The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-06
FAIRFIELD
The Jennings Homestead Siggel "A Filipino Breaches hes-lmmigration MT. Watchorn-ResHlt of CiyiIiza. tiOn-Race Characteristics.

iIlHSS hOneStead, formerly the resi-
 dence of Miss Anna B. Jennings, on
 Main street, began yesterday, and soon
 this land mark will be no more This IS the first step towards preparing the
 site for the new Colonial mansion
 which is to be erected during the ap- preaching summer The other house
 Which stood on a line with the above has been moved back from the street for a considerable distance, and the ground has been regarded
 It is understood that a very large number of invitations have been issued for the El1is-Child wedding, probably not far from 1000.
 Already the frame of a new garage has been placed in position in the rear
 of the Hayes residence where the fire
 was a few nights ago.
 Yesterday the Furniss family was
 moving into the house on Unquowa place recently vacated by MT. and Mrs.
 Carl Och.
 Many people in town will be sorry
 to learn that MT. Albert Seiggel, for
 a long time the efficient chief of the Fire Department, is desperately sick,
 and hardly expected to recover. He has been confined to his house for seY-
 eral weeks. and has steadily declined.
 He is a resident of Spring Street and
 has a wife and six children three sons and as many daughters. The eldest son IS in business in New Jersey; an- other is employed in the cutting de- partment of the Eastern Underwear Company, and two of the daughters work in the same establishment, while a third is understood to be at work at Warmers in Bridgeport
 Miss Ruth Child is home from the school in New York state which she has been attending.
 Sunday evening at the Congregation al church a large audience filled the house to listen to the talk of a Fill pino, a law student from Yale. He spoke pretty good English, but as one gentleman remarked. it was book English with many large words. He said that most Ftlipinos made better progress in acquiring the language than he did, who has been in this country for three years.
 Miss Ethel Donaldson is visiting friends in Springfield, Mass.
 It is stated that Mrs. Luin B. Swift ger has gone west with her son, to visit a brother.
 On Sunday MT. George Smith, our assistant postmaster, had for guests, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wheeler. MT. R. B. Penney, MT. and Mrs. c. W. Bulkley and Miss Grace Bu1kley.
 MT. and Mrs. Duncan Carson, of Bridgeport, have been spending a. few days on the beach with Mrs. Hand.
 If there was any auto trap set in town last Sunday, as had been an nounced, it was done so quietly no one knew anything about 1t, and not speeder was caught It is generally understood that the state police did not come to town.
 The principal topic discussed yester- day by Mrs. Mitchell before the ladies of the Unquowa club, was immigra- ton. She began by saying that there are many verses in the Bible which ap- pear to refer to immigration, just as some people have found verses refer ring to automobiles. As for instance "The sons of strangers shall build up thy wa1ls.'' She spoke of the cities of ancient days having gates, with var ious names, and said that New York may be considered the gate of the na- ton and MT. Watchorn the gatekeeper. Some people think the vast hoard of immigrants are taking many things from us, as the old fashioned, quiet Sabbath. The topic was discussed url- der three heads; who are the tmmi- grants? Why do they come? What will they do with us?
 Immigration really began in 1920 and up to 1905 23 million had arrived. The Puritans were not immigrants, but colonists who came to found a new country. They were pioneers. and formed permanent settlements. All history is a. story of human imnigra- tion, and nearly always it has been westward. One of the causes of this movement of the people is the expan- sion of a country as it gets civilized. Germany is a country in point; China has overhowed into Australia; Japan is seeking Manchuria, the United States and South America There must be an overflow if the home territory is too small. Immigration to America depends upon it's industrial and conn mercial conditions. The agents of steamship lines are everywhere in the old world holding out inducements for going to the States. Many who come would be better off at home. Relig- ious persecution is responsible for much immigration, especially with the Jews. The modern facility of transit in Europe and across the Atlantic helps in the work. Then there is as- sisted immigration, where countries spend great. sums of money to dump into this country undesirable people. Now our laws are keeping back many of this class.
 Mrs. Mitchell spoke of the quality of the immigrants, and said that the best class undoubtedly, so far as skilled la bor is concerned comes from France. ! She said that some kinds of work can not be done in this country, because l the requisite skilled labor cannot be had. The making of first class aru- | fcial flowers is all done in France, as | well as much of the embroidery wom- l en wear upon their hats and dresses. A house in New York has had to open | a plant in France for the making of | New machinery. said the | speaker tends to retard immigration. Operatives in the woo1en mills have | been reduced one-third by the intro 1 duction of new machinery. Recurring | again to MT. ;Watchorn Mrs. Mitchell 1 said he is a very human man,. whose | heart is in the work, and who has a | great deal of charity for the 1mm1- | grants. He was once an immigrant | himself to this country with but 25 | cents in his pocket. A few of the mo- table men who have come to America l as immigrants were mentioned, includ- ing Carl Schurz, Joseph Pulitzer, An drew Carnegie, Senator Wm- J. Sewell, John Crimmins, and others. All inni- grants who return home are banners of | light, and they aid commerce by de- manding the things they have been lsed to in America. There are but ten hundred thousand Frenchmen in America The British and Canadians are more birds of passage than the l Italians. The characteristics of the various races which come to this country were alluded to, including the