Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — Half a Million Immigrants in 1890. [ARTICLE]

Half a Million Immigrants in 1890.

According to Bradstreet’s, during 1890 the total number of immigrants arriving in the United States from foreign countries was 491,026, a gain over the preceding year of 65,000, or 15 per cent. The bulk of the increase was found in arrivals from three countries in Central and Southern Europe—Aus-tria-Hungary, Poland, Italy—and, in fact, these three countries may be credited alone with supplying more than the entire increase noted, as their total gain over 1889 was 69,000, or 4,000 more than the total net gain. The arrivals of British immigrants showed a heavy falling off. German arrivals gained slightly, and Russian immigrants were also more numerous thin in 1889. The total number of British immigrants was 120,567, a decrease from 1889 of 12 per cent. The statistics of arrivals at leading ports show that New York received 398,396, or nearly 81 per cent, of the total; Boston received 30,971, or 6.3 per cent.; Baltimore, 29,125, or 6 per cent.; and Philadelphia, 23,434, or 4.7 per cent.