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WOMAN TELLS CONGRESS OF TREATMENT OF IMMIGRANTS Mrs. Mary Grace Quackenbos Has Amazing Story of Traf fic in Human Souls. ERROR IN DISTRIBUTION Left to Their Own Devices in Eastern Cities Foreigners Easy Prey for Buncoers. United Press. Washington, D. C., April 23. —An amazing story of traffic in human souls paralleled only in the dark days of the slave trade has just been revealed to congress. A woman told the house committee on immigration of the sordid cunning of human vampires in New York and elsewhere and their traps to catch the unwary immigrant; how they fleece him, perhaps sell him into peonage, and finally turn him adrift bereft of friends or funds in a land of which be knows nothing beyond the golden descriptions and glowing pictures painted by' the scoundrels who lured him away from home. The woman is Mrs. Mary Grace Quackenbos. She is a philanthropist, an attorney at law, at one time special assistant to the attorney general in ’ connection with peonage cases, and a sociological authority of years of prac tical, first-hand study. One of her best known philanthropies is the people’s law firm, an institution which she founded at New York, where distressed aliens unable to pay for legal services may obtain such free of charge. It is with the system of distributing immigrants after they arrive in Amer ica that Mrs. Quackenbos finds par ticular fault. Undo Sam has been negligent of his new wards, she says. He doesn’t take sufficient care of them after they leave the immigrant station. And, also, states and municipalities don’t co-operate with the federal gov ernment. 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They cheat and defraud those whose are aF ready here, and they prey upon the new arrivals as soon as they land.’’ An agent in New York “picked up’’ seven Roumanians just after they had passed through Ellis Island. They said they wanted to go to Colorado, where they • had frien'de. The agency charged them $4 * head as a feo for obtain ing them empk>yme.nt in that state, and turned the seven over to an Italian agent. They, paid the Italians the amount of the fare to Colorado. Tho agent sent them to Troy, N. Y. ? and pocketed the difference in the railroad fare. Anbther agent rounded np 15 Turks. They wanted employment; the agent suggested Canada. Ttiey agreed, and turned over to him $13.72 each. The agent sent them over to Flushing, N. Y. —the fare cost him 10 cents each —and pocketed tho remainder. A German Jew agent in New York sent a number of Russian Hebrews to a “sawmill” in Florida. When they reached Florida the work proved to be in a turpentine camp. The agent had promised them indoor work, and paint ed a pleasing picture b? life on land of their own which could be acquired cheap, and where they and their fami lies could live as in a Actual ly the men were held in peonage. They came back to New York through char ity, bruised and beaten, fever-strieken. Three newly landed aliens in New York told an affable stranger of their natonality that they were bound for Chicago. He said he would get them em ployment there, and offered to buy their railroad tickets and see them to tne train. He took $2O apiece for the tickets and then escorted them down to the subway station, bought them 5 cent tickets, aiid told them they were en route for Chicago—as an express bore them away. A Greek, Mellio by name, was walking around the battery in New York when be met a parasite who spoke ,his native language. He wel comed his countryman, expressed solici tude for his well-being, learned tnat Mellio was bound for the isthmus of Panama with $lB in his possession. He aided him in finding a steamship ticket office in order to purchase his ticket, and took $lB in exchange for a time table and a blue lithographed envelope. These are a few of the incidents which Mrs. Quackenbos cited to thw committee, in appealing for a govern ment bureau to supervise the work of distributing immigrants when they reach America. At present “labor agents” are licensed by various sea board cities to “assist” immigrants in obtaining employment. They are supposed to aid them in getting jobs for which they are best suited. Unfor tunately, however, Mrs. Quackenbos says, a goodly percentage of these agents conceal beneath a benevolent manner and a solicitous external ap pearance, a thievish heart and a “graft ing” propensity. There is a bureau of information in the department of commerce and labor which was created for this work. “The work of that division,” says Mrs. Quack enbo^ 1 , “bore fruit in the shape of sup plying farm hands where farm hands were needed, common laborers where pick and shovel men were needed, and settlers in states which welcome the surplus population of the east.” How ever, subsequently the work of that branch was restricted to helping only “agriculturalists and domestics” to secure employment, and, likewise, as sisting those in need of this class of help to obtain it. Representative flabath (democrat, Illinois), who was himself an immi grant to America from Bohemia, has introduced a bill to establish twelve government agencies throughout the country to distribute aliens where they are needed. Mrs. Quackenbos advocates tue bill, and she goes still further. “There ought to be a woman’s de partment as well,” she said, “which would be a good thing if managed by .a woman of experience. She could carry out au intelligent plan to' place women where there is work, teach them how to seek work, where to go, where to go to board while waiting for work, etc. This would safeguard helpless women and protect them from the vieiousness of white-slave dealers.” EASY TO MULCT PUBLIC. Frenchmen Receive Nearly $2OO on Bet to Prove Gullibility. Paris, April 23. —Two boulovardiers tell how they proved the guiUibility of the publie. They bet a friend $2OO that by inserting three advertisements of three lines in papers in the course of a week they would receive $lOO without givin<* any explanation or making any promise to the senders. On Saturday the following advertisement appeared: “Intelligent persons will send five francs to such an address.” On the Wednesday the insertion ran: “Last possible day is Sunday. Send your five francs then, or refusal.” The third on the following Saturday was: “All five franca posted after to morrow will be inexorably refused.” By the Sunday morning 77 postal or ders for 4a each had eonio in. and the next morning 82 more arrived. The gullible pqblie had sent in not $lOO, but nearly twice that amount in a week. Having proved their point and won their bet, the two boulovardiers na turally returned tho postal orders to the ingenuous senders. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE OCEAN MUSEUM IS NOW OPEN Unique Building for Scientific Hobby of Prince of Monaco Formally Dedicated. CORNERSTONE LAID BY KAISER WILHELM Monaco, April 23.—A distinguished gathering assembled at extremity of the gardens of St. Martin, opposite ths Jesuit college, one day last week, to inaugurate a unique museum. This mus eum is entirely for oceanographical re search, which, as everybody knows, is the pet hobby of the Princo of Monaco, who has just given his 15,000 subjects a constitution. 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Throughout the whole building is an abundance of light, for in no ease has the main pur pose been sacrificed to architectural effect. SURGERY FEAT WONDERFUL Professor BonnetPourg Severs Wounded Artery In Man s Leg, Then Bitches It With Success. Berlin, April 23.—Professor Sonn-n -burg, one of Germany’s leading sur geons, reports a remarkable case of vein stitching. There recently came to his department at the Berlin municipal hospital a young artisan into whose right leg a splinter of steel had en tered. At first the w’ound seemed unimpor tant, but a swelling began, aud on oper ation was found necessary. X-rays showed that the main artery of the thigh had been torn almost straight across its entire width. First professor Sonncnburg complete ly severed the wounded artery, and then with the aid of the finest needles | aud the finest silk stitched it together I again. Within three days it was pos j sible to feel the pulse at the joint near- I cst the wound, proving that the blood I was coursing through the stitched ar- i tery in a perfectly normal fashion. Professor Sonnenburg, who is Ger- ! many’s most expert appendicitis oper ator, recently stated to a local surgical congress that daily practice emphasized more ami more that the prompt use of the knife was the only salvation for ap-1 pendicitis sufferers. OUT OF TUNE. O, Mistress Mary, quite contrary, What is this Garden row? Your will is quite strong, but if Oscar’s wrong Then we ’ll Hammerstein I vow. —Boston Herald. MANY LEAVE IRELAND. 4,154,986 Emigrate From Erin in Fifty nine Years. London, April 23.—A report on Irish emigration during the year 1909, is sued as a government white paper, shows that the total number of emi grants from Ireland during the year was 29,230. 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