President. with respect to the population coming here from southern and eastern Europe. especially the Italian. the Pole. and the Hungarian. As statistics will show. those people have. as a general -thing. confined themselves largely to the Atlantic seaboard. and to a very few cities upon the Atlantic seaboard at that. The second specially noticeable fact with reference to this immigration is the strong tendency of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe to congregate in the cities. And this characteristic is stronger in the illiterate portion than the more intelligent portion of these newcomers. The per cent of the total immigration destined for the four States of Illinois. Massachusetts. New York. and Pennsylvania in the year 1905 was 65 per cent of the total immigration to this country in that year. and they settled chiefly in the great cities which are located in these States. I find a very pertinent comment on this Immigration in tie book to which I have before referred. edited by Mr. Prescott F. Hall. Mr. Hall says: The local congestion of the nationalities coming to us in the largest numbers in recent years is another significant feature of Immigration distribution. That this congestion is increasing is shown by the following table of the increase of natives of certain nationalities from 1890 to 1900 in the several geographical divisions: North At- South At- North South Western. lantic. lantic. Central.
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