IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE UNITED STATES PREVIOUSLY, 1899 to 1910. There is a somewhat prevalent belief that the present tide of immigration to the United States is largely composed of persons who have been in the United States before and whose coming and going is regulated by the demand for laborers in this country. To a considerable degree this is true of the movement from Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and the West Indies, but immigration statistics show that of the 9,555,673 immigrants admitted to the United States during the twelve fiscal years ending June 30, 1910, all but 1,189,283, or 12.4 per cent of the whole, entered the country for the first time. As stated elsewhere, these figures indicate that a large proportion of the aliens who leave the United States do so permanently and that the movement to this country is very largely a new one. The number of immigrants of each race or people admitted to the country during the twelve years mentioned and the number and per cent who had been in the country previously are shown in the following table: TABLE 15.-Number and per cent of immigrants admitted to the United States, 1899 to 1910, inclusive, who had been in the United States previously, by race or people.a [Compiled from reports of the United States Commissioner-General of Immigration and records of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.] DESTINATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1899 TO 1910. Immigrants admitted into the United States and the insular possessions during the twelve fiscal years ending June 30, 1910, reported their final destination as follows: Alabama. Alaska. Arizona.. Arkansas.. California.. 4, 450 2, 994, 358 2,203 60, 674 407, 285 5, 548 28, 936 New Jersey. New Mexico.. New York... North Carolina.. North Dakota.. Ohio... Oklahoma. Oregon.... Hawaii.. 98, 102 Pennsylvania... 1, 737, 059 Philippine Islands.. 61 Illinois. 722, 059 Porto Rico... 11, 979 Rhode Island.. 98,635 2,567 34, 437 6, 575 75, 808 25, 689 20,769 The States receiving 1 per cent or more of the immigrants admitted during the period are shown in the following table: TABLE 16.-Destination reported by immigrants admitted to the United States during the fiscal years 1899 to 1910, inclusive. The destinations of immigrants admitted during the twelve years under consideration, by States, Territories, and the insular possessions, are shown in the table next presented. 72289-VOL 1-11-8 TABLE 17.-Destination of immigrants admitted to the United States, fiscal years 1899 to 1910, inclusive, by race or people. [Compiled from reports of the United States Commissioner-General of Immigration.] TABLE 17.-Destination of immigrants admitted to the United States, fiscal years 1899 to 1910, inclusive, by race or people—Continued. 2 3 Armenian.. 3 8 Bohemian and Moravian. 100 4,916 Bulgarian, Servian, and Montenegrin 758 111 Chinese.. 59 5 Croatian and Slovenian. 2,775 480 Cuban. 4 Dalmatian, Bosnian, and Herzegovinian. 467 11 Dutch and Flemish. 493 648 7 81 7,618 69 13,850 51 478 1,125 31888 384 457 2,773 402 2,183 East Indian.. 1 2 131 492 59 208 41 English. 3,549 1,384 372 2,230 16,728 309 107,610 429 1,749 12,054 326 1,738 46,943 22 Finnish. 1,691 118 64 1, 107 1,908 73 20,362 24 532 6, 224 14 2,211 4,666 French. 729 150 553 5, 105 2,434 97 36,386 15 281 1,648 89 311 8.645 6 German. 2,116 15,474 321 523 45,923 333 190, 236 182 23,521 58,684 2,496 4,348 110,544 10 Greek.. 115 980 57 8,708 3,679 60 70, 607 155 157 3,683 90 947 12,839 1 Hebrew. 103 1,732 42 830 34,279 22 690, 296 188 849 20,531 166 792 108, 534 Irish 3,079 895 234 003 24,377 63 159, 080 57 707 7,408 104 874 57,435 3 Italian, North. 1,872 370 3,024 464 12,013 1,042 94, 458 222 90 5,687 279 1,295 59, 627 1 Italian, South. 607 2,488 447 898 106,667 294 898,655 69 126 53,012 135 1,503 369,573 Japanese. 264 30 25 1 90 22 2,482 4 7 66 4,485 145 Korean.. 1 2 2 40 1 2 1 1 Lithuanian. 21 184 1 1,305 8,777 5 27,258 78 2,958 77 60 Magyar. 117 208 3 37 51, 119 31 64, 201 236 55, 433 19 103 Mexican 6 29 445 1,457 1 10 43 3 53,467 106,641 42 Pacific Islander. 2 70 2 Polish. 325 1,559 14 5,167 83, 297 16 205, 430 10 1,007 32, 961 168 156 254, 281 Portuguese.. 11 255 59 51 2 4, 196 3 1 109 1 29 76 Roumanian. 129 44 3 17 2,359 1 5,582 4 187 31,835 2 20 22,301 Russian. 36 206 2 743 2,937 6 26, 477 20 1,442 1,035 26 134 17,839 Ruthenian 63 37 432 16,615 1 31,307 2 585 4,984 15 38 73, 449 Scandinavian. 6,232 10, 799 348 1,508 12,339 178 107,775 71 26, 447 4,531 167 5,268 19, 190 Scotch. 2,093 353 100 724 7,855 160 34.917 250 870 4,318 157 1, 191 16, 258 10 Slovak. 340 106 15 51 35, 729 47 48,310 12 100 30, 785 35 142 195, 632 Spanish. 26 20 1,392 6 129 86 16.278 3 41 8 65 513 Spanish American. 3 4 3 2 81 6 5.382 2 51 4 9 294 Syrian. 74 232 2 381 887 51 18, 370 263 135 2,780 159 50 7,318 Turkish. 1 2 7 399 84 1 2,632 4 805 1 5 1,412 Welsh. 237 130 18 22 439 13 4,119 81 1,440 15 96 6,779 West Indian (except Cuban). 6 14 286 6,238 5 1 9 3 466 Other peoples.. 6 13 151 174 105 4 2,573 11 10 515 7 31 801 2 Not specified. 9 1 1 2 |