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Stephen Graham. With Poor Immigrants in America
With Poor Immigrants in America
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
PROLOGUE
I THE VOYAGE
II THE ARRIVAL OF THE IMMIGRANT
III THE PASSION OF AMERICA AND THE TRADITION OF BRITAIN
IV INEFFACEABLE MEMORIES OF NEW YORK
FOOTNOTE:
V THE AMERICAN ROAD
VI THE REFLECTION OF THE MACHINE
VII RUSSIANS AND SLAVS AT SCRANTON
FOOTNOTE:
VIII AMERICAN HOSPITALITY
IX OVER THE ALLEGHANIES
X DECORATION DAY
XI WAYFARERS OF ALL NATIONALITIES
XII CHARACTERISTICS
XIII ALONG ERIE SHORE
FOOTNOTE:
XIV THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE
XV THROUGH THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY
XVI THE CHOIR DANCE OF THE RACES
XVII FAREWELL, AMERICA!
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Stephen Graham
Published by Good Press, 2019
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I was up betimes on Saturday morning and watched the vessel glide out of the darkness of night into the dusk of the dawn. The electric light up in the mainmast, the eye of the mast, squinted lividly in the half-light, and the great phantom-like ship seemed as if cut out of shiny-white and blood-red cardboard as it moved forward toward the west. The smoke from the funnels lay in two long streamers to the horizon, and the rising sun made a sooty shadow under it on the gleaming waves. As the night-cloud vanished a great wind sprang up, blowing off America. Old Satiron was coming laboriously upstairs, and he slipped out on to the deck incautiously.
"Gee whizz!" The mocking American wind caught his astrakhan hat and gave it to the sea. Poor old Satiron, he'll turn up in Dakota with a derby on, perhaps.
