Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-31
Increased German Immisra-
tlOu.
From the New York Sun.l

iarriving Ia New York Is far CREATE
than a. the same time in any yea
since the Board of Emigration was es
| tablished in 1877. Last year the fig
ures were 104, 264. which were greatel
than for seven years previous. Tht
tables have not been made out SO AS t,
give the result in actual figures, bu
Secretary jackson says that he has NJ
doubt that the total immigration {.
this port this year will be $50 900. The
largest number of any previous veal
| was 327 ,357-that of 1880.
"What sort of immigrants were com
inge" the Secretary was asked.
MOSTLY families of farmers. Al
least IS per cent. of them go directly tt
the Western States"
"Then they know theft destination
lin'thIs country"
Yes; most of them come on tickets
that are forwarded to them by their
friends in this country. They have
their railroad tickets and they know
exactly what route to take. Very few
come prospecting, and they stay in the
cities"
"Is there any preference for any par
ticular region?"
"No; they are scattered all over the
West. There were 407 who came in
the Donau the other day, who went di-
rectly to Texas. The Weser brought
I 1852 passengers, and we are told that
many are delayed on the other side
who cannot be accommodated by the
ships"
Have you any idea of the cause of
the unprecedented immigration"
Eyes. Cheap fares have much to do
with it. The steamship fare, that has
to t,n To-
owing to competition. To-day the fare
that the rate is low. Then the rail-
roads reduced their fares SO that an
e,nigrant could go to Chicago for 81.
This led to the purchase of many tick
cts by Germans here to bring over
their relatives and friends. The num-
Der of this kind Of tickets is unprece-
denied"
At the North German Lloyd Steam
ship COmpany's Office, the manager,
GUSTAV H. Schwab, said. 1--WE
brought over Sc. 900 Germans last year
to the port of New York alone. We
have also steamships running to Balti-
more and New Orleans. We now
bring two steamship loads week and
will soon have three steamship loads
arriving each week. They come from
Prussia and the other states ofthe Ger
man Confederation: from Sweden and
Norway, Bavaria and Denmark. We
have brought 1000 this week in two
steamships"
"What do you think is the cause of
this increased emigratiOn?"
GOOD times here; opportunity for
here, as testified to by
other Immigrants who have settled, a
- pxysn
home, and cheap fares. The number of
tickets bought here and sent to Ger
mans abroad was never 80 great. Wei
have six regular passage steamships,
and we have engaged eight extra
steamships to meet this great rush.
We are building a new steamship, to
be called the Elbe, something like the
Arizona"
Tho Hamburg merican Steamship
Company brought over this month in
the Giliert 934 German immigrants;
the Westphalia, 725; the Cimbria, 723;
the Herder, LAS, and the Leasing, |
,223. The number of passengers pre-
paid in this line by friends or relatives
of the immigrants is at least nine times
as great as in 1879, and three times as
great as last year, which was an ex- /
ceptionaI year. It has been remarked
that the immigrants have been of the
thriving class, WHO come with some lit
tie capital and intend to take advan-
tage of the cheap land of the West
and to acquire their own hemesteads.
The Hamburg-Americ Company
have now ten steamships employed
in bringing passengers from Germany
to this port and cannot keep pace with
the demand for passage. That was
the reason for raising the fare.
At the office of the German Socie- |
ty, of which Commissioner of Emf |
grafton Charles Hauselt is President, |
It was said that there is undoubtedly |
q more well-to-do class of immigrants
here from Germany than for
some time past. Fewer of them apply |
for aid in proportion to their number
than in former years. The impetus to
is ascribed mainly to the |
state of business in this
which enables the Germans
here to send for their relatives and
friends.