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good ship sailed, and their bril- 

 liant cheeks and country dress are 

 in keeping with their dense igno- 

 rance and shyness. They know 

 the price of shoes and what spuds 

 are worth at market, but it is 

 beyond them to recall the date of 

 their birthday, or what the pres- 

 ent month may be. 



Those immigrants who are 

 destined for points other than 

 N"ew York City are sent to the rail- 

 road room. Here they change 

 their money for United States coin, 

 and buy their railroad tickets 

 under careful supervision. Their 

 baggage is checked, they have a 

 telegraph, cable and post office of 



A Servian Woman. 



A Genuine Harem Skirt. 



rhotograph, taken at Ellis Island, 

 of a woman from Hindustan. 



their own, and may buy lunches 

 whose contents are exhibited to all 

 in glass cases. Special agents see 

 that each one buys a lunch propor- 

 tioned to the size of his family and 

 the length of his journey. Cigars, 

 cakes and fruits are also to be had. 

 One day a stolid and emotionless 

 Slavish woman opened her card- 

 board lunch box at the bottom and 

 extraced a piece of bologna cut on 

 the bias, smelled it carefully from 

 different sides, licked it, finally 

 tasted it, and then broke into a flood 

 of smiles as she pressed it forcibly 

 into the mouth of her equally stolid 

 two-year-old baby. And the baby 

 sucked and munched on the new 



