Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-07-30
Majority Of Ellis Island Arrivals
Drawn to Industrial Centers
by Higher Wages.
IRISH GO TO NORTHWEST
Women and Children Prsdominate-
Work increased by New Laws ocv.
srHine Ailens-Europe Loath
10 Let Them CO.

New York.=The stream OF lmmlgra.
ton flowing through Fills island has
been nOticeabiy detected from New
York city TO inland centers during the
last twelve months. and officials give
this az n explanation for the fact
that the city's 1920 census was only
b,02i,i 21 instead OF the 0,iOO,OOO ex-
pected.
Oficial statistics regarding the destl.
nation OF arriving aliens are sent to
Washington 20 be tnbulatcd aud digest
cd. For this reason destination figures
for the last twelve months were not
available. One who most closely
watches allen arrivals IL ]. r. Rowe,
official money changer. lie Il quick
TO notice any unusual movement IN the
now Of immigration.
To the Manufacturing centers.
Mr.. Rowe asserted that money OK.
changed for immigrants whose destlna.
tlon IL New York city does not amount
TO l per cent OF the amount exchanged
for those giving other parts MS their
destination.
TN former years" said Mr.. Rowe.
Immigrants poured into New York
city by the hundreds OF thousands.
They are now going 10 manufacturing
centers such as Pittsburgh, Detroit
and Akron, Ohio. or to the coal and
iron mining regions.
For the most part those arriving
here now were In America before the
war, and are acquainted with the coun.
try and attracted 20 sections where the
hest wages are paid. Before the war
n majority OF the arrivals had only
hnzy ideas as TO where they were go
Ing or what wages they were to re.
celve.
Another interesting fact IL the
change OF location OF some OF the
races. Not 80 many years ago most
Of the Irish arrivals flowed into Mas
%sachusetts or scattered along the North
Atlantic seaboard. Now they are going
into Oregon. II is noticeable. too, that
more alert are goihg TO California
than ever before"
In January $4,000 aliens arrived
here February. $1,000: March, 10000;
April, $4,000; May, 10000. and In Juns
up to and including the 10Th. $1,000.
Superintendent Baker OF Ellis island
said this immigration was made up
mostly OF women. children and return.
ing reservists. These latter are most
~ Italians. and the figures for this
month will show that most ~ those
who left America to fight for Italy
have returned.
The fact that no great number Of
male aliens Is arriving here does not
mean a lack OF desire to come TO Amer.
lea. the immigration officials say. Rath-
er Il mean that European govern.
mcnts are not willing to further de-
plete the male adult population by al
lowing II to emlgrate. The intending
emigraut Is finding II difficult to get
passports under the new immigration
laws. Also ship accommodations are
harder 60 obtain.
Before the wal from four to Eve
thousand aliens arrived NJ this port
each day, or nbout 10000 month.
Notwithstanding the falling or In ar
rivals, however. Superintendent Baker
said the work probably Increased. This
IL because Of the changes In the law.
Not only do arriving aliens have TO
pass examinations ns to moral and
physical ntneas. but they must pass
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