New-York tribune., 1901-08-28
NATIONAL CAPITAL TOPICS
,,c SHOW PROMISED AT ST. LOUIS
THE DEADLY MACHINE GUN-IN-
CREASE OF IMMIGRATION.
fly TELEGRAPH TO THE -RIBUNE.l
Washington. August 27

Tsx TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBCNE-l
Washington August 27
TIFF GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH-wash-
- s-,e--.sts are deeply interested In project
= T. s+ber.ng families communities OF every
80 and serni-c!vtIzed type OF human being in
- world for the ethnographtc feature Of the
louisiana Purchase Exposition Of 1903, better
-, ss the ST Louis worlds fair. The manage
- promises 10 be Unstinted in its effort 10
- or this purpose, and VIII have the cordial
-.-s-fou of the government experts. consuls
-Lar officials 10 that end Every plan is 10
=. chicago and ST Louis people are conncent
= - L--S{ {ssr raised or this amount 10000
= 80 & rom The Federal government. S5.VOVO rom
enc - - Louis s. .es.yg5 from private SUB
i-s Cg and 81 900 10 from the state Of Mis-
sourl The total from All sources VIII agsrgsaLe e gs
q 40 90 and no expense VII De SIaIel n i@A 14i
- .ba big show eclipse al predecessors me
ny ~ seiscf1d Is Forest Park, containing eighteen
SS-nsred acres Al II the PARK VIII nor oe ae7
Iofsd 10 the exposition hoWeFer AGdlqonaI
EDoTns has been obtained, making IN al eleven
sTnS-e5 acres for buildings and grounds.
vurs MEN MUCH FAsTER.-The destructive
,ovrer Of the machine gun az compared to the
i,ast magazine small arm. even IA large numbers
- hsen The subject Of interesting trials abroad.
- or which have reached the Navy Depart
-. bsre. That one machine gun properly ana
.-,zalv worked IS equal 10 2oo rifles n the hands
IS many soldiers has been amply Demonstrated
rscb shot from The machine gun works greater IN
.r also 70 The body struck than the Snail Du-!et
= +he army rife. slE its range Is lar greater,
:. y -e0s-r trials ---y U-rksnen were CHOSEN g
,nefe win IRE -LC--Iss 5-rnl4-iHletTe gLh WIlcA
~ ~ -arses were from 499 10 81 ads Al So
,-erss The atty reuleu, each nav q. c II
cs1sndenty o6t3inea l. try, 1 T Thi71y-tTo ny tSo
s5 esH1 %s-e y rhsn chosen IRON 45 ae acly. and
these A7[ ---ss c6-5it. - -l-ty-foUr. or lS.a
sr cent Of The rounds expended. we're reeoa reeorqso-
KSs machine gun then Drpl-4 !-L INTO aeS-.-,.
"a N thrtv-egLr SECONDS 1rec ~ le-.Sts Lhts mans
= hits 10 sucr practical tests oL -, 1le - 80, sii
merits os the machine gun and q NUMBER o. s-A--
arms have been made before
-.r>-r7 TROOPS MUST TRIUMPH-The
.,as,-1 a-srraph os the Official report Of Captain
Ca-l Reichnaun I'm United States Infantry on
ne Boer var which has been published by the
govsrnraenr, turns ont u be prophetic He wrote
1ssrlv 8 wear $50. what saw OF the struggle OF
these simple farmers against the trained troops OF
ne me "a sI1rT al erihuSasm and valor against
0rgantzarion and discipline ana II nao lhe same u
variable result Yet the farmers were SLlLso-
When took leave of NJ. He-rz the state secre-
Iary, horseback caTIl -s DAll51-leI l
md said 10 ne: II your people could fight eight
years for their Independence We can.
GREAT YEAR FOR CDIIGRANTS--The uce o.
,-nmgration into The United States for The last
FscsI vea- rose HIGHER than for any similar period
since 1892 and surpassed the figures reached in any
other wear n the histor Of The country except II
13l 1SS2, lssS lss4 ISL 1855 and -SsL Up 70 June
80 1901. -, 7,glS aliens were admitted or nearly
double the number who came 4 1884 and 1895 com
baned and more than arrived IN -sSI and lASs-
Austria-Hungary has been displaced BY Italy as
the leading source OF embryonic American QUEENS
with Russia a good third and Ireland fourth From
Ireland alone the females exceed the males. the
greatest disparity between the sexes IN important
sources OF origin being In the OF Italy which
sends nearly four times many males as fe-
~ from the West
Indies noted for the first tine two years ago,
has dropped OF. The great bulk of added popula-
-ion continues TO come from Europe only A5sl
being furnished by the rest OF the world, and OF
these g 5s3 from Asia, mostly from Japan and
Turkey OF the total for the last year s21 GO were
males and 6Sf3 were females. Distributed by
ages, GO 562 We're under fourteen years old, Ss,5iS
were between fourteen and forry-ave, and $50
were forry-ave over BY months the largest
nunber came in May and the smallest IN January
The following table shows the number from each
country. A star indicates q decrease; from other
countries there was al increases