{"id":84,"date":"2006-05-09T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T04:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/konstanti-arrives-at-ellis-island\/"},"modified":"2016-05-22T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:00:44","slug":"konstanti-arrives-at-ellis-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/84","title":{"rendered":"Konstanti Arrives at Ellis Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">My maternal grandfather, Konstanti Niedzia\u0142koski (who later in life spelled his name Kostanty Niedzialkowski) left his home in the <a title=\"Russian Partition of Poland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Partitions_of_poland\">Russian Partition of Poland<\/a> and set off for a new life in America .\u00a0 From what I have learned about the process, agents for the shipping companies actively recruited potential emigrants throughout Europe, arranging most of the details for their passage to America .\u00a0 These details included transportation to a port of departure in Europe, passage on a ship to America, and transportation in America to their final destination .\u00a0 They may also have arranged for their lodging for them at the port of departure, since the emigrant may have had to stay in the port for a time while waiting for the ship to sail.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"S.S. Ryndam\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Ryndam-van-de-NASM-w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image85\" style=\"width: 453px; height: 273px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Ryndam-van-de-NASM-w.jpg\" alt=\"S.S. Ryndam\" width=\"453\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Konstanti obtained a passport from the Russian government, traveled from his home to the port of Rotterdam and registered for passage on the S.S. Ryndam, a ship operated by the <a title=\"Holland-America Line\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\">Holland-America Line<\/a> .\u00a0 He purchased a third class, or steerage accommodation on the ship, which amounted to a bunk deep in the ship&#8217;s hull, with relatively little opportunity for privacy .\u00a0 Food was poor, sanitation was something to be desired, and the opportunity to visit the upper deck for fresh air was limited.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Steerage\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Steerage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image82\" style=\"width: 457px; height: 293px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Steerage.jpg\" alt=\"Steerage\" width=\"457\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Rijndam_(ID-2505)\">S.S. Ryndam<\/a> was a 12,340 gross ton ship, built in 1901 .\u00a0 The ship provided accommodations for 286 First Class passengers, 196 Second Class passengers, and 1800 Third Class (Steerage) passengers .\u00a0 The ship was able to achieve a speed of 15 knots and made the journey from Rotterdam to New York in ten days .\u00a0 Konstanti left Rotterdam on May 14, 1910 and arrived in New York on May 24, 1910, where he was processed through <a title=\"Ellis Island\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ellisisland.org\/\">Ellis Island<\/a> .\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/IMM-Niedzialkoski-Konstanti-1910.pdf\">Passenger Arrival manifest of Konstanti Niedzialkoski<\/a> lists him on line 8 .\u00a0 It shows that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>He was 18 years old and single at the time he immigrated<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>His occupation was farm laborer<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>He was able to read and write<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>His nationality was Russian, but his &#8220;race or people&#8221; was Polish<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>His last permanent residence was Omaszki, Lomza in Russia<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>His father was Teofil Niedzialkoski, living in Omaszki, Lomza<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>His final destination was <a title=\"Worcester, Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.worcester.ma.us\/\">Worcester, Massachusetts<\/a> and he already had a ticket to his final destination<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>His passage was paid by his uncle and he had $9 with him<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>He was going to stay with his uncle, Franciszek Niedzialkowsky at <a title=\"18 Huntington Avenue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/18+Huntington+Ave,+Worcester,+MA+01606\">18 Huntington Avenue<\/a> in Worcester, Massachusetts<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>He was 5 feet, 3 inches tall, of fair complexion, with blond hair and blue eyes<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>He was born in Omaszki, Russia<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Ellis Island\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/ellis-island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image83\" style=\"width: 446px; height: 359px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/ellis-island.jpg\" alt=\"Ellis Island\" width=\"446\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Konstanti had arrived .\u00a0 He was examined, processed, and sent on his way to lead his new life in America .\u00a0 Next,\u00a0Konstanti files his <a title=\"Declaration of Intention\" href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybranches.com\/naturalization.html\">Declaration of Intention<\/a> to become a citizen of the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My maternal grandfather, Konstanti Niedzia\u0142koski (who later in life spelled his name Kostanty Niedzialkowski) left his home in the Russian Partition of Poland and set off for a new life in America .\u00a0 From what I have learned about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/84\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niedzialkowski","tag-immigration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-1m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19152,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/19152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}