Moreover. a more significant fact came out a few years ago. I remember asking Mr. Watchorn when lie was commissioner of immigration at the port of New York what proportion of the immigrants coming into this country camne as a result of correspondence with somebody already in this country. I noticed that a great many of them when they laded at Ellis Island held iailroad tickets from New York to some point in tile United States to which they were destined. He kept an account for the next year. and reported to me that 80 per cent of all tile illmigrants landing at Ellis Island were when they came from the boats in possession of railroad tickets from New York to their place of destination.
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