Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1933 — Page 15

APRIL 7, 1033

ELLIS ISLAND BUSINESS GOES TO LOW LEVEL Thousands Who Thronged Buildings Now Reduced to ‘Handful.’ Thii fi the sixth and laxrt article in a serifs nn the human and political side of Kills Island. BV A. J. LIEBLING lime* special Writer NEW YORK, April 7.—Percy Baker, a gentle spoken man who admired Piel’s beer and the oldfashioned molasses one used to buy by the gallon, has been superintendent of Ellis Island since 1911. He came there much earlier, at about the time John Turner, the philosophical anarchist, was held on the Island. Dr. Baker still remembers his amazement that the anarchist was milder than he. Baker is in the position of a Florida hotel-keeper after the collapse of the big boom. He is prepared to entertain a couple of thousand guests in a style unknown to early generations of immigrants —and only a handful of prospective deportees partake of his hospitality. Gathered in a corner of the great dining hall, the average attendance at Ellis Island now looks lonely. It. Is like Coney Island during the off season. Thousands Then “Guests” From Baker's arrival at the island until the beginning of the World war, no less than 750,000 immigrants paused at the station each year. In the garbs of a hundred nations they clattered through the great halls, filing sheep-like through the successive examining rooms where doctors bade them stick out their tongues, say ' Ah,” cough twice. Their pictures, in the winged caps of the Zuyder Zee villages and the turbans of the RifT, decorate the corridors now. It is strange to observe, instead of windmills or minarets in the background, th 6 facade of the administration building or the bay and the Statue of Liberty. “Every peasant family brought the featherbeds that had served three generations,” the superintendent recalls. “The usual immigrant bundle consisted of a pair of candelabra wrapped in the timew'orn featherbeds and the beds were full of all the fleas of Europe. Food Was Problem “We had no beds here for* the arrivals—just frames with steel springs, and we would issue blankets for the night. The food was a great problem. The Scandinavians didn't understand spaghetti and the Italians wouldn't consider dried fish. The Greeks wanted their grub sweet and the Spaniards wanted it hot. "With 2,000 to 4,000 passengers on the island every day it was impassible to give much time to any. Officials weren't indifferent; they were just too busy to stop. “Immigration ceased during tfie war and the immigration station as well as the haspital in the building across the slip was used as a hospital. t Forced (o "Dress Up” “But in 1921. when Henry H. Curran, the commissioner then, and I heard that congress was going to put through a quota law we knew we were going to get a nice class of people, and we would have to have better accommodations. "Commisssioner Curran w'ent down to Washington and asked for bathtubs and beds. Well, the bureau of immigration down there didn't like the idea of his going over their heads, but he's a resourceful man. “He got the bathtubs. On the beds, though, he couldn't get anything but double-deckers. “So he took the double-deckers, but there was nothing in regulations about not sawing them apart. So we sawed all those double-deckers into single beds, and just in the nick of time, too. Congress passed the quota bill, and I would have felt embarrassed meeting the superior immigrants with our old accommodations. Quota Law Enforced “The quota provision limited the number of immigrants, but that period brought the biggest crowds we had ever had on the island on single days. "There was a provision in the law' that no more than 20 per cent of each national quota might come in in any one month. And there w'ere severe penalties for ships that

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CHILD DANCERS TO STAR IN FESTIVAL

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Appearing in a community festival at the Municipal Gardens Club April 21 will be Dorothy Keller and Buddy Romeril, child dancers.

brought over aliens who were in- * eligible to land. “So liners would race across the Atlantic to get to Quarantine on the 1 first day of the month. As soon as they reached there, they would radio > the number of aliens of each na- ! tionality they had aboard. On the last day of a month they would be hanging down the bay waiting for midnight. “On the stroke of the hour the ; lucky ships would cross the line, ' and at dawn u'e would have 5,000 immigrants at the station.” Baker, in his sanitary palace, new' speeds the parting guest instead of welcoming new arrivals. The barge William C. Moore, tied up at the island slip, brings no more w'omen with heads swathed in red handkerchiefs or patriarchs W’ith spruce tree beards. Its infrequent trips are made across the back channel to the Lehigh Valley railroad yards, whence it returns with strings of deportees, who march tw'o and two under the surveillance of Lamar Costello, the tall chief of guards, and the uni- ! formed men of the border patrol, bristling with sidearms. To return to Baker. He wanders forlorn through vast dormitories filled with his empty beds, gleaming with his cherished plumbing. The chief problem is handling the 1 island's guests now is mental. Held for long periods, the outgoing aliens become restless and melancholy. Officially they are not prisoners; deportation is not a punishment. Yet they are confined to the island, with no other resources for amusement than cards, conversation and an occasional Sunday concert arranged by the social workers. In fair weather the men are led j out on the lawns, where they play j baseball under the eyes of the border patrolmen, staiwart graduates of the armed services. (The END TECHNOCRACY FOR COPS New Device Polishes Badges, Pistols For Rhode Island Force. By United Press PROVINCE, R. 1., April 7.—A moratorium on “elbow grease” has been declared by police here. An electric machine, which has been installed in the traffic division, automatically polishes buttons, badges and pistols—work heretofore done by hand. COLLEGE -IN POLITICS' Amherst Boasts Third Alumnus in House Speakership. By I niti it Press AMHERST, Mass., April 7.—Amherst college is developing a reputation for turning out potential speakers of the house. Representative Henry T. Rainey, who is speaker in the seventy-third congress, is the third Amherst alumnus to occu- I py that office. '

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The festival will be given by the Mothers Club, under the direction of Ina Houser. The children have appeared in previous programs at the club and before several Leisure Hour clubs.

DEPUTY “GETS HIS MAN’ Two-Year Search Over Texas Ends in Capture of Alleged “Rustler.” By United Press FT. WORTH, Tex., April 7.—lt took nearly two years of traveling through West Texas cattle towns and East Texas oil fields, but Deputy Sheriff Ed Galloway finally got his man. Seven officers surrounded a farmhouse near here, closed in and arrested Glenn Williamson, 48. He W'as charged with theft of five cows in April, 1931.

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FLOATS OF 25 FIRMS TO HELP BOOSTINDIANS Still Time to Enter Parade on Opening Day, Says Chairman Sturm. Floats have been entered in the opening day baseball parade, Tuesday, by more than twenty-five companies. it was announced today by Frank E. McKinney, Chamber of Commerce athletic committee chairman. Robert Sturm, floats committee chairman, called attention to the fact that there is no charge for entering floats in the parade. Entrance in the parade is free to all clubs, organizations and business firms. Reservations for space in the parade may be made by calling the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and giving the information to the athletic committee chairman. The baseball opening day will be boosted Monday at a meeting of the Service club, at the Indianapolis A.thletic club. Guests will include Governor Paul V. McNutt, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Norman A. Perry, Indianapolis baseball club owner, Wade Killefer, Indians manager, and players of both Indianapolis and Milwaukee baseball clubs. Other luncheon clubs of the city have been invited to join with the Service club at the luncheon. Latest parade entry is the Women’s club band of Christian park Community club, composed of more than twenty women. Other musical attractions in the parade will be the Indians’ Knot Hole Gang band. American Legion drum corps and Cathedral high school band. Several of the public high school

bands and the Butler university band also are expected to take part, according to Willis Covai, band committee chairman. Many luncheon clubs and other organizations have sold large blocks of reserved seats for the opening day game to their members, it was reported. Judges of the floats and other trophies to be awarded in connection with the opening day parade will be Governor Paul V. McNutt. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, and Louis J. Borinstein. Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce president, it was announced by H. W. Middlesworth, judges committee chairman. These officials will ride at ’the head of the parade and will judge entries as they pass the south steps of the statehouse. Louis Fehrenbach and Carl Callahan of the prize committee have prizes offered for the most attractive float, the best luncheon club float, the largest industrial turnout, the largest luncheon club turnout, the best band and the largest ticket sale in any club or organization. The athletic committee of the chamber met at noon today to complete plans for the parade. Formation of the parade and the line of march will be announced Saturday or Monday. Captain Harry M. Franklin will be the parade marshal.

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PET GANDER IS DEAD Stray Fowl Developed Powers of Watch Dog, Owner Claims. 1 By 1 nited Press BEAVER DAM. Wis., April 7. George Tilleman's gander is dead

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