The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-05
RECORD IMMIGRANT RUSH.
Seven Liners Land 1883 at..Rew
York in One Day,
OVER lIALF ARE YOUNG GIRLS

New Material For the Future Am~riean
Race - 1~eGtonic, From LiVerpooI,
lsrinss "a Big Isalch oc Rosy -ChaekeI
C~"sie~ns-The SI2vs PreiOmiuate-S50
Portugue.e-Fn south aud West.
New York City.-StatIsticians and
forecasters of the Immigration Bureau
foundzall their calculations upset when
11.3S3 aliens, turning their faces smil-
ing with hope and courage toward the
land Of the free and thrifty, ga3ed fOr
the first time upon the Statue Of Lib
erty.
In seven ships there sai;cd into port
the largest number OF immigrants. so
far as there is :;:N record, that ever
lauded within twenty-four hours at
New York or OH these shores. The hu-
man stream clogged the great man
ha ndling machine of inspectors. regis
tratiOn clerks. surgeons. w%atchmen.
boards of special inquiry, discharge
clerks, baggage men, railroad officials
and money exchange clerks on Ellis
Island.
The staff toiled early and late. but as
the capacity of the bureau is only 5000
a day. half of the newcomers had to be
held in the ships to be discharged next
day.
OF the entire 1 1855 only about one
per cent. are Russian refugees. OF
the others about 600 are Irish. and
mostly rosy-cheeked young colleens.
They are mostly a fine. healthy. Wig
orous lot of %peasantry. The new immi-
grafton law, which has a provision sub
iecting the steamship companies to a
fine of $500 for every immigrant they
land here who is unfit physically, has
rendered them careful.
OF the Teutonic's 1017 Storage pas
sengers more than one-half were from
Ireland. Only a half dozen in the en-
tire number were more than forty
years of age. More than 400 of the
Irish contingent were under the per-
sonal guidance of Colonel Robert Null
rooney, of Limerick, and his lieutenant
colonies, Dennis Quill. of Kil-Garvin.
County Kerry, and John f. Quinn. of
Cork City. who, by unanimous consent,
were constituted leaders.
Nearly q dozen couples were wed just
before they embarked on the tender to
board the Teutonic at Cork HarbOr.
About the same number had been mar
ried within a month.
AS the result of association in the
ship no less than a score of marriages
are scheduled to take place within the
next month. Among these will be that
of the Colonel and his sweetheart.
Almost half of The entire number of
Immigrants are young girls who are
seeking employment as servants.
pT.ono 20 tinnS ho Un 01poo6r hoon mazda
by cable adYices for their reception by
various societies. 1t is likely that most
IF them will remain in New York for a
week or more, while the women who
are interested in their welfare secure
places for them ont of town.
t. Indeed. most of the immigrants, both
men and women. are bound westward
and will simply pass through the city.
Agents and societies are doing all in
their power to divert the current of i'm
migration from -(ew York and turn it
westward and southwark.
There was a long stream of Russian
refugees. including patriarchs with
curly boards, women and children.
young men in caps and top boots. and
girls with handkerchiefs for head gear,
pouring over the Ellis Island ferry.
The Russians mostly came ON the
ANANAA A&AA l. AAAAu In OAAA
Waldersee from Hamburg.
The Brooklyn, of the Frank Zotti
Steamship Company, brought $50 i'm
migrants, for the most part Portuguese
from the Azores. They ARE generally
discharged at New Bedford. but this
Imarks the beginning of a new era, and
Portuguese immigrants will hereafter
be landed here N numbers.
The passengers from the Milano and
. the Cretic are bound mostly for West.
ern Pennsylvania and Ohio to work in
the miues and on the railroads.
At Ellis Island the strange. uneX-
|, pected swelling tide of humanity from
the Old World is interpreted to he an
index of the abundant prosperity Of
this country at present, and the open
winter has enabled the friends of the
immigrants to arrange for the early
coming of their cousins.
Classified by ships and roughly by
n~ationalities the immigrant arrival was
as follows:
Citta di MiIano. 1898 Italians: Teu-
tonic. 1017 English and Irish: Rhein,
23G9 Germans. SwedeS and Hungar-
ians: Graf WalderSee. 1881 Germans.
Russians and Hungarians: Cretic, 210O
Irish. English and Germans. and Pisa.
!, 1881 Italians. and Brooklyn. formerly
an army transport. $50 Portuguese.
This One days arrival of immigrants
: Is us large as the population. according
= to the 19N census. of each of these
cities: Morristown. n. J.: PeekskiIl. n.
Y; Saratoga Springs Rutland. VT;
Augusta. Me-: Ansonia. Conn: Cairo,
H.: Baton Rouge. La: CharleStOwn,
W. Va: Corning, n. Y: Chillicothe. o.
, Dennison. Tex: Fort Smith, Ark, and
Glens Falls. \. Y.
Restricting Immigration.
Washington. ID. C.-SenatOr Oilling-
ham submitted the report of the Com