of the Democratic
tariffhas brought with it the re-open¬
ing of the Maryland Steel Company’s
mill. The reduced duties have en¬
abled tbe works, closed down under
MoKinleyism, to start up again in toll
force under tariff reform. Large
quantities of Cuban ores are being
imported and thousands of American
skilled workmen, forced into idleness
a few years ago by the protective
tariff on ore, are now busily engaged
in converting these ore? into steel
rails and other finished products President A
cironlar just issued by the
of the company for the information
of the stockholders says: “The basi¬
ness ls at present in a profitable in all con¬
dition, and the outlook ia re¬
spects satisfactory. ”
There can be no question but that
the chief agency in bringing about
this happy state of affairs, instead of
tbe bankruptcy and idleness of Mc
Kinleyism, was the great redaction of
the duty on iron ore, and the conse¬
quent decrease in its cost. The agita¬
tors for a restoration of the McKinley
tariff will take care not to refer to
Sparrows* Point as an argument in
their favor.
Why Wheat Exports Have Been Soulier.
Protectionist papers are trying to
make oapital out of the fact that our
exports of wheat have not increased
in proportion to the t?ith exports nsnal of manu¬ Be
factured goods. the
publican dishonesty they claim that
the falling off in wheat shipments is
due to the Wilson tariff, and that in¬
stead of opening np new markets for
farm products the Democratic policy
has had the contrary effect.
It is hardly possible that any farm¬
ers can be run back to the support of
the protection swindle by snoh shal¬
low argument. That the reduction of
tariff dnties has nothing whatever to
do with the assured foreign demand
for our wheat, must be evident to
every one who knows anything surplus of the
conditions under whioh onr
wheat goes abroad. These conditions
are the rise of tha crops in other
countries and the prioe in this coun¬
try aa compared with our competitors.
Lower dnties certainly did not make
bigger crops in Europe, or lower
prices for wheat in other countries.
On the other hand it is oertain that
protection does shut onr wheat out of
foreign markets. First, by the pro¬
tective tariff) on wheat levied by
France, Germany, Spain an4 other
Sctipcs: Swwiuh Auuvuct way in
whioh protection injured our foreigners wfieat
growers was by depriving Forced
of onr markets for their goods.
to sell in India. Basaia and Hie Argen¬
tine Republic the manufactured arti¬
cles sold in this country pfevions tariff to.
the adoption of the McKinley
Great Britain and other Nations nat¬
urally developed a trade in wheat
with those coon trie*. The result is
that a Urge quantity of wheat for¬
merly supplied • by the United States
rom other sources. And
thin ie a ample of how protection
helps the farmer.
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Union is on
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sfMsjs&is. Protection Platform “
That Democrat.* _ v
Win Gladly
Congressman Nelson
Maine, is a friend and
Hon. Thomas B Reed, whota
NUto-nPri^denlril
1896. It has been supposed that
gressman Reed holds mo r e
views on the tariff question than
of extremists like
Samson, but in » recent
view Mr. Dragley declares
nominated, the Czar of the
wiR run on a platform of high
p t
c.’Stfzssr This makes it -
evident that to
who the candidate may be the
licans are committed to the
an agitation for higher duties, as
posed to the Democratic policy 0
low tariff. But ii they lollo, tb,
tariff as sufficient argument for
party they will find themselves as
ly beaten as in 1892.
The McKinley tariff was adopted
1890. The American people had
an opportunity to test
theories by the results of the new la*
They found that the protectionist
that the foreigner pays the tax tv M ,11
humbug, for our merchants added tfe
increased duties to tbe price of titer
goods. As an object lesson the
tariff was so successful that the p«w
which enacted it was swept ho*
By November, 1892. the county
had two years’ experience of the trade
restricting McKinley tariff, and then
opinion of it was recorded when a m»
jorifcy of over a million men voted
against the Republicans, who were
sponsible for it. This was not a
oision between two abstract
bnt a deliberate rejection of the high
tariff polioy under which the people
were living and suffering. The qoet
tion, “How do yon like the practical
test of MoKinleyism?” was answered
by six million voters: “Protections
a fraud and robbery. Away with itl*
If Congressman Dingley is not satis
fled with that answer, he is quite wel
oome to ask again.
Next year, however.it will not be
merely a negative campaign oa tbe
part of the Democrats. They will be
able to point to restored business, is
creased business,flourishing industries
and general prosperity daring the ex
istenoe of the Wilson tariff, as opposed
to the panio, bankrnptoy, trade de
preseion and poverty while the Me
Kinley tariff was in operation. condition The of
issue will be between the
the oountry to the years 1895 and
1896, and in 189S and in 1894, before
the Wilson tariff beoame law. With
so simple a question as this dividing
the two great parties, the people will
support the Democraoy as strongly n
they did in 1892. •,
Canned Goods Industries Prosper™.
President Beager, of the Westers
Canned * Goods Association, report)
that the past season has been sn nn- ;
usually active one for the canning \
business in this oountry. In quality j
as well aa quantity this year’s pack of
corn will be grefitly superior to last
year’s. Much larger quantities of 1
both peaches and tomatoes have quality been is j
canned in the East, and the
said to be exoellent. Similar reports J
are made aa to applee, peaches, beans,
peas, oherries, berries and other |
fruits. - of
This satisfactoiy condition an
important industry is largely due to
the Democratic reduction of fifty P® r
oent in tbe tariff on tin plate. The
immediate effeots of the McKinley
tariff have been the serious hampering
of the canning industry by the great
increase in tbe cost of tin pl*t«. At
the same time the high tariff bard
times, by decreasing tbe
power of tbe people, sensed a general
falling off in the demand tor the can*
acre’ products. With oheaper tin,
and with an improved market for tnei
goods, owing to increased employ of men the
and higher wagee, the business
canneries is booming. H thff
Republican papers they will learn that
they are being mined by tariff reform.
But protectionist theories «. never
disturbed by snob little “
facts.
MINT E MPLOY ES OPF.
Only a Small Number of OMeers and
InehuHnHSnf departments^
a few necessary asaistanm, i
work to the mint at
A larger nunher of em
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