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Imported Americans: The Story of the Experiences of a Disguised American and His Wife Studying the Immigration Question
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IMPORTED AMERICANS

The Real Problem

IMPORTED AMERICANS
The story of the experiences of a disguised American and his wife studying the immigration question

By Broughton Brandenburg

With sixty-six illustrations from photographs by the author

NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1903, 1904,

By Frank Leslie Publishing House

Copyright, 1904,

By Frederick A. Stokes Company

This edition published in August, 1904

This volume is dedicated to my brave little wife, who endured with heroism conditions that, while not unbearable for me, were superlative hardships for a woman of delicacy and refinement.

B. B.

Clay Place, Mamaroneck,

June 23, 1904.

CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
I	The Impetus and the Method
II	Life in a New York Tenement
III	To Naples in the Steerage of the Lahn
IV	Conditions in the Neapolitan Zone
V	In the Roman Zone
VI	In the Heel and Toe of the Boot
VII	Gualtieri-Sicamino and the Squadrito Family
VIII	The Sicilian Countryside
IX	The Departure
X	From Sicily to Naples
XI	Through the City of Thieves
XII	Roguery and Illiteracy
XIII	The Embarkation Process
XIV	The Voyage
XV	The Voyage (Continued)
XVI	Nearing the Gate
XVII	Within the Portals of the New World
XVIII	Through Ellis Island
XIX	The Dispersion
XX	The Struggles of the Gualtieri Boys in New York
XXI	Legislation and Evasion
XXII	What to do With the Immigrant

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Real Problem
The Tenement in Houston Street in which the Author and his Wife lived (The chimney-shadow marks their room)	Facing page
Mrs. Brandenburg in her wretched Tenement-room	Facing page
Life on the Steerage-passengers Deck on the Lahn	Facing page
Preparing to Serve a Meal on the Lahn from the Food-tanks and Bread-baskets	Facing page
Peasant Types	Facing page
Mangling Hemp	Facing page
Morning in the Village and Vineyards	Facing page
Threshing Beans	Facing page
ScillaDraught-oxen of Italy	Facing page
The MessengerThe GuideThe House of the SquadritosThe Town (Gualtieri)	Facing page
Part of the Family gathered in the Kitchen (From left to right: Ina, Tono, Giovanina, Antonio, Mrs. Squadrito, Giovanni, Jr., Nicola, Maria)Felicia PulejoConcetta	Facing page
Visitors in the Authors RoomTeresa di BiancaThe Old Woman up the ValleyShyness in Shawl and PattensSmall Children Labor in the Fields	Facing page
Giacomo Marini, the Municipal SecretaryNicola Squadrito at Work (Carmelo Merlino at the right)	Facing page
Ina and Her Friends in Procession to the Church for Farewell Blessings	Facing page
Departure From Gualtieri
Declaring in the Messina OfficePartys Baggage on LighterFriends, Neighbors and Relatives	Facing page
The Storied Vicolo del Pallonetto in Naples	Facing page
At the Doorway of the CapitaneriaAuthors Party on the Quay	Facing page
Mid-Voyage Scenes
MoraSyrian JewsProstrated by the SwellChildren Escaping Seasickness	Facing page
Half a Dozen Races on Common GroundHis BrothcupThe Immigrant Madonna	Facing page
Life Aboard the Prinzessin Irene
Mens Sleeping-quartersLadling out FoodThe Purser Hurling Passengers AboutOn the Focsl-head	Facing page
Part of the Authors PartyAll Eyes to the Statue of Liberty	Facing page
Croatians and ItaliansSwedes ArrivingLoading the Barges, New York	Facing page
Rushing Immigrants on BargesInspectors and Immigrants at Ellis Island	Facing page
Stairway of SeparationChecking into Pens	Facing page
Excluded for AgeWaiting for Immigrant Friends	Facing page
The Immigrants Track Through Ellis Island,	Facing page
Mr. Broughton Brandenburg, as he Looked when He Passed through Ellis Island as an Immigrant	Facing page
StoningtonThe Barber-shopThe Squadrito House	Facing page
Night-porters Staff at Siegel-Cooper Companys (Nunzio Giunta in front of post)	Facing page
Nicola Curro at WorkIna AmericanizedSaints Figure, covered with Bags of Money	Facing page
Nicola Curro Studying English in the Authors Home in New York	Facing page

CHAPTER I
THE IMPETUS AND THE METHOD

That there was a tremendous increase in immigration in prospect was announced by the agents of the great immigrant-carrying lines of steamships as early as January of 1903. All Europe seemed stirred with that tide of unrest. It was to be a great year for the departure from the Continental hives of the new swarms, and an authoritative foreign journal prophesied that the sum total would be 1,500,000 for the twelve months.

In America the cry was redoubled that the doors of the United States should be altogether closed or rendered still more difficult to pass. The Shattuc bill was about to find favor in the House of Representatives, the Lodge bill was cooking in Boston, and in every newspaper or periodical of the land articles and editorials were appearing that attacked or defended various phases, conditions or proposed remedies of immigration. Even in the German and Italian papers, which speak for Germany, Austria and Italy, the most fertile immigrant-producing grounds, there was but the barest trifle printed that was from the point of view of the immigrant himself. In the American papers there was absolutely nothing.

One day I was in the Grand Central station in New York, ready to take a train for New Haven, and as I came up to the gate I saw, passing through before me, a group of more than twenty newly arrived Italians, following the leadership of one short, black, thick-set prosperous-seeming man who spoke Italian to the left and broken English to the right. They were tagged for Boston and other New England towns, and, bearing their heavy burdens of luggage and bundles, with faces drawn with weariness, eyes dull with too much gazing at the wonders of a new land, with scarce a smile among them except on the faces of the unreasoning children, they were herded together, counted off as they passed through the gate and taken aboard the train, much as if they had been some sort of animals worth more than ordinary care, instead of rational human beings. Here they were in charge of the conductor, who grouped them in seats according to the towns to which they were destined.

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