Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-26


esting to observe how the different national
tiles that make up the stream Of immigrants
which lands on our shores have q Certain
tendency to cluster in colonies. This is
partly due to a desire to associate with
friends or at least with people Of the same
language and the same interests, partly also
to the fact that certain places are better fit
ted for men of certain class. OF course in
dividuRls of almost every nationality are
scattered almost all over the United States,
but still. with the exception OF the English,
Irish and Germans, who are about equally
divided among the different States, the diff
ferent nationalities prefer some certain
localities
The Welsh immigrants, most of whom
are miners, 90 chiefly TO Pennsylvania,
where their headquarters seem to be around
Scranton. At this place, during the win
ter. Welsh performances are given at a
theater
The Scandinayians generally 60 the
Northwestern States. The Dakotas, per
haps, get the largest share Of them, al
though Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan.
Iowa and Minnesota also get part. Few
of them are skilled laborers or artisans, so
most engage in farming. The Danes Of late
have largely gone to Nebraska, and the
Finianders seem to find in the forests OF
Michigan and Northern Ohio occupations
and climate which suit them exactly.
THREE GLASSES OF ITALIANS.
The Italians may be divided in three class
m l.. III.
and who come chiefly from around Naples to
work on railroads, as street cleaners, etc.,
for large part stop in New York or its
vicinity; from here they are then
sent by their bosses, or padrones, all over
the country, wherever railroads are being
built. From northern Italy comes q large
number OF miners, who chiefly go to the coal
mines in Illinois or Michigan, or the
mines of Arizona, Colorado and
Montana. This class Of people is of
much higher intelligence than the
frst-class. Then great many farmers and
winegrowers from Northern Italy 60 to Cali
fornia. To that Stale also 20 many French
farmers from the departments of Gascogne
and Basses Pyrenees as well as few Swiss
farmers. Otherwise the Frenchmen, If they
do not settle in New York. mostly 60 70 New
Orleans or French Canada, while the Swiss,
among whom there are many dairYmen and
silkweavers, chiefly settle in this vicinity.
The Hebrews, from Russia, Poland, Aus.
tria or Roumanis, for the largest part settle
in New York. More than half of them are
tailors, about one-third peddlers and the
rest are divided among the different trades.
RUSSIANS, HUNGARIANs AND BELGIANs.
OF genuine Russians only few emigrate
l. xLs ~ Ia.
great many German Russians, whose fore
fathers about a hundred years ago emf
grated from Wurtemburg to Russia have
come to this country. They still keep up
their German language, traditions and Gus
toms, and are all farmers. Most of them 90
to Dakota. They are large and powerfully
built men, and when they come in their,
sheepskin overeoats. with row of children
following them, all clad ln the same way,
they form picturesque sight.
From the Austrian Hungarian monarchy
come the Slavaks, Poles and Hungarians,
most of whom go to Pennsylvania, where
they work in the coal mines or coal yards;
the Bohemians, who 90 to the vicinity of
Buffalo and Pittsburg; the Tyroles, the
Dalmatians, the Kroatians and MoraYians,
who generally settle in Pennsylvania,
around Pittsburg.
I0e hOllduOcIS RO.bO tdbcEnOus Ne u, OF
to Wisconsin, where their headquarters is
Green Bay, or to iowa or Michigan. The
Belgians are either OF Flemish or French
origin. The former are chiefly farmers and
90 to the same places where the Hollanders
90, while the French-speaking Belgians are
almost all either glassworkers or miners.
The former 90 to the coal mines of Illinois
or Pennsylvania, the latter chiefly to Taren-
tum or Pittsburg.
ICELAEDERs, ARMENIANS AND CREEKS
Most OF the Icelanders 20 to Manitoba;
there is also a colony of them in Sayreville,
N. J., where theyss sswork In the brickyards
the Armenians, of whom a good many
have arrived lately, are like the Arabs,
peddlers or tradesmen, in which case they
stay in New York, or they are silk-weaYers,
and stay in New York or the neighboring
New Jersey towns, or they are common
laborers. The last named almost without
exception 90 to Worcester, Mass, where q
large number of them are employed in wire
factories.
The Greeks have during late years begun
to crowd the Italians ont of the fruit and |
flower selling trade in New York; some Of
them also go West and South, where they
compete with the Italians in the work on
the railroads.
It may be safely asserted that those who !
MAINTAIN that the class of immigrants has
deteriorated during the last decade or two
have not given the immigrant question a
close study If there has been any change
in late years it has been for the better and
not for the worses