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:
"Giuseppe and I held tightly to Stepfather's
hands, while Liberta and Helvetia clung to
Mother. Passengers all about us were crowding
against the rail. Jabbered conversations, sharp
cries, laughs and cheers - a steadily rising din
filled the air. Mothers and fathers lifted up babies.
so that they too could see, off to the left, the
Statue of Liberty."
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