Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-14
WHERE IMMIGRANTS SETTLE.
How They are Governed in Choosing
Homes in the New World.

cluster in colonies. This is partly aue
to Il desire to associate with friends, or
ut least with people of the same lam
guage and the same interests; partly
also to the fact that certain pl aces are
better fitted for men Of a certain class,
says a writer in the New York Tribu ne.
or course, individual 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 about equally divided
among the different states, the differ
ent nationalities prefer some certain To-
| calities.
The Welsh immigrants, most Of
whom are miners, go chiefly to Penn
sylvania, where their headquarters
whore their headquarters seem to be
around Scranton. At this place during
the winter, Welsh performance are
given at u theater.
The S~candinavians generally go 30
the northwestern states. The Dakotas,
perhaps. get the largest share of them,
although Missouri, Wisconsin, Michi-
gan, Iowa and Minnesota also get u
part. Few of them are skilled laborers
or artisans, so must engage in farming.
The Danes of late have largely gone to
ANSDttShSl, dllu bIC EllltUucIS seem 10
find in the forests of Michigan and
northern Ohio occupations and a CHM
ate which suits them exactly.
The Italians may be divided into
three classes. Those who are merely
common laborers, and who come chiefly
from around Naples to work on rail-
roads, street cleaners, ETC., etc, for n
large part stop in New York or its vi
cinity: from here they are then sent by
their bosses, or padrones, all over the
country, wherever railroads are being
built. From northern Italy comes u
large number of miners, who chiefly go
to the coal mines in Illinois or Michi-
| gan, 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 wine growers from northern Italy
| go'to California. To this state also go
many French farmers from the depart
ments of Gascogne and Bases
Pyrenees, as we'll as IA few Swiss farm
ers. Otherwise the Frenchmen, if they
do not settle in New York, mostly GO to
New Orleans or to French Canada,
while the Swiss, among whom are mani
dairymen and silk weavers, chiefly settle
in this vicinity.
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
pedlers, and the rest are divided among
the different trades.
OF genuine Russians, only a few emil
CRATE to this country. During the later
years, u great many German Russians,
whose forefathers about a hundred
yearsago emigrated from Wurtemberg
have come to this country. They still
4 lyoapfpn thnir Gar,nnn larrr.na t,,1;
tions and customs, and are all farmers.
Most of them go to Dakota. They are
large and powerfully built men, and
when they come in their ~sheepskin
overcOats, with Il row Of children follow
ing them, all clad In the same way they
form a picturesque sight.
From the Austro-H Hungarian mon
archy come the Slavaks, Poles, and
Hungarians, 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 Pittsburg and
Buffalo; the Tyrolese. the Dalmutians,
the Droations, and Moravians, who gem
orally settle in Pennsylvania around
Pittsburg.
The Hollanders go to Patterson, N.
j., or TO Wisconsin, where thei: head
quarters is Green Bas, or to Iowa, or to
Michigan. The Belgians are either of
Flemish or French origin. The former
are chiefly farmers II go to
the same places where the
Hollanders go, while the
French speaking Belgians are almost
all either glas' workers or miners. The
former 90 to the coal mines of Illinois
or Pennsylvania, the latter chiefly to
Tarentum or Pittsburg, Pa
Most of the I~celanders go to Mani
toba; there is also a colony of them in
Sayreyille, N. j., where they WORK 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
weavers and stay in towns, or they are
common laborers. The last named,
almost withouteXception, 90 to Worccs-
ter, Mass, where II large number of
them are employed in wire factories.
The Greeks have OF late years begun.
to crowd the Italians out 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.
1t may safely be asserted that those
who maintain hat the class of immi-
grants has deteriorated during the last
decade or two have not given the immi-
grant question a close study. If there
has been any change OF late years it has
been for the better and not for the worse.
Bought the Concession OF King Milan.
In a sensational pamphlet entitled
THE Bomb Servian railway official
has just told the Servian people how M.
BOntOux secured the concession for the
construction and operation OF the Ser
Wan State railway. According to the
pamphlet BOntOux bought the favor of