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A German minister was summoned and the couple was married in the Barge Office. Whitehall Street is crammed with buses, trucks and other vehicles as the flurry of business goes on inside. The Barge Office medical staff was charged "to see that the 'halt, the lame, and the blind,' and those who are idiotic or mentally unsound to not get into the ground," said The Sun on March 29, The article accused other countries of sending their unwanted to America.

They are cunning enough to send only those whose incapacity cannot be easily detected," it said. The staff at the Barge Office closely watched the immigrants as they descended the gangplanks of the immigration barges. Newly-arrived Jewish immigrants from Russia await their fate in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Magazine copyright expired.

Physical disabilities earned hopeful arrivals a trip back to their homeland. A half-witted immigrant thus afflicted was allowed to land a few months ago in charge of his father because he was more than able to support himself. Stucklen had held the position of "chief matron and inspectress" since On September 14, the New-York Tribune profiled her in an article, saying she watched carefully every woman and child who passed through the building.

She told the reporter, "Yes, we are right in the center of no end of romance, tragedy and often comedy. Already today we have had a Hungarian wedding on our hands, Hona Vineze having become Mrs. Stephen Kemperez. We have an Armenian romance still in process of evolution, we have had a number of tragic histories recounted and have had children to tag and start on journeys to meet distant friends.

The following day all immigrants would debark at the new facility. There were still services in the Barge Office for new arrivals to America, however. A free employment bureau specifically for immigrants opened here, for instance. Interestingly, the office was deluged with letters from businesses nationwide seeking help.

On April 8, the New-York Tribune wrote, "There are applications for butchers, watchmakers, tinsmiths, carpenters, cooks, waiters, etc. The article reprinted a letter from a farmer in Pennsylvania. It said in part:. I want two sober, godfearing men, single men, prefer English speaking men of good habits. Now, if you can furnish the men, with some aptness for farm work, the sooner they come the better. A butcher wrote, "Kindly send a Butcher or Bologna maker to-morrow or Saturday.

Now, please do not send a man which looks Dissapated. The wages the employers offered must have been unthinkable to the immigrant men.

Ivy climbs the tower in the last years before the building's demolition. In a separate article the newspaper noted, "There is need for rebuilding.

The place is cramped painfully for its present work. In July demolition on James G. Hill's Barge Office building began. The New York Times promised, "A more decorative and modern building will be erected on the site.

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Anyone knows? Immigration Processing News Office" maybe? Island Press News Office. Update: I found a solution to my puzzle. On a picture of the U. Of course that lower of the two flags is the Customs Service Flag consisting of 16 alternate red and white vertical stripes with a white canton bearing the US Eagle and an arc of 13 stars all in blue.

Some conspiracy theorists maintain this is the "Civil Flag" of the US that was suppressed by Lincoln, but that is incorrect. They point to a passage in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" in which the main character, who is a Customs Service Employee, notes and describes the Customs Flag and refers to it as a "civil" rather than a "military" flag, which of course is true. But that doesn't make it "the Civil Flag" of the US, a concept we never adopted. We have always had only one flag, the good old Stars and Stripes, pictured here in the top most position, as it should be.

The wagon with the tallest load appears to have the nicest blankets on its team. They are emblazoned with:. One must pity the team of horses near the back, warming under White Star Line blankets, that will soon be called on to pull the mountain of trunks, baskets, and bundles teetering ominously atop one of the wagons.

Lets hope for the horses sake that the passengers who were well-off enough to own such belongings do not have far to go. In , when the number of Italian immigrants to the U. Express wagons stand for the bundles, bags and immigrants themselves. At the meeting there is much joy. This is for the admitted. In the meantime, in the 'pens' the 'detained' wait, eat and sleep. Located in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, the Barge Office was built in as customs and immigration offices.

It also held offices for the Marine Hospital Service, the predecessor of the U. Public Health Service. It would be forgotten today except that on two occasions it served as the main processing center for people immigrating to the United States.