New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-12
THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION.
THIS YEARS INFLUX OF FOREIGNERS
SEEMS LIKELY TO BREAK ALL RECORDS

| THIS YEARS INFLUX OF FOREIGNERS
SEEMS LIKELY TO BREAK ALL RECORDS.
The tide OF immigration has again turned west
ward In 1892 the number Of immigrants VINO ar
rived in this country was 623.os4 THIS was hish-
water mark for the period from 1882 TO 1896 Begin
ming with ls93 the number of arrivals dwindied AT
AN average rate Of more than hundred thousand
a wear until In 1895 II only 2Is,sS. the lowest
point since 1879 immigration continued 10 sackeh
through the winter months until FEBRUARY OF ths
year. when there an increase at this port OF 30
over the same month last year. Since then the
people have been pouring In at such a rate that
Colonel Stumpf. Commissioner Of Immigration at
Washington propheses that the number this spring
will equal II II does not exceed the record or any
previous
There Is another phase Of the westward movement
however that is fully interesting and probably
as important as this IL IL emigration from the
East to the West. few days ago 1000 Dunkards
passed through ST. Paul their way 10 North Da-
kota They occupied train OF nineteen passenger
coaches and had a convoy OF 100 freight cars TO
carry their household goods. farm implements and
live stock They had started in colonies at about
the same time from half a hundred towns In Vir-
rinia West Virginia Pennsylvania Ohio. Indiana.
Illinois Iowa and Tennessee. The Dunkards. who
are German Baptists. are an honest frugal thrifty
people who were driven out OF Germany ny perse-
cution early In the eighteenth century Tney setted
in scattered communities in this country and many
OF these communities now packing up their
effects and moving In patrarchal style TO the new
land OF promise.
c. VI. Pratt the general Eastern agent OF the
Western Traffic Association. whose opportunities
for observing the trend Of immigration are probably
unexceIled says that the greater proportion OF the
immigrants who coming to this country now TO
settle on farms are going TO North Dakota and Min
nesota. He notices decided change In the charac-
ter OF the people and predicts the most SUBSTANTIAL
movement to the West that has ever been known
The people who are coming over here now" he
said yesterday ARE not Adventures or mendicants
As a rule It may be said that every immigrant who
goes west OF Chicago money enough 10 insure his
living for a year. Where they settle on farms. as
large proportion OF them do. they are reasonably
sure stay and add the resources OF the country
Most of those who going to the Dakotas and
Minnesota Russians. Poles Danes Ger
mans and Scandinavans. The Scandinayians large
ly predominate and they make the best setuers Tor
revival OF the tendency OF farmers In the Eastern
and Middle States 10 move further West ! believe
the migration OF the Mormons. that compares with
the way the Dunkards are tearing up ana going 10
At the Western railway Offices in New-York the
lands OF The Northwest. There is no surer proof
OF the truth OF this than the great quantity OF get
prepar"d Maps Of railway lands for sale and pam
phlets containing glowing descriptions and seductive
PICTURES are again common The Resources OF
idaho and Montana in Nor'h Dskoi Rs1
River VaIiey~such titles as these adorn the
OF many publications that had been allowed 10 go
our OF print owing to the curtailment OF expenses
By the railroads and the lack OF demand Tor them
The new movement TO encourage Immigration III
the Northwest which was started by a convention
in ST. Paul last November at which delegates were
present from Minnesota; Wisconsin, Manitoba North
Dakota South Dakota Montana. Idaho, oregon ana
Washington. has been carried forward by means on
local ORGANIZATIONS. State conventions nave been
held in North and South Dakota. Washington ana
Montana and n convention Of a similar character
has hcen held I'm Manitoba. Congress district con-
yentions for the purpose have been held IN the
norfhcrn p,rt OF Minnesota. which now appears
csneriay attractive 10 immigrants. The people
who attend these conventions to send personal
letters 10 friends in the East In Europe who may
be DESTROYS OF going West.