The evening times., 1899-09-21
COMING TO GET: BAL7H
Races From European Soil Throng-
ing Into America.
Heavy ImmiEratfons From Southern
ItaIy-Impelled to Leaye Home by
Letters From Their Kindred In
This COuntry-Remote Canadian
Regions Stunned by the Women.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-The classification
by races at the Barge Office shows that the
greatest number of women arrivals at
of men and women being nearly equal. The
immigration from Italy has been heavy the
season through, the number from Southern
Italy being about five times as large as
from Northern Italy.
Only about one third of the Italians bring
their wives with them. The men arrive
in May, provided with whatever clothing
they may need for a stay of two years.
They hoard their money, and as soon as
the sum grows to an amount sufficient for
, a real estate investment they go back with
it. Then they return for another period
of money making, and finally go home
again to settle down for good. So rich
is the field considered here that many en-
terprising widows are coming over with
whole retinues of children.
Whatever will this woman and all her
children do to support themselves" asked
a reporter yesterday of the Hungarian in
terpreter in the court of enquiry at the
Barge Office. and she pointed TO an Italian
matron who was beaming toothlessly but
affably in the midst of galaxy of stall
wart boys and girls.
'Oh, she will get all right" said Chair
man Moier. she has 1000 lire with her,
and she has a lot of brothers-in-law and
ssters-in-law up on Twenty y-second Street
She'll take a couple of rooms there, the
boys will start out as bootblacks in a
weeks time, and the girls will get into
some dressmaking shop. They'll take care
of themselves and get on-and that woman
has done good thing for her family in
bringing them over"
Up in the registry room another patrf-
archal family of Genoese gathered about
Miss Stucklen, the chief matron, receiving
her instructions The whole family were
in black, even to the little tot who grasp
ed her mothers skirt and hung bashfully
behind, burying her red curls in its folds
The father had died four months ago. but
nothing daunted, Mrs. Concetta Margorta
had gathered her brood about her and
started over to begin life here again.
$50 many come in this way, said Mrs.
Stucklen, and they manage to succeed,
too
Among the Bohemian and Moravian races
the number of women immigrants exceed
the men. This is also .,trus of the Irish,
who stand registered 12,470 women TO 9,167
grants come to this country, on the repre-
sentations of their relatives already here,
who have written home that there is work
TO De mad at good wages, Many letters OF
this kind have gone from the coal and iron
regions and many from the West.
The problem of settling the vast stretch
es of agricultural lands in northwestern
Canada has long troubled the Dominion
Government. Although every inducement
has been offered to native born farmers
and immigrants from England, compare
lively few have been found willing TO To-
cate in such remote and uninviting regions
as Manitoba, Alberta and Assiniboia.
About year and half ago the Cana
dian immigration authorities succeeded in
planting a colony of four thousand Rus
sian Doukhobors on farms in Manitoba
Exiled by the Russian Government, they
have found their new home a refuge,
rather than the prison it seems to more
civilized men. Their manner Of living is
little removed from barbarism, and among
the primitive and old-fashioned ideas
cherished by them is the theory that wo-
men were created to be beasts of burden
for their lords.
A woman among the Doukhobors is val
ued at the price of an OK, and ii is not an
unusual occurrence for a man with pie
thora of womankind to trade wife or
daughter for a horse or an OK. 1t is
common thing to see six or eight women
bending under the weight of a huge wood
eli yoke dragging a plough over the fields.
Sometimes one or more women are har-
messed with oxen, and the lordly male be-
hind the plough cracks his whip impair
tially between them.