The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-24

flocking to the seat of the coal. iron and steel industries in Ohio. Pennsylva- mia. West Virginia and Indiana. An evidence of the need, of men in the steel idustry alone Is the fact that the Unit ed States Steel Corporation has orders on hand that will take 1t half a year to catch up with.
 That the distribution of these new corners over the country is a great during the six months that ended with August last 46G,562 immigrants had been received at Ellis Island. This IS at the rate of almost a million a year. or one every thirty-three seconds of every day. The figures for the same six months of last year were S06,93S. and the gain was therefore, 159.624. or more than 52 per cent. This makes a high water mark in immigration. On the most crowded days of the period the figures were as follows: April A. 57OO; April 5, 6S00; April 6. 4500; April 12. 62O0 April 13. 52o0; May 8. 69O0; May g. 6400: May 10. 7500 It Is an astonishing thing to think that on one day May 10) an migrant was admitted on the average, every II 1-2 seconds.
 Forty per cent of these immigrants re- mained in New York City, and the rest flocked to various parts of the country. It is not unusual for a big shipload of say 1000 immigrants to include aliens bound for every State in the union. It Is like a constant procession of thou sands upon thousands pouring in through the narrow gateway of New York harbor and spreading out far and wide over the country
 The great majority of the immigrants do not come here to settle haphazard anywhere that fate may happen to lead them It takes no small spirit of en- terprise for the poor foreigner to cm- barlt for d strange country, tearing his old life out by the roots. and begin anew, and those that come here have pon orally with great frugality provid- cd ahead for themselves. Hence, they have their exact dc situations picked out in advance. and those destinations are in the places where labor is most need cd where the men are too few fol the work.
 The work of distributing this great army of workers falls to the railroads. and with characteristic enterprise the railroads have devised elaborate ma chinery to handle this special traffic. All the roads having terminals at New york have special representatives, at Ellis Island and there is a great Imu1f- grant Clearing House there where the incoming horde is sifted out and those aliens bound for different parts of the country are assigned to the various roads.
 After the immigrant has secured his ticket he becomes virtually a ward nf the railroad The railroad then checks his baggage through 10 it's destination and takes him by boat and car to the railroad depot free of charge. If there Is a particular large number of inni- grants going to a particular section of the country the railroad will run special train for them. but otherwise they go in special Immigrant car" attached to regular passenger train These immigrant cars are not. as some people suppose. a sort of cattle car, but are regular day coaches. a Et- tie worn in the furnishings perhans and not kept polished and brushed nn to the spick and span point of the usuaI railroad car. but still probably more comfortable to ride in than anvthIng the foreigners were able to secure in their native land,
 The ready distribution of immigrants