“The best loved commissioner,” “the most efficient” “the most tactful”—to the sound of such words, and of boisterous demonstrations, Henry Hastings Curran ferried away from his post of Immigration Commissioner at Ellis Island, to which three years ago he brought deep knowledge, experience, keen intelligence.
Next day, a highly commendable young man, a polished, a politically-minded young man ferried across to the Island, took charge. His name is Benjamin M. Day, by profession a downtown lawyer, by inclination a onetime president of the Young Men’s Republican Club. Said Major Curran: “Ben Day is an honest, able fellow!” Lawyer Day said that, as he had never made a special study of immigration matters, “it would be absurd for me to discuss plans.”
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