The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-09
MORE IMMIGRANTS.
THE RECORD LIKELY TO BE
 BROKEN THIS FEAR.

Italians Instead of Irish and Ger-
 mans-Other Changes i'm the Immi- grafton.
 Unless there should be an unexpected
 slump all immigration records are like
 ly to be broken this year Both the daily and the monthly record have been l broken already, so that only the yearly record stands,
 The monthly record was broken in April, when '73,e67 foreigners (steerage passengers not citizens) arrived in New York. The daily record was broken on Saturday, May 8, when 6,213 men, wo- men and children from almost every country in Europe as we'll as few in Asia and Africa, stepped foot on Amer | ican soil for the first time.
 The heaviest month previous to April of this year since the government has had charge of the New York immigra- tion station, was exactly ten years ear Her, in April, 1s92 when the number coming in was 69,000. On thefirst nine days of this month 24,096 were landed, or at the rate of more than eighty thou sand for the month.
 Some notion of the great increase in recent years may be gained from the following figures: In 1897 the total for the year was 142,400; in 1898, 200,902; in 1899, 278,S66 in 1900. 367, ,440; in 1901. 402, 226. The total immigration this year to date has been about 202,00o, or about half af last years total.
 After 1892, when times in America were reported in Europe'to be hard im- migration fell off signally, to increase from 1897 to the present, slowly at first, but steadily, and more recently by leaps and bounds. The present tide of immi grafton is likely to keep up as long as the countrys prosperity continues.
 There is a common belief that immi- grafton figures reach a maximum in ten-year periods, but this is not so, ex- perts say. The tide is governed almost wholly by the rise and fall of our ma terial prosperity.
 The prosperity of Europe may be SUD- posed to have something to do with it, anu, DtIIdpS, IL Ldc, but iCSo tiihii piiS would imagine, for though Germany is anything but prosperous, now indus trially, the Immigration of Germans to the United States at this time is small, whereas it used to be enormous.
 In fact there has been great change in the character of the foreign CTS who come here in search of fortune. In place of the Irishman, the German and the fair-haired Scandinavian, hard working, frugal, there are now many Poles and Slovaks from Austria and Russia, and Italians
 The first two of these may be placed in one class as against the Italians. Last year there were sixty thousand of the former and fifty thousand of the latter. It is hardly necessary to say that there is no comparison, physically, between the German and Irish imrnt- grant of other years and the Polish Slovak and Italian immigrants of the present.
 In physical appearance and vigor the men and women from northern Europe outmatch the others almost two to one As material from which American clti- zens are made there is also a difference. Nearly all the Germans and Irish came here to stay; many of the Poles, Slo- walks and Italians come here to remain only till they can get enough money to go back and live on the proceeds or their savings or the produce of the llt- tie farms these savings will buy. Of 1 late years, indeed, immigrants of these l classes, the Italians more particularly. I 20 hack home in the winter and spend the earnings of the summer.
 The average Pole, Slovak or Italian will save from two hundred to two hundred and eighty dollars in year, 1 and in five years will have got together l say thousand dollars. Everything l onsidered-purchasin power, &c.-- l