Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-10
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INew York Tribune.
craat as were the anticipations formed al
the beginning of the year by the onlGlais os as
Castle Garden, as to the increased Voi9me "a
foro;on immigration to the United States'
tSav have already, SO far as April is concern
ed. been far exceeded by the results WIN
tho arrival on Friday of the Belgenland,
fror, Antwerp with 926 immigrants; the
Nevada. @ from Liverpool with $50; the Asa,
tia from Glasgow, with 574; the General
Wordor from Bremen, with 4'4
and the Cornwall, from bristol,
with SO. the total arrivals on Il steamships ISn
.Yurino April were 46, ,14S, which Is o'4oo ~
eTcsss % Of those of April, 1873, the largest
nnn,ber ever before landed at this port our,
1.- 80, o,,1, one month. This makes the grano
tofoi for the first four months of 1851, Oh
Seoo Foe AGAINST the same period IN 1919 %
68,00l; 1876, 12,ooz: l0'' AA'0'
APO; 1879, 22,814. ,..o avn +bore is
avery probability that they Will Do eAc
ooodsd in the present month. A reporter OF
tSo eH'71, 91r;Ivne in an interview with Superin-
to,,dant of the Department IL. j. jackson,
to whom the commissioners %l""oo oo,oio
Sootors for information as to tho encyclo-
paedia of immigration sV@'is'i0'' 0O'N
the following views &c +ho
"What has been your oDserVatlon VI Sno
immigrants arriving the past mon'n s,, as 'oi-i
pared with your previous expefienoo!
"The striking character OF tIose "1Ils
is tho large proportion OF naloy youhs
people, many of them ScanoiilaNian'. "no
come here, determined, by hard "orA 10 es-
tablish new aud prosperous hones IL A.1ei ~,
ica. They belong chiefly to the agficuA'uia,
classes of tho scandinavian countrieS' anu
will probably do great credit 10 lnenSolros
and the western States. Eacn oay "i'neS'o'
the arrival of immigrants, chlehS youns
men and women, whose appeafanoo "o1'o
that they are removed considerably aOoTo 'no
common laboring classes. Inere les aisU :.
production of young men VINO are sAiiiea
artisans from the German sia'es' aiI0
who have left their country to escape Ino
operation of the new miii1ay l@"s' avs
The principal motive OF tne con0iu-
erabIe sprinkling of ScandinaVians 1or ieav-
ing the land of them birth IS tnat tney nay
improve their condition. A gratlryln2 lAcU
concerning the immigrants now coming 10
that they have fully informed themselves 90
to the resources of the country before secur,
inc passage, and, as proof OF this, tuiiy oo
ner cent. of those coming have purchased
throuoh tickets to such parts Of the west as
thew intend to settle in. A large NUMBER
come here with sufficient capital to purchase
or partly purchase, parcels OF lana. Aney
nass right through to their destlnatlon' eno
are fully informed as to the best means cI
reaching there. Many of the lrlrh lmmi-
grants are attracted by the irish CatnoLio
COLONY headquarters at ST Paul, Minnesota
and intend to form similar colonies.
"What is the approximate proportion OF
nationaIities represented among the 1mml-
grants" &c
at is difficult to say with any degree OF
finiteness what the percentages are, as '"e
immigration has been so very large tnat our
limited force OF clerks has not been able 10
keep up with the statistical work. Judging
however, from the percentages OF January,
February and March, abcrt 80 per cent are
Germans, 20 per cent. Irish, and the rest are
Scandinavians, Swedes, Hungarlans, Engiisn'
Scotch, Italians, French, Poles, etc Ihe
percentage of Italians and French is much
less than heretofore"
sIn what proportion are the Eastern
States benefited by the immigrationE.
"There is probably 40 per cent, of the I'M
migration which remains here to be oistr.-
buted between New York, Pennsylvania and
the Eastern States, principally Massachu-
setts and Connecticut. The poorest stop In
New York. Among the skilled artisans are
a large number of silk weavers, mill hancS,
glass workers, etc., and many of these nave
had their passage paid to their oestlhsI'on
bv friends already in this country. The I'M
migrants could not have come here III more
auspicious time than now, The demand TOT
labor is very great everywhere ana
appli cations for mechanics, female Servants,
miners, weavers, and other tradespeople are
flowing in daily from north, soufn, east
and west. Here are letters from vermont,
Connecticut, Wisconsin and other states,
asking that all who desire to work Tor talr
wages and to be employed steadily may be
sent to them. In addition to these we have
hundreds of ladies, living in this city, COM
ing here daily for servants, which we IND II
impossible to supply them, and many OF
them are so persistent in their entreatles
that we cannot get rid of them"
"To what States do these Immigrants
mostly 90, and how do they reach there"
seThey are distributed in about the fol
lowing order: The largest number going to
Minnesota, next to Illinois, Wisconsin, Mis-
seuri, Nebraska and Kansan. The railroads
are heavily taxed in providing transportation
to the West, and they send out extra trains
nearly every day. The Pennsylvania road
sent special train of twenty-one coaches
and five baggage cars to-day. The Erie
also sent special train. We have frequently
had special trains on all three of the roads
carrying immigrants New York Cen
tral, Erie and Pennsylvania. Although h there
is compact between the three roads that
they shall have an equal division of the i'm
migrant traffic, the Erie is the most popular
route, and It's passenger statistics are about