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They sailed northward, 20 Chinese, a skipper, and a crew of four??? two white, two black. They reached "Rum Row" off New York. They waited several days. There was no opportunity to reach the shore undetected. A woman came out in a rum runner's launch. She went to the skipper's cabin. An interval. The skipper and the woman lowered the schooner's dory and departed. The ship's papers, the money the Chinese had paid were gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: The Mary Beatrice | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

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