STEERAGE PASSENGERS.
■. 'If.you-want to -she-human : nature in some of its .-'most interesting aspects, remarked the-., liner , steward -to a ■ representative of ' Csssell's Saturday Journal,' tako a peep' at,the'steerage. ~,. ■■!-i 'can recall several cases of oraigrants becoming mad: When the ship has been out sovoral-Hours, and Old England has becomo nothing but a, stretch of-shore, you can sco the steerage ..emigrants pressing ; their faces to-; 1 the port-hole.. Then, as 'the shore dwindles and dwindles until it is nothing but a 'stretch of.grey roping, and at last vanishes altogether; a sob or two is heard. ""Then, if. you-peep down, you can see husbands trying; to/cheer their wives, and. hear children asking their mothers why they are crying!- ... v. _ •'■■-. ,' ,"I; have known emigrants to bo most cheerfuJ when saying good-byo on the quay'; but the/moment .Britain has disappeared,.-they have become..moroso, then hysterical; and,: utolidly /refusing food, liavo landed at New utterly broken down in health, and quite unfitted tojbcgin the new life they talked and laughed: so much about on the landing-stago at, Liverpool."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 76, 23 December 1907, Page 9
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172STEERAGE PASSENGERS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 76, 23 December 1907, Page 9
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