Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — A Year at Castle Gardea. [ARTICLE]

A Year at Castle Gardea.

New York Herald. The annual report of the Commie sioners of Emigration for 1882 was forwarded to Albany last evening. It is the largest document of the sort which the board ever issued, and it deals with many questions which have recently attracted much attention, by reason of the Legislative Committees’ inquiries and newspaper exposures. It appears that there were 520,855. passengers landed at this point during 1882, of whom all were aliens but 44,260. This exceeded the total immigration of 1881 by 70,717, and was far larger than any previous year. Of last year’s arrivals 198,468 were Germans, 52,768 were Irish, 44,517 were Swedes, 40,849 were English,and 27,487 were Italians. The avowed destination of the immigrants were as follows: New York, 166,824; Illinois, 51,331; Pennsylvania, 46,398; Ohio, 23,362; Michigan 20.415; Minnesota, 20,198; lowa, 16,666; Massachusetts, 14,602; New Jersey, 11,849; Missouri, 9,353; Connecticut, 8,153; Indiana, 5,355; California, 4,521; Dakota, 2,833, and Rhode Island, 2,410. The remainder were divided among the other States, the South receiving a surprisingly small number. The larger number—36 per cent—credited to New York is explained by the fact that many immigrants made this city their stopping place for a time and afterward go permanently to the West or elsewhere without making known their destination to the commission. The cost of receiving and caring for the immigrhnts per head was, in 1880, 40 cents; in 1881, 38 4-5 cents; in 1882, 44 cents. In all preceding years since 1847 the cost ranged from $2 to $2.50 per head. • The reason why a rumor travels is because it gains currency, and therefore makes money and can afford to travel. ~