The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-12
IMMIGRATION.
Commissioners eneralPow.
derby Makes His Report.

Washington, Nov 1L-Commander
General T. v. Powderly of the immigra-
ton bureau in his annual report to the
secretary of the treasury, gives the
total number of immigrants who ar
rived in the United States during the
| last fiscal year as 299, 299, a decrease as
compared with the fiscal year 1897 of
| 1888 OF the whole number 136775 were
males and 93,524 females; 10,7S7 came in
| to the United States through Canada.
| During the year, 1880 were debarred,
and of this number there were IL in
sane one idiot, 2281 paupers or persons
| likely to become public charge, 25S
| diseased persons, two convicts, 70 as
sisted immigrants and All contract la
| borers; 1873 were returned within one
| year after landing
OF the whole number over IA years Of
age, 14l6 could not write. 43,057 could
neither read nor write, 1908 over 20
years of age had $50 or over and sc, 203
had less than $50 The total amount of
money shown by immigrants during the
| year was IS, 1852 OF, but the actual amount
brought over was probably greatly in
| excess of this amount of the whole
number of arrivals. From Italy came
5s6l3, 27,221 from Russia proper, 5,12S
| from Ireland, IT Ill from Germany, 16-
$50 from Hungary, 12,42O from Galicia
and Bukowina in Austria Hungary, 12,S
1898 from Sweden and 9S77 from Eng
| land.
OF the total number of Storage pas
sengers arrived during the year. 81
were actors, SO artists, 15S clergymen, -
! editors, 43 engravers, 81 lawyers, 223
musicians, 81 physicians and 1876 sculp-
| tors.
The total arrivals Of male immigrants
4
| slightly in excess of those for the year
next before it, and 1t is fair to assume,
the report states, represent a more de-
sirable class, since those from European
countries show an increase of 273O.
while those from other sources, prin-
cipally Asiatio, exhibit a decrease of
2062 1t appears again that although
there has been a diminution in the
total immigration yet in respect of
their means of immediate self-support
the arrivals for the present year are
more desirable, for they exhibited ia
the examining officials 1882, OFT, an
amount in excess of that shown in the
nscal year ended June 80, 1897, of 1910,
1885,
Mr.. Powderly states that the natural
izat1on laws Of the United States have
been repeatedly violated, and in his
opinion each arriving immigrant when
admitted to the United States, should
be provided with a landing certificate
setting forth the name, age, sex, birth
place Of the immigrant, government to
which allegiance is due, the port from
which the vessel sailed, the name Of the
vessel, the line it belongs to, the port
1t arrives at and the date of land
ing
The immigrant should be instructed
by means of a circular to retain the
certificate for presentation when ap-
plying for naturalization papers A
record Of the facts stated in the said
circular as to each immigrant, to be
known as an immigrant directory,
should be kept for each fiscal year by
the bureau Of immigration.
The commissioner expresses the be-
lief that the figures given of the ar
rival of immigrants through Canada
represent only part of the actual i'm
migration through that country, and
he suggests as remedy the enactment
Of a law authorizing the secretary of
the treasury to designate certain points
along the border separating the United
States from Canada, to be the sole ports
of entry to this country of trans-At-
lantic and trans-Pacific immigrants,
and of all Canadians who shall not have
resided in Canada for at least five years
prior to their immigration to this coun-
try