Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-02
WHERE IMMIGRANTS SETTLE.
How They Are Governed in Choosing Homes
In the New World.

How They Are Governed in Choosing Home!
In the New World.
1t is interesting to observe how the
different Municipalities that make III
the stream of immigrants which land:
on our shores have a 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 fitted for men of a
certain class, says a writer in the New
| York Tribune. OF course, individuals 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 different nationaIities prefer
some certain localities.
! The Welsh immigrants, most of whom
are miners, go chiefly to Pennsylvania,
where their headquarters seem to be
| around Scranton. At this place, during
| the winter, Welsh performances are
| given at a theaIer.
| The Scandinavians generally go to the
! Northwestern states. The Dakotas, per-
haps, get the largest share of them,
| although Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Iowa and Minnesota also get a 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 Fiulanders seem to find in the
forests OF Michigan and Northern Ohio
occupations and q 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 q 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 come a large
number of miners, who chiefly 90
to the coal mines in Illinois or Michi-
gan, or the mines of Arizona, Colo
RADIO 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 that state also go
many French farmers from the depart
meuts of Gascogne and Bases Pyrenees,
as well as few Swiss farmers. Other
wise the Frenohmen, if they do not settle
IN New York, mostly go to New Orleans
or to French Canada, while the Swiss,
among whom are many 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 ped
lers and the rest are divided among the
different trades.
From the Austro- Hungarian monarchy
come the Slavaks, Poles and Hunga- |
rians, most of whom go to Pennsylvania, |
where they work in the coal mines or |
coal yards; the Bohemians, who go to |
the vicinity of Buffalo and Pittsburg; |
the Tyrolese, the Dalmatians, the Kroa- |
tians and Moravians, who generally settle |
in Pennsylvania, around Pittsburg.
The Hollanders go to Paterson, N. J., |
or 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 go to the same places where
the Hollanders go, while the French
speaking Belglans are almost all either
glassworkers or miners. The former go
to the coal mines of Illinois or Pennsyl-
vania, the latter chiefly to Tarentum or
Pittsburg, Pa.
Most of the Icelanders go to Manitoba:
there is also colony of them IN Sayre-
vile, N. J.. where they work in the
ckyeTds.
The Armenians, Of whom 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 New York or the
New Jersey towns, or they
are common laborers. The last named,
almost without exception, go to Woroes-
ter, Mass, where a large number of
them are employed IN wire factories
OF genuine Russians, only few emf
CRATE to this country. During the later
years great many German Russians,
whose forefathers about hundred years
ago emigrated from Wurtemberg to Rus
'ia, have come to this country. They
still keep up their German language,
traditions and customs, and are all |
farmers Most of them go to Dakota.
they are large and powerfully built men,
md when they come in their sheepsl1in I
)vercoats, with row of children follow
ng them, all clad in the same way, they I
orm picturesque sight.
The Greeks have during late years be-
run to crowd the Italians out of the fruit I
md flower selling trade in New York; {
ONE of them also go West and South,
where they compete with the Italians III {
he work on the railroads.
tt may surely be asserted that those
Tho maintain that the class of immigrants j
las deteriorated during the last decade
i two have not given the immigrant c
uestion a close study. If there has been {
ny change of late years it has been for S
be better, and not for the worse. s
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