European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday March 27,19b9 historic Graffiti being restored at Ellis Island new York a Between 1892and i9s4. Nearly 17 million Immi Grants poured through Ellis i band s main building Many hoping to make their Mark in the new world. Now. As workers restore the Gateway s faded elegance a conservator is. Preserving the Marks some immigrants made on Ellis Island. Christy Cunningham Adams an Art preservationist from Boston has spent much of the past three years stripping off layers of old plaster and pain to find old  and Achille came to the Battery. The Day of the Isle of May saturday. 1901," one Giuseppe or Achilli wrote in italian on a column in what had been a dining Hall. Adams wrapped the column in Rice paper git a and resin to preserve the surface which was covered with draw Ings poems and Tigna Lui " workers have disco lures. A cred about 400square feet of Graffiti covered surfaces in the course of restoring the Mai building. Restoration work began on the is land in 19b4 and is expected to be completed later this year. The Ellis Island immigration museum is scheduled to open in 1990. Some examples of Graffiti Are being removed from the Wall for display in a  main building was designed As. A very grand gracious elegant receiving place Adams said. From the water the four cupolas on he Corner of tic building create the impression of a floating Palace. The vaulted ceiling of the great Hall the second floor registry room generates sense of expectation and a hint of the. Anxiety people May have Felt As they wailed to be processed it was a very scary place Adams said. Some of the Grain i that we have been Able to decipher does reflect that panic that  one italian immigrant wrote dam Ned be the Day that i left my Homeland and  it lends to be in places either where they were asked to wait or where they were detained Adams said. But beyond expressions of anger or frustration the scrawls reflect a far More Basic need to Tell the world of one s existence Graffiti Aren t necessarily a message to anyone but the planting Jewing your name in Lime Adams said. So must Pietro Mecio have thought when he signed his name on aug. 31,1901. Some left messages or pictures of boats Birds and people. Others simply put their hand to the Wall and Drew its outline incontestable evidence Ihal they were there. Adams said she uses the same Resto ration tools Forg Affili As for. Old paint Ings. Chemical read Ion Between Lime in the Walls and sea air have Crystal lived the plaster so the Graffiti have been encapsulated in inc surface of the Wall.". The Challenge in restoring Graffiti comes from putting the words and images in context it s just not easy 1o know when in s done Adams said it s new to everybody preservation of   one Section of Wall Down to the Graffiti and has left Black paint and old plaster on the strip of Wall above it. The second band ends abruptly where new plaster begins. Seeing in like this you Sec All the things the building s been through she said More Ihan 20 Murec when from slams into truck loaded with steel Trenton,.mich. A an Amtrak passenger train crashed into a flatbed truck loaded with steel at a crossing saturday injuring More than 20 people authorities and witnesses said. /. The Accident occurred shortly before 1 a.m., when the i Ruck drive tried to go around lowered crossing Gates and collided with the train sending 13-ton coils of sleet flying. There were "13 passengers and four Crew members aboard the train. Eleven people including two train Crew members and the truck Driver were treated for minor injuries Ami released from two Trenton hospitals officials said. About a Pien passengers on inc train were treated Al Hie scene said capt Ken Gorno of the Trenton fire department.  train named the Lake cities,.originated in to Ledo. Ohio and was headed for Detroit i i Miles North of Trenton when it struck the truck Between he cab and the flatbed portion officials said. In sounded like somebody blew off a stick of ,".said David Jones. 21, of Taylor. Jones said he was wailing at the crossing when the truck attempted to pass around the gales that were ail american food soviet foreign of Chan e student Cuyan Kua rials Biles into u hot dog in new Yurk cheered on by fellow students from a school in Leningrad. The Lola for skiers till to the statue of Ibert a was sponsored b the new York slate depart ment of tourism. Being lowered. The signals at the crossing were on witnesses said.  Gary  said the train Wastrak Clinga Tromph the fugal limit in i hearer. Donald Hoppe. 58, of Livonia was taking the train Home with his wife Dorothy after a trip to new York. "1 thought somebody had bombed this train hop pc said. That s Why we look the Iraln because we re afraid to fly.". ,. The truck was leased to Hawkins steel cartage of South ale officials said Janis Hawkins a part owner  the company said she could not identify the Driver and could not confirm or deny the eyewitness accounts of the Accident  she said the truck was hauling the coils of a Eccl from one steel Plant to another in the area. Amtrak spokeswoman sue Martin said the railway company was investigating the Accident and had not decided whether to seek charges against the truck Driver. But she said in the past we Nave taken action in similar  damage to the locomotive was estimated at si00,000,Martin said. Daley maintains Lead in Chicago Chicago a democratic mayoral candidate Richard a Oaky has a comfortable Lead Over his to opponents As the april.4 election draws near Accord ing to two new polls published sunday poll in the Chicago Sun times showed Daley with a 21-Poinl Lead Over Independent candidate Timothy Evans while the Chicago Tribune showed him leading Evans by h Points. According to Lite Sun times 5.1 percent of. The Vot ers favor Daley compared to 30 percent for Evans and 6 percent for Republican Edward Vrdolyak. Thirteen percent were undecided the Tribune showed Daley on. Top with 48 percent and Evans second with 34 porn. Four percent of the respondents preferred Vrdolyak and m percent were undecided. Evans dismissed the polls As inaccurate and said he in t worried. The Only poll that matters is the one that s going to be taken on the fourth of april Evans told supporters at inc Headquarters of operation push a it Vil rights group. And that s the one we re going to  Evans Vrdolyak and Daley Are vying for a Chance to Complete the final two years of the second term of Harold Washington Chicago s first Black mayor who. Died of a heart attack in november 1987 1 both polls showed Evans the Only Black candidate in the contest with a heavy Lead among Blacks but with minimal support among Whites. The polls also showed Daley the son of the late major Richard , with overwhelm i no support among hispanics the Sun times poll has a margin of error of 4 per be Niagu Points while inc Tribune poll s margin of error is 3 Points. Stateside Tanker with Gas additive derails sparking train fire Houston a p a derailed train carrying a gasoline additive erupted in flames in a freight Yard saturday sending dark billowing smoke Over a Northeast Houston  Tanker loaded with Heptane derailed about 5 . As the train was being linked and took five other cars off the tracks. The Heptane May have been ignited by inc grinding wheels officials  one was Hurt in inc hum said District chief . Whatley of the Houston fire  cars caught fire including a Tanker carrying Light lubrication Oil and a Boxcar carrying plastics which erupted in Orange names officials said. Smoke from the fire Biank Clad a nearby subdivision and an environmental service company Metech was called in to Monitor the Blaze. 1988 crime wave in . Blamed on crack cocaine new York a not Only was 1988 the City s most murderous year it also had a record amount of. Aggravated assaults larceny and car thefts according to the latest  reason for the crime wave can be summed up in n word crack. It s sweeping the country assistant police chief Raymond icily said of he highly addictive cocaine derivative. It s been Here since 1986 that s when the figures started going up dramatically.1 murders and non negligent manslaughter in creased 13.4 percent in a year from 1,672 to 1,896. The old record was 1,826 people set in 1981.in 1988. 36.8 percent of All the murders committed in the City were drug related which Means nearly two people a Day lost i hair lives because of drugs Kelly said and those arc Only the ones we arc definitely sure  he said. I m sure there s  astronaut to leave Nasa for position at Pentagon space Center Houston a the vet eran astronaut who commanded the first space shuttle Fligh Rafick. The challenger  announced that he will leave Nasa next month to Lake a Job at the Pentagon. Navy cant. Frederick Rick Hauck announced his resignation after 11 years with the National aeronautics and space administration. Hauck leaves Nasa on april 3. In late May he will become director of Navy space system son the staff of the chief of naval operations. After the 1986 challenger explosion Hauck worked in Washington As the Nasa associate administrator in charge of congressional  resumed to Houston and was commander of the sept. 29 Light of inc discovery which marked Nasa s return to manned space missions Hauck also commanded a 198-t shuttle Mission and was a Pilot during his first shuttle night in 1983