The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-07

OF the DEPARTURE and Carnival of the Pilsr
70 tne institution which now hang on rs walls TO show
the interest sne took the building During the year
1866 here were 10 800 mmi admitted the Hos.
pita and Refuge, being 1000 than the year pre-
wards Island during the period Sl42 749 and
the average cost per head of the inmates under
ment IN the Hospital or supported in the Refuge
sioz per mead The Commissioners have large amount
OF Ind under cultivation surrounding tbs Hospital and
ke'uge buildings where vegetables and fruit grown
mus saving the institution expense The grounds
al serve for the recreation Of the ami
vaesepis II is presumed that the saving thus effected
is nearly to tho amount Of sl2 900 per annum. Las,
yeer was trying year those who had charge the
INN grant asy!ams Wards Island ON Of the
choera aud typhoid fever; but the doctors managed to
cessve number OF persisted in their bands Every
day at two or three o'clock steamer starts from Castle
vey them 70 Wards Island whore they are comfortably
cared for until they get well and arc ablo to Join their
friends or until some other home shall have been pre-
pared or them Should the destitute be unable to i'm
prove In heath and got and express wish 70 back
TO their native land they sent homo agan free any
In order to vena'e the subject fully II Ia advisable in
CONCLUSION 10 say few words as TO
THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE Mn0RANrs
thst come TO our shores, which matter also Of some
harbor and land At Castle Garden II is stated in ocal
Great Britain soue for America from year 1915 up to
1850 ami goodness only knows what numbers have
rived mere from Germany and other European countries
have acted up 70 the refrain Of Russells song aad
To the West 10 tho west to the land Of the free
Whore mighty Missouri rolls down 70 the sea;
while the remainder have proceeded. some to Canada
and the British Provinces; but the greater and
Of the United States, from Pennsylvania up to
Massachusetts. and from New York to Colorado
report Of the immigration Commission explains
more clearly than words where all our immigrants
60 In the 1893 the avowsd destination Of those
landed at Castle Garden 80 to Arkansas 90 to Ala
bama TO Australia, IL to British Columbia l TAI to
Canada. 1878 to California, 37l to onneciicut, to
Central America IL to Cuba 23s 10 Delaware 500 TO DIS
trict of Columbia, 10 10 Florida 225 Georgia "a 1856 I'LL
nos 493 Iowa. Dol Indiana 636 Kentucky, 46S KAN
sa $50 ao1i1 s 1 asa Isis
sour, 10 Mexic 6S Mississippi lS9 New Hampshire, 90
N,va Scotia 97eo7 New York, 1871 New Jersey, ll0
gon 49, Rhode Island 1892 Ohio II 923 Pennsylvania
~ S74 South Carolina ILL., South America a. Texas l24
rennssseo 66o Vermont 2ss Virginia 1905 West Indies
Prince Ed Island Idaho l. the total number thus
Distributed being 225 ISL. Il will be seen from these
statistics that the greater number OF the immigrants who
arrived last year remained In New York, the
next largest number went to Pennsylvania and nearly
an equal number to Illinois, and then Ohio and Massa-
chusets each absorbed fair portion. II may be also
mentioned that most Of the German immigrants agr-
culturists, and Immediately 20 up the country and
generally out West and IL is the Irish and Scotch por.
ton principally Of mechanics and skilled laborers who
remain in the Empire City. No less than fifteen hun
G @ and ss ne iS
extent Of $23 49, getting average OF wages OF
nearly two dollars day During the present year the
mmi ration promises very WELL and large numbers Of
inning rants have already arrived above in fact, the
average for the year. During the past two months
thousands Of Germans have come into our port from
Hamburg and Bremen, and these as rule, have gone
OF to Illinois and Pennsylvania and into the country
From January up to the close OF June-that is for
the FIRST six months of the year-Ibe total number of
immigrants that arrived In New York was lbs, 500.
Tho month Of July opened we'll too: for the first
nearly thirteen hundred immigrants were landed, and
during the three days Of the week several hundred
added Such few Of the salient points Of the
vast annual immigration there Is TO New York. Year
after year the population OF Europe gradually
flowing into the lap Of America, giving the willing
hands work and the earnest laborers who WILL in
tme populate extensive Terri cries from east to
west from Florida up to Russian America and turn the
present wilderness Of the West into smiling garden Of
ffuilfulness and plenty