Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — Preparing to Ship in Their Papers. [ARTICLE]

Preparing to Ship in Their Papers.

The English poor authorities are making arrangements to send over to the United States 250 Irish families,who are unable to support themselves in the old country, and who are consequently liable to become a burden upon the public exchequer. This was the intelligence imparted in an affidavit made at Castle Garden Friday by Thomas Shea, whose son, John, and a daughter, Marv, arrived on the Anchor Line Bteamer, City of Rome. Mr. Shea, who is a stalwart Irishman with bushy,ted whiskers, freely acknowledged that the passages of himself and son were paid by the poor authorities, and that £3 in Engliih money had been given him for traveling expenses. Shea’s glory is that he lived iw the town of Tralee, County of Kerry, Ireland, and was a laborer in a stone quarry. Waged at the best of times, he Bays, were not more than three shillings per day, and before leaving he earned less than one shilling. He had hardly money at times, as he expressed it, “to buy a ha-penny doock” (duck), and there were hundreds around him worse off.