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Immigration. On April 1, the handling of 

 the immigrants arriving at this port was trans- 

 ferred from the State Commissioners of Immi- 

 gration to Federal control at the Barge Office un- 

 der the United States Superintendent of Immi- 

 gration. 



During the year 914 steamships brought to 

 this port from Europe 99,189 cabin passengers 

 and 371,593 steerage passengers. In 1889, 891 

 passenger steamships arrived at this port and 

 brought 96,686 cabin passengers and 315,227 

 steerage passengers. 



Hence, with the exception of 1883, this year 

 shows the largest number of immigrants landed 

 at New York. 



The steamships that arrived from European 

 ports are : 43 from the Baltic, 237 from Ham- 

 burg and Bremen, 62 from the Mediterranean, 305 

 from Liverpool and Queenstown, 26 from Lon- 

 don, 97 from Glasgow and Moville, 50 from Rot- 

 terdam and Amsterdam, 55 from Antwerp, and 

 55 from Havre and Bordeaux. 



The immigration during 1890 was principally 

 from eastern Europe, and the report of the Com- 

 missioner of Immigration shows that there has 

 been an immense increase of immigrants from 

 Russia, Austria, and Italy, nearly all of whom 

 went into the mining districts. The immigrants 

 from British ports located themselves mainly in 

 New England, Illinois, and San Francisco, and 

 it is a remarkable feature in this immigration 

 that fewer than ever of the immigrants settled 

 in New York. 



Judiciary Celebration. The centennial 

 celebration of the organization of the Supreme 

 Court of the United States took place in New 

 York City, on Feb. 4 and 5, 1890. An ex- 

 ecutive committee under the chairmanship of 

 Grover Cleveland, aided by a committee on com- 

 memorative exercises, of which Robert Sewall 

 was chairman ; a judiciary centennial committee 

 of the New York State Bar Association, of which 

 William H. Aruoux was chairman ; a co-opera- 

 tion committee of the American Bar Association, 

 of which David Dudley Field was chairman ; and 

 a co-operating committee of the Bar Association 

 ol the City of New York, of which Frederick R. 

 Coudert was chairman, arranged the exercises. 

 The Chief Justice, with all the associate justices 

 of the Supreme Court, came from Washington 

 on a special train. They were to have been ac- 

 companied by the President of the United States 

 and his Cabinet, but domestic bereavement in the 

 families of the Secretary of the Navy and the. 

 Secretary of State, prevented the official partici- 

 pation of Mr. Harrison and his advisers in the 

 celebration. 



First Day. The memorial exercises at the 

 Metropolitan Opera House included an intro- 

 ductory address by Grover Cleveland as chair- 

 man of the executive committee ; invocation by 

 Morgan Dix, D. D. ; address of welcome to the 

 court by William H. Arnoux, as chairman of the 

 Judiciary Centennial Committee of the New York 

 State Bar Association ; an address on " The Ori- 

 gin of the Supreme Court of the United States," 

 by William Allen Butler ; an address on " The 

 Supreme Court and the Constitution," by Henry 

 Hitchcock ; an address on the " Personal Charac- 

 ters of the Chief Justices," by Thomas J. Semmes ; 

 an address on " The Supreme Court and the 



Sovereignty of the People," by Edward T. 

 Phelps. Response by the Court through Mr. 

 Justice Field, who was introduced by the Chief 

 Justice; and benediction by Talbot W. Cham- 

 bers, D. D. The exercises were to have included 

 an address by the President of the United States. 

 In the evening a banquet was given at Lenox Ly- 

 ceum by the New York State Bar Association, 

 the American Bar Association, and the Associa- 

 tion of the Bar of the City of New York. Up- 

 ward of 800 persons were seated at the tables, 

 and James C. Carter acted as toastmaster. The 

 list of toasts and speakers was as follow : 



1. "The President "President Harrison (drunk 

 in silence, owing to the absence of the Presidents 

 ^ 2. " The Supreme Court" John M. Harlan, Asso- 

 ciate Justice oj' the Supreme Court. 



3. "The Congress "William M. Evarts, United 

 States Senator, New York. 



4. "The Judiciary of the States "Edward M. 

 Paxson, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. 



5. "The Common Law" Walter B. Hill, of 

 Georgia. 



6. " The Bar "Joseph H. Choate, of New York. 



7. " The Clergy "Rev. William E. Huntington, 

 of New York. 



8. "The University "President Seth Low, of 

 Columbia College. 



9. " Our Clients "Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, of 

 New York. 



Second Day. No programme of entertain- 

 ment was provided for during the daytime, but 

 after the judges of the Supreme Court had been 

 photographed in a group they spent the day in 

 visiting their friends. In the evening a recep- 

 tion was tendered the visiting guests by the As- 

 sociation of the Bar of the City of New York at 

 their rooms, No. 7 West Twenty-ninth Street. 

 The attendance was very large, and, from the 

 opportunities offered to the members of the New 

 York bar to meet and commune with Mr. Fuller 

 and the members of the Supreme Court, the oc- 

 casion was perhaps the most pleasant incident 

 of the celebration. 



Memorial Arch. The desire in some way to 

 record permanently the celebration of the hun- 

 dreth anniversary of the inauguration of George 

 Washington as first President of the United 

 States led to the collection of funds for the build- 

 ing of a stone memorial arch to be erected on the 

 north side of Washington Square, facing Fifth 

 Avenue. Stanford White was intrusted with 

 the preparation of the design, and when $75,000 

 had been collected it was decided to proceed 

 with its construction. Memorial Day, May 30, 

 was chosen as the time for the laying of the cor- 

 ner-stone. On that day the Arch Committee, of 

 which Henry G. Marquand is chairman, were 

 escorted to the site by the First Brigade of the 

 State National Guard, under the command of 

 Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, arid the exercises began 

 with a prayer by the Bishop of New York, the 

 Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, attired in. his 

 ecclesiastical robes. A hymn composed for the 

 occasion by Robert U. Johnson and arranged for 

 the music of Haydn's Austrian National An- 

 them was sung by a mixed chorus led by Frank 

 PI. Damrosch. Mr. Henry G. Marquand followed 

 with a brief address in which he referred to the 

 site as one that would " bring the rich and poor 

 together in one common bond of patriotic feel- 

 ing." The custody of the arch was accepted 



