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<text>
<title>
(1920s) In Dead of Night
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<history>TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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IMMIGRATION
March 12, 1923
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<p>In Dead of Night
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<p> Anna Putriuniate, 17, native of Lithuania, dressmaker in
Montreal, Canada, wanted to become a resident of the U.S. She
paid a man $50 to show her how. He took her one Sunday night to
the gorge dam at Niagara Falls, lowered her by a rope to the
trestle of the Michigan Central Railroad. With little, cautious
steps she walked along the cold steel girders, while the
Whirlpool Rapids 250 feet below howled at her. She was shrewd
enough to put her legs in trousers instead of flapping,
treacherous skirts. She reached U.S. soil. Last week she was
arrested with four other young women who had crossed from Canada
in rowboats the night after her bridge-walk. All were held as
witnesses against a band of five alien smugglers. Commented the
New York World: "Perhaps, then, in wattle huts and thatched
roofs, in crowded slums and picturesque villages of the old
familiar parts of the world, they still think of this [U.S.] as
the promised land. Hearing their stories, we can hardly do less
than strive to make it that."
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