The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14
A OF
" zoe, 900 More Immigrants
in 1880 than in 1879.
hoo, 900 More than in any year
|nce 1860---Whence they
Come, How they Come,
and Where they go.

cal . Increase in the number of emigrants
ant an lie Garden during the past twelve
d by but more particularly during the
arse N of March, April and May last, is
rience ng unprecedented.
a pnd casual visitor stands in establishment
erred n at the thousands of emisrants who
out til immense pulidlng. But those who
chase e this immense audience are only a
art Of the daily arrivals. Many who
siuess this country never lane at Castle
Of ad being caDih passengers, Whlle many
e, and I'd at the Garden seek lodging houses
usand fclnlty Oh the baIIery until the Time
or tyeI departure.
Post HI CHINK OF GOLD.
a of OBJ by long the chink of gold and silver
ties, vi in the place, foreign notes and bull
ran Ing exchanged for American coins,
It mus passing away in payment for rail-
b its adj kets.
to do few of these fortune-seekers in a
red. land but have money adequate to pay
1t. Lod penses to their destination, and very
axe 10 ahn in this section of the country.
rospefj pporter stood gazing at one batch of
erson migrants recently who had arrived
lorning from Glasgow by steamer
Indiana, and were waiting patie ntly,
rDro EpOn bags, boxes or CO oking utensils,
1N1 hers s~trolling around, %curiously look
yrything.
. Oh THREE HOUR Ri TO boston.
YOU tell me, sir, what time we leave
isdom asked one Scotchman of the reporter.
te. Eclock.'
can / go and call on this man be-
o"euO ave. asked the emigrant, handing
'"eo cler the address of ia man in Wash
ization neet, Boston.
-HGs Ter wanted to go to Newark and back
hour, and still another expected to
II as package to Philadelphia and get an
VI Hill between 5 and & o'clock.
have no conception of the magnitude
Or a kD1 fountry, although not more ignorant
Give yd aspect Than many of their more in
countrymen who suppose the In
:, found in Harlem, fighting with bows
one Gu PWs, while the Rocky mountains are
re Is 10 esey City Heights and Niagara Falls
l brave ERE near Yonkers.
teman who has been connected with
81 liver grant Department of Castle Garden
dam, vi Of railroads for the past twenty
after b remarked to the Truth reporter :
knew such a rush as at present to
Ery. The emigration has been stead
? years. Fasing ever since | have been here,
Rht. v duTino the war and tha nanic that
cant the war, The months of NAV and
'as'es | Ne even been astonishing TO me.
ne in ship-loads as rapidly as they
a writa Fnded here, and we send them off to
his, if pl as quickly as W. can furnish them
and Sill ltles. Not an hour is lost, for the
Jews up are as anxious to reach their des-
as We ale to send them away to make
others.
xx1,rl rHANGE IN PERSONALITIES.
b first | came to the Garden a large
Of the emigrants were Irish, with
/ who number of English, Scotch and
dencles VI late the Irish, English and Welsh
2 the ih1 so that now the greater proportion
ones. ~RVelers are Germans and Scandina,
icaL mi latter being Swedes, Norwegians
lners. s. There has been a wonderful in.
dalShtt the Italian immigration, while there
with AM lderaGle number of French travel.
and rem Ough the latter seem to love their Ia.
slider it Etry, La Bella France, more intense
vinS-loo Rny other nationality as they are few
every la nbers. The French line of steanesl
and aN supposed to carry French emigrants
will inv scarcely any Of them arrive by theil
Prfect nj the steerage and cabins being peo
at rousl fwiss and the better class of Italians
avs tone lere has been all astonishing increase
and try l~igration of Scandinavians, and the
5 to giN Il IN the Mormon emigration ha;
lie, for fked.
J or do ideas of the size and facilities of the
at will 10 they seem to possess queried the
whose lin
The mo ionally a verv' well read emigran
brow. Mmd, but the greater bulk of then
ignorent of the extent of the coun
lrishman who had just landed CANT
The desks and wanted to be natural
ice one who had almost exhausted
A great quer, and had not sufficient none,
yer wanl him West, remarked that he woul(
all. A police force six months until he go
lat ship pough."
reputatNI THEIR INQUIRIES
fence ne1 u every passenger in purchasing hi
Ees a hap lres to know how many miles it j
a hand 2tination, in order to tell how long i
ings hom him or her to travel to a stoppin!
may w hey are to a great extent, helples:
ish saylp ly the feminine port on 10 to 2
a gooo zee who happen to be traveling alone
e neverg m the ~strictest guard Is kept unit
end. a ar relatives arrive, or they are sen
Ful mornl u employees to friends, 81 put safel,
+ are q road to their new found hones."
Sc is Nfey we'll provided with money whel
man Re-" asked the reporter.
LAX to a are cases where they do not hav
Emoney to carry them through, an
grants the commissioners helI
NADIA The commissioners of emigration
paid for their services. There ar
pensioners of emigration, six ap
,stor, the Governor of New York state
SleioI I'D by the senate, and two appointe'
sn cousif Yor of the city, the latter being e
;sooTare lember of the board"
;mo sleid COMMISSIONS George Starr al
nd core; tantly here at the garden," said tn
:" NJ uorter.
,u,sida or; he is almost constantly here :; il
,aiet I'M puch so as any employee. He is
Mtsida pf the board, and takes great inter
IN eIIs affairs of Castle Garden"
,nniI pw THEY ri CARED FOR.
+ II al featest care is taken of these people
wi,bir rrival they are placed here. If to-
many o '"' '7i' d .