THE 

 POPULAR SCIENCE 



MONTHLY. 



JANUARY, 1913 



4 9Yi 



GOING THEOUGH ELLIS ISLAND 



By DR. ALFRED C. REED 

 U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, ELLIS ISLAND 



IT is at least a question whether the visitor to Ellis Island looks at 

 the newly landed immigrant with eyes any more curious than 

 those with which the immigrant looks at the visitor. The one sees the 

 timidity, the surprise, the fear and the expectation of the new-comer. 

 The other sees what is to him a wonderful model of all that is American. 



Main Immigration Building. 



It is a husy island. Yet in all the rushing hurry and seeming con- 

 fusion of a full day, in all the babel of language, the excitement and 

 fright and wonder of the thousands of newly-landed, and in all the 

 manifold and endless details that make up the immigration plant, there 



