New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-28

ERAL DEsIRABIILTY.
The immigrant Of the present day is object
Of interest to the idle type-seeker and sight
seer well to the serious student OF affairs,
and he presents as many strange characteristics
and curious features his predecessors who
came to America In the '40s and 'J0s but he is
widely different being. and the arrangements
which have been made for his reception his
protection and for his induction into the COM
munity are as unlike those which were I'm vogue
in the days Of the early immigrants as the mod
ern granite Barge Office is to the Castle Garden
Of long ago
In the early days the immigrants came al
most exclusively from Germany and the United
Kingdom. There few restrictions. and
men and women who were well qualified to be-
come valuable additions. to the community were
received in the same way those who were
sent away from distant homes because they
were incompetents and burden to their
friends. Shiploads Of men and women who had
never seen a city Until they came to the seaport
town whence they sailed for the New World
were put ashore with little ceremony and soon
became swallowed up In the growing popula-
ton. The Irish immigrants had the advantage
over the German because they understood the
language, and, the Germans often fell prey to
swinders in the shape OF boarding house run
ners and confidence men. The lower part Of the
city contained hundreds of immigrant boarding.
houses and hotels. and these were made at
tractive by the names which they bore. The
poor Bavarian peasant, with neither friends nor
relatives in New York. naturally drifted to tina
"Bairischer Hof" and Die Schwaben Hell.
math' was equally inviting to the Swabian
"Gasthaus yum B0hmerwald," "Sachsischer
sZurp
math' and many other equally suggestive and
well-sounding names attracted the attention Of
the new citizen. and within the walls OF these
places he frequently took his first degree, gained
false impressions Of the country. and feared
that he had come to a land where he must do
or be done"
The workshops. the factories and the outdoor
jobs gave employment to the immigrants and
many VINO came over in those days went from
Battery boarding house through the various
stages from basket vender to the wholesale
establishment. and their descendants are now
important figures in the mercantile world.
HIGH WATER MARK IN 1882
immigration reached high water mark in 1882,
when about six hundred and twenty-five thou
sand landed in New-York; but there has been a
decline since then. The figures have not only
o'''" "i'i"'~i' Dut lHt EHlli5IdHtS nave CtGS"u
to come from the countries which were formerly
the largest contributors-Germany, Scandinavia
and Ireland. Since 1892 the majority of immi-
grants come from Italy, Russia, Austria and
the Orient, and in 1897 Italy sent more people to
the United States than Germany and the United
Kingdom combined. The statistics compiled by
Edward +. insolvency, Assistant Commissioner
of immigration. show that in the six months end
ing on January /. 1890. Germany sent 9.SS2 inn
migrants to this country and Ireland S,3}9. The
Jews who come from Russia, Poland and the
various Austrian provinces classified He
brews. and of these there in the same time
1919 The record shows that the 1852 Ger
mans brought $jSS. 126: the 1879 Hebrews had
$3.50, 1874, and the $3.50 Irish had $liS i5J
Other important figures on the list