Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-11
"lT'S An ill.WINO."
Oae Beneficial Result OF the Hard
Times.

Tsaes.
There has been at least one bene-
fetal result accrued from the 6nan.
cial panic of the past year, says the
Freeport Bulletin. Immigration has
been given a decided setback. In
stead Of having thou sands of Euro
pean paupcrs arriving in our ports
every week. there are now Thousands
leaving. In New York the other day
there were SO many Storage passeng-
ers TO get back to Europs that the
ships could not accommodate all
those to whom passage has been sold
Hundreds could not be taken aboard,
even with the crowding Of the steer
age quarters to the utmost.
Rates have been made very low,
and this fact Together with the lack
of opportunities for employment in
this country. is causing an exodus
the like of which has not been seen in
years.
Only once before, in 1873, has
there been an opportunity to get a
Storage passage from New York to
ASWAcpS iOt TiV. 4uot 10 tuc rue
now, and it is likely to be further
reduced unless an agreement is soon
reached by the rival lines.
In New York people arrive in
droves to secure passage on the ont
going steamers. The Storage of the
Germania will. by crowding. accom-
date ESQ passengers. Seven hundred
and fifty secured passage on her last
trip. Everybody with a ticket in
sisted on going. Finally GO of the
superfluOus 100 were crowded in with
the 650 and the rest were transferred
to another vessel.
The Paris has stcerage accommo-
dations for 500. IL being a fast ship,
aud one on which the stecrage ac-
Communications were said to be very
good, prospective voyagers had taken
passage on her with the same haste
that a small boy will push for front
bench at a circus. When she sailed,
there were left over one hundred and
fifty sad and weary people on the
dock, all holding tickets calling for
passage on her. They. also, were
transferred 10 another vessel.
This stampede for the old world
will greatly help the solution Of the
question.
Exodus from Cleveland.
A Cleveland dispatch says that the
Offices OF the various ocean steam
ship companies in that city are he
sieged by large numbers of foreign
ers who arc taking advantage of the
present steamship war and consc-
qucnt low rates to return To their ma
tive lands. 1t is estimated that since
the hard times commenced fully s.
600 foreigners have left that city 10
return to Europe. These people
who are mostly Hungarians. Bohe-
minRs. Italians and Slavs, are leav-
ing ske country for good. Here are
sSne interesting statistics with re-
lation to the effect of hard times in
the past upon immigration which are
CLEANED from the Chicago Herald:
The hard times following the wears
1887, 1857 and 1873, were attended
with a marked falling of in immi-
grafton. and with how much immi-
grafton nobody can guess. though
probably little. The immigration
for the fiscal and calendar year end
ing Dec. 81, 1887, was the largest in
the history of the country up to that
time. 1t was 1880. 1t had been
6,242 in 1886, 1871 in 1885. and 65,-
1854 in 1884. In 1888 itdropped to less
than $4,000. and it did not pass TIE
record of 1887 until 1910, when il
reached $4,000. 1t gained and lost
for few years, but in the year 1915
it reached 1881 the highest num-
her up to that time. 1t went on in
creasing steadily until 1854, when it
reached nearly 42S, 900.
1t fell next year to little less than
POI 900, fell 5000 more in 1856. rose
to little less than pa 900 in 1857,
and fell next year to 119.jOl. the
lowest since 1915. Il was about
! 200 less in 1859, rallied to $50, 237
in 1860, but fell in 1861 to less than
10000 because of the outbreak of the
civil war. 1t was almost exactly the
same in 1862, but there was
n rally in 1873. when the great
victories of the union were
gained. Half the fiscal year of 1868.
it must be remembered. came after
Gettysburg, rs Dec. 81 was still the
time of making up federal statistics.
The gain continued. with occasional
slight losses. until 1873. when immi-
grafton reached $50, 1903, the maxi
mum in the history Of the country up
to that time. 1t fell steadily for the
next five years Of hard times. and in
1873 had sunk TO 13s, 469. the lowest
since 1862.
There was a revival of Immigration
for the next four years. and in 1882
it reached $500, the largest in the
history Of the country before or
since. II fell off steadily during the
dull times that ensued, and in 1886
33i. 2O3. II increased again
and in 1892 had risen to 3,0s4.
The record af 1881 and 1889 alone
surpassed these figures. The immi-
grafton last year was 5O2.9l7. For
the fiscal wear inst eudaJ ~ has