News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
WHERE IMMIGRANTS GO.
Soma of the Laws Which Govern Their
Choice of Home.
They Associate With Friends---The Welsh
Go to Pennsylvania---The scandinavians to
the Northwest---The Italians Divide
Hebrews Settle in Cities.

1t is interesting to observe how the
different nation&lities that make up the
stream of immigrants which lands on
our shores have certain tendency to
cluster in colonies. This is partly
due to desire to associate with friends,
or at least with people of the language
and the same interests, partly also to
the fact that certain places are better
fitted for men of a certain class. OF
course individuals of almost every
nationality are scattered all over the
United States, but still. with the ex-
ception of the English, Irish and Ger
mans, who are equally divided among
the different states, the different nation
alities prefer some certain localities.
The Welsh immigrants, most of
whom are miners, says the New York
Tribune, go chiefly to Pennsylvania,
where their headquarters seem to be
around Scranton. At this place, dur
ing the winter, Welsh performances
are given at a theater.
The Scandinavians generally go to
the northwestern states. The Dakotas,
perhaps, get the largest share of them,
although Missouri. Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, Iowa and Minnesota also get
part. Few of them are skilled labor
ers or artisans, so most engage in
farming. The Danes of late have
largely gone to Nebraska, and the
Finlanders seem to find in the forests
of Michigan and Northern Ohio occu-
pations and climate which suit them
exactly.
The Italians may be divided in
three classes. Those who are merely
common laborers, and who come
chiefly from around Naples to work on
railroads, as street cleaners, etc,
for large part stopping in New York
or its vicinity; from here they are then
sent by their bosses, or patrones, all
over the country, wherever railroads
are being built. From Northern Italy
comes 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 first class. Then a great |
many farmers and winegrowers from
Northern Italy go to California. To |
that state also go many French farm
ers, as well as few Swiss farmers. |
Otherwise the Frenchmen, if tn ey do |
not settle in New York, mostly go to |
New Orleans or to French Canada.
The Hebrews. from Russia, Poland, |
Austria or Roumania, 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.
OF genuine Russians, only a few
emigrate to this country. During the
later years great many German Rus
slams, whose forefathers about a hun
dred years ago emigrated from Wur-
temburg to Russia have come to this
They still keep up their
German language, traditions and Gus
toms, and are all farmers. Most of
them go to Dakota. They are large
and powerfully-built men, and when
hey come in their sheepskin over
coats, with row of children following
hem, all clad in the same way, they
orm a picturesque sight
From the Austro-Hungarian mon
archy come the Slavaks, Poles and
most of whom go to Penn
sylvania, where they work in the coal
mines or coal yards; the Bohemians, |
who go to the vicinity of Buffalo and
Pitt5burg; the Tyroles, the Dalma-
'ians, the Kroatfans and Movariaus,
Who generally settle in Pennsylvania,
around Pittsburg.
Most of the Icelanders go to Mani
oba; there is also colony of them in
'ayreville, N. j., where they work in
he brickyards.
The Armenians, of whom a good
many have arrived lately, are like the
arabs, peddlers or tradesmen, in which
ase they stay in New York. or they
re silkweavers, and stay in New York
n the neighboring New Jersey towns,
# they are common laborers. The
almost without exception
% to Worcester, Mass, where large
lumber of them are employed in wire
The Greeks have during late years
egun to crowd the Italians out of the
ruit and flower selling trade in New
FORK; some of them also go west and
outh, where they compete with the
italians in the work on the railroads.
1t may safely be asserted that those
Tho maintain that the class of immi-
rants has deteriorated during the last
ecade or two have not given the i'm
Migrant question a close study. If
here has been any change in late years
! has been for the better and not for
ne worse.
Rigid Economy.