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SIR A GEDDES. ON ELLIS
ISLAND."
DIABOLIC SUSPENSE AND MENTAL,
TORMENT.
"I WOULD. PREPER SING-SING,"
A vivid account of the orient through which immigrants awaiting adminion to the United States have to pass at New York is given in the report of Sir Anek land Geddes, the British Ambassador at Washington, of a visit be made in pes
numerous emmplaints of Ellis
Island, the New York Immigration Station, of which Reuter a month ago
seurt 189 7 sinnary,"
Arrival, he shows, are herded in wire; cages behind locked doors, the clean with those who do not wash.
Medion examinations are carried out in erowded passages.
The temptrarily detained suffer an guish and suspense which could be avoid. vil.
imprisoned in "Singsing.
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The arrangements for uailressing are similar to those for the rarn.
DIABOLIC "PRACTICE.
E'fool profoundly sorry for some of the tempurarily detained thor waiting for a delayed child, "orn father with his children anxiously watching for his wife to came to him. The very heart of the the temporarily detained. It is one's tragedy of Ellis Island is is the rim of fault, al cannot be avoided, mulesa im
igrants to the Fuited States are to be finally approved for admission in their own and before they set out upon their journey.
is toll of his right to appeal to the Every immigrant rejected by a heard Secretary of Labour. This arrangement. the theory of which is probably right, is in practice nothing short of liabolic, For days some wretched creature is kept ja suspense. The appeal hand at Wash ington, which advises the Secretary of! Labour, works on paper reebels tom pered. I have heard it said, by polition
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aure. The Secretary of Labour may be busy, overwhelmed pörhaps, with work; Rather than incarcerated on Elin conretion, with some labour lispute Islanal, he declares, he would" prefer to be sometimes, before a decision is reached, or anything. Tass slip by. inta werks
When the doubt affects one number of a family--perhaps chik-the mental anuish ust be excruciating.
The system is to blame. In my jug- neat, there can The u mration that nower to decide" should he delegated by law to someone the spot with the fact and the people before him. If the Tarited ; States Government "will exnedite the des eision of appeals so that the results enu te immuneed within twenty-four hours of the completed collection of the facts, the anguish of Ellis Island will be appre, einhly reduced.
The report describes the unsatisfactory. nature of the, sanitary arrangements, asserts that the rooms for medical hour}< unsuitable and inadequate, and Latinents the use of locked doors anal, wire ages, although Sir Auckland say that he is acished the work of the station could not be done without them. Sir Auckland procreds;-
Nothing but hot water, strong soda and soaps,” freely and frequently applied with embhing-brush, will serve if real cleanliness is to be obtained. As a result of the presence of chronic dirt, the build. ings are pervaded by a Bat, stale smell. This is quite distinct from the" pungent] adour of unwel humanity. Both are to be me at Ellis Island. Indeed, the compound smell of old dirt and new. immigrants is so nearly universal there that should not to be surprised if it were no longer noticed by the meshes of the staff. After leaving the island it took me 36 hours to get rid of the aromi, which flavoured everything "ate drank.
CSKS IN WIDE CACKS,
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Sleeping accommodation far immig rants and detained persons, i zmrovided chiefly in two-tiere! bunks. These, in most CE the ping rooms, are arranged in wire cages, the alley-ways being roofed over with stout wire net.
, TORMENTS OF THE DEPARTET, The conditions under which those re fused admittance spend their time in Ellis Teland are perhaps as satisfactory as the building will permit. Personally. should prefer imprisonment in Sing Sing to insureration on Ellig Island awaiting deportation.
To adil to the mental tomments of thuac sentenced to deportation, well-meaning. kindly people, with heads softer even than their hearts, seck to entertain them with what are effled "Americanisation. abesses and kinematograph films. The purpose of these is to tell immigrants how great a crustry America is anul to' wake them good citizens.
A "Red" umlär sentence of deporta- tion has possibly views of his own I am sure that it is necessary to enenge the subject of the United States. So, the bunks to prevent thefts and yet, possibly, have those who are to be more unpleasant cutrages, Yet I can understand a evrtain reaction of annoyed surprise on the part of those whose rarly Experiences were of decent surroundings on being told to go to bed in a cage, even though the dige is necessary andḥ
{\"fe their protection.
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deported because they are in excess of their national quota. As a matter of fact, what Ellis Island reeds, in judgment. is to be relieved of the pre- sence of about me-half of the prople who are noured into it.
Elis Eland is too small to neermanns date in comfort the numbers of imm
erants that vor to the port of New
Retunt surface upon which the in- migrant reclines is either waren wire or canvas, supported on metal ads. The York. anvases that I examined had not been „The hospital, which is at mer a matern- log in pas, not more than a few months,ity horse and an asylum for the insane. but the immigration Commissioner sal has good arrangements, that they were not regularly changel ár cleaned..
ANGGESTED REPOMURA.
After seeing Ellis Island and studying its problems I believe that it is true to say that it is impossible to administer
1 cannot help thinking that it must be! very unpleasant to deep in the lower of these two-tiered herth, when ill-tuck places a brutalised sort of creature in the migration station under exinting berth above,
GOOD Feb.
The food is of good quality and we cooked. The dining-room is the hangs room in the building-when meal, begin. It is impossible, however, for any staff to keep it clean during als, owing to what may be incorrectly described as the table ENTITIES" of the guests, who incidentally w the floor as a universal slap bowl and refuse can. Generally, I thought the ar- rangements for feeding the best that could be "expected. 1 suw the dinner served. It was excellent. -
|United Staten laws without hardship and tragedy. If systeni" voald he devised which would prohibit persons desiring to front Europe or elsewhere without, the come to the United States from sailing certainty of abaission to the United Stites, the problem would be almost entirely solved.
sille authorities. I should recommend:
· If I were asked to advise the respon Pat the existing buildings into a thorough state of repair and keep thoroughly elean.
Arrange through structura alteration Da everything to expedite the handling for proper medical examination rooms."
of the immigrants, especially in the matter of appeals,
Provide a new station for criminal de
portees.
Authorise United States Consuls to ge- fuse visas to the passports of those obviously prevented by law from enter ing the United States. Acringe. if possible. for all immigrants to be finally approved or disapproved in their boue lands.
The essential problem. of Ellis Jaland is the immigrants and would-be immi-j granie who create it. If they were, alt. accustomed to the same standards of per sonal cleanliness and consideration for their flows Ellis Island would know few re difficulties, but they are not. These who pass through the immigration station range from the highly educated and gently nurtured; now fallen into straiten- rd circumstaney's. to thr utterly Irutalised victim, of poverty and op- pression in some saree civilised land.
The ideal Ellis Island. Sir Auckland They speak many tongues and dialects. says, would have ground round it, so They all, lady. prostitute, mechanic, that those whose sojourn there could not rabbi, and what-not are frightoued, négbe brief would have space to move about vous, aby, and strange to their surround and to get away from what mast often ings
he a nauseating contact with their cow- panions in detention.
It really is remarkable to see how well the miserable Drob of nervous huma beings with all their worldly goods, re maneuvred through the legally necessary examinations and are despatched to their destinations. The officials certainly de
erve credit for what they do achieve.
They are ignorant of what is expected of thea. Anxious and worried old men and women, young men, girls and little children drift about roots into which they have been pat, or crowd round doors which they think many open. The units in this heterogeneous mass of humanity obviously dislike some of their contacts with one another and.. yet like sheep follow where any leads. Like sheep, too, they have to be herded-and, 'by hurdles, kopt from straying.
From the waiting-room the men and women are called out in batelies, male and". female, for examination by the medienl] officers. An unpleasant experience await them. The rooms were not designed to provide facilities for the sort of medica examination now required by law. No soparate dressing-rooms or cubicles are provided. The men strip to their trousers in a crowd jammed between coat racks. They have to pile their things on the! racks higgledy-piggledy-the clean clothes of the washed or the foul clothes of the unwashed. Personally, I thought it disgusting for the washell.
The inspections that I saw were, from the professional point of view, consider ing their purpose, thorough and effectivo; from the noint of view of sensitive im migrant, distinctly unpleasant b should imagine. The examination of the female immigrants is made by women dustore. Įs
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