Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — Boom in Immigration. [ARTICLE]

Boom in Immigration.

A natural but almost unnoticed result of t|B present good times in the United States is found in the records of the great steamship lines which bring steerage passengers across the water. Without exception these transatlantic steamers are carrying more immigrants just now than they have had to carry before for years. Each of the big boats arriving at New York brings with it from one to two thousand Europeans who are coming to make their homes and, if possible, their fortunes in the United States. As has been the case for a number of years, a large proportion of these new citizens are natives of the south of Europe or of some one of the Slavonic countries. When business is depressed immigra-. tion falls off. Just now business is at the flood tide and the steamers from Europe are consequently crowded below decks.