Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — WELL-BEHAVED IMMIGRANTS. [ARTICLE]

WELL-BEHAVED IMMIGRANTS.

ThOMjfh Poor They Are Exceedingly Courteous to One Another. There is an old axiom which says that*courtesy costs nothing. If it did cost something, some of us would have even less of it than we have now. No bettor place for seeing^“courtesy at any cost” can be visited than rhe United States liarge office, Where Immigrants from ETnwMsland enter New York. Every"day from i,(XX> to 2,000 aliens are landed, there. These people, poor but courteous; represent nearly every civilized nation. The *tawny-haired boarded Germans, higiF-hootod KrigU sians and gayly dressed Italians, all are among those wßcreonje to seek fortunos in tlie noiv world. Home people might imagine tliat they would lose their national characteristics on land--Ing la this busyeity.hut such is not the case. 7 y . The liarge office is a resort for cabbies and expressmen who have not the interests of -the immigrants at heart. (If h v : Sti f silo f I» Pl t.iirn.m watching tlHCaetiohs’of tlie new arrivals. Among these people the rosjicet and deference \Vhieh tlie,new arrivals to one another is most remarkabf'O, although Germans, Swedes, Irish, 'Hebrews and Russians often arrive on the same vessels. Friendships are formed which sometimes are lasting. The young Irish* girl comes here and Is met by her friends. Often It is at the barge office, and as they trudge off with their smiling faces, -they stop to shake hands and say gdod-by to?some'other immigrant for whom you would thjpk she had not the slightest fellow feeling But she is sunny-hearted, and she shirtes for all. As the ceremony ends and the little party breaxs up, the men invariably take off_thelr hats and salute likja Cliestorflelds. The men of. - nearly all countries, except England, Show the same fine courte.s£_to one another.—New Y'ork I’ress.