The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-20
SOME POINTS OF IMMIGRATION.
Tho Total for the Last Fiscal Year and tho
Preceding AImost the Same.

preceding Almost the same.
Balancing day for the books OF Uncle Sam ia
not Jan. l but July /. and fiscal years in Gov
eminent bookkeeping begin on July l and end
on June 30 succeeding. The immigration
statistics for the fiscal year ending June 80.
1898. which have just appeared. show some in
teresting facts. the most notable OF which is
the similarity Of totals between this year and
the one precedingit.
The total immigration for the last fiscal year
to the United States was 229.O00: the year
before 1t was 100000. practically the same.
But there entered into the total Of this year to
a larger extent than was the case a year ago a
number Of "home-comers, immigrants who
had previously been in the country. but on ac-
count OF hard times or for some other reason
had left it to return abroad. The number Of
such home-comers this year was $4,000. or
more than one-sixth OF the entire number.
OF the newcomers. n remarkably small num-
ber-only 1900 in all-eame from Germany.
E Ealfo h so tR Rse H&n tns sssadeaf s fO@Dt TIE IN h i@m Of
Irish emigration which began in 1874 fell or
in il lss4. The total number NJ ,be Of Irish jmmi.
this year was 5000. a humble which. though
large in itself, seems small compared with
OF immigration from the scandinavian eoun-
Norway less than 5000 Immigrants hailed.
From Sweden there were more. $4,000. and
one OF the peculiar FEATURES OF Immigration
this year. a feature to be- ascribed in part to
fears of impressment into the navy OF their
own country. has been the large immigration
from Finland: Finland is n Russian province.
which furnishes to the navy of that empire
many sailors and marines. and its population
by the last census 1885, was 2.400.o00, The
population, OF Denmark is substantially tho
same. and heretofore the Immigration OF
Danes TO the United States has been very much
larger than the immigration Of Firms. but this
Finnish. and only 1.946 Danish immigrants
lan0n1 In this country AnOtbar claimant Of
nccretion to the population, by immigration
years tsince. in fact. immigration figures have
been kept the ratio OF Scotch immigrants to
Welsh immigrants has been in the proportion
of 10 to 2. Since 1880. 100000 Scotch and only
10000 Welsh immigrants landed here. exclu-
sive OF those who described their residence as
Great Britain" This year the number of
Welsh immigrants. though not large. is nearly
as large as the number OF Scotchmen.
The most remarkable feature OF this years
immigration. however. are the contributions
to 1t from countries which heretofore have not
been largely represented. There were. for in
stance. more than 1000 immigrants from Tur-
key. chiefly from Syria and Arabia there were
nearly 1000 immigrants from Portugal: far
of japan sent twenty times as many as nearby
Mexico: there were nearly 1000 from Cuba
and 900 from Roumania. Poland contributed
twice as many az France to the total of new
corners, and one immigrant only described
himself officially as a European, Withholding
any other information. Only ~ Africans came
as immigrants to the United States last year.