mi m PAGES InitlJiJLUlllJPl 23 to 30 VOL. XXV.—NO. 145. THIS YEAR BREAKS IMMIGRATION RECORDS More Than 73,000 Foreigners En tered New York Harbor in the Month of April 6,213 GOME IN ON THE-THIRDT OF MAY The Figures for the Month Pretty Sure to Break Those of Last—Many Finns Among the Newcomers. Special to the Globo. NEW YORK, May 24.-^Unl'-'s there should be an unexpect ed and highly improbable slump, all immigration records are bound to be broken this year. Both the daily and monthly records have been broken already, as a matter of fact, so that only the yearly record stands. The monthly record was broken in April, When 73,667 foreigners (steerage passengers, not citizens) passed through the nation's gate on the bit of land termed Ellis island in the harbor of New York The daily record was broken on Saturday. May 3, When 6,213 men, women and children from almost every country In Europe, as well as T. few from Asia ami Africa, .stopped foot on American soil for the first time. The burning of the records a few years ago with the flimsey wooden buildings in which the United States first received immigrants on Ellis island, precludes accurate com parison with earlier figures, but it is distinctly remembered by the inspectors that never before was there such a hu-stling there, and never wfre so many passed in one day as on the first Satur- In May, 1902. The heaviest month previous to April of this year since the government lias had charge of the New York Immigration station, was exactly ten i earlier, in April, 1892, when the number coming in was 69,000. On the first nine days of this month 24,096 were landed, or at the rate of more than 80,000 ior the month. Onr Prosperity Attracts. Some notion of the great increase this yiar, thus far, over recent years, may be gained from the following figures: In 107 the total for the year was 142,400; in 1888, 200,902; In 1599, 278,846; in 1900, 367,440; in 1901, 408,226. After 1892, when times in America were reported bard in Europe, immigration fell off signally, to Increase from 1897 to the present, slowly at first, but stead ily, and more recently .by leaps and ■bounds. The poor and discouraged in Europe, those for whom there is no place and no comfort at home, have heard of Uncle Sam's prosperity and are now hastening to these shores as fast as they can raise the money to come and steam can bring them hither. The present high tide of immigration is &ure to keep up, too-, as long as the country's prosperity is the wonder of the whole earth. There is a common belief that immigration figures reach the maxi mum in ten-year periods, but this is not co—the tide is governed almost wholly by the rise and fall of our material pros perity. The prosperity of Europe may be supposed to have something to do with it, and, perhaps, in a measure it has, but less than you would imagine, for though Germany is anything but pros pi rous, now, industrially, the --.migra tion of Germans to the United States at this time is small, whereas it used to be enormous. Immigration < liiumon. In fact there has ben a great change in the character of the foreigners who come here in search of fortune. In place of the hearty Irishman who develops better under the Stars and Stripes than anywhere else on earth, the sturdy Ger man, who has made himself an important factor in American life, and the fair haired Scandinavian, hard working, fru gal, and a genuine acquisition, we have now an excess of Poles and Slovaks from Austria and Russia, and Italians. The first two of these may be placed m X / M Si 19 W • si FLOWER FROM ITALIAN SWITZERLAND. Copyright by Joseph H. Adams, New Yorfc THE ST. PAUL GLOBE in one class as against the Italians — last year there were 60,000 of the former and 56,000 of the latter. The total im migration this year to date has been about 202,000, more than half the grand total of last year. It is hardly necessary to say that there is no comparison be tween the German and Irish immigrants of other years and the Polish, Slovak and Italian immigrants of the present, ifi physical appearance and vigor the nun and women from Northern Europe outmatch the others almost two to one. PROM THE SOUTH OF EUROPE. Copyright by Joseph H. Adams, New York. As material from which American citi zens are made the disparity Is still great er. Nearly all the t German and Irish came hero to stay; nearly all the Poles, Slovaks and Italians come here to re main only till they can get enough nicney together to go back and live on the proceeds of their savings or the produce of the little farms these savings will buy. Of late years, indeed, immi grants of these classes—the Italians more particularly—go back home winters and stend the earnings of the summers, thus draining the country annually of dollars by the millions, instead of adding to the national wealth as did' the earlier new comers from Germany and the Emerald Isle. It Is not too much to say that thous- SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1902.—THIRTY PAGES. ands of what those who amass them term- fortunes, are got together in this country every year by European laborers to be spent in the Old World. The average Pole, Slovak or Italian ■will save from $200 to J2BO in a year, an 4 in five years will have got together, say, two thousand good American 'dollars. Everything considered—purchasing pow er, etc.—this money is worth two and one-half times as much at home to the Pole or Slovak, and five times as mixed to the Italian as it would be here, so that there is small wonder that both Poles, Slovaks and Italians," besides those of many other nationalities, prefer to spend their savings on their native soil, where they can make the most of them. That Ireland is more prosperous than in rformer years is given as the reason for the decreased Irish immigration—any way the good old days when a ship load of deep-chesteds rosy lassies from the green island was no novelty at the immi- Rration station have passed, and, appar ently, forever. Irish women are going 'home to stay, .by the thousands now-a days, as the public prints announce every once in a while; possibly more are leav ing America than are coming, but there is no way of determining this. No records are kept of outgoing steerage passengers—besides not all the Irish women who came here by way of^thc steerage ro home as they came. With {he Germans it is different^ The drop in immigration from the kaiser's domains is largely due to the kaiser's government It has devised many re strictive laws which make it difficult to leave the Fatherland for America. Be sides, weighty inducements to settle in German colonies are put forward to those who'think they must seek their fortune abroad. They are exempt from military service, for one thing j yet may retain their Germaa citizenship, and this is only one of the inducements which seem worth While to the Teuton who be lieves he can better himself by leaving home. Son-Prodnetive Immigrants. 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This is most often true of the Assyrians, who are frequently afflicted with trachoma, or, as they term J-. at the immigration pa^^C^JMagjcjSSgj^-' 1 frfcich the doctor had subjected her child. Had I thought the boy was to grow up to be hanged I should have called help just the same and postponed the natural exit from life for the artificial method. While there's life there is hope. "Had he and his brother stayed in Icwa, instead of coming to Minnesota, as Dr. Archibald and I did, they might have been living today. However, an Interest ing fact not stated by the doctor was that a younger brother of the two unfor tunates was an inmate of the asylum for fee ble-minded at Glenwood some years later while Dr. Archibald was su perintendent. This indicated a taint of weakness or degeneracy in the family' blood, and may make them less respon sible for a deed which well Xtal.-. minds look upon with horror—the killing of a fellow man in cold blood." ■ 11 ™,Z PRICE FIVE CENTS SAFE SUBMARINE BOATS EXPLOSION DAXCEKS Ann ItE- GARDUD AS GREAT Storage Batteries ami Baseline Tank* Placed Close Together nail Spark* From One Are Liable la Ignite the Other*—Device Must lie Made for Protection of I'iiil. Srecial to The Globe. WASHINGTON, D, C.;* May 25.-\Vhat T la to be done to render submarine boats safe—to prevent the constant danger of explosion which at present menaces the lives of their crev/s? This problem has presented itself to ih'a attention of the navy department for '..o lution in a way that will not be denied; recent disaster baa accentuated the im perative necessity at protecting the lives of those who, In the service of the ra tion, go down under the sea in submarine boats. . - A carious inquiry is about to be insti tuted into the whole matter, and it is felt in official circles that now, at List, something definite and practicable will be done towards removing the omnloua bugbear of service on a clasa of vessels which are getting the reputation of being \eritable death traps. Either of two things will follow this ccmlr.g inquiry; a plan v/il be formuiatcil making the boats reasonably safe, or submarine navigation will cease for th» present to form a feature of our naval programme. The boats will go, certainly, into a temporary retirement. The sac rifice of human life will not be continued for the Hake of experimenting with a. type of war vessel whose practical use fulness sill remains a debatable question. fit-vice In >UKKfilfil. The main danger of these submarino boots i-, in the present opinion of the de partment, the ever present possibility of the fuel carried aboard them exploding without warring. The point Is, to remove this danger by some device which will enable the fuel.stored aboard to be pro tected from the sparks from the boat's storage battery. Gasoline engines are now v=eri for 'he motive power of submarine boats. Tllo average marine torpedo boat carries 1,000 gallons of gasoline to supply its engines. met imps naphtha Is carried instead. This Is carried in tanks, and near to the latter is placed the powerful storage bat tery. Now the battery has a tendency to emit sparks, leaping from cell to cell and along the wires; and the diverse electric attachments essential In &ucr» eaten nre not covered but exposed, on all these boat-. When the electric machln-, is working actively, there la a con stant formation of sparks, causing a per petual danger of exoloslon of the gaso line tanks. The task before the navy de rartment is to discoved a means of elim inating this-peril to the lives of. tho crew. In Russia the submarine boat ta so far outlawed, on account ■• the dan ger of carrying gatoline, no other avail able motive power yet having beer foun£ for them. . —Frederick Watson.