West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-11-27
IMMENSE IHMTGRATION.
Intc-estiOE Data On the Rash from
taC elS world - the New.

Intc-estioE Data On the Hush from
taC cid WSrla - the NoW.
Tbs lmmOnss and increased imi-
grafton to America .hs present year
10 excess ct ell ia predecessors, at
tracts great attention from those
studying the social questions Of the
day, eLd in view Of the interest e..
tschiug 10 this subject. the follow
ing OATS, taken from the New York
HoroId. will be found Instructive
There are no Official records c! the
number Of i'm nigrAnic arriving here
until ITO. From 1874 to 1894 the
average was about 4 900 year. 10
1894 there come sbo@t ten thousand
From 1906 till the peace OF 1914
immigration almost ceEsad, but IN
1916 the steady fow vas recumea
and in the following year OSLO
2,2lO immigrants arrived. The
records show that the total immi-
grafton 10 this country since the
Revolution CONES up to eleven mil
lions people. TIE hSures for the
after years are as folows: 1856
l92,857. 1857 246 945 1855 lls sol,
1858 ll8.6ll, 1860 $50 237, 1861
t3 727, 1862 S0.OO7. 1863 l74,524,
1864. l9S,l95, 1865 247453. 1866
January to June) l6e ll2. 1867
298,957, 1868 292, 1879 1869 362. 7G8,
1870 3872 03, 1871 32l $50 1872
404,806 1873 459 .8O3. 1874 Ais 339,
1875 OPT ,49S, 1875 l69 1856, 1877
14l,867, 1873 l38.459, 1879 1885,
1880 457 457 ,557. Total 5 924 .4G2.
AAto SIX, the records for the psat
forty yeArs show that so &C per c,ut.
are males and 80 "a per cent. are
females. Ovsr Al psr cent. males
are Of age when they arrive.
Ths;Nailstics f9r the year ending
June S0Ih, 1880, show that over
seventy countries have been rsprs-
ssntsd by the immigrants arriving at
Castle Garden during that time
New York is the place Of dsbsrk-
alton Of more than seven -tsuths Of
The immigrants. At the port the,s
landed from May 8, l947, to the
close OF the la,t year the following
nurnbers; Ireland 205l046 Ger
meny 2.l95 398, England 76l,75l,
Scctlsnd, l67.ls0, Sweden l26.92O,
France 1880. Swm-srland 8S,827,
I'siy STOPS, Norway 54.O4O, Fol.
land 4I,l0o Denmark 26. 72S, Wales
81 382, RuaSrA 1886, Bohsnis IT,
236 Austria ll3.4 40, Poland II, POI,
Belgium l0.956. West Iod,es lO.02l,
spsin 1894. Hungary 1888, South
AmsvicA $500, al others 1900.
Total 5.857,025.
Since August, 1875, the dsStins-
ton OF immigration has been mat
ter Ct record, and cut OF 1906 985
arriving since that data l,542,312
hsTo rsncinsd in New York State,
3O3 500 have gous TO New England,
4O2, 49I to PeHusvivauIr, 1913 36l TO
New Jsrrsy, 1926 70 Maryland,
1857 to the District cf Coiumols.
1914 TO DsIsEprs, J226O26 to the
Western States, 54987 10 California,
955 10 Oregon, 23O8 to Nsvala, 40
3lG 70 U,sh aud 1890 to othsr ter
ritories, while to Southern Slater
the allotment hso en- ~ fol ows I:
Virginia 1861, KENTUCKY l71I2.
Louiusna 1856. Tennessee GAG,
Gsorsia 1912, T,zss SAILS, North
Carchns 1858, Mississippi 1852, Al
sb.ms 1919, Arkansas Po2 Fior,ds
8l4, West Virginia 1906. Totsl
59s4s,
Tue Prinoipsl occupations Of the
adult iunisrsutc arriving in 1879
~ far ~ kLown we're Muslciaps
BAL, clereymen $40, teachers 2O8,
srnsts 10, physc ans 1876, scior- Al,
architect 46, chemists -, druggists
A, DENTIST 81 engineers (clvlD 20.
sugravcrs 81, lsNysrs SO, psiotsrs
%, photogrAPhsrs %. sculyters 40
surgeons lC Tue Whole aumbor o.
'Proleesionals was 1918 males aud
ll24 fsUaie-. 10 other buspos-es
tus largsr nsmbsr were Csrpsu-
t'rs and Jolnsrs, 27jo. clerks 1924
miners H72, sbosmsksrs lll9, sail
or' 1922, isrmsrs 1850. l.oorsrs
35557, merchants aud traders 1861
servants CO..
Calculations have heon made Of
che amount o. money brought BY
immigrants, end 500 bas been
thought TO be WITHIN the mark.
This Would make 100000 10
each.
Joseph Bennett, brother Of Hon. =. NJ.
Bennett, met witb very serious scctdsnt
which will probably prove fatal on &C