The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-31
Number Arriving During Month
)f May Larger Than Ever Before
|rHE AVERAGE is $500 DAILY
Ever Fifty Per Cent Of These Regarded as
kon-pToducsrs Sharks Lay 10
Walt for Then.

New York, May 3l.-New applicants for
Tnted states citizenship are pouring into
he country through Ellis Island at the
ate OF 2s0O a day and SO per cent OF
hem. or nearly 1900 every day. are. In the
opinion OF immigration Commissioner
Williams, undesirable.
Nine-tenths OF this 63 per cent remain
Ia New York city or Its environs. They
re people who have no trade or regular
ocation The remaining AZ per cent are
producers. and In time will add 10 the
wealth OF the nation. Seventy per cent
II the latter are agriculturists and leave
II once for the west, northwest and
|outhwest.
Immigration Is now at the highest
point IN the history OF the country, and
he average OF the class OF people COM
ing here is regarded as the lowest
This MONTHS IMMIGRATION $500.
Counting the immigrants on board
teamships due 10 arrive today. the i'm
|nigration for the month will reach the
ord-breaking total OF $500. In May
In 1898. the previous record breaking
|nonth. 1900 people came into the country
n the steerage OF the Atlantic liners.
The bulk Of the immigrants are fro~
outhern anc southeastern Europe. Il
migration from Ireland, Germany, NJ =
way, Sweden and Denmark has fate
n greatly. In former years immigrant
| rom those countries predominated ara
furnished the desrbale class Seventy pc,
ent or the immigrants now coming In are
rom Russia, Austria, Hungary and Italy
lost OF these are non-producers.
Che immigration authorities say the
reat rush OF aliens II due To the great
commercial prosperity OF this country and
|ndustrial stagnation In nearly every
European country.
Tse steamship companies have been
pushing the steerage traffic and have
gents in little villages and town In
|outhern Europe drawing fantastic pic
ures of the prosperity OF this country.
This has been overdone by some of the
ines, and II is costing them dear. Since
be took hold OF affairs at Ellis Island
williams has made the In
pection system very strict
The steamship companies rnst pay for
| he maintenance OF those who are barred
| Ind must carry them back 10 their E,u-
|opean homes free OF charge. The de-
eortations for this month will aggregate
more than 900.
POLICE PROTECT IMMIGRANTS.
Conditions at the barge Office gate.
|vhere -the immigrants land. are becom-
ing as@bad as they were I'm the days OF
Id Castle Garden, says Detective Quack-
|nbos. OF the Church Street station. Yes
|erday the police made a rule that III
uture no more immigrants are TO be
forced into express wagons against their
Win The expressmen and hotel runners
eclare they will take the matter to
Mayors Marshal Brown and Commis-
ioner Partridge. who Issue the licenses
Yesterday, was a record-breaking day
|or immigrants 10 land, and an extra
|orce OF sharpers. confidence men and
Iupposedly honest hotel-runners ana
heap expressmen gathered around the
late. When the first batch OF two hun
|red immigrants landed from the Ellis
sland boat the runners blocked the way
but In the efforts to solicit patronage.
Al last the passageway became so
hoked that the police ordered the ex-
bressmen TO take their wagons to the
ather side OF the street. This practically
broke up the expressmen's business, and
most OF the immigrants got away without
being molested.