Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — EVADING THE PROCLAMATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EVADING THE PROCLAMATION.

Steamship Companies Believed to Be Smuggling In Immigrants. When the President prohibited by proclamation at the time of the cholera scare the landing of immigrants people generally thought immigration had ceased. Steamship companies which make a feature of cabin passages flooded the post of Americans traveling in Europe with the assurance: “No steerage carried.” Some of the lines claimed that partitions in the steerage of boats had been removed -and the space utilized for freight. None of the steerage class of travelers was carried for a few

weeks, but suddenly second-class passengers increased in remarkable numbers. Ostensibly the 'second-class rates were not lowered, but careful observers declare it absurd to suppose that many-of the alleged secondclass passengers now flocking to America could pay the regular second-class rate. , “Second-class” passengers include hundreds of as strangely and poorly clad people as the old-time steerage ever did. Women in wooden shpes and no headwear, and men in dirt and queer clothing now travel “second-class.” The accompanying illustration was taken by a New York World man from life below the deck of the Maasdam. None ,of the passengers who saw the class of persons in the quarters, where a new sign “second-class” was prominent, could see any difference in tlieir appearance from ordinary steerage. Travelers say all companies are equally blamable.

A SPECIMEN “SECOND-CLASS” PASSENGER