A DIRTY CITY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11265, 5 February 1912, Page 6

A DIRTY CITY.

VISITOR'S OPINION OF NEW YORK,

A Sydney resident, JUr W. J. Vance. μ-jio has returned from a trip round tin- world, described JNew York as the dirtiest city he has seen. He fold a reporter in Sydney that there was so much dirt in some of the streets that one could "bury a dog in it, , * The Americans might be a very smart people, though he did not consider that they were quite so smart as they considered themselves to be. but they had several things to learn, and apart from the keeping of their streets clean 'one of those tilings was civility. The hotel attendants were badly in need of some lessons. He was glad to getout of New York. Thu contrast in the treatment at the hotels when his parry got to Canada was most, .striking. There they got not only attention and civility, but a hearty welcome. In America they were made to feel that they were foreigners: in Canada they were made to feel that they were friends. Mr Vance characterised the methods of the American immigration authorities as disgusting. Saloon passengers had,to answer a tremendous lot of questions, some of a most insulting nature, before they were permitted to land.One of the questions was, "Have you ever been confined in a lunatic "asylum?" ami another, "rluve you ever been in gaol?" But the indignities which even h'rst-class passengers suffered were as nothing compared with those the unfortunate third-class passengers had to undergo. Aboard the steamer by which lie. travelled were a number of thirdclass passengers, bound for Canada, and he had been informed that after they had been examined and passed by the authorities at the immigration depot they had nad numbers affixed ro their bacKs, and had been compelled to wear theso for identification purposes till they got out of American territory.