The Baltimore Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 37

-jkHa Mj'r ajMMiBM THE THEATERS, AUTOS PARTS, SECTION i BALTIMORE SUNDAY MQRNINQj SEPmUjER im rer ins At 'Ellis' Island 'i4 memeam fe- tS? III hie-i, sir 4 I Immigrants are given, their first taste of Yankee doughnuts. tili Ahovp A rwt'nt airplane view of the MiUion, which nif abolished soon. A r'ft A physioimt ornmin-ilid? am of tho little put-ieold ki the Ellis Island Hospital. 1 Europe's Ilodgc-Podge Drifts To Our Shores To Be Assimilated In Nation's Great Is A Pity That 4 More Americans Do Not Make Trip Fo Ellis Island, Immigration Mav Says Writer After -if Seeing Place LMOST everyone who has -ever visited New lork has had at least a glimpse of Ellis Island, 1 iminted the constant presence ot thirty thre private welfare worker! thet would hwure prompt outcry and Where room for Improvement ueini most apparent (a In tha deportatio ases, soma of whom are kept on tba wt sland for week while the fonnalitiM rai' for repatriation to their home country are being consummated. The Department of Labor hat juat announced that in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1027, deportation ro to th 1 record figura of 11, (502, of whom' a nut- with its mass of compact and neat-looking buildings lying off the Jersey shore, just below the entrance to the North river.

But few, excepting the thousands of aliens who go there involuntarily, have ever taken the trouble to board the ferry which runs from the Battery and inspect, Mr themselves America's largest immi- gration station. 1 It is a pity that more Americans do not take this trip, for visitors in limited numbers are always welcome, and it is impossible to sec the station in operation 'without concluding that Ellis Island, whatever, its shortcomings and defects in the past, is now as clean and decent and humane nn institution as the cir- cumf tances of its essential work permit. QUOTA 1AW EFFECTIVE. The quota law of 1924, with its rigorous limitation on the numbers admissible from each and every European country, and its emphasis on rejection by Ameri ority were arnt out over the Canadian and Mexican borders, and l.VHjl, far more than from any other leaDort. Newly arrived immigrants land-at Ellis Island go through inspection by the doctors.

through Elli Island. Illegal entry, or smuggled alien," accounted for 5,464 A i ft j. of laat year'a deportation total crim- nal and immoral caaea amounted 1 Ifi'ifi; while thoae mentally or phyiirally K'KSi, -r of stimulating beverages far more than adequate for the enjoyment of its crew. lefective from cauaea exiisting prior The detention room, with its tile heir entry into th United State floor, big windows and high vaulted reached 1,042. roof, is reminiscent of the waiting rooms irT HAVE PASaPORT.

No alien can he chipped back to tha I can consular officers in Europe rather 1 frAjt country of hi origin until a passport of 1 that nation hat been secured for him, in our largest railroad stations, only with rather more of the amenities of life in evidence. Spotless cribs, each covered with mosquito netting, held babies whose mothers were obviously enchanted with methods of infant care unknown in the homes they had left. than by immigration inspectors on this side, has been the largest factor in im-provjng the work and conditions at Ellis Island. and in tha criminal, defective and pro- i femmnally immoral casea the foreign 'j Air ttJlJiJL ai consul are naturally more likely to raisa every legitimate doubt than to apeed tha unwelcome prodigal borne. Knowing that Nearby sat the matron in charge.

A i f' 7 Byron H. Uhl, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New York, has luid thirty-five years of experience "on the island" and docs not hesitate to screen was in readiness for the moving pictures which are shown every Satur importation la in (tore the arrested alien day, night, when the detention room frequently aanerta American and when laborious proof to diaprova say that only fairly recently has the staff changes its function to that of social Ins claim i collected will ometimeab- hall. It is there, too, that religious solutely refuse to sign an application for there had opportunity to do much more than cope with the flood of questionable aliens which used to surge around them. In times past it was possible for a services are held on Sundays, chaplains of different denominations conducting a passport from hi native land. There are men following this coursa them in turn.

In the gallery is a huge who have been confined on Ellia Iiland flood of 5,000 immigrants tcr be poured into Ellis Island on a single day. It is pipe organ, used for the services and for 4 for six month or more, and with ona occasional concerts. a very rare occasion now when the in them I talked at length. But in hi The detention hall is about all that Spectors are confronted with one-fifth of case, which i that of a aerioua criminal. is seen of Ellis Island by many of its A gtwii(ie of rtie diiit rootn, whre Hiimifrraritft are fi'd thn-e tum-s a day ly tw.

(toverirant imtil thw wc rxrmit-twl to pntr or urc ha red from llie coutitry. 1 leportation la absolutely itatutory and this number at a time. EVILS OF HUGE MASSES involuntary visitors. Only those who he ha only to put hia name to a pass are found to be diseased, or those in port application to leave by the next Of the conditions when a' short- whose cases a board of special inquiry niued entry roues there complete sej ship for Germany, where againat hia handed and overburdened staff were is deemed necessary to determine ad he the envy many a modern hotel proprietor. ontention the record showa that he waa rcgntion.

i hev have separate ilormi missibility, are detained on the island confronted with huge masses" of ignorant, excited and indignant immigrants txrn. torics and recreation rooms, and eat a Adjacent to every (lrmiury i a large for more than a very few hours. Of different hours. The separate claes ot from a score of nations, I am not com tiled bathroom, kept spotlessly (lean 300,130 alien arrivals at the port of OT A PHISOX. Rut Ellia Island waa never intended deportee are in turn divided, petent to speak.

The imagination does nd with separate cabinet for each in which Countcs Cathcart stayed ihir-ing her sojourn. AT DIKll HOI II. It was the dinner hittir when I tiMtcd the dining worn and where a couple of hundred detained immigrant were happily consuming a meal of bean soup, lnt beef with two vegctnhjei, pudding, unlimited bread and butter and coffee. In everything but the person of Xew York last year only 12,052 were not have to be vivid to believe that they I'unMiIeration of the reader's time pre to be a prison for recalcitrant alien and held at Ellis Island for such special in tub. From personal olmervntion I can say that no college nt either Oiford vents attention to all of the unexpected it it to be hoped that the number of quiry.

were bad. Today the most painstaking inspection will fail to undermine the equipment hich the detained immigran 'nibrid)fe utiiveRities lias lavi- case in which it aerve thi end will 4 fc oflicial statement that "We have noth torien anything like a wmitary and iiminish rather than increase. A point DIMINISH SHARPLY. With the close scrutiny now given in rinds at Kiln Island. Much of this has been installed by churches and other Sfime of the immigrants, to le remembered, however, i that tha some of the guests the same scrupulous ing which we are ashamed to have any visitor see, and we have no one detained here whom we are fraid to have any tending immigrants by United States consular officers abroad the numbers protracted detention of deporteea there ia social organization, ui'H ns in sinner garten with a teacher paid by the Con my guide said, have to have the purpose of the enamel tubs explained to th'm, ami even then are very diffident about generally ot their own making.

Wblch taken to Ellis Island have very sharply gregatiotia! cliurcn, tlie cn.iTKing Burs visitor question in. private. would not eem to constitute a diminished. The only normal cases to 'ry 'iuipped by the lSitptisU, whos1 I spent all of one day last month on A pusheart, loaded with hooks, newspapers and periodicals, makes daily trips' to every ward in the hospital. contact with hot water.

that conditions are unbeaxame lor mate of the establishment. go there at present are third-class pas the island, in the morning with the cleimlineRS a here again evident. Al! cutlery and crockery boiled after each meal, and individual paper napkins ami table coverings are burned. An illustrative point in that every lump of Mignr usd on the iJund ci inci in an individual paper wrapping. j'i' woiker in charge teaches immigrant mother many of their first notion o( sengcrs from countries where the secretary of the Commissioner of Im Well," aid Assistant nollMITOIIIKS SMAI.I,.

The women's dormitories are smaller upper floor in the great building with United States does not maintain techui child hygiene, or the outjoor playgrouni: migration as guide, and in the afternoon I' hi, when I rejoined him after viiting rooms eoutiiining sn or eight fi'K ann cal or public health advisers to pass on where boy and men find all sorts he board of peeial inquiry, the hospH four green-cupped towera which in familiar a feature of Nevr York's har admissibility before the visa is given exploring without any companion the twenty-three acres which comprise the entire station. Desiring to make the s-i tiiere are no cup- single. of th initiiicrants refuse to have the windows 0n at tnl, the medical examination room, thaj xerci- atel game to eger-ts thei muscles. Mr BOOK A II. ABLE.

Even for the majority of third-class passengers, shipboard examination alone to be ouml any of th foiintain-scattered thro.ighout the various room ommissary and (I tnint every otnerj misirtant feature of the island, "are wa night, -entilators opn to the roof bor. ThofC for men are large room, containing perhaps hundred metal determines admissibility, a much like a Siberian prison a they There 1 also a siiable library, with tour, as it falls to the lot of the visit took me first to the detention room where aliens proceed on landing from the transfer Close to the detention room are the beds, each holding two sleeper one For women and children freh mill-and crackers are aln ob'ainnh!" at and betwi-en meals. Beside the main hooka in msny languages. These devel and customs, the immigrant who parses through Ellis Island is certain to he put aboard the train fnr his nfw home without any risk of the fleering which confronted him in York in the old days. Even the lunch boxes sold him for the railroad journey are open so that he can see just what his newly-exchanged money buys.

For 1.50 he gets a pound or thereabouts of Ixdogna sn usage, a can of anlin, a large packet of cbew, a box of cracker, four large oranges, four apph and a hig loaf freh French bread, all done up in a railroad ticket and waiting rooms, have been installed in the ceilings to insure freh air. There is raiHal segregation In the dormitories quite as pronounrH a in the Meepir.g cars of every European country I have ever visited. In the though many of tbem are years kitchen is one where strictly tosher food where the admitted alien may exchange his foreign money, purchase transpor utenmer which collects them from in coming liners. old. are not part of the governmenta program, and therefore do tint them above and one below.

The springs, mattresses and bedding are, of course, individual. Linen is changed for every occupant, or every three days for those who remain over that length of time. tation and check baggage through to is prepared for Jewish inmate. tKI Foil BKPnHTUIDI. The change in liie in inigrn'inn In selves constitute an answer to iharg Remembering the rtotoua shouts which, had grwted my entranca into- tha room, where Mon awaiting deportation ara and where caroal visitor dV enter, it waa dllhcult not to Kili Island is not a summer resx.rt.

But imptovementa Rot alreedy covered fa? -i An annnsl i.i ten nc hudset his destination, all with the assistance of zmernnien'al inhumanity at Elli; women's dormitories, iiicMenlnlly, eich bed lias foldirg -reen hich can be dr.in out for privacy. Trier1 lire nU of interpreters and with the satisfac loreign arrivals on the same nay as myself were treated to a practical illustration of the cooperative disposition of our prohibition ncnutR, for there in the landing slip at Ellis Island lay a neat has resulted in Ellis Island twin ue. Island. Hi.mkets are jnen trwpicnt leaning. It tiny wi'h confidence le sid, how tion ot Knowing that oncexsionir's on the island are under close govern vveral individual rooms for csbin pas largely for deportation as well ns fo entry cases.

Between these "warrant amounting almost to sterilization. Tut electrictlly run lanndrjr on Ellia Island ever, that it conoinons irere were any- t'rigcrs who may be M-fit to the island stout pasteboard container. mental supervision. i i Canadian schooner, seized previous- thios Lia aa bi as tbey a'ra often rermiu are bard augjeaW bAd tb tonre ot tha ana tl.cy,. ar callci, aod tha if bud at wtuk, w'u it tiiiuj it, wouli Ik bjt the Coast Guard with cargo Bwrtr HagWil.

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