Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1902-06-12
COMING TO AMERIcA
pEAsANrs LAN0 N AoaoEa.


Greeks, syrlans, Reach New York
In Observation-Disclosures Ten
Thousand Land ir One Day-Aver-
are is Far Above One Thousand.
In March, 1901, 34,46t immigrant
landed here, according to Statistician
Charles g. Eichler OF. the bureau, says
the New York World.
In March, 1902, 57,175 arrived, leav-
ing the increase for last March ovef
the same month I'M year ago, %, ia.
To the 57.175 for March, 1902, should
be added 401 transients.
April and May, always the heaviest
months. are yet 20 be figured. Tha
above figures represent actual immi-
grafton, not including tr%ansients.
Whence come these hordesf
In March, 1902, from Austro-Hun
gary, 1900; Italy, 21,41O; Russian
empire and Finland, 9,2S6.
The Finlanders are coming to escape
military service. and General Couni
B~ogrikoff, the governor, has forbidden
the issuing of more passports.
The week of April 10Th broke all rec
ords in the Morse invasion of America.
Thirteen hundred Scandanavians sailed
from Christiania.
A popularity Of this springs immi.
grafton is the falling off Of eighty and
ninety per cent. in Syrians and the ire
mendOus increase Of Greeks. Eight
hundred Greeks on one ship from a
port ON the North sea. There was a
riot at the emIarkation, and the gen
darmes had to be called to beat back
the Greeks. who feared they We're 90
ing to be impressed into the English
army.
The immigration officials. owing to
the lack of men educated in the Orien-
tai tongues, they allege, are at the
complete mercy of the Interpreters OF
the Greek, Syrian and Arabian Ian
guages.
The decline in Syrian immigration is
attributable, it is argued by some, to
the decline of personal influence from
the Syrian colony in Washington
street, and it is feared the increase IN
Greek immigration may be traced to
the rise of Greek padrone influence in
New York.
As Syrians used to come through the
landing station, each with a shining
$50 gold piece, the officials marked
some of the coins. When a fresh lot of
Syrians passed through a few months
later, back from the Orient across the
seas, back came The old coins. as
bright as ever, but bearing the telltale
secert marks.
For the fiscal year ending June 80,
1901. 462.G9S immigrants landed in the
United States, Of whom 3SS,931 arrived
at this port. This years summary for
the United States will probably exceed
that of 1901, and may be equal 10 the
record of 1892, $4,000.
They are coming, some days at the
rate of 10000, the horny-handcd, cor
s%etless, sun-broited peasantrg of Eu-
rope. Across the narrow margin of
stone quay at the ba%rge,office they
shuttle, hurry and scramble.
All day long, after each trip of the
ferryboat, John G.. Carlisle, from the
marooned landing station in the bay,
this ocean of humanity. each man,
woman and child, scdrries over the
granite quay.
Each bending under n burden griev-
III to be borne; some under two and
others under three huge, shapeless
bags, %valises, tin boxes, unwieldly
! lunches of ticking, mating and can
vas BdShelS ulS anu Sillull' cages, mu-
steal instruments, hedsteads of wood
and iron, chairs, Kitchen utersils, bot
ties. vegetables, Sausages. pretZels,
candles, coffee pots, babies, quilts, bath
tubs mot many, curtains. birds, mas
cots, children's chairs, canes, sticks.
umbrellas and every combination of
wood. tin. iron and cloth.
What awaits this human sea Of ig-
norance, physical weariment helpless.
ness, bewilderment an9 Slost' souls
For the immigrant, his heart throbbing
with excitement, a stranger in the real
of the new world, is as truly ''lost'
on the threshold Of the metropolis of
America as if he had been dropped for
q time upon the moon or the planet
Mars.