The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-25

402.4tI immigrants. of which 59.49s or fifteen per cent. have been agricul- turists. Indiana received 32.540 it's agricultural proportion being 6.532, or twenty per cent. The immigration of Iowa totalled 37,964. of which 6.1sA or sixteen per cent. were sgricultura ists. while Ohio received BESIDES. Of which the agriculturists numbered 42.7sl. or nineteen per cent. , During the same eight years. thfr- ty-six per cent. of the immigration {" Illinois were laborers; twelve per cent servants: twelve per cent. skilled oc equations: ana twenty-five per cent. of no occupation. largely represent ing families or tiis immigration seventeen per cent. were Poles, fifteen per cent. Scandin.N' IS; ten per cent. Germans and SoutEer Italians: SIX per cent Hebrews. and five per cent. l each of Northern Italians and Greeks. Statistics on Immigrants.
 Let us look minute 1t the sub ject of immigration in general Dur ing the past year. 1,1O0.i S5 immigrant aliens came to this country, bringing | 25,1O9,4l3, which is about $23 p;' capita. Only 112,679 aliens had more than $50 each. There were 269S23 H. | literates among the 964,462 aliens wno were over fourteen years of age. This i represents an illiteracy ot twentvs eight per cent. The arrivals of tho principal races during the year were.
 south Italian. 24o.Sss; Hebrew, 153,74S; Polish. 95,s35; German. s6,S1o. Scandinavian. 6s.i4l; North Italian | 46.oS6: English, 45.079; Croatian. 44,- l PIP; Magyar. 4i.2S1; Irish, 40,959; and ! Slovak. 3s.221 The six States receiving the larg- est immigration during the year were. 1 New York, 374,70S; Pennsylvania. l9S.- 6Sl; Illinois. s6.53s; Massachusetts. | 73,S63; New Jersey, 5S.415; Ohio. 47,- 1 397.
 The North Atlantic States received 75237O. which is about sixty-eignt per cent. of the years total. The North Central States received 2A:.- l 930, which is twenty-two per cent. O. the years total. The Western States received 4s,125, Uhich is four and a half per cent. of the year'st0- tai. The South Atlantic states re- i s.aived 3l,53y. which Is three D." cent of the years total. The South Central States received 14,G93. Whic" I is one per cent. of the years total.
 The principal occupations during the year were rep '~nted as follows: Laborers, 226.345; farm laborers. 2Ss,- 125: skilled trades, i77,122; servants l ll1,SSi, no OcCut'l | h (IepEcSSAtih6 largely families. ss5 tb0
 1 Keep Boys and Girls Here. | Now l want to talk to the native | born Alabamiam-the man who was | born and reared here in Ala abama-some of you whose hair is nov gray, and many of you nave only a few years to live. You should be liberal with your | sons and daughters; educate them and make them feel that there is every | opportunity right here in Alabama that | can be had in any country on earth. | Make them feel that this is home-a 1 place where you can grow anything that will grown in any country. Make | them believe that there are better op- portunities in this country today than | in the days of your boyhood. Send them 1 to Alabama schools and colleges and
 prepare them to assist in stimulating and developing the industrial interests | of your State."
 Commissioner Sargent Is A heavy, compactly built man of fiddle height. His strong muscular frame gives in dication of manual labor performed in former years. He has a keen eye and high forehead, surmounted by closely | trimmed hair. His chin Is modelsd on sharp lines, although the year ; have added flesh to a neck and bod'
 more slender in other days. He wears a mustache, short and sandy. His motions are quick and energetic. denoting the man Of acton.
 During the afternoon Commissioner
 Sargent made several vislts to the dii-
 ferent exhibition buildings about the
 grounds. During the races, he was an
 interested spectator. viewing several
 heats of the different events rom the
 judges stand.
 Lo laff
 his return trip to Washington. whence
 he goes to Charleston, B. C., November
 3, to be present at the arrival of the first boat of the immigrant steamship
 recently established rom that port.
 This boat will bring 500 immigrants,
 who have been brought to this country to settle in the Palmetto State. Work was begun yesterday morning on the judging of exhibits entered for
 premiums in the Woman's Department, | and also in certain classes of the live
 stock and horse exhibits. A number of
 speedy harness horses were put
 through their paces on the track be-
 fore large crowd which gathered at
 the track side. Afterward they wsrs
 drawn up in line For the inspection
 of the judges.
 I Awards were made In several of the
 classes but the officiai announcement
 of the results was not made to the
 Fair officials, being deferred until to-
 day when they will be complete. The
 awards in the Woman's Department
 will also be announced during today.
 Today at the Fair.
 Today will he Railroad Day at the
 Far. The chief address of the occa-
 sion will be made by president Sam
 uel Spencer of the Southern Railway,
 who arrived in Montgomery at an
 early hour this morning in his private
 car. The speaking will commence at
 noon in the grand stand. President
 Spencer being introduced by President Vandiver of the Fair Association. His talk will be along the line of ce-op-