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sailking to Ellis Island
we are sailing to Ellis Island from the edge of Europe. There are so many people on this ship. It is super filthy. Everyone is throwing up. Me and my sister are sitting here just waiting to have a new life in new York city. -
arrived at ellis island
3 months later, june 26. we arrive at the immigrant station. We were really scared. We did not know anyone. Everyone was staring at us. We had to register. They asked us some question and said were of to go. There was a kind man standing at the station that had a sign that said franksmirth. We walked over to him and he said follow me and he took us to out "house". -
arrived at the house
We have just arrived at our house. This is not a nice house. People live so
close and it was not the cleanest place. My sister just left to go to her factory.
Im going to have a meeting with my boss. He seemed like a nice guy. He says I got the job and I start in a week. -
first day at work
One week later and its my first day building the tallest building. When I got there I was so shocked. People were sleeping on the support beam s like it was nothing. My boss said this weird buy would be my partner. He smelled like alcohol . He brought me up to the top. It was kind of scary. I went to cross the beam. Everyone was watching me. I finally went and it wasn’t so bad. At the end of the day, everyone was packing up and one man was still at the top and he fell off. We had to clean up t -
triangle shirtwaist fire
March 25, 1911 the worst day since we have moved he. I was working and I saw a big cloud of smoke. I was scared because I didn’t know what it was. I climb to the top and it turn out to be the triangle shirwaist factory. I was super worried now. My sister works there. I got home that night and she was not home. Later at night someone was knocking on the door and it was a cop. He told me that my sister died in the fire. She jumped out of the window. I was so sad.