. Book of the Royal blue . pends the activity of the in the vernacular of the ))ier this ap-plies to the number of immigrants on boardthe ship. C Here allseems to go byquantity : there areno long lists ofsocial celebrities, nofamous actresses,musicians or foreignnotables; it is aquestion of units,each unit represent-in g a h u n d r e dpeople. Quietly the[jreliminary arrange-ments are made forthe reception of theship in the morning,while the thousandor two souls—pros-pective Americancitizens—pass qui-etly up the Bay,andin the early morn gettheir first glimpse ofBaltimore and itsharb
. Book of the Royal blue . pends the activity of the in the vernacular of the ))ier this ap-plies to the number of immigrants on boardthe ship. C Here allseems to go byquantity : there areno long lists ofsocial celebrities, nofamous actresses,musicians or foreignnotables; it is aquestion of units,each unit represent-in g a h u n d r e dpeople. Quietly the[jreliminary arrange-ments are made forthe reception of theship in the morning,while the thousandor two souls—pros-pective Americancitizens—pass qui-etly up the Bay,andin the early morn gettheir first glimpse ofBaltimore and itsharbor, as the ship ;her dock. The long ocean trip is ended andthe great unknown is before them. For onelong day this wharf is to be to them all theywill see of the land which probably has beena dream of the past. The fantasy of freedomand obscure mirage of the horn of plenty,all too soon to be shadowed into the grimreality of congested mankind ; struggling,pushing, even as they have pushed in theland thev have .iust HON. F. P. SARGENT, warped slowly into When one thinks of immigration it is anatural impulse to at once think of NewYork. From this port emanate all thestories of ininiigiation, till it has almost be-come stHoiul nature to look upon EllisIsland as the only inlet into the UnitedStates. Instinctively one sees the statue ofLiberty with her Haming torch welcomingthe loaded liner to port, and the immensebulwark of Manhattan in the background;yet far to the south-ward, at Baltimore,annually come thou-sands of these seek-ers after new year is an epochin the history of im-migration to thisport, for it marksthe completion of anew pier by the Bal-timore & Ohio Rail-road, designed andbuilt expressly forthe handling of thisclass of at LocustPoint, the tide wa-ter terminal of theroad, and alongsideof the old pier,which is dwarfedinto microscopicinsignificance, itbears silent testimony to the growth andnecessities of this ceaseless tide of huma
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