Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-06
AMERICA ADOPTED
100000 during
THE LAST CENTURY
Growth of 100000 in
Population Is so Per
Cent Immigrants.

century. In the same time the popu
iation OF the country has increased
$4,000, 900.
Until the world war the effect or
immigration on the population in
crease was very marked. amounting
10 more than 80 per cent in the de-
eade ending in 1910. It exceeded 20
per cent in the ten years ending with
the present year. and immigration
bureau officials are of the opinion that
mad the war not interviewed the per-
centage for this decade would have
peeh greater than that of the last
during the first ten years of the
century, from 1920 to 1870 tha
number of immigrants arriving in the
onlteo states was less than l per cent
OF the increase in population. the fig.
nres being 143.43s immigrants and
1857 population increase. In the
next ten years this l per cent had
grown to IL. the census of 1870 show
ing a population of l.. 069.i 53. with an
| increase of 4,203.f33. while during the
same period 5S9,125 immigrants en-
tered the country.
Immigration IG Per Cent.
In the next decade. ended i'm $50
| the population increased 6l9242a
, while immigration totaled l7I3,a5I. or
signify more than Is per cent
In the ten years ended in 1860 the
popuia.ion increase was S251.445,
| While immigrants entering the coun-
Try numbered 2,59S,214. or more than
20 per cent of the population Increase
me next decade saw the population
! increase 7.115.050 and Immigration to-.
tailed 2.314S24, or slightly more than
per cent The percentage de-
creased during the ten years ended
with 1880 owing to an unusually large
! increase in population. This Increase
was IL ,5S1,412, while the total of inn
migration was 2.S12.191, or about 10
per cent In the decade ended in 1890
the population increased 127s1s31
| while 5.246,613 Immigrants entered
| the country, making the percentage
| about AZ per cent.
In the succeeding decade. ended in
1900. there was sharp decrease l.:
Immigration. with the result that per.
| sons coming into the country reprtA
| sented only about % per cent of ~
population increase. This was -.
o4o,s6l, while the number of immi.
| grants arriving was 3.S4442O.
Increase mt Same Ratio.
While the population increase re.
NAMED at about the same ratio dur.
Ing the decade ending in 1910 there
was a very decided increase in the
! NUMBER or immigrants. the former
Delng l5.s77.691 and the latter s.
The estimated increase for the fen
years ended this year (1s20) is a.
100000. while the total number ST i'm
migrants during this period was g.
100000. The Percentage ratio thus was
only about 43 per cent this being due
to the falling off in immigration dur /.
| ing the four years of the world war
| OF the 34.000,0O0 immigrants enter
ing the country in the last one hun
dred years, nearly one-fourth of them.
or S,205.675 came from England Ire
| land, Scotland and Wales. Germany
furnished the second largest number,
| 5,495.539, and Italy the third largest, .
400. 40. Austria Hungary was next
| behind Italy with 4.06S.44S, while
Russia was fifth with 3,311.40S. The
Scandinavian countries, Denmark
Norway and Sweden, have sent p
134.414 of their citizens to the United
States.
The total of immigration froA
France in the one hundred years has
been 523.S06, the largest number frog
that country, 20. 126, coming here -
| 1851. Switzerland has sent 256T07 per-
Netherlands. 214,50S. British North
America, including Canada. has sent
S34 ,450, and Mexico 217.256.
Few From Belgium.
! Belgium and Rumania have sent.the
| smallest number of any of the Euro 4
pean countries. the total for the for
mer being 1851 and for the latter
| 1922 1t was not until 1894 that the
nationals of these two countries, as
well as those of Portugal, Greece and
lantic in any appreciable numbers.
The total for Portugal is given by
| the immigration bureau as 1853. 7o2;
for Greece. 352.SS3. and for Turkes,
311,404.
Chinese Immigrants have numbered
oSS3 9S, beginning in 1853 with AZ,
and virtually ending in 1888 with So
| o31. The peak was in 1882 when 20
SO Chinese arrived Chinese exclusion
laws became effective about that
time.
immigration from Japan was first :
taken note of in 1892 and reached its
peak of 30,22S in the year 1907 In
ISIS, 1O,064 japanese entered the Unit
ed States. while the total for the
|twenty-seven years was 229.o30. 4
From countries not specified, inciud-
ing parts of Poland, Serbia and many
Others, have come a total of 2.1oe.ooo
At the outset England, Ireland, .
Scotland and Wales furnished the :
bulk of the immigrants, the largest !.
total from the British Isles. 2f2,. 4o, :
coming over in 1851 BY that time
there also was a large flow of immi-
grants from Germany, the total in
1853 being 215,009, or the largest in .
any one year except 1882, when the
high mark of 250,630 was reached.
British Show Decrease. Z
immigration from the British Isles :
between $4,000 and 10000. In the
twelve years preceding the world war
the number of immigrants from those !.
is's, averaged about $4,000 annually.
The tide from Germany began TO =
turn in 1887, and since that time the
number of immigrants arriving here
has steadily decreased, reaching the H
low mark of 35,734 in the year before
the world war.
At about the same time that immSf
grafton from the British Isles aftA
GERMANY began to decrease. that froil
Italy, Austria Hungary and Russo
advanced rapidly. 1t was not unSt
1891 that the number of Immigrants
from Italy passed the $4,000 mark. 1t
averaged slightly better than that
total for the succeeding ten years and
then increased almost every year. at
tanning a record of 2S5.731 in 1907.
The year before the world war il
was 2s3.734.
Immigration from Austria Hungary
exceeded So 900 in 1901. went to 100,-
000 in 1902 reached the high mark
of 33S.452 in 1907. and was 27S,15-
the year before the war. Russia did
rot pass the $4,000 mark until 1899
and ii was not until 1902 that inn
migra ton from that country ex- =
ceeded 100, 900. The high mark. 291,-
04O, was made in 1918.
Peak Reached In ISS..
The peak of the movement from the
Scandinavian countries was reached
in 1882 with 105,326. 1t gradually de- I.