ANGEL ISLAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1924, Page 3

ANGEL ISLAND.

IK»\Y AMERICA TREATS YISITOKS , UTKI.AXR. Sept. IT. I )ifliciilties experienced by reeelil arrivals at San Krailci.-eo by the Maungiinui owing tn the operutimis of tlie new iinniigriil ion regulation- in llm Knited State- are graphii ally dc-ei ihed in a letter written to the ••Herald’' by All's I’ervl ( atoll, of Devouporl. ••.My mother, my -mi and my-.-If." .-late- All- ('atoll, "left by the .Miillilgdiini with pas.-pm ts vi-eil hv 11 u* A iiii-rican Cmi-ul at. Auckland. who assured Iml!i our-clvc- and the I nioii Company that we would have no dillieiiliy and I: - permitted 1 i laud. Judge our di-may when mi arrival at San I* raiiesic.* we found that under the new Ail all alien. - , in linn-il ihr.nigli tla - Stales mil-1 put up a Tk.l dollar bond or lace deportation. In ra-es ol passeiigei- - proceeding diteet to Englau I or abroad without stopping in llie Stales. oHieial- in tii ■ eireiini-laiices waived the provision- oi ill - . - Act. hut everyone who aiiiimim eil an intention of remaining lor a time in the I oiled Stales. and all pa— etig -- r- I nuked through to Canada milv. were held up for hood. In my ea-e ii was necessary to gel in touch with lay husband in I is Angeles and to wait i'er him to put up a bond there, which mill I not he done immediately, as we arrived mi Sunday. About sixteen el us wvro t ikon ai r i-s S.m l - ’rai:ei.-e - i Day ill a small tug. where our haggag • v.as wa-ter-soaked and mir.-elves drenched with -pray, and diimp -- d mi Angel I •land. Here we found oniselve- herded in i In-. - I eatineiuenl in a lull rat I---lik) - l uilding. Dit. iinve'il ileled and dirty, uni ar; ahum -ixtv Chine - : - women and children, without privacy or privilegeof any kind. The phu • was al mniiialilv dirlv. Ih -- only tre-h an to l -- e haii was in an inisheller d runway covered h ilh at tin- Sid -- - and I - p w itD stout, meshed wire; like a eng - al tleu her- tlie Chinese s| - at out toe I. lumps el fruit. peelings and w hat not. ills! wherever the - . - 1 1 : 1 I'.i«■ I n"• I to he. Aleals were served in a hot. -milsmelling room, hung with niiei -- ut tly paper-, on lahles covered with m'll -- I m clean Ann-ri aii elelh. eutlci v el M:t' kill--! lip. the 'oi v --- 1 a" I .il PHlell - :■! -- |. i bina and cp.ipi - tv .o - Ihe Uoapp"|,,0il was mid hv t lie 1 1 in • uiwere" herded down iheiv. and though l lie Chin. - -: - did mu dim - in the -aii:. - r.min a number of Speoi-h and Smith American reop! ■ did. w lave table habit, were far limn int itin -- . t < pul it i n i I d I v. • *M’e were not p •rmitle I out ol d - "l> I even friends who < al.:e from Sen Kraneisco to se.' u- were compelled to wail- a couple of hours till the aulhoiities thought lit I ' permit us to see Llti*lil. It was only alter the San Eranpapers, which were very indignant ever this fresh menace in Um tourist trnHie. had given miisulerable puhlieily to our ra.- - • that an atk.'inpl was made to amelioral - . - c.unlit iom, t ca n-l Trr ing the women and ehildien lo the loi-pital l.llihiing. I'ol'l llliatelv All's (':, toil had made friend.- mi the vessel, who were able, after 11-ill-: their m|J pence and personally guaranteeing mil - good faith, to gain an early bearin'' before the '' ,m 111 issiollel S I e- ( llie release oil lbe • ■ mol da.v o! deleiitioii.

‘•Pin- remainder of the oasseiigeis ~.minis , Mrs (.'atoll, •‘lel.iamed under deteiiioii. and as far as 1 can ascertain sl jH there. The ollieials theniselves w ere uniformly courteous, hut i he.\ are id hv the rules and conditions „f the place, which was limit and is run, not for whites, but for Asiatics. About thirty passengers oil the 1 nlii'.i. who arrived lour weeks bolero we did. were released from Angel Island on Ihe ,|ay before the -Mailligalllll arrived. They were linallv released heeailse tv Tahiti had left New /e'ah.ml Indore ilm new Ad came into loive. 1 Washington fouj- weeks to come to that cell,•roiis deei-ion. and Imm my brlei Two days’ sojourn I would not w illing y spend lour weeks on Angel 1 5,;!,,, i . .rain admittance to I’aradi-e itsell.