Life on the Second Floor

Life on the Second Floor. . Women’s and Children’s Dormitories , Women and children were separated from the men in their families and housed on the second floor of the Administration Building. During part of this time, World War I enemy aliens – German crewmen from merchant ships – were also interned here. Conditions were so deplorable that the Germans lodged a complaint through the Swiss Consul., [The text repeats in Chinese], 妇女儿童宿舍 妇女和儿童与家中的男子分开，安置在行政大楼二楼。在这段时间的一部分时间里，第一次世界大战的敌方外星人, , 来自商船的德国船员, , 也被拘留在这里。条件如此糟糕，德国人通过瑞士领事提出了申请。 Fùnǚ értóng sùshè fùnǚ hé értóng yǔ jiāzhōng de nánzǐ fēnkāi, ānzhì zài háng zhèng dàlóu èr lóu. Zài zhè duàn shíjiān de yībùfèn shíjiān lǐ, dì yī cì shìjiè dàzhàn de dí fāng wài xīng rén, , láizì shāngchuán de déguó chuányuán, , yě bèi jūliú zài zhèlǐ. Tiáojiàn rúcǐ zāogāo, déguó rén tōngguò ruìshì lǐngshì tíchūle shēnqǐng., “The female aliens, Asiatics and Europeans, are quartered in two communicating rooms…the Asiatic room is overcrowded with women and children…This overcrowding…is particularly bad where the same aliens remain day after day for weeks.” , M.W. Glover, Passed (sic) Assistant Surgeon, Public Health Hospital , November 21, 1910, “They sent me along with my aunt to live in the women’s quarters. I got along with them alright…But when my aunt and everyone else left, there were all these strangers…and then it started to feel uncomfortable.” , Paul Wong, at Angel Island, 1924, First Image Caption: , (Left) The second floor dormitories were set up like the Detention Barracks with a three-tiered bunk system., Second Image Caption: , (Right) A fenced roof deck and an enclosed porch used as a day room were adjacent to the second floor dormitories.