36 COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



"M. Simok and M. Selenk endeavoured to ascertain how 

 many adults they could crowd into a given space. Selenk 

 managed to accommodate forty-three occupants in five rooms 

 where only fourteen could hope to find sufficient atmosphere 

 for healthy respiration. Simok ran his neighbour close, hav- 

 ing twenty-four in one room, where only seven should have 

 been. His rooms were too low, and lacked ventilation. In 

 consideration of the immense profits made by such economic 

 means, Magistrate Daly at this morning's police court, charged 

 Selenk $15 and costs, and Simok $10 and costs." 



"Stanislau Yablonovish is a teamster. He owns his 

 own team, and his wife goes out cleaning. They own their 

 house and several lots. They live in two rooms, and have five 

 roomers. The furniture consists of three beds, a table, two 

 chairs, a stove and some boxes. The attic is full of pigeons." 



"John Klenbyel and wife and six children, and from 

 fifteen to twenty boarders live in four rented rooms. The 

 place is 'beastly' dirty. The boarders bring home kegs of 

 beer nearly every day. Two of the older girls are 'working 

 out. ' One of them told our visitor the other day that she 

 cannot stay at home; she is happier away." 

 Of those who go first to Ontario and Quebec, it is feared that 

 but a small percentage subsequently percolate to the farm lands of 

 the West, for if they find employment at once, they cannot and cer- 

 tainly do not leave the place where they first settle. Their in- 

 tentions may have been good in this respect, but they have been 

 without the necessary financial backing and soon finding, as they 

 do, that it requires more than 160 acres of land to make a settler, the 

 good intentions leave them and they become what they were before 

 emigrating, urban dwellers. A visit to any of our cities will con- 

 vince one of this fact. That they are not taking to the rural life in 

 the province of Ontario, at least, is evidenced by the fact that the 

 statement is constantly being made that the farming districts are be- 

 coming depopulated, not only because of the migration of the 

 younger men to the Western Provinces, but also for the reason that 

 the towns and cities are attracting them. Do we have much of the 

 settlement of the immigrants on the farms of Ontario? 



Referring to the tide of immigration to the United States, God- 

 frey makes the following statements: 



"The incoming human wave which breaks upon our 

 shores sends its scattered spray to many cities. Too little 

 reaches the country. Too much stays in the city slum. It is 

 entirely natural that this should be the case, and that the en- 



