Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1903 — INCREASE OF IMMIGRANTS. [ARTICLE]

INCREASE OF IMMIGRANTS.

Reports from Kills leland Show 004,924 Aliens Arrived During Year. During the fiscal year ending June 30 004,924 aliens arrived at New York through Ellis IfJand, as against 479.791 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, an increase of 125,133. The first six months of this calendar year show an increase of 56,729 over the same period of 1902. When the flag was raised at sunrise July 1 on Ellis Island the federal Jurisdiction over the island passed from the Treasury Department to that of the new Department of Commerce and Labor, with Secretary Cortelyou at its head. When the inspectors and other employes arrived for their daily routine they found their desks supplied with stationery of the new department and all the old Treasury Department forma removed.