The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-04-03
RECORD IMMIGRANT RUSH
Seven Liners Land 1888 at New
York in One Day,
OVER HALF ARE YOUNG GIRLS.

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New York City statisticians and
forecasters of the immigration Bureau
found all their calculations upset when
1 11,3S3 aliens, turning their faces smil-
ing with hope and courage toward the
land of the free and thrifty. gazed for
the first time upon the Statue of Lib
erty.
In seven ships there sailed into port
the largest number of immigrants, so
far as there is any record, that ever
landed within twenty-four hours at
New York or on these shores The hui
man stream clogged the great man
handling machine of inspectors, regis
tration clerks, surgeons, watchmen,
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 1885 only about one
per cent. are Russian refugees. OF
the others about GOO are Irish, and
mostly rosy-cheeked young coIleens.
They are mostly fine. healthy. Wig
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grafton law, which has provision sub
jecting the steamship companies to a
fine of $500 for every immigrant they
land here who is unfit physically, has
rendered them careful
OF the Tentonic's 1917 steerage pas
sengers more than one-half were from
Ireland. Only a half dozen in the en-
tire number We're 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-Garyin.
County Kerry, and John Il. Quinn, of
Cork City. who, by unanimous consent,
were constituted leaders.
Nearly dozen couples were wed just
before they embarked on the tender to
About the same number had been mar
ried within a month
AS the result of association in the
ship no less than 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
nVn 30
Preparations have already been made
by cable advices for their reception by
various societies. 1t is likely that most
Of them will remain in New York for
week or more, while the women who
are interested in their welfare secure
places for them out of town.
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 inn
migration from -(ew York and turn it
westward and southwark.
There was 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
Rhein frem Bremen and the Graf
Waldersee from Hamburg.
The Brooklyn, of the Frank Zotti
Steamship Company, brought 750 inn
migrants for the most part Portuguese
from the Azores. They are generally
discharged at New Bedford. but this
marks the beginning of new era, and
Portuguese immigrants will hereafter
be landed here IN numbers.
+ The passengers from the MiIano and
the Cretic are bound mostly for West
ern Pennsylvania and Ohio to work in
the mines and on the railroads.
At Ellis Island the strange. unex-
pected swelling tide Of humanity from
the Old World is interpreted to be 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
nationalities the immigrant arrival was
as follows:
Citta di Milano, 1898 Italians; leu
tonic 1917 English and Irish Rhein,
2399 Germans, Swedes and Hungar-
ians; Graf Waldersee 2537 Germans.
Russians and Hungarians; Cretic, 21O0
Irish, English and Germans, and Pisa,
1888 Italians, and Brooklyn, formerly
an army transport, $50 Portuguese.
This one days arrival Of immigrants
Is as large as the population. according
to the 1900 census, of each of these
cities; Morristown, n. j.; Peckskill, N.
Y; Saratoga Springs, Rutland, VT;
Augusta, Me-; Ansonia, Conn; Cairo,
ILL.,: Baton Rouge, La; Charlestown,
w. Va; Corning, N II; Chillicothe, o.;
Dennison, Tex, Fort Smith, Ark, and
Glens Falls. n. Y.
Restricting Immigration.
Washington, D. C.-Senator billings
ham submitted the report Of the Com
mittee on Immigration on his bill
amending the immigration laws,
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