The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-12
iW,OO0O March INNIeRANHS
APRIL PR0mGSks TO BEAT ~
m MANY TM0USANRs.

usaly. Amsayam. mmnsaA ana ssmn1Asy Are
PassvmR IN ThsaB 9lgpans psUGlaitsa
90 mmmnrsA. aEauh. assenh and Oer-
usans TAaso Are csmpassalvsis Rsw.
The steamship companies are preparing
ssS : sssEss| sssss q Ass=sssssssss ;A.s
spSiaG. To meet tho rush Commissionsr
a InmlgratiOM Williams has asksd for q
larger fOros Of inspectors and additional
facilities for handling and housing the
immigTanes.
The record Of March. made public yes
tsrday by tho COunmianio0er. beats that
Of any other March. Eight thousand
allsns. mostly Italians. were landed a.
Ellis Island yesterday and more than
S.0o0 were sslt on shlpe On the bay OF ~
their pisEs. In the newt seven days
about $4,000 more are due here In twenty
three ships. The North German lloyd
liner Berlin from Genoa and Naples has
aboard the largest number. 3,3is. mostly
Italians.
The arrivals both by cabin and by steer
are eclipse all March figures. The total
number Of ala Glasses OF Voyagsrs Was
IA. ssT. Of whom iI.sss we're American
citizsns Of Iz0.sst aliens i0s. 80 were
clAssed a. immigrants. This 10 in glaring
contrast with the number q immigrants.
a.ssT. landed in the preceding month.
February. &C those who arrived at Ellis
IsIand in March i.Ts3 were declared. in
Guiding ITS women. The proportion Of
Engiish. Irish. scotch and German imml-
grants was comparatively small. Italy
furnished n. COS persons. mostly men, Of
whom 1900 were illitegate. There were
10. go Austriaps. 1850 russians. chiefly
Jews: I7.Tl3 HungArisns. l,sOS Greeks
and 7.eil Germans. including German
speaking Swtas- Only four OF about
1,ooo Engiishmsn we're unable to read or
write.
OF this cityfu OF workers. only 9.siI
came on the mere chance Of getting jobs.
All the rest have friends or relatives IN
the regions to which they were bound.
his STATE recssvsd ,ne 49, propo pot
most Of thessstOpped In the ave bcro1ghs
OF this city. Fennsylvania absorbed
10.ses, who went TO the mining regtons;
nlsaois took IS.O5s; New Jersey. s.Oes:
Ohio. e.ste; Coanectlelt. 2 Sea; Wi.con-
wese virginia. ain: Iowa. lO0s: Mime
sofa. I.eSb, and other States less than
thouaand each.
There we're many artisans among the
English. scotch. German and Italian
Gt3n9Uts ADu UU0 Dntru WV uaentty w.
tined 20 farms IN the West. Many Of
the Italians and Hungarians had been
here before and had returned to thor
homes aftsr the dspressioa OF 1907. The
total wealth in enah Of all the March
arrivals brouxhs In waa q. ts7 SIS. The
value Of the household Roods 81 fami-
lee, particularly Of the Dutch, who came
In the ssoond cabina of the Holland Amer
ica line ships, was large, and their wealth
or no 6spFssaion.
The opaniOn of the steamship lines
A0snts 70 thaa tho human flood from kn-
rope h caused chiefly by tho retIIrn Of
prospesity here and corresponding de-
praaaion In cortAin quarters abroad.
HihnnnFinns who landed yesterday said
the renewal rae IN taxeS and prices On
the other aido had been one of the causss
prompting them 90 leave their native
land, coupled With inducements sent To
than by their frisnds OF relatives who
we're mailing . good living here.