Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-11
ALIENS IN AMERICAN CITIES.
Some Things Revealed by the Census
That Overturn Popular Ideas.

That OVertufn fOpu10r 10euSs
1t is in the great cities that the aliens love
to congregate, and the statistics of foreign
born population reveal some rather astonish-
ing facts. Every one knows. for example,
that the foreign element Of New York city
is very large. but one is hardly prepared for
the information that nearly one-half of the
people of the metropolis of the country were
born in other lands. The total population
of New York Is 1.5l5.3ol; the alien popula-
ton is 639.943. An equally large proportion
of the people Of Chicago are of foreign birth,
45o.G66 out of total population Of 1.O90. $50
coming from foreign countries. There are
more foreigners alone in New York city
than the total population of any Of the other
large cities of the country excepting Chi
cago, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. OF these
2lU,I23 are Germans and 19O,4lS are Irish.
the two nationalities making up almost two
also 35,9U7 English, 81, 1873 Austrians 4s, 100
Russians and 1881 Italians. Chicago has
l6l ,G'0 Germans and IO,C2S Irish. The Boz
hemans and Poles of that city are almost
as numerous as the Irish. the Ntal for both
nations being 40, 19l. The Russ ms are COM
paratively rare 6S3-and there are only
Isis Hungarians. 1t has, next to Boston,
the largest Canadian colony-2i. 2S7-and
there are 2S,331 English and 9,217 Scotch.
The Scandinavian countries are well repre-
sented in Chicago, icing far more numerous
there than in any other city of the country.
There are II, Norwegians. 1909 Swedes
and I,OSI Danes, q total of 1854.
Nearly half of Philadelphia foreign popu-
lation is Irish, there being HOSES sons and
daughters of Erin and only 1871 Germans.
In this the Quaker city resembles Boston,
whose Celtic population far outnumbers its
Teutonic. there being 1l,441 Irish in the
hub and only 1882 Germans Baltimore
has a very small foreign population-only
69WS-of which 42,6GO are Germans, and
"a OF hnC nnlxv
Brooklyn has 26f, 100 aliens, of whom 81 7aS
are Germans and "a, 1873 are Irish Cincin-
natl has a small foreign population-71 40S-
OF which 49.415 are Germans. while Cleve-
land has st.G3o aliens, including 10,2S7 Boz
hemians. New Orleans has only 1869 per-
sons Of foreign birth, of whom $40 are
French and 3.622 are Italians, IL 1888 Ger
mans and 1898 Irish.
New York city has the largest colonies Of
Scotch. Irish. Germans. Austrians Swiss.
Russians. Hungarians. French, Italians.
Spaniards, Grecians and Turks. Chicago
has the largest number of Belgtans Nor
wegians. Swedes. Danes, Bohemians and
Poles. Philadelphia has the largest number
OF English. Boston the biggest colony of
Canadians and Portuguese. Scranton. Pa,
Of Welsh; Grand Rapids Mich, of Dutch,
and San Francisco of Mexicans, Chinese
japanese and Australians.
The foreign-born population Of st. Louis
IL about one-fourth of its total population,
being, in 1890. l14,S76. OF these 600 are
Germans. 24.27O Irish. zoos Canadians, G.aD7
English, 1870 Scotch, 262 Welsh, 15S6 Aus
TRANS, 1855 Dutch, 175 Belgians, 2,2O9 Swiss
134 Norwegtans, $40 Swedes. 2S5 Danes, 1853
Russians. 253 Hungarians, 23O1 Bohemians
SI5 Poles. LII French. 1,295 Italians as
Spaniards and III Chinese. There are also
in that city 62 MeXicans, IA natives OF Cen
trail America, 43 of South America, 81 of the
West Indies, of Greece, p of India, IG of
Africa, AZ of Australia, AZ of Turkey and
of the Sandwich Islands. 1t will he noted
that Germany and Ireland have given ST
Louis about three-fourths of its foreign
population and that the number of repre-
sentatives of the Slav nation is very small
1t is a little peculiar. too, that .here are
practically no Scandinavians In St. Louis.