The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-18
FEW SERVANTS COMING.
Russians, Firms. Poles. and Hungar.
inn Girls in MaInritN

NEW YORK. Sept 1N-ThCre are no
vacation days NJ the Barge Office Though
the tide of immigrant travel Gibbs and
flows with cIockuke regularity. il never
stops and each day brings its quota to
swell the labor markets of America Dur
ing the summer months the influx is
ightest, but from the latter part of Sep
TENDER until the middle Of December. and
again from the last weeks OF February
until June 10, there is high tide at Ellis
Island
Enquiry Of the Commissioner OF Trunf-
grafton and OF Miss SteCkIen - 10 has
filled the Office Of head matr0u COR the
last sixteen years. develops the fact that
the nationality Of the women workers va
rleS from decade To decade. From IsZ1 to
$50, II was stated, the immigration was
almost entirely from Great Britain and
ireland and from these people dOmeSticS
were drawn The English influx subsided
long before that from ireland. but today
scarcely an Irish girl lands who expects
who do come for that purpose have good
places already engaged At the Mission
Of our Lady Of the Rosary. in State
Street. home for the reception OF Irish
Immigrant girls. this falling of was ac-
counted for by the bettered conditions in
the Little Green Isle This improve
mcut, IL was stated. can be- credited To-
the fact jhat every Irish servant girl who
nome the larger part Of her earnings to
pay the taxes and amcliorate the CUndi-
ton Of tho family left behind.
During the decade ending with the wear
1870. German immigration. it was said.
first became noticeable. and this steadily
Increased until 1880. Norway and Sweden
hrst made themselves felt in the returns
for the decade ending with 1870
Nearly all of these girls. who are con
sldered the cream Of immigration 10 di-
TectIy West. having been booked for their
destination before leaving the Old COun-
try There Is never enough of these
girls 10 supply the demand said Miss
SteCklcn, at least ten places being Ou-U-
ed TO every girl. Equally popular are the
Firms, whose oppressed province Is now
under Russian domination. These girls
usually stop for a few days at the Meth
Odist Episcopal Home. Q State Street uu-
less they have friends awaiting them "
Since 1890 the books show that there has
been an enormous increase in the immi-
grafton from Austria-HUugdry. Italy.
Russia. and Poland. SO that now this i'm
migration exceeds that from the United
Kingdom. France, Germany. and Scan
dinayia. The great RuUmauiau exodus is
due 20 the oppressive ant-Semitic meas
urcs In ROumanla- When Jewish people
are not prosecuted they stay in Their ma
tive countries. No Jewish girl comes
here unless she has relatives To- 40 to.
The Hungarian Jewish girls have been
brought up 10 do domestic work more
than any OF the other Jews. and because
they have been treated more literally in
their home land they are sometimes will
ing TO enter household service in "a Chris
tian family An orthodox Jewish girl
however. Is only willing To live with her
own COmputTiOtS and in certain quarters
Italian girls never do homework They
are cigarette makers or tailOresSes. The
German girls seldom go 20 anyone here
save their own people.