Read Edward Corsi's quotation from the book Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman
Edward Corsi, who later became United States
Commissioner of Immigration was a ten-year-old
Italian immigrant when he sailed into New York
harbor in 1907
My tiet impressions of the New World will
always remain etched in my memory,
particularly that hazy October morning when I
first saw Ellis Island The steamer Florida
fourteen days out of Naples, filled to capacity
with 1600 natives of Italy, had weathered one
of the worst storms in our captain's memory
and glad we were both children and grown-
ups, to leave the open sea and come at last
through the Narrows into the Bay
How does this quotation add credibility to
Freedman's line that the voyage was an ordeal, but
it was worth it?
It comes from a reliable source. Edward Corsi
was a professor who teaches American history,
It comes from a reliable source. Edward Corsi
was the captain of the steamer Florida and
weathered a terrible storm
It comes from a reliable source. Edward Corsi
was a reporter who wrote about Ellis Island for a
newspaper
It comes from a reliable source Edward Corsi
was not only an immigrant himself but also a
Commissioner of Immigration