The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-13
THE IMMIGRATION IN 1887.

Comparative Figures Showing the Business
Done by the Different Steamship Lines
New York Commercial Advertiser.
An interesting summary of the immigration to
this port during the year 1887 has just been pre-
pared by Landing Agent Moore, OF Castle Gar
den. 1t gives the number of cabin and steerage
passengers which arrived, together with the
names of the steamship lines. the ports from
which they came, the names of the agents; and
the number of trips of each line. The total
number Of immigrants was 81 ,619 storage. and
rs 1872 cabin, brought In ss5 shiploads, or an ay-
erage of 800 passengers to each ship
The statements is especially valuable as afford
ing q means of comparison, not otherwise OBJ
tainable, OF the passenger business of the va
rious steamship lines. The North German Lloyd
line. which makes two trips week during the
summer season for Bremen and Southampton,
heads the list with an importation OF o. 40
Storage and 12,505 cabin passengers. This Is
nearly double the number brought by any other
line The Cunard line seems to have continued
its monopoly of frst-class passengers, with the
top figure OF Is 300 brought over in the ffty-one
trips Of the year. The Cunard ships also carried
17,729 steerage passengers. Second on the list
stands the White aa wa nd % IN
age. For these three leading lines the average
number of passengers trip was nearly fOO for
the North German Lloyd. $50 for the Cunard tof
which number more than 300 per trip were first
class), and 720-the highest average-on each
White Star ship. The line which brought the
third greatest number OF shlploads from any
one port was the Hamburg American Packet
Company. with $3.50 cabin and q, 352 steerage
in sixty trips.
The Anchor line which brought 40 shiploads
from Glasgow, 80 from the Mediterranean and
z from Liverpool, ranks among the highest in
the total number of passengers carried to this
port. In fact. the importation by the ships of
this line second only to that by the North
German Lloyd line, if all its branches are in
cluded. The Anchor steamships figures add MP
9, l55 cabin. and 36, 993 Storage, an average Of
about 525 trip. OF these the big City OF Rome.
on each of her seven trips from Liverpool, had
average of 426 cabin, and 664 Storage pas
sengers.
The lines that rank next highest are the In
man, with 500 cabin and q, 264 steerage pas
sengers in So trips; the Red Star, with 3,045
cabin and % 0U7 storage passengers in % trips;
passengers in 48 trips; The French line, with
6,7l3 cabin and %. 348 steersge passengers in 50
trips; the National line, with 2506 cabin and IT.
s88 Storage passengers in 40 trips; the State
line, with 2, 909 cabin and 1851 steerage pas
sengers, in AZ trips; the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
line, with 2. 759 cabin and 1921 steerage pas
with $50 cabin and 1928 storage passengers,
in % trips. The Carr line, from Hamburg
which carried cabin passengers in the prsvi-
GUS year, brought over one cabin and 14.121
steeraee passengers in AZ trips last year. The
other passenger lines whose ships discharge
their living cargoes at this port during last year.
were as follows The Fabre line, with u cabin
and 1911 steerage in Is loads; the National
Navigation Company, with "a cabin and 1923
steerage, in 10 trips; the Floria Company, with
2l9 cabin and 1926 steerage, in IL trips; the
Bordeaux Steam Navigation Company. Isl
cabin and 2. $50 steerage in IL trips; the Baltic
line, with % cabin and 1875 steerage, in II
trips and the Twin Screw line, with 500 cabin
and 385 steerage. in Is trips; besides which %
miscellaneous ships brought 1913 cabin. and 387
steerage passengers
More than half of the total cabin. and nearly
one-third of the total steerage immigration
from Liverpool. the passengers by all
ships from that port numbering 80, 049 cabin and
128. 628 steerage. by 259 shploads The immi-
grafton from Mediterranean ports. chiefly Ital-
greater
ing 1885, the total number being $50 cabin and
80, 048 Storage, in 70 shiploads The other
chief points from which the immigrants came
were Bremen, which sent in round numbers 65.
900; Hamburg 53. 900; Glasgow A. 900; Antwerp
%, 600; Havre, 1000; Copenhagen. IA, 900; Rot
terdam, II, 900 and Amsterdam, 5000.