440 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



second only to those ' prize birds of passage/ the Italians. They are 

 very industrious workers and rarely become public charges, so must be 

 given credit for the amount of work they do, even if their permanency 

 as citizens is open to question. 



The distribution of Magyars landed in 1903 is shown by the follow- 

 ing table : 



Number of Ratio to Total 



State. Magyars. Magyars Landed. 



Pennsylvania 9,701 36 per cent. 



New York 5,291 19 



Ohio 4,489 17 



New Jersey 3,661 13 " 



Connecticut 983 3.5 " 



Illinois 760 3 



Indiana 555 2 " 



West Virginia 443 1.5 " 



All other states 1,241 5 " 



Total 27,124 100 per cent. 



Levantine Races. 



From the countries bordering on the eastern end of the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea we receive several thousand immigrants each year, who are 

 so far below all others in the matter of desirability that they are in a 

 class by themselves. This scum of the Levant includes Syrians, Ar- 

 menians, Greeks and Turks. 



The Greeks are the best of this rather bad lot. Some few are pro- 

 ducers and are engaged in textile industries, many more are peddlers 

 and push-cart men. They establish Greek quarters in large cities and 

 are probably under the control of padroni. Often when they are ex- 

 amined at Ellis Island, each member of a large party of Greeks will 

 be in possession of the same amount of American money and all tell 

 the same story, giving evidence of having been instructed and brought 

 out in large parties by some one who probably controls their labor here. 



The Syrians and Armenians are producers to a very limited extent 

 in silk and cotton industries. The majority of Syrians and Armenians 

 are engaged in trade, either as small shopkeepers or itinerant peddlers. 



The activity of steamship agents in southeastern Europe and the 

 establishment of a regular oriental steamship service from Marseilles 

 to the Piraeus, Beirut and Smyrna, have had much to do with the in- 

 crease in Levantine immigration. Greek immigration particularly is 

 stimulated by the enterprising Greek population of Marseilles, who 

 reap handsome profit from the traffic, as all these oriental immigrants 

 are landed at Marseilles and shipped from there overland to Havre, 

 Rotterdam or other Atlantic ports. 



The Syrians and Armenians ascribe as the cause of their expatria- 

 tion the rapacity and misrule of the Sultan. Well-meaning American 



