Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-03
RUSH OF IMMIGRANTS
RECORDS BROKEN By RECENT
RATE OF ARRIVALS.
Estimated Number Of Aliens for Cur
rent Fiscal Year Is 1880, 1000
Nationalities and Dis
tribution.

Misunderstanding to the
United States during the present fiscal
year will break all records and reach
the million and quarter mark. il the
enormous influx continues at its pres
ent rate. While the figures for March
are not available, the immigration Off.
Gals know that all records for that
month have been smashed. The heav.
lest immigration occurs during the
months of March, April. May and
June.
For the eight months since the close
OF the last fiscal year, the number OF
immigrants who reached the United
States is 54S,511, as against 52S,O1S
for the same period during the pre-
vious year. These figures are for the
eight months when there is compare,
lively little immigration, and during
the next four months of this fiscal
year the number to arrive viii more
months, and the total will probably
be 1,250,000.
During the last three months the
number OF immigrants was 19l $3.50, as
compared with 1S6,039 for the same
period last year. One.fourth Of the
immigrants over IA years old can
neither read nor write. An idea OF
the increase in immigration can be
gained when the figures for the last
fiscal year are compared with those OF
ten years ago. A decade ago the total
annual immigration was 1865, as
against 1,026,499, an increase Of 1885,
SS4.
or the total immigration for last
year 81 per cent. settled in New York,
20 per cent. In Pennsylvania, seven
per cent. each In Illinois and Massa-
chusetts, and five and one-half per
cent. each in New Jersey and Ohio.
Seyenty-six per cent. of the entire
population settled in these six states,
the actual number OF settlers being as
follows:
New York, 315,511; Pennsylvania,
210,70S; Massachusetts, 72,150; Illi-
nois, 52,77O; New Jersey, 57,25S; Ohio,
1881. The remaining "a per cent.
Settled In the other 80 states.
The countries from which the i'm
migrants came and the number are as
follows: Austria Hungary, 275,69S;
Italy, 221,479; Russia, 1887; Ger
many, 4O,574; Norway, Sweden and
Denmark, 60,625; England, 64,709; Ire
land, 52,S45.
The distribution of the Immigrants
by nationalities in Illinois was as fol-
lows: Polish, 1852; italians, 10,35S;
scandinavians, ITO; Germans, 7,614;
Hebrews, $3.50; Croatians, 4,109; Slo-
yak, 3,777; Lithuanian, 3,440.
According to Commissioner General
Of immigration Sargent, the reasons
for the great influx of newcomers are
the prosperous conditions in the Unit
ed States and social depression In
some parts of Russia, the low wages
paid there and the higher wages paid
in the United States.
For the first time the south is abb
Borbing some OF the immigrants. This
Is due to the fact that the labor bu-
reaus In the southern states are Offer
ing inducements to immigrants. These
inducements are in the shape of cheap
lands and steady employment at good
wages.
The largest proportion OF the He
brews settle In the large cities OF New
York, Chicago, st. Louis, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, while the Hungarians,
Poles, Scandinavians, Slovaks, and
Croatians go to Pennsylvania, Ohio,
West Virginia and Illinois to work in
the coal mines. The Swedes generally
go to the Dakotas and engage in farm
ing. The Italians go where the rail-
roads are being built and where large
numbers Of low class laborers are
needed.