Chapter 14

Southampton,99Spahr, Dr. Charles B.,260Spanish immigrants,21,217Special Inquiry Board,77Speranza, Gino C.,88,145"Stairs of Separation,"62,63Standards of living, lowered through immigration,244States and countries as a scale of immigration,24,25,27,28Statistics of immigration, aliens since Revolution,28;arrivals by years from 1820 to 1905,305;child labor in New York City, and in United States,226,227;countries by totals,127-129;debarred during fourteen years, and by race or people,77,303;distribution by states,105-107;entries at ports and through Canada,53;estimated immigration for 1905-6,20;illiteracy,21-23,134,164;increase of immigrants for 1905,25;inflow since 1820,25-27;insanity,140;Italians, by years, locality, and occupation,134,135,143;Jews, chiefly Russian,185,186,198;labor skilled and unskilled,23,24,134,164;mendicancy,140;money sent from United States to aid immigrants,31;present annual race totals illustrated,20-23;race, sex, and age of immigrants for 1905,306;religious divisions for 1900,251;savings and investments of Italians,145,146;Slavs for 1905,159,see also, for distribution and occupation,165-183;tendency among Italians to forsake Roman Catholic Church,271Steamships for immigrants,55,57;overcrowding,65;rate cutting,79;steerage abuses and reforms,65-68;unkind treatment,57,58,67;unsanitary arrangements,65-67;violation of laws,78-84Stettin,99Strong, Dr. Josiah,9-16,193,194,256,257Sunday laws and observance, as affected by immigration,72,237,241,252-254;Sunday-schools, among immigrants,284,294Sweat-shop, description of system,209,210;reproach to Christian civilization,210;victims of,210-213Sweden,27;immigrants from,23,25,33,37,38,126Swiss, as immigrants,21,28Switzerland,27,43Syrian immigrants,23,39Tariff, effect on immigration,44Temperance, large measure of, among Chinese, Italians, and Jews,73,141,190Tenement-houses, description of life in,204-208;evils of,201;exorbitant rents,202;model block of suggested,288;responsibility of landlords,202;unsanitary conditions of,211Tent campaign, winning Italians,282Teutonic peoples,123Texas,113Thompson, Dr. Charles L.,117,268Training schools, needed in work among aliens,286Trieste,99Tuoti, Mr. G.,145Turks, as immigrants,21;illiteracy,23Tymkevich, Paul,158United Hebrew Charities,111,219,277United Kingdom, seeGreat BritainUnited States, agencies of helpful to immigrants,50,54,57-63,111,274;"assisted" immigration to,43,93;attraction of,29-42;Immigration Investigating Commission,112,113;Industrial Commission on Immigration,141;legislation as to immigrants, seeLaws, immigration;money from relatives in, to aid immigrants,31;national songs,34;Post-office, an immigration agency,33;see alsoCommissioner-General of Immigration, Ports of entryVenice,199Vincennes, Indiana,20Virginia,45,175Vote, foreign, peril of,249Walker, General Francis A.,232Ward, Robert D.,194Warne, F. J.,157,158,162,246Warsaw,199Washington, city of,24;President,68Watchorn, Commissioner Robert,30,82Welsh, as immigrants,21,126Whelpley, J. D.,16,70,79,94,101Wisconsin,167Women immigrants,18,35,38,39,57,61,67,75,76,304;special inspection for,61,76Work of leading denominations for foreign population,314-320Yiddish language,198Young people, as creators of public sentiment,197;opportunity of for Christian service,10Ziska, General,166


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