1880-04-23-New York Tribune-Lively Scenes at Castle Garden

Lively Scenes at Castle Garden

New York Tribune, 23 April 1880, p. 8

Castle Garden had a very lively appearance yesterday on account of the arrival of 4,268 immigrants, of whom about 3,000 were landed too late to take the evening trains West. A number of Swedes formed a circle on the northerly side of the rotunda and passed the time in quadrilles and waltzes, the music being furnished by one of the number with an accordeon. A Highland piper on the opposite side of the Garden entertained several hundred of his English speaking fellow-passengers. Among the arrivals was a colony of 117 Mormons, most of them in families, with a few children, under the charge of Missionary Bunting. They were Welsh, French, Scotch and English, and all were forwarded to Utah last night. The five steamers which landed the immigrants were: the Herder, from Bremen, 1,273; the Wyoming, from Liverpool, 926; the Amerique, from Havre, 865; the Bothnia, from Liverpool, 600.