The Forrest City times., 1890-01-25
iw HERE IMMIGRANTS GO.
Sos ia of the Laws Which Govern Their Choice of Home.

Tn sy Associate With Friends --Tha Welsh
 Go to Pennsylvania---The scandiaavians to
 the Norshwest---Ths Italiana Divide---
 Hebrews Settle in Cities.
 It is interesting to observe how the 1i fferent nationalities that make up the ss ream of immigrants which lands on on shores have a certain tendency to CT, tster in colonies. This is partly dca 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 bettcr fitte q for men of n certain class. Of cour so individuals of almost every natic 'nality 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 tho different states, the different nation alities prefer solne certain localities. The Welsh immigrants. most of whom are miners. says the New York Tribune. go chiefly to. Pennsylvania, where their head quarters seem to be around Scranton. At this place, dur ing the winter. Welsh performances are given at Il tn eater.
 The Scandnayians generally go to tho north westerri states. The Daxotas, perhaps. get the largest share of them, although Missouri. Wisconsin. Michi- gau. Iowa and Minnesota also get a part. Few of them are skilled labor CTS or artisianA 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 a climate which suit the m exactly.
 The Italians may be divided in three classes Those who are merely eommou lahorers, and who come cbieily f.om around Naples to work on railroads. as street cleaners. etc, for \ largo part stopping in New York or i(s vicinity; from here they arc then sent. bv their bosses, or patrones, all over the country. wherever railroads are being built From Northern Italy comes large number Of miners. who chiefly 20 to the coal mines in Illinois or Michigan, or the mines Of Arizona. Colorado and Montana. This class oi people is of much higher intelligence than the first clnss. Then a great many farmers aud wiucgrowers from Northern Italy go to California To that state also go many French farm- CTS, us well as a few Swiss farmers. Otherwise the Frenchmon. if they do not settle in New York. mostly go "a 1 New Orleans or to French Canada The Hebrews. from Russia. Poland, Austria or Roumania, for tho largest part settle in New York More than half of them arc tailorS about one | third peddlers, and the rest arc divided among the different trades.
 Of genuine Russians. oaly few i emigrate to this country. During the 1 later years Il great many German Rus. sims, whose forefathers about hun dred years ago emigrated from Nur. i temhurg to Russia have came to this country They still keep up their l German language. traditions and GUS l toms, aud are all farmers. Most oI 1 them go to Dakota. They are large i and powerfully men. and when 1 they come in their sheepskin over coats. with row of children following them. aii clad in ihe same way. they 1 form picturesque sight
 From the Ausrro- Hungarian mon. archy como tho Slavaks. Poles and I Hungarlaus. most of whom 20 to Penn. l sylvania, where they work in the coal | mines UT coal yards. the Bohcmians, who go to the vicinity of Buffalo and 1 Pittsburg; tho Tyroles, the Dalma- i tians. the kroatians and MovariaHs.
 who generally settle in pennSylvani. around Pittsburr.
 Most ot tho icelanders go to Mani l toba; there Is also colony of them in SavreyiIlc. \. j.. whoro they work in the hriekyards.
 Tho Armenians. of whom a good
 many have arrived lately. arc like tho ! Arabs, pedd.ers or trades non. in which case they stay in New York. or they
 arc silkweavers. and stay in New York
 or the neighborlng New Jersey towns, ! or they are common lahorers The ] last-named almost without exception 1 go to Worchester, Mass. where a large
 number of them are employed in wire l factories.
 i The GreeNs have during fate years i begun 10 crowd the Italians out of the
 fruit aud flower selling trade in New l York; some of them also go west and
 south, where they compete with the 1 Italians in the work on the railroads. It may safely be asserted that those
 who maintain that the class of immi-
 grants has deteriorated during the last
 decade or two have not given the i'm. 1 migrant question close study. Il thero has oeeu any change in late years
 il has been for the better and not for
 the worse.
 Rigid Eeonomy
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