Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-12-26
IMMIGRANTS
GOING HOME

The Cunarder lvcrnia sailed yester-
day for Italy and Adriatic ports with
! 2079 In her steerage, while 300, for
whom there was no room, were left on
the pier, says the New York World OF
! December /. The disappointed ones
became greatly excited. The best the
company could do was to send them
tn boarding houses, at the cost of 81
n day to the line. to wait for the next
ship. This has happened every sailing
day this season
There were 1900 In the steerage OF
La Savoio. sailing yesterday. nearly all
Italians. most Of whom will return In
the spring. Tomorrow the Koenig AL
bert and next week the Bremen OF the
North German Lloyd line will carry
away between 5000 and 1000 Italians.
Italy's pre- emption of her passenger
steamships for transports to Tripoli
has thrown upon the other lines n
burden of emigration which they can
not accommodate.
Why Workers Sail.
Manufactures are shutting down in
different parts of the country, some
railroads are dropping their projected
extensions for the present, various
mills have decided to run on only
half time, public works and improve
ments come to n standstill In winter.
, and the uncertainties always attending
the season before Presidential cleo
tion make employers cautious.
Other laborers are returning to Gel
citrate the holidays at their old homes
intending To come back with others In
the spring. while some are going back
for good.
> Booking agents nj far points In the
interior of the United States engage
, have already sold tickets to. but still
there are not berths enough to ac-
commodate the present outflow of la
Dor.
The surplus left on the piers the
steamship companies must either feed
anu rouge NJ uoIIhr u uaE or per-
suade to take back their tickets. Few
i want their passage bnck' they want
To go TO Europe Wheh passage money
D Is refunded to the applicant for pas
, sage the agent In the interior stu
Keeps his 81 or ~ commission. Thus
y the companies do business at n dis
, advantage, and the emigrants are in
J. convenienced ana delayed
!, The present outflow has been ex-
C ceeded only in 1884 and In 1908. ltal-
: ian and Greek arrivals this year are
l. only 1900 In excess OF the departures
. The figures OF the eastward movement
of other nationniities are Just as Inn
!. pressive' showing that labor has been
g ior NJ 'eaS' tour years huid COM
4; modify, accommodating itself to tho
demand
From January to september 30 this
year the number Of steerage passen
gers westbound landing at ports from
+, Boston to Galveston, has been 45O,67O
k while the number of eastbound from
I: the same ports was 100000.
In the same period the number OF
= third-c'ass passengers bound westward
e landing at Canadian ports, including
p ais" Portland Me- the winter port OF
J.. several Canadian lines. was l52,s7s and
, the eastbound travel In the same class
:. from those ports was 27,72l. More
than s2'S'ooo'ooo OF the earnings OF
a immigrants, II Ia estimated was sent
I, to Europe In 1907.
4. IL mas been decided that the mos
powerful agencies for promoting I'm
- migration are letters written home b,
immigrants In times OF prosperity. ant
VISITS by those who have been here Il
a 'he'r Old homes
- Admitting immigrants upon proba'