The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-06
BLOCKING FROM ABROAD
Large Increase in Immigration at
the Port of New York.
Interesting Figures for the Fiscal
Year Ended June 30-TotaI Number
341,7I1 - Statistics of Financial
Condition of the Incoming Aliens.

NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-Interesting de-
tails concerning the increase in immigra-
ton at the port of New York are furnished
by the figures for the fiscal year ending
June 80, which have Just been completed
by Assistant Commissioner Insolvency..
For the last two years immigration has
been on the increase In 1893 the number
of immigrants at this port dropped from
343,422 the year before to 219,O45, and
the number kept decreasing until in 1897,
only 17S,74S aliens passed through the New
York immigration Bureau.
For the fiscal year ending in June, 1899,
the official records show that there were
245.550 foreigners added to the population
Of the United States through this FORT.
In the fiscal year just ended this total
has been increased by nearly 100, 900 souls
The exact figure is S41,7 III, which is the
greatest number since 1893, and nearly
reaches the large total OF 1892.
The great increase has been during the
last three months; in April, for example,
there were 1859 admissions. against the
32,SoS of the same month in the preceding
year; in May. IS, 1S2, against the 42,96s of
the same month in 1899, and in June,
41,499, against the 27,7S7 of June, 1899. The
immigration authorities believe, from the
rate at which the numbers are growing
however 1000 immigrants a day are
landing at the Barge ohice-that the next
year will far exceed the record made in
1S99-190O.
The immigrants at all the American
ports last year were 81, us; in other words,
the immigration at this port alone for the
year 1S99i900 is greater than at the other
twenty-one cities at which aliens are re-
ceived. II the present increase has been
uniform throughout these other ports, the
total immigration for the year will have
been 529, 915.
In view of the general opinion that i'm
migration during the next few years is
sure to increase, increasing apprehension
has been manifested as TO the quality Of
the immigrants that are now being landed.
In one day in May, for example, 5000 i'm
migrants were passed through the Barge
Office; and the immigration officials and
ether attendants at the office were not
especially edited and encouraged with the
quality OF the aliens with whom they had
to deal.
The Older employees recalled the days
when the majority of those who passed
through their hands were Irish, German,
English, or Scandinavian, and found a
striking contrast in the Italians, the Poles,
and the miscellaneous races of the Austro-
Hungarian Empire, which commanded the
larger part Of their attention. They were
also forced to recall that whereas, in the
former days, an Oriental Syrian, Arme
MAN, or Turk-was a curiosity, he had
now grown to be rather familiar sight in
the detention pen; and such unaccus toned
figures as Greeks, Magyars, Slovaks, Croa-
tians, Ruthenians, Montenegrins. Servians,
and other strangers from the Balkan
States were altogether common. Whereas,
in 1Ss2-the banner immigration year. both
for quality and quan1ity-the centre Of the
area was Berlin. Paris, and Antwerp, il
has now shifted to Vienna or Budapest. In
the past year, for example, nearly 100. coo
OF the immigrants, almost a third, were |
Italians, and the larger part of these were |
people of the southern prov
inces Of the peninsula.
E The increase in the immigration of He |
brews, nearly all from the Russian EN- |
pire, is also marked. there having been |
"A 500, against 2.700 in the previous year. |
Il is also interesting that twice as many |
Finns-a race that hitherto has been fairly /
we'll satisfied to remain at home-came |
over in 1S991900 as in the previous year.
The following tables will show the ar |
-iyalS OF some of the races-