New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-10

New-Haven Conn., April (SpeciaD.-Whers one
Italian settled in New-England ten years ago
hundred Italians making their homes to-uaS'
Bands OF them be seen almost any week on
the trains or in the railroad stations OF Connecu-
cut. each member Of the company wearing MS tag
each with bundle OF household goods sluns IN
a red bandanna over his shoulder. and each happy
with his SO s12 sewed in his clothes Ihey
scatter throughout the country villages ana IN tne
manufacturing of the State. herding IN tne
cheap tenements. taking I'D the tumbedoWh farms
once occupied by thriving New-England faInlles,
and forming at once a problem for the towns ana
cities to solve. and menace to the oldtlne hish
moral level Of the New-England people.
There q 900 Italians living in Connecticut.
In New-Haven alone a quarter of the population Is
italian and Hebrew. In 1900 there were fSz9VV
Italians In this country. In 1903 alone 10000 OF
these people came to America. over $4,000 Italians
have come the New-England States In the last
four years. Maine received S1 or THESE new
Hampshire 253 Vermont 1,1H Massachusetts 4S'oD'
Rhode Island 1Ons and Connecticut 20OS6- Up to
the taking OF the last census there no marked
increase In the number Of immigrants from SOUTH
ern Italy who came to New-England In the iast
four years there has been sudden ana most re-
markable influx Of these people
This marked change in the character and nation
atty Of New-EngIand's immigrants is regarded oy
students of the social conditions in New-EnSland
a. most menacing The Rev Joel $. Ives, of Hart
ford secretary OF the Missionary Society OF CoH-
necticut and one OF the best informed anu aC'ise
workers I'm this field in New-England. mas laIelS
stirred up considerable interest in this SUBJECT III
this State through statistics which he has person
ally gathered.
Mr. Ives states that serious problem cohlIoh's
New-England just now account OF the &c" 0'-i-
ditions of immigration. In a recent ADDRESS VI
this subject which he gave before the Men ~
in the United Church. New-Haven- MT ives me- me-
some startling statements On the genera suoJ1e'
OF Immigration he says: During the last iOI'S
years an alien multitude OF 100000 has been addeo
to our population, which has raised the peloei"e0
of foreign parentaEe I'm the United states IN
2s2 TO $40 per cent in 1900 Furthermore. the ia9'
years. and particularly the last hVe' since 'Ns
census was made have shown marked changes not
only in the astonishing increase in numbers Out
even more in the sources of that immigration
Since 1895 the annual increase has been raore 'ndi
600 while for the last twelve months II ms
been more than 100000 bringing the total LOT I'VS
to the unprecedented figure Of 1ooOOO1 March reg
istered 1854. April 129632. May tie35o and June
1O1 ls2 Such figures break all records at the Imni-
grafton Office Think of it, million aliens In
single year,"
Put the present sources OF this immigration are
more important than the actual figures MI ives
SAYS: Tt is no longer the North Of Europe Which
Is sending these vast mutitudes to our shores
In large proportion they come from Southern
Europe: from Italy Sicily. Sardinia; from Austria
Hungary with its thirteen different kinds Of people;
from Poland and Russia: from Turkey. greece ana
Portugal During months Of 1903 50 per cent OF
the immigration TO this country came from ltaiy'
Austria-Hungary and Russia. n total of 540SZI out
OF n total immigration of 5sS.153 These people OF
Italy Austria and Russia are poor. supersuuous'
ignorant and Indifferent II not hostile. 70 all forms
OF church and state. The expressions OF church
and state have driven them forth. OF those over
fourteen years Of in last years immigration.
2S7 per cent were iliterate. The Southern Italians
were more than half illiterate. 1t is an enormous
burden on the body polite. II is the unsolved
problem Of our free institutions We have absorbed
into our Americanism the Saxon. the Celt and the
German; 1t remains to be determined what we can
do with the Latin. SIav and Hun We point with
pride 10 our past. but what shall be said OF New
Haven. with a quarter OF its people Italians and
Hebrews: of Fall River or wOonsocket. where al