The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-05-20
100000 IMMIGRANTS.
The Great Rush Across the Ocean.

landing at New YORK this year WILL De
very much greater than has ever been
known before. Since the 1st nf January
8l,114 immigrants have arrived, and. the
estimate for. the year, based upon
Enewledge-of the movement in other
countries, puts the number to arrive in
1880 at 400, 900. The record of the, only
years appro1imating to this is: l849,
t220, sos; 1850, 2l2,796 1851, 289 ,601 /;
1852, SOC, 1892; 1858, 2S4, ,945; 1854, 3l9,-
223,; 1856, 23S, ,418 1867, 242,731; 1868,
1885,; 1869 25S,989; 1870, 212,170 !;
1871, 229,6Ss; 1872, 294, ,5S1; 1873 1885,
81s. What has started this enormous
rush it is extremely difficult to under
stand. That .one-fourth of those who
have come this year should have been from
starving ireland seems natural but even
greater number have come from Germa:
ny,.where there is no, cry offamine, and
many thousands morewho are manifestly
well-to-do farmers from England, Holland
Norway Sweden and Denmark. With
the arrival of so many emigrants, Castle
Garden is an exceeding busy place. Since
the 1st Of February tnere have been on
an.average, three steamships per day ar
irving with long lists of steerage passen-
gers, and the average number per steam
er since January / has been more than
$40. The largest lot landed from any
steamship was 1882 from the Ohio, on
April %. The receipts at Castle Garden
have averaged more than $40 per day
thus far this year and that is enough to
make lively times for everybody about
the Garden. The bedlam of the Stock
Exchange is hardly more noisy aud con-
fusing to the casual visitor than is the
scene presented by the immigrants daily
in this place, which is to them the por-
tai of the New World. AS they arrive
they are all brought here direct, by
barge or steamboat, from. the vessels in
which they reach this port, and from
here they start anew for inland destina.
tions.
SCENES IN TIE GARDEN.
Looking down from Secretary jack
sons windows upon the great central
rotunda, the rthrong is thickest about the
central railed.in stalls, where the money
changers, ticket sellers and registrars
are. Here and there, kept in single fle
by ratings that only. allow them to reach
the desks one by one, they move patient
y and slowly. AT another point near by
the crowd excitedly about 3 man who,
standing on bench, yells at the top of
his voice series of names. He is an
nouncing those for whom letters are
held or friends are waiting outside, and
his communications seem to awaken the
liveliest interest in all, even those who
are furthest from any reasonable expec-
tation Of seeing anybody they know or
receiving anything from anywhere. At
another point they appear to have extern
porized q mass meeting shout an en-
ployee of the Garden, who is making a
stump speech 20 them in their own Lam
gnage.4 They are. Scandinayians going
to Minnesota, and he is telling them all
about how they will travel, how
long they will be on the road,
where they will stop en- route, how to
get land, at what points best inducements
for employment are offered, warning
them against the tricks and wiles Of
sharpers, advising them in regard to g.
multiplicity of details in the new condi-
tions of life upon which they are enter
ing, and patiently answering from his
comprehensive store of practical knowl-
edge the questions they have to ask him.
PICTURESQUE COSTUMES.
One thing that strikes the, observer
contemplating the immigrants as they
arr. 5e is the fondness for vivid colors
evinced by the people of the Old World.
The national costumes that formerly
gave such s picturesque appearance to
the Immigrants, and marked each people
distinctiyely, are disappearing. From
Germany, Holland, England, Sweden
and Ireland come now about the same
general style of garments, varied simply
in cut and color, ali bearing a close re-
semblance to the general fashion, of raj
ment worn here. Yet occasionally, one
still encounters groups from countries
more remote or father in the rear of the
universal progress toward assimilation
who are well worthy of attention and
remark. A party of Icelandic men, six
in number, arrived here not long ago,
whose garb would have been price for
q side show. Their pantaloons of darS
gray frieze extended up to their arm-pits.
Their vests and coats just met the upper
edge of the pantaloons, and from each
coat dangled between the shoulders of
its wearer pair of the funniest, most
ridiculous and diminutiye tails it is pos.
sible to imagine. Big silver buttons,
that had been bequeathed from father to
son for many generations, studded the
garments. The handsomest mems cos
tunes worn by any immigrants are those
of the Tyrolese, consisting of long stock.
ines, velvet knee. .breeches embroidered
vests, short cloaks, cone shaped hats,
adornment with feathers, &c. The wo.
men from the same country have bright
ly.striped petticoats, sometimes with
strips of gold or silver lace that make
very bright and pleasing show. Almost
always both men and women have finely
developed forms, which their costume
displays to the best advantage.
THE MONEY IMMIGRANTs BRING.
Concerning their financial condition,
it is found quite impracticable to arrive
at any positive knowledge of the amount
of money brought into the country by
immigrants, but an approximate idea
may be derived from the tact that the
money changers in the Garden frequent.
" exchange as much as sl50,OO0 per
diem for them. Then to this must be
added, in the general estimate, great
deal of money brought here in the form
of drafts on banks and commercial
houses, concerning which the emigration
authorities can know nothing, and no
inconsiderable amount, it is but fair to
suppose, of American money bought on
the other side of the ocean. The aver
age sum supposed to be brought by each
immigrant in late years has been about
$50, but that is probably an under esti.
mate for those who have arrived this
wear. To the amount brought into the
country by them in cash should also be
added the price of tickets for inland
..,r,nortatiop purchased in Europe