Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-30
One Vear's Story of V1ce >Sans lrnmgrafion Burea1

nian. Even the Chinese cooly comes to the western world scarcely less poverty stricken. The Korean also is not bur dened with riches. The 4,000 odd who came last year averaged about 60 cents apiece.
 Still another important phase of the immigration question is the destination of the newcomers. Of the 3,598 Afri- cans who came under the observation of the bureau 1,582 settled in Florida and 1,040 concluded to try their for tunes in New York. Only 1878 Armen. ians came last year and 659 of them went to Massachusetts and 800 joined the colony in New York. There wer, 11,757 Bohemians and Moravians anG Illinois secured the lions share of them, New York coming next in favor. oi the 5,823 persons who hailed from Bull garia, Servia and Montenegro, Penn syIvania attracted s1,468 and Ohio 1858
 California, ofscourse, obtained a ma. jority of the sCeiestials without the asking. Of the 1,s78 who managed to land in the country 1,016 did not go farther than San Francisco's China town. Pennsylvania was the promised land that drew about half of the Croa- tians and Slovenians, 15,505 of them settling in that state. A total of 7,25s Cubans came over to the mainland to reside and 4,6Sl of them got no farther than Florida. oOf the 8,49S Dutch and Flemish hemeseekers about an equa number went to Illinois, Michigan ant
 New York. Most of these immigranti settle in large cities and become smal merchants soon after landing.
 As for the Hebrews, some of whom came from nearly every European state, S3,724 out of the total of 129,9lt
 joined their three quarters of million of coreligionists in New York city. Ths next largest detachment, 13,477, went
 to Pennsylvania, The Irish also show ed a decided preference for New York | 19,6SS of the 54,266 who came proceed | ing no farther. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were the next most favored localities The south Italians of whom there were 1S6.390, settled ir
 New York to the number of 81,572 and
 43,07S went to Pennsylvania. New Jersey attracted about 11.000 of these
 dark skinned little people and Massa. chusetts an equal number. Of the H. | UGl JdpdllCSC hlO ldldCA OAa <AhANAANoA
 soil as immigrants more than half went to Hawaii.
 A canvass of occupations showed the
 gneatesh NarietHa bAmong those classed
 ast1 pfofeSsiona1ht riKere S.26s English
 1,063 Hebrews, 1.6S3 French, 2,44S Ger mans, 611 Irish, 676 south Italians, 455
 north Italians and 2S0 Japanese. There were more teachers than members of any other profession, 333 English, 365
 French, 474 German, S22 Hebrew, 146 Irish and so on. Among the Hebrews musicians predominated. there being 342. Physicians were the most plenti- fl:I professional men among the Cu- bans, e9 being provided with diplomas from medical schools. Twenty-one oi the Armenians were teachers and .onlt 8 were clergymen. Musicians also led
 among the Bohemians and south ltai- ians. England contributed 647 engi-
 neers, Germany 1s6. Ireland 5s. Eng
 land led in the item of clergymen. send ing 355. Ireland furnished TIT. Ger
 many 153, France 118, Italy 121, Scan
 dinavia S1, Scotland 65. China, Rou'
 mania and Turkey are accredited witf one each. There were IA English lawyers, 7s Cubans, 61 Germans. 4 , French, 37 Italians. 27 Irish. Englane , was also far in the lead in the matter . of editors. III having come over las year with the intention of remaining , England and Germany sent the larges crop of actors. the former 4le and thu , latter ISs. Italy also did fairly well II this regard. furnishing l1s. These ex ] amples are food for thought
 ADELBERT P. STRONG.